Sentence examples for gently absurd from inspiring English sources
Looking across the recent crop of picture books that specialize in gently absurd comedy, one can imagine grown-ups wondering if kids will get the joke.
With its gently absurd humour and reassuringly unglamorous characters, James Corden and Ruth Jones's Essex meets Wales sitcom (released here with last year's Christmas special) is starting to feel like a Last of the Summer Wine for the Noughties.
The film is spare with an almost Beckett-like sense of the absurd, making for a gently melancholy humor.
"Kármán" is loving, tragic, and empathetic, with a wryness so delicate it's almost holding its breath; "Clouds" is gently deadpan, interweaving the quotidian and the absurd.
These people, with their firm self-assurance, their conviction that they are the top of the pile and deserve all the comforts they have, are gently sent up and shown to be absurd.
There are early issues of The New Yorker in which nearly every article is funny; large swathes of The Talk of the Town, which is gently humorous today, used to be given over to short, absurd anecdotes.
Chang's tone is gently ironic toward Charles's financial collapse, as she enjoys chronicling the absurd excesses of the privileged Bel-Air life he must relinquish, or the high-end art world Saina used to inhabit.
When I share that (ongoing) feeling with my therapist, she gently reminds me that people who look many different ways have relationships ― and also that I am being a little absurd.
