Sentence examples for an absurd situation from inspiring English sources

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It's an absurd situation".

It's still an absurd situation, though.

"It is an absurd situation and must be unlawful in some way.

But this is an absurd situation and one must have some humor".

The hero of Dave Eggers's absorbing new novel "A Hologram for the King" is a penny-ante Job named Alan Clay, who finds himself in an absurd situation.

"This is an absurd situation that would not be tolerated anywhere else in the world," Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the military, said in a statement.

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In this bizarre world, Aqua Teen operates like an alternate-universe sitcom – presenting an utterly absurd situation in an otherwise mundane existence, and while refusing to bother with continuity (most shows fail at this anyway), much less an origin story.

When Walt decides it's time for the brothers to move to Hollywood -- "I think I got the chops," he says of his motivation, an utterly absurd situation that's treated seriously -- he convinces his younger brother by saying it's a chance for Bob to see his Internet honey, May Fong (Wen Yann Shih), in person.

For instance, the "explosion" world (call it e) at which everything is the case, that is, at which every sentence is true, seems to be as far from @ as one can imagine — provided one can actually imagine or conceive such an extremely absurd situation.

The writing lesson contained here is that, when you present a flamboyantly absurd situation, you don't need to say very much to explain its meaning.

On the night that I saw the show, this line drew a big laugh from the audience — probably because we had all found ourselves in a similarly absurd situation at some point, hiding our real emotions behind the thin scrim of political correctness.

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