Sentence examples for given an absurdist from inspiring English sources

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It's soul murder given an absurdist spin.

Blood, blood, blood!" – is given an absurdist makeover by the addition of the hook motif from The Shadows' "Apache", sung as a falsetto "yah-yah-yah-yah".

The show itself was created by Mitch Hurwitz from Arrested Development and Pam Brady from offbeat classics like Hot Rod and Hamlet 2, and it feels like the perfect hybrid of their worldviews; like the intricate free-for-all of Arrested Development given an absurdist sheen and ramped up into overdrive.

Fast-forward a few years and the older Joan (Cara Horgan) is now working alongside Todd Tristan Sturrockk) in a hat factory, where both are employed to make extravagant creations – the purpose of which only becomes apparent later, in a silent scene that recalls the horrors of the Holocaust given an absurdist twist.

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Zach Galifianakis: 'The Hangover' In the world of stand-up, Zach Galifianakis is a meta comic who takes showbiz conventions and gives them an absurdist twist.

In the world of stand-up, Zach Galifianakis is a meta comic who takes showbiz conventions and gives them an absurdist twist.

They recall conceptual interventions by Mel Bochner, Edward Krasinski and others, but the context gives them an absurdist twist; no measuring tool, they say, can size up the damage we've wrought.

This absurdist premise is given a logical explanation at the end, which defeats the purpose.

All the elements that have fascinated Ms. Rosler for decades are here -- the female body, language, absurdist comedy and the economics of acquisition -- but are given a haunted, poetic resonance.

2000AD is the Black Mirror of comics, able to give a dark and absurdist inversion to whatever cultural or social ill is terrifying the British public on any given day.

But other comics have an absurdist majesty I can definitely appreciate.

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