Then, as the shooter strides forward, the members of the wall experience one of sports' great absurdities: with a speeding object hurtling toward their faces, necks, bellies or groins, they actively hope to be hit.
And the greater absurdity of prohibition in Mexico is how much it has cost the country, and how little has been gained.
But the greater absurdity is the implication that Cameron's dropping of a demand that he knew he would not get represents some kind of cowardice.
It provides solace, too, enabling the aghast American to glance from Sarah Palin or Herman Cain to a theater of arguably greater absurdity, with an actor of unsurpassed shamelessness and self-delusion.
But the greatest absurdity is this, that, after calling the peninsula triangular in shape, he represents the "exterior sides" as three in number; for when he speaks of the "exterior sides" he seems privily to exclude the side along the narrows, as though this too were a side, but not "exterior" or on the sea.
The hunt for collaborators, he said, "is the greatest absurdity and danger to Latvia..
Perhaps the greatest absurdity of the 91st Street MTS is that no one need suffer.
The difficulty then, has naturally passed into a common place of philosophy; and one may well wonder that the solutions offered are not seen to involve greater absurdities than the problem itself.
An impregnable theory, or one nearing the limit of impregnability, is in fact as great an absurdity as an impregnable armour-plate.
But even the most horrific abuses of power leave a great many absurdities in their wake.
