Sentence examples for absurd proportion from inspiring English sources

By the final episode, a truly absurd proportion of the characters were pregnant or gay.

Some absurd proportion of English school leavers believes, or will tell you, that the earth is 10,000 years old.

At this season's fashion shows, which have moved from New York and are now in London, there is still an absurd proportion of girls of extreme skinniness – see the debate over Victoria Beckham's show – but there are also examples of diversity that the public want and expect to see on the catwalk.

There are still respected scientists who think genomic sequencing is doomed to stay forever in the labs, absorbing funds in absurd proportion to the benefits they provide.

And this can reach absurd proportions.

The gap in price between vintage and nonvintage reached absurd proportions for standard images.

When it comes to the wash-up, such control freakery takes on even more absurd proportions.

Hysteria has now reached absurd proportions, as has the level of public discussion on the issues at stake.

It was a cat-and-mouse game of absurd proportions -- faxes, phone calls, lawyers, agents and managers.

The national newspaper assault on Ed Miliband and Labour has already reached absurd proportions more than two months ahead of the general election.

By magnifying the minutiae — props, cues, stuck doorknobs — Frayn blows up perhaps the most banal aspect of theatre-making to absurd proportions.