Sentence examples for absurd lines from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "absurd lines" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe lines of text, dialogue, or poetry that are nonsensical, ridiculous, or illogical.
Example: "The playwright's latest work is filled with absurd lines that leave the audience both confused and amused."
Alternatives: "ridiculous statements" or "nonsensical phrases".

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When Saturday Night Live made fun of Sports Centers obsession with absurd metaphors and nonsensical interjections, Tim Meadows played Scott as the straight man while Ray Romano's hapless wannabe attempted, and failed, tobsessionreasingly absurd lines like "swith sabsurdolassy" and "you are going to pay a lot for that metaphorsnd the costs will be prohibitive".

Hobo With A Shotgun is a convincingly excessive homage to/parody of cheap 1970s/80s thrillers – a lurid mix of Troma splatter, Mad Max set dressing and Deathwish avenger thrills, peppered with absurd lines such as, "Put the knife away or I'll use it to carve welfare cheques on your skin!" "It was the most intense cartoon I've ever been in," says Hauer in that distinctively velvety, sonorous voice.

It was easier for me to play absurd lines of dialogue when I said them with [a distinct] rhythm.

Similarly, Perry was astonished by how Carson "can take the most absurd lines and deliver them in such grammatized form with his eyes and his deep rich speaking voice".

The list is long but includes: allowing Chevron to pay its witnesses in violation of rules barring the same; degrading treatment of a foreign judge from Ecuador who testified that he wrote the judgment; threats and outright hostility to Ecuadorian witnesses and permitting absurd lines of questioning in open court while acknowledging their inappropriateness at sidebar, among many other problems.

There's a little fondness, always, in this book, despite its most absurd lines sounding like invented jabs at mainstream cinema's expense ("six months were devoted to teaching Chee-Chee the Chimpanzee how to cook bacon and eggs"; "'you take out the semen, you don't have a script,' Bottomly said"; "'you got a little problem about the Lobster Man, you come see Irwin,'" et cetera, et cetera).

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Evancho is uniquely positioned to sustain this absurd line of reasoning.

Matthews continued his firm, somewhat absurd line of questioning by asking Romanoff whether he was still technically a Colorado resident after selling his house.

White House officials and Trump allies have swiftly sought to distance the president from the revelations by minimizing the campaign officials' involvement in Trump's campaign: a familiar — and at times, absurd line of defense.

When Barrington auditioned before W. S. Gilbert, the young actor questioned his own suitability for comic opera, but Gilbert, who required that his actors play their sometimes-absurd lines in all earnestness, explained the casting choice: "He's a staid, solid swine, and that's what I want".

If you were taken with the wry tone and occasionally absurd laugh lines of "The Descendants," you can tip your hat to the co-writers, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.

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