Sentence examples for had been absurd from inspiring English sources

His colleague Jeff Weston was "unconvincing" and some of what he said had been "absurd".

Nearly 800 miles away in Chicago, Robert Chase, the president of the National Education Association, told some 10,000 convention delegates that enactment of standards had been "absurd" and "perverse" in some cases and urged "a massive infusion of common sense -- common sense based on real classroom experience".

"That would have been absurd," he said.

That would have been absurd to Rossini.

Such an argument would have been absurd.

She laughed as if that would have been absurd effrontery.

It would have been absurd to expect silence.

But Mr. Lazio's attacks have been absurd and extreme.

He was never as prolific after this one, although to be so would have been absurd.

What would have been absurd would be for him to say anything else.

It would have been absurd to expect an early abandonment of his position.