Sentence examples for an absurd question from inspiring English sources

He grins as if this is an absurd question.

Do I wish it hadn't happened?" It's an absurd question, but he answers it anyway.

Given the impossibility of comparing chariots with private jets, this is an absurd question.

— November, 2011, at the CNBC debate "My colleagues have done a terrific job of answering an absurd question….

This is an absurd question and one which cannot realistically be answered, except by engaging in speculation.

"My colleagues have done a terrific job of answering an absurd question," Mr. Gingrich said to CNBC's Maria Bartiromo during one of the recent debates.

I Do! (In a Few Years) The Fafsa asks a seemingly absurd question: "Who is considered a parent?" Yet frequently families react with frustration when I explain how the government defines parents for financial aid purposes.

I always refer to it as a big absurd question mark.

"Huge bombshell!" she said, before asking an innocent but absurd question: "If a lesbian walked in and you found her hot, what would you do?" Sophie's appearance as a bisexual woman on British TV was a rarity then, and remains one now.

From what angle do you approach the world in your writing, one scholar asked: are you an environmentalist, are you a Christian writer, what right do you have to represent sea cucumbers and peas and ostriches and constellations, and – oh, how one has to face this most profound and profoundly absurd question as a writer – what are you?

This admittedly absurd question is being raised only because a federal judge in Manhattan asked more or less the same thing the other day in a different context.