Sentence examples for act absurd from inspiring English sources

In defending their position from the obvious charge that it subverts the core mission of the ACA, they lamely insist that their view of the law does not render "any other provision of the Act absurd".

Plenty of their supporters act absurd.

Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley find the act absurd, but do their best to contain their contempt for her dirty stockings.

Mr. Hollander's lawyer, Alexander Bateman, said: "Any charge or any allegation that Michael Hollander as president of L.I.C.V.B. committed fraud or any criminal act is absurd and unfounded.

The prosecution of the Pussy Riot women is more than an act of absurd injustice and cruelty; it is a sign that the Russian state is increasingly lashing out against those citizens it sees as overly modernized.

"How can I be a terrorist if I tried to calm things down?" Gauri van Gulik, Amnesty's deputy Europe director who was present in court, said: "To sentence Ahmed to 10 years in prison for a terrorist act is absurd.

They have long associated their act with absurd symbology with images such as floating pigs.

In December 2007, Family Guy was again accused of copyright infringement when actor Art Metrano filed a lawsuit regarding a scene in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, in which Jesus performs Metrano's signature "magic" act involving absurd "faux" magical hand gestures while humming the distinctive tune "Fine and Dandy".

There's a famous story of his American producers trying to reverse the order of the second and third acts in Absurd Person Singular because they thought a play should build to a comic crescendo.

Can an absurd act provoke a transgression that makes you abandon the standard assumptions on the sources of conflict?

The shenanigans now enveloping drug classification and scheduling under the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act have become absurd.