Sentence examples for absurd proceedings from inspiring English sources

The major instrumental defense of democracy is that "there is less reason in a democratic state to fear absurd proceedings" (16/184).

At times the proceedings were absurd.

However, Incra's president, Rolf Hackbart, rejected the idea of bringing criminal proceedings as "absurd" saying that it will only serve to undermine the government's agrarian reforms.

The exchange insured that the proceedings were profane and absurd in equal measure, which, in this case, is probably a more apt combination than anyone would like to admit.

These words, uttered by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in 1990, resound more than ever as a call for help at a time when the Burmese junta has initiated proceedings against her that are as absurd as they are unjustified.

Karinna Moskalenko, one of Mr. Khodorkovsky's lawyers, called the charges against her client "absurd" and "groundless" and criticized the conduct of the first day's proceedings, in which Judge Viktor Danilkin rejected a series of motions by the defense.

Gentle piano accompaniment and delicate vocal harmonies lend the proceedings a churchy kind of grace, which seems to suspend the eclectic and sometimes patently absurd music perpetually between the ridiculous and the sublime.

What's absurd is that, apparently, TPB knew nothing about the case, and didn't send any legal representation to the proceedings.

The final act of the film tries to put a tiny bit of oomph into the proceedings as Isaac, Farnez and their daughter flee the country, but this comes mostly in the form of absurd McGuffins.

Or absurd?

So absurd!