He wanted to find the incident absurd, but, for the first time, he could not.
The… From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game — the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game — the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
Back home after the match, I decide that for Stoppard art is a game within a game — the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents in which (as Beckett, whom he venerates, says in the aptly entitled "Endgame") "something is taking its course".
That incident was absurd enough, but in the case of "Star Trek" the outrage is even more confounding than usual.
Dennis J. Oury, the lawyer for the owner of the nightclub, the Metro Lounge, which is next to the pool room, called the notion of criminal negligence "absurd" and said the incident was "an unfortunate accident".
Patel had been working for Cheney then, and it was he who recommended giving the Caller-Times the scoop, perhaps in the absurd hope that the incident would pass with little notice.
The situation got even more absurd with this last incident.
The one that involves Rose proving she really is a stripper vies with Kenny's spider-bite incident for most absurd.
Given the immense amount of public exposure these two men have had, it is absurd to focus on isolated incidents to form an overall judgment of their characters or abilities.
