Sentence examples for absurd through from inspiring English sources

Post-war French theatre developed the absurd, through the plays of Camus, Jean Anouilh and the Franco-Romanian Eugène Ionescu.

"Fairy Tales of the Absurd," through June 29 at Theater 80, 80 St. Marks Place, East Village.

In 1955, he co-founded the magazine Ciclón, a journal exploring trends such as surrealism and the theatre of the absurd through their literary, aesthetic, philosophical and psychoanalytical concerns.

But Elizabeth's susceptibility to the dark urges she felt she had smothered under her newly civilized exterior felt contrived to me, and the play's spasms of brutality are so gruesome that any point Ms. Thurber may be trying to make about the way sexual violence spreads its poisonous influence is rendered absurd through overstatement.

Like the limericks, Vine videos have an extremely restricted form (six seconds, an infinite loop) and a very specific sensibility that's informed by the restrictions (the joke – and it's usually a joke – has to play out in seconds and improve or at least become transcendently absurd through repetition).

David Lynch is the master of creating those uncomfortable moments in which the banal gives way to the absurd; through film, music and visual arts Lynch orchestrates our suburban nightmares.

In this latest absurd rummage through the archives, he turns his attention to ghosts.

MICHELA WRONG'S first book, which came out in 2000, took the reader on an absurd journey through the Congo under General Mobutu Sese Seko.

Mr. Sanchez's ordeal, unearthed from court records and interviews, amounts to a strange, sometimes absurd odyssey through a criminal justice system that made a single error and then compounded it time and again by failing to correct it.

Whether releasing miniature clouds into misty hillsides or attempting to make her way across moorland bogs wearing sandals fashioned from damp peat clods, Ramm's wildlife-based theatre of the absurd convinces through its incongruous and almost comic innocence.

Thus, it makes perfect sense to stage the conundrums of modern, absurd freedom through the figure of Caligula, as Camus does in one of his most famous plays.