Sentence examples for absurd spectacle from inspiring English sources

It's such an ugly, absurd spectacle: "Prison for trees.

It's a relentlessly showy and often absurd spectacle, both audacious and uncompromising.

But Wall Street as showbiz on steroids can be an absurd spectacle.

Yes, the Oscars may be an absurd spectacle of remarkably successful people congratulating themselves for work that barely nudges at the borders of meaningful human achievement.

All these are in addition to the absurd spectacle of PMQs and the House of Lords, and spadocracy and MPs' expenses, which were mentioned by Timothy Garton Ash.

Davis Polk declared that getting rid of risk-weighting is "too blunt," somehow immune to the absurd spectacle of lawyers opining on proper risk management.

If the right are to be believed, teenage feminists have columnists and professors clutching their pearls and fearing for the state of humanity as they rampage through the education system, shutting down free speech and turning once great universities into absurd spectacles of trigger warnings, privilege checking and safe spaces.

What a ridiculous spectacle.

We also spent some time at one of the weirdest EDM festivals going: the absurd patriotic spectacle of the Speedway, Indiana's Snake Pit, which happens in the infield of the Indy 500 as the race goes on.

Despite the fall of the Soviet Union — and periodic calls to end what's been called an "absurd, pagan and necrophiliac" spectacle by finally burying its first leader — Lenin's body remains on display in Moscow.

Speaking in a video-taped interview with the Clarion-Ledger newspaper, James acknowledged that his horse bride was absurd, but said the spectacle served a point.