Sentence examples for absurd phrases from inspiring English sources

Just check out of the absurd phrases the FCC came up with to replace the harsher ones from the original movie.

In my researching my book, My Brother, My Enemy from Sahelian Africa through the Holy Land, South Asia and onto Indonesia, I discovered that it is the hyperbolic language in the West -- the use of such absurd phrases as "Islamo-facism" -- that helps stir the passions of young Muslims, many of them already disenfranchised by their own governments.

But the entire company honors the ache behind Mr. McDonagh's often (deliberately) absurd turns of phrase, whereby primal rage is expressed as fury at lumps in the energy drink, Complan.

Nintendo World Report's review of the DS version of My French Coach called the game's reference section "a very handy travel dictionary", noting that having a dictionary list and a phrasebook with audio files that could bookmark chosen phrases was "an absurd value".

For American Icelandophiles -- whose numbers appear to be mounting rapidly -- the phrase seems faintly absurd.

Secession was patently illegal, its defenders absurd, their arguments "sugar-coated" (a phrase he proudly retained even when a government printer suggested it was too coarse).

Ali Spagnola, who freed the phrase "power hour" from absurd trademark limbo.

It was when he took his struggling friends to the brothel for an absurd and hilarious escapade that the phrase "Unsavory Elements" occurred to Carter.

I came of age in the '80s and '90s and can still recall when Xavier's students were lords of the Underground, and the phrase "comic book movie" conjured absurd images of David Hasselhoff donning an eye patch.

Here's why: It's absurd that "climate change" has become an unpronounceable phrase under Obama and that green technology initiatives have been stymied by sterile ideological dispute.

And he's gifted with the absurd belief that 'everybody loves him," a pathetic phrase that every African dictator utters in every campaign speech.