Sentence examples for absurd predicament from inspiring English sources
Voting members in the coaches poll are in a more absurd predicament.
That absurd predicament is central to "Love and the Doorknob," a sketch about spatting newlyweds from an early episode of "Love American Style".
Petina Gappah's fine short story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, explored with wit and fury the absurd, scandalous predicament of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe, and the tenacious dreams of its people.
The young soldiers who are their captors seem to be just as confused and demoralized as the women themselves, and the films rich, pointed comedy arises from the sense that all of them, men and women alike, are trapped in an absurd, insoluble predicament.
His themes are diaspora and absurd existential predicaments.
Matt Casamassina of IGN commented on the character's interactions during gameplay that reveal Drake's nature: "it's lighthearted and amusing, but it also demonstrates that Nate is aware of how absurd his predicaments sometimes are.
Saunders's bitterly funny stories here and in his extraordinary debut, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996), succeed in squeezing meaning and emotional resonance out of absurd, post-real predicaments.
Sometimes his predicament can seem to border on the absurd.
Absurd, in an especially ghastly sense, certainly describes the predicament in which Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) finds himself.
Oscar and Lucinda are in predicaments which, in the twentieth century, to a twentieth century sensibility, are absurd - but never, for one moment, seem so to themselves, nor to their creator.
