Sentence examples for absurd restraint from inspiring English sources

Such cautious – or absurd – restraint actually propels the story.

And this is especially so because, as the dissent points out, the result is absurd: Restraint in the use of defensive violence is rewarded by criminal punishment.

"It's a preposterous hook, of course, but Ms. Barthes introduces her absurd premise with deadpan restraint," Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in August.

Gillian Engberg of Booklist called the book a "stirring memoir", and wrote: "Guest writes with a reporter's sense of economy and restraint, letting absurd, even shocking details speak for themselves".

The film is a masterful comedy that nails the art of restraint and ridiculousness with such precision that you'd mistake it for an absurd documentary, were it not for all the recognizable faces.

These two men — who contemptuously dismissed any restraints on executive power when they were in power, and forcefully advocated the absurd fantasy of a unitary executive — now worry that Congress might not assert its constitutional powers against the executive branch.

"Prior restraint.

"Intense restraint".

Or absurd?

So absurd!

Utterly absurd.