Sentence examples for essentially absurd from inspiring English sources

Learning to roll the boulder while keeping at least a half smile on your face — "One must imagine Sisyphus happy" is his most emphatic aphorism — is the only way to act decently while accepting that acts are always essentially absurd.

Small Time Crooks (2000) was a modest comedy starring Allen and Tracy Ullman as a married couple whose elaborate (but essentially absurd) bank robbery plan predictably goes off the rails.

Had anyone, even here, played a golf course in 17 shots?" There is something essentially absurd about the pursuit of sporting perfection, because when sport gets too easy it becomes increasingly pointless.

Theatre of the Absurd, dramatic works of certain European and American dramatists of the 1950s and early '60s who agreed with the Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus's assessment, in his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942), that the human situation is essentially absurd, devoid of purpose.

That shot, so good it was almost absurd, essentially ended the tournament.

Which would mean that worrying about the nature of its ideas would also be, essentially, outrageous and absurd.

It's essentially a catalyst for absurd little jokes and peculiar moments, but when added up it's just a funny looking piece of shit.

As regular readers know, I find this prima facie absurd — it's essentially the claim that soup kitchens caused the Great Depression.

Treehouse Founder and CEO Ryan Carson told us at the time its motivation was, essentially, a response to the absurd cost of higher education — a cost that is expected to continue rising.

She added that when women's features are Photoshopped, we are essentially "legitimising the patriarchy's absurd aesthetic standards". .

Oh well – if you're going to get mobile broadband, you essentially have to deal with the absurd monthly costs.