Sentence examples for absurd sense from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "absurd sense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a perception or understanding that is illogical or nonsensical in nature.
Example: "In an absurd sense, the idea that we could solve all our problems with a single app seemed far-fetched."
Alternatives: "ridiculous notion" or "nonsensical understanding".

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I left, and felt this absurd sense of liberation.

In the end, the turbines didn't really add anything to the show, except an absurd sense of delight each time you looked up at the white blades.

"But it does not surprise me that George, in particular, was able to take his absurd sense of humor to some crazy level.

Rabe's soldiers, unmoored by an absurd sense of death, shared with American society what he calls "a dizzying impression of being sent on a compassless march".

Seeing everyone again the next year, not least the ones who joined up in spite of officially loathing walking; some absurd sense of survival in the face of never-identified adult forces which would have us stop it at once.

In the case of Theatre de la Jeune Lune, almost anything can inspire its members, from Shakespeare and Molière to Marcel Carné's classic 1945 film "Children of Paradise," to their own absurd sense of humor.

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In the novel, Camus meant absurd in the sense of pointless; in the essays in the sense of unjustified by certainty.

The plot may be absurd, but its sense of fashion is spot on.

But he preferred, as ever, the shock of the absurd, and the sense of the detached voyeur intruding on private space.

Rhapsodising the public parks of the French metropolis in Paris Peasant (1926), the surrealist Louis Aragon commented that "night gives these absurd places a sense of not knowing their own identity".

Given the improbability of many of his premises, Mr. Boyle is like a magician who needs all the bells and whistles in his cupboard of tricks to keep his stories aloft: his hyperventilated, over-caffeinated language; his enthusiastic inventiveness; his keen eye for the absurd; his manic sense of humor.

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