Sentence examples for as absurd for from inspiring English sources

To say that such entities exist though there is no means of knowing them is regarded as absurd, for no unverifiable assertion of existence is meaningful.

It is as absurd for me to take credit for my suburban students' success on state tests as it would be to take the blame for the underperformance of students, many nonwhite, I taught in the city.

As absurd as "Waiting for Guffman" may be, it is built around utterly believable details.

The plot is a paranoid endgame in which the ubiquitous Mafia is the instrument of terminal destiny and running from death is as absurd as waiting for it.

The latter questions, you should reply, would be as absurd as my request for stating a justifying reason for your perceptual experience.[46] Experiential foundationalism, then, is not easily dislodged.

At first glance, the idea of a Mad Max 2 museum seems as absurd as a museum for Caddyshack 2 or Men in Black 3. Granted, the film Americans call The Road Warrior is a lot more exciting than Men in Black 3, and oddly enough, funnier than Caddyshack 2. I dare you not to every time you see the Lord Humungus's form-fitting leather underwear.

It has left the United States as one of only a handful of countries embracing at-will employment, which allows employers to terminate employees with or without cause (for reasons as absurd as the employee's private sex life or the color of their clothing).

The idea that a technology involving 140-character messages could become a serious medium for conversation seems as absurd as the notion that one could have philosophical arguments using smoke signals.

I thoroughly enjoyed "For You, Half Price," by Gabriel Cohen (Urban Tactics, Nov. 27), but to get a little technical, the notion of buying and selling the Brooklyn Bridge is not quite as absurd as it sounds, at least for the early years of the bridge's construction.

The notion isn't as absurd as it sounds.

This blindspot is not as absurd as it sounds.