The phrase "absurd sums" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe amounts of money or figures that are excessively large or unreasonable.
Example: "The company reported absurd sums in profits this quarter, raising eyebrows among industry analysts."
Alternatives: "outrageous amounts" or "ridiculous figures".
To match the new mood of realism, that salary should be nowhere near the absurd sums that Eriksson received or that Scolari was allegedly offered.
But the most enduring numbers associated with him will be counted in billions: the legions in China who carefully monitored his progress in the N.B.A., and, of course, their absurd sums of disposable income.
Peter Biskind, in his biography of Beatty, does a good job of explaining how and why the movie ended up costing absurd sums of money — which resulted in press that sank the film before its release — but these stories, entertaining and fascinating though they may be, don't account for the actual distinctiveness, the singularity of the results.
The absurd sums earned by Wall Street figures are well trodden ground – Fuld agreed to the committee that he had pocketed somewhere between $250m and $350m over the last eight years - and in terms of public esteem, corporate bosses are held somewhere close to arsonists.
He does not believe in letting lieutenants scrape by while a CEO is paid absurd sums.
Anyone at HMRC who actually does a good job chasing people down is offered absurd sums to jump across to KPMG or a big bank, which removes the threat". "The HSBC case is quite different from other recent tax scandals," says Prof Crawford Spence of Warwick Business School, who researches tax avoidance.
How very candid of a man about to be paid an absurd sum of money to make the Hollywood elite hoot with laughter for an evening.
So we can probably expect to fork out an absurd sum for a ticket unless we trawl through websites three months in advance, can be absolutely certain we are going to travel on the 3.42pm on a Tuesday afternoon, and we craftily split the journey half way to Manchester.
If you think that's an absurd sum remember that he's only the 7th highest paid in the PAC 12 Division.
It's not available yet in the U.S., although an unlocked version is rumored to be coming on Valentine's Day (for the absurd sum of $899, which includes a bundle of other gear).
In fact, the phone was a silver edition and was worth 68,000 yuan ($10,000) — an absurd sum of money for a mobile handset anywhere, and even more so in a country with a per capita income of $7,600 (compare that to the U.S. where the per capita GDP is over $47,000).
