Sentence examples for absurd fortune from inspiring English sources

Lonely, credulous Helena starts listening to an absurd fortune teller, played by Pauline Collins.

If this version of the afterlife is a metaphor for art, it's a grim one, even if it's also amusing: the implication being that striving for immortality in art is as absurd as paying a fortune to have someone freeze your dead body.

In some ways, it's absurd to compare this fortune in art to the now-faded company that funded it, an economic engine that created tens of thousands of jobs, paid dividends, built neighborhoods and factories.

She didn't squander her good fortune by absurd childish behavior and was always professional in her craft.

This is the brawn-on-brawn view of history: the focus is on how the five titans outmuscled their competitors and sometimes one another to build business empires and personal fortunes of absurd — some might say obscene — size.

What a city mayor has is some strategic pots of money so they can prioritise a few issues, but the idea they can transform a city's fortunes is frankly absurd".

As a first step in making our 400 fortunes less absurd-looking, let's resort to the artifice of a ratio scale.

It would be absurd to pretend he can transform Labour's fortunes in the blinking of an eye.

It costs the NHS about £175,000 to train a dentist, so it does seem a little absurd that some then go on to make their fortunes in cosmetic dentistry and wrinkle-smoothing.

It may seem absurd in an advanced capitalist country that executives seek counsel with fortune-tellers, but South Koreans have long had an intimate relationship with the occult.

Trying to wear fame and fortune like he wears that Nicole Farhi jacket: aware that it's absurd, but loving the feel of it anyway.