Sentence examples for absurd hat from inspiring English sources

A portrait of a man with a wry expression and an absurd hat, bequeathed to the National Trust as a good but anonymous and relatively low-value 17th-century painting, has been identified as a self-portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn worth up to £20m – though the trust has said it will never be sold.

I do remember interviewing him: he was wearing a giant, absurd, striped hat — a sort of trapper hat, I think — that he didn't remove throughout the interview, and he seemed immediately very congenial and soft-spoken and Southern in some way (he is Philadelphian).

The fat, inquisitive metaphysician Pierre marries, separates, becomes a Mason, is widowed, and, wearing an absurd white hat and green tailcoat, blunders into the theatre of war at Borodino.

My grandfather sat at the head of the table, an absurd paper hat from a Christmas cracker wrapped around his bald head and a pipe firmly lodged between his nicotine-stained teeth.

When visiting Bath in 1799, Austen tells Cassandra of absurd trends in hats: "Flowers are very much worn, & Fruit is still more the thing.

Daniel Day-Lewis is a lanky six-two, now enlarged by a stove-pipe hat, an absurd columnar fixture.

"The hats were absurd".

My father wears an absurd blue-and-white towelling hat as he trundles the barrow about.

It's a bit absurd now, like the Panama hat lampshades in his study - he has a wife who was art director of Harper's magazine, this apartment, summers in the Hamptons.

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"The Hat" is a story about doubting yourself, whose absurd ending (Squid has found the other boot and is wearing it as a hat) feels exactly right.