The charge sheet against Serbia is getting absurdly long.
Well, yes, everybody knows pay in big banking is absurdly high – even the Barclays board says it is sympathetic on that score.
Imagine how much better this perky dance number would have sold if its absurdly spelt title hadn't made it almost impossible to search for on iTunes.
The infant monster is smooth, eyeless and bulbous, both strongly foetal and absurdly phallic, with a row of silver milk-teeth and a lashing, segmented tail.
Even more absurdly, central government's budgetary allocation is only about half of the Ministry of Rural Development's own estimates of the "approved person days as per the labour budget".
Almost as bad, he says, half of the album has been streamed or otherwise previewed online already, an effort by the label to stir interest that, absurdly, left the same label feeling cheated, as if there was no longer enough fresh material on the product Blake submitted.
It's far too camp and stagey for cinema, really, as are the luridly coloured costumes and absurdly clean and tidy "medieval" sets.
Dubost and Carette play a deliciously sly and comic cat-and-mouse game with the absurdly rigid Modot, especially during the after-dinner entertainment, a breathtaking sequence described by the critic Richard Roud as something from "a Marx brothers film scripted by a Feydeau who suddenly acquired a tragic sense".
Don't expect to pick up a beautiful villa, in a desirable location, for peanuts – the big falls were in the off-centre developments that were arguably absurdly over-priced in the first place.
On the tone of the undelivered version, Lord Kinnock said: "In the end, she might not have used that passage, because people around her would have told her how absurdly counterproductive it would be.
By secondary school he was writing some "absurdly pretentious stuff", but as soon as he won a place at Exeter College, Oxford, to read English in 1968 his poetry "went into hiding".
