Sentence examples for absurd play from inspiring English sources

The Absurd play, said Esslin, dispenses with conventional narrative in favour of the logic of dreams; furthermore, in a century stripped of certainties, the Absurd playwright understands that conversation, listened to closely, becomes "nonsensical illusions, empty chatter, whistling in the dark".

A posting Monday on Sohu, another Web portal, read, "Zhou is just one of the actors in this absurd play.

It's being called the worst fake punt in history, but that really doesn't do justice to the absurd play attempted by Indianapolis against New England on Sunday night.

In his house in a Reykjavík suburb — the only place I wasn't offered coffee; I put it down to perverse principle — Andri Snær could barely suppress a half-smile at what he knew to be the absurdity of a writer with a taste for the absurd playing a political part.

"That is really like a twist from one of his absurd plays," said political analyst Jiří Pehe, Havel's collaborator and former adviser.

Unable to move the ball all night -- the culmination of a putrid 20-36 fewerewer than 200 yards -- was an utterly absurd play-call to roll him out and throw on the Cowboys' 1-yard line in the game's waning moments.

After one game he ridiculed one of his own players (perhaps Artest, who had some absurd dribbling play ending nowhere) by saying with quiet disdain, 'That was a very interesting play,' with his slight smile.

Aragonés has always insisted that with the players Spain have it would be absurd to play any other way and he is of course right.

Kind of impressive on my part, really, considering we were talking about Jean-Luc Picard and Me, Waddell's absurd new play about her lifelong obsession with Star Trek.

And as attuned as he is to the absurd, he plays his thesis too straight.

"Here we are, in an utterly absurd position, playing political games as this public health crisis mounts here in our country," McConnell said.