Sentence examples for absurdity over from inspiring English sources

Sartre is an acronym for "Safe Road Trains for the Environment", but it is a perfect tribute to the great French philosopher who ran his own ethical cafe-convoy, leading his zombie-like followers from absurdity to absurdity over many decades.

The charade may have reached peak absurdity over the last week and a half, when two of the GOP officials most famous for their hostility to "Obamacare," Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, were among those vowing to help people with pre-existing conditions.

Pat Forde of ESPN.com runs down many of the sport's absurdities over the past 10 years.

There is a fundamental absurdity hanging over negotiations with Iran, and I fear it could doom the whole enterprise.

Cramming a DJ booth, coat check room, bar, and light-up dancefloor into its 2.8 square metre space, the project's intent was to challenge the absurdity of the over-priced and elitist clubbing experience.

"For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week.

The whole product feels rounded off and reassuring, demonstrating the triumph of common competence and established procedures over absurdity and mayhem.

This produces "Eureka" moments: a perfectionist who realises the absurdity of frustration over an imperfect Lego construction; the owner of a firm with dismal customer relations who models headquarters as a fort under siege; or an overbearing boss who depicts his staff as soldiers headed into battle.

It has absurdity written all over it, from the war beginning in a cesspool of Bush/Cheney lies to this escalation of 30,000 soldiers being sent into a desert to fight who exactly?

The units in which American building materials are measured are idiosyncratic in the extreme — they include gauges, penny sizes, nominal dimensions, and a host of other anachronistic absurdities — but the over-all system works well, in part because it arose organically from human activity instead of being imposed from above by theoreticians.

Originally, she saw it as satirical, she said, a kind of "over-the-top absurdity".