Sentence examples for absurd views from inspiring English sources

A mix of genius and absurd views of the world, James masters a quality that's very child-like, the idea that imagination has no boundaries and anything is possible.

Over the past decades, Americans have developed an absurd view of the power of government.

This is the absurd view of Caseby, Stenson, Stephen Glover, News International, the Daily Mail and, sadly, the Independent.

Plenty of people, of course, dissent from this absurd view of Thatcher as champion of female emancipation – plenty of feminists, plenty of people on "the left".

That may be an absurd view in white circles, but a 1990 survey found that 30percentt of African-Americans believed this was at least plausible.

But no one would attribute to a reasonable person the absurd view that what's true for the first $100 billion in investment is also true for the second trillion.

The latter is called mancia, which is simply a tip.Martin LamReading, BerkshireThe generation gapSIR – You rightfully exposed the absurd view that ageing populations are a problem for fixing rather than an asset to be invested in and benefited from ("How to manage an ageing workforce", February 18th).

This was always an absurd view: the failure to protect Baby P was a tragic accumulation of errors, exceptions, and misjudgments, some tiny and seemingly inconsequential, others major and far-reaching, on the part of social workers, police, health services, lawyers and family welfare workers.

Mach and Russell do not endorse the absurd view that we never make mistakes.

If Nietzsche is not, contrary to Foot's suggestion, embracing the absurd view that there is too much pity and altruism in the world, what exactly is his critical point?

For example, John Searle describes panpsychism as an "absurd view" and asserts that thermostats do not have "enough structure even to be a remote candidate for consciousness" (1997, p. 48) while Colin McGinn (1999, pp. 95 ff).