Sentence examples for absurd events from inspiring English sources

Instead, "Jane the Virgin" takes a forthright approach, allowing its characters to respond with logic and empathy, even when confronted with the most absurd events.

Her story exposes the tragedies and absurd events of the 'forgotten war' while finding "humour and humanity amid the rubble and heartbreak".

Onetti's episodic novel mixes literal incidents - a nude sitting, a murder - with absurd events, such as when Medina meets a man who sheds worms from his skin.

Nathan narrates increasingly absurd events with persistent cheer, a tone mirrored by the blinkered optimism and liberal conviction of pre-9/11 pre-9/11 Park Slopecombitation that soon seems less hopeful than hollow, and profoundly disengaged.

Ask Conrad Lant - whose working name is Cronos - if he sees any parallels between the absurd events chronicled in This Is Spinal Tap, and the experiences enjoyed by Venom, the legendary heavy metal group he has fronted, on and off, for almost 30 years, and he is instantly dismissive.

As the crowd dissipated, with the U.S. Capitol looming in the background, on this day of historic events in the Senate chamber, and absurd events in a Federal courtroom, it was hard to know what had happened to common sense.

"Thank God I managed to win that absurd event, otherwise his filthy, cackling laugh would have haunted me to my grave".

While the characters are liberal, the absurd event is the subject.

This short-term longitudinal study explored infant humor perception from 5 to 7 months of age as a function of parental affect during an absurd event.

Thus, starting at 5 months of age, parental affect influenced infants' affect toward an absurd event, an effect that was magnified at 7 months.

Which is to say, we began to understand that we would never understand what the hell Microsoft was thinking when it designed this absurd event.