Sentence examples for absurd up from inspiring English sources

But his time on that show saw him turning that mischief and sense of the absurd up to 11 as he frolicked with the younger contestants, taking any opportunity to shock and create moments for the cameras.

Just two months before the UK gave the US its absurd "heads up" about David Miranda's detention, Eric Holder vowed not to prosecute journalists, saying: The Department [of Justice] has not prosecuted, and as long as I'm attorney general, will not prosecute any reporter for doing his or her job.

Sancho Panza ducks, and the fish smacks into the absurd, puffed-up Gamache (Bennet Gartside).

But basically it's there for viewers to stare at the cars' absurd lit-up undercarriages, diminished seating capacity and nitrous-oxide kits.

The floor-care manual that gives the novel its title reads like an absurd mash-up of Bob Vila and a Buddhist monk.

As we stood in our absurd get-ups, marring the blue-skied Florida backdrop, he told me I looked like a Dreamsicle.

He opens each act with a slightly absurd stand-up routine featuring punch lines as dry and sculptured as those of Steven Wright.

McEwan recalled the absurd get-up that was required: "Heavy shoes, these giant splash suits, and goggles and balaclavas and gloves and, on top of them, a second pair of gloves".

A drunk Dubya challenges his dad to an absurd punch-up; later he finds God, quits the booze (no AA though) and gets a governorship, having sworn never to be out-Texaned or out-Christianed after an early, bruising failure.

I started mining the seam of bullshit when I was sports editor of a student newspaper: my articles were always an odd mix of inter-college rugby matches and absurd, made-up events that never happened.

Unlike Launder and Gilliat's 1952 movie, The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, Topsy-Turvy is not a conventional biopic and doesn't touch on the absurd break-up of their partnership over the Savoy Theatre's carpets in the 1890s.