Sentence examples for absurd strives from inspiring English sources
As he wrote, "The Theater of the Absurd strives to express its sense of the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought," and it does so through "a poetry that is to emerge from the concrete and objectified images of the stage itself".
In the end, the narrator realizes, there is nothing more absurd than striving portentously after the "reality" of oneself.
It is all very rumbustious and absurd: all that striving, all that posing, all that getting it up and getting it down.
But, especially in part II, there are other strains: the hero can be absurd in his continual striving for more demonstrations of his power; his cruelty, which is extreme, becomes sickening; his human weakness is increasingly underlined, most notably in the onset of his fatal illness immediately after his arrogant burning of the Qurʾān.
The notion that, in other words, all of this meaningful striving is absurd.
They represented the ordinary guy with no handout, no education and seemingly no prospects, who nevertheless strove forward dealing with life's absurdities in an even more absurd manner.
He strove to liberalize the press still severely bound by an absurd libel law that excluded effective social criticism.
To strive to own anything of extraordinary value generally strikes us as absurd, given our biodegradability.
"You never know what could come your way.' Striving under these circumstances requires not just pluck, but an appreciation of the absurd.
