Sentence examples for absurd quality from inspiring English sources

It also lends an absurd quality to moments such as Kanye West's VMAs appearance in 2009, when he interrupted a Taylor Swift acceptance speech to declare that Beyoncé should have won instead.

A few days ago the USA's Boston Herald said the peace talks had taken on a "theatre of the absurd" quality.

According to Śāntarakṣita, true singularity would be an absurd quality to claim for something which is permanent and has the ability to contribute to the periodic production of successive effects.

All that said, as we lost ourselves further in the dusty, chopped and re-rubbed grooves of his selections, the clearest truth was that really, the reason he still holds such a hypnotic grip on audiences is down to little more than the absurd quality of his sets.

A lawyer in London, Mr. Gimlette is a practiced, if at times hapless traveler, and best of all he writes with enormous wit, indignation and a heightened sense of the absurd, qualities that make him a particularly keen observer in this antique, often unlucky land.

Much of the early coverage of the book has focused on the eerie and absurd qualities of the dummies (the Huffington Post declared them "creepy"), but through the 5-by-5-foot portraits on view at JF Chen, Rolston was able to reveal much more.

The trial is not even absurd — a quality that might have some appeal for the defendants' artistic sensibilities.

The violence has an absurd, cartoonish quality that keeps the pain from seeming real, unlike the pain of the King of Bohemia's frequent reminders that his wife possessed neither the beauty of a consort nor the artistic talents of a rightful citizen, and that, as Guggenheim sums up his argument, "all I had to offer was my money," upon which he graciously consented to live.

In recent weeks, the Mets' futility at the plate has reached almost absurd levels, meaning quality starts from their staff are being wasted.

The equipment can seem bizarre and the laboratory situations comical — picture a woman in a lounge chair with her pants around her knees, a tampon-shaped tube in her vagina and a cord running from this device to a console while she stares at a video of gay men partaking in foreplay — but then, sex research has always had an absurd if valiant quality.

In the United Kingdom, mortality ratios vary by 60percentt among hospitals, making them an "absurd" measure of quality, Pronovost says, when only one in 20 deaths can be prevented.