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In the press, angry headlines appeared: "criticize chen mengjia"; "refute the rightist element chen mengjia's absurd theory".
Or that the Church wasn't right to silence Galileo, with his absurd theory (actually written by his proctologist) that the earth moves around the sun.
And its chief, Wayne LaPierre, has peddled for years the absurd theory that the United Nations is plotting to take away Americans' guns.Few urban Americans swallow this twaddle, which is why many cities have stiff anti-gun laws.
We might remember the teenage Marianne in Austen's Sense and Sensibility, with her conviction that a person can only love once (even though she is the daughter of her father's second wife, and is destined to disprove her own absurd theory).
I know you realize that they have never been able to support this absurd theory to this day.
Nowadays, scholars agree that there were no medieval authors who entertained the philosophically absurd theory that two contradictory propositions – one derived from philosophical investigation, the other from Christian revelation--can both be true at the same time.
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The history of archaeology is strewn with absurd theories, idiosyncratic theories.
New York's financial crisis has spawned some absurd theories, the silliest of which concern our sex lives.
Gove and his government loved blaming architects and seemed to adhere to an outdated stereotype of a nitwit in a bow-tie imposing absurd theories on honest workmen and naive clients.
As a black woman whose athletic abilities and interests lean toward kayaking and swimming and who largely despises watching or taking part in contact sports, I am constantly amazed when I hear intelligent people, especially intelligent black people, espouse absurd theories of black athletic superiority.
A definition solely in terms of consequences might seem too broad, because it includes absurd theories such as the theory that an act is morally right if it increases the number of goats in Texas.
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