Sentence examples for half absurd from inspiring English sources

But Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me had been an oddball entry in the series, half kitchen-sink grunge and bad sex, half absurd American hostage melodrama, told from the perspective of a woman who only encounters 007 in the book's final third.

For all these old and sick people, for them to have to stand outside for an hour and a half is absurd".

Whereas the Candide-like picaresque of the first half — with its absurd but fully plausible turns of the screw — persuasively evokes life under brutal totalitarianism, the identity-switching and intrigue of the second part seem to originate in little more than the need to spin a yarn.

The Toronto Raptors' Kyle Lowry nailed an absurd half-court shot that forced Tuesday's Game One of the Eastern Conference semifinals into overtime and sent spectators into a frenzy.

He dismissed the controversy around his decision not to sing the national anthem as absurd, adding: "half the royal family don't even sing the anthem… they don't even seem to know the words to Jerusalem".

He has enacted the absurd over half a century of art and life what can self-parody mean to him?

But extrapolating back from the $11 million estimate and concluding that the back taxes owed are $25 million simply because the treasurer issued a ruling two-and-a-half years ago is absurd.

Superstar Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant, phenom Washington Wizards guard John Wall and eight other NBA players threw down absurd dunks, hit half court threes and talked smack all game long; it was like a pickup game you'd find in any city in America.

Ignoring the product that had got the tentative thumbs-up from focus groups in favour of the one everyone had hated wasn't the brightest of moves, but then who came up with the idea of expecting anyone to create a half-decent product in the absurd time-frame?

He has enacted the absurd over a half-century of art and life what can self-parody mean to him?

"The idea that we have a major political party today, which has essentially given up on half of the country is beyond absurd.