Sentence examples for it is absurd to make from inspiring English sources

It is absurd to make a patriotic fuss about this picture staying in the UK.

You can make your home the base for your adventures, but it is absurd to make the base itself an adventure".

And in his essay on Shakespeare, he attacks the rigid insistence on unity of time, place, and action in classical French theater by arguing that these ideals grew naturally out of the circumstances of both Greek theater and Greek life, but that it is absurd to make them into rigid rules in the very different circumstances of both modern theater and modern life ("Shakespeare," pp. 162 3).

One of Wolff's drivers, Nico Rosberg, said the decision was "no good" while Vettel said it was "absurd" to make one race worth more than the others.

But the publication was pounced on by out campaigners who claimed it was absurd to make predictions 14 years into the future, and wrong to turn GDP estimates into a figure per household.

It's absurd to make the claim, as the Clinton campaign is shamelessly making, that Bernie's grand vision of reshaping our national priorities away from endless wars and corporate welfare toward universal healthcare, tuition-free public higher education, rebuilding national infrastructure, expanding social security, and moving away from fossil fuels are somehow myopic in scope.

It would be absurd to make rash predictions about how Tony Mowbray will fare as Strachan's successor on account of his first competitive 90 minutes, a 1 0 defeat in the third qualifying round of the Champions League to a fine – no better than that – Dynamo Moscow team at Parkhead on Wednesday night.

It is absurd to think that I made up the statements that Lukezic made to me in our first interview.

"It is absurd to believe they [the terrorists] are making political demands at all.

"Education is absolutely the last thing that should get squeezed because it's absurd to try to make amends for the spending mistakes of the past by jeopardizing the prospects of the next generation," said Ignacio Valero, an economics professor at the Complutense University, who stayed away from work and planned to join thousands of others on a protest march in central Madrid late Tuesday afternoon.

The reasons for human suffering were innate and individual, not accidental and social, and it was absurd to hope to make "a joyful, happy race" from "many wretched and unhappy persons".