Sentence examples for absurd into from inspiring English sources
The army projectionist played the reels out of order, but it didn't seem to matter – there's nothing like a war to turn the absurd into the everyday.
Like the best satirists he could make the everyday seem absurd, but like Douglas Adams he could also just as easily turn the absurd into the perfectly logical.
An eyebrow raised here, a stutter of a phrase there, even just the colour of a vowel from one night to the next reminds me why I grew up marvelling at Rowan Atkinson, Buster Keaton and Chaplin; they are all able to tease out of you immense sympathy and empathy while turning the absurd into normality.
Over four studio albums (as Peaches), eye-popping concert tours, a one-woman remake of Jesus Christ Superstar and collaborations with artists as diverse as Iggy Pop and Feist, Peaches has made it her life's work to take frankness to places it doesn't usually venture: the realm of the absurd, into art, into politics (Impeach My Bush was the title of her 2006 album).
But the Canadian, Swedish and Finnish logging companies have successfully pressured their governments into inserting an absurd clause into the rules.
Hendrie's show works when it inserts one absurd note into normal talk-show blather.
In a tour de force of wild-eyed demonic intensity, the actor brilliantly charts the evolution of an absurd upstart into blood-freezing demagogue.
Religious law, or the abuse of religion by law, crops up throughout the film as an absurd intrusion into filmmaking itself.
To use the language of "remembrance" about the battle that ended the Napoleonic age is an absurd descent into historical bathos.
As the sailor sleeps in his cabin, the absurd crashes into his life: a floating steel shipping container, which apparently slipped off the deck of a passing freighter, makes a hole in the side of his craft.
This feeling of emotional generosity tempers the literary thinking, as do the scenes of pure comedy, like the Oxford high-table dinner in Marías's novel "All Souls," with its Buñuel-like degeneration of absurd formality into violence and contempt.
