Sentence examples for appear absurd from inspiring English sources
The phrase "appear absurd" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that seems ridiculous or illogical to an observer. Example: "The proposal to eliminate all public transportation options in the city appeared absurd to many residents."
But such a tiny minority holding on to such an outdated view on the right to exclusivity would increasingly appear absurd, as redundant as the royal family.
Some political structures will appear absurd: Russia, Britain and France, three of the current, permanent, veto-bearing members of the U.N. Security Council, will have a combined population less than that of Indonesia.
The implicit parallel in the book between personal catastrophe and political crisis – between the break-up of the Bloch marriage and the earthquake and subsequent Arab-Israeli stand-off – might at first appear absurd, hubristic.
Look at these images in reproduction, on a tiny scale in the comfort of your own home, and they may well appear absurd, the white hawthorn bursting out in great maggoty slugs, the shadows making glove puppet bunnies.
The bare statistics make any criticism appear absurd.
But to students of modern aesthetics, that is, the philosophy of art and beauty from roughly the beginning of the 18th century to the end of the 19th century, that question will not appear absurd at all.
But laissez-faire appeared absurd, as well as morally abhorrent, to Keynes.
Mr Gilligan stuck to his guns - at the self-evident risk of appearing absurd.
Strange junk mail appears – absurd but expensively produced free magazines with names like The Hill and invitations to "wealth management" seminars, one promising that "fortunes are made during a boom, dynasties during a recession".
He is still excruciatingly pretty, but his features are so perfect that they appear slightly absurd.
Its insistence that no American troops are in the city appears increasingly absurd.
