Sentence examples similar to lapse into absurdity from inspiring English sources

As the gnarled, neglectful father, David Hayman bears the brunt of O'Neill's lapses into absurdity.

Despite an abundance of sanguinary glee (and a noticeable contempt for women), "I Saw the Devil" is a droll Nietzschean fable that's fully aware of its lapses into absurdity.

"Despite an abundance of sanguinary glee (and a noticeable contempt for women), 'I Saw the Devil' is a droll Nietzschean fable that's fully aware of its lapses into absurdity," Jeanette Catsoulis wrote in The Times in March.

They were both "serious": Clinton was a senator and a former First Lady; Edwards was a former senator and the 2004 Vice-Presidential candidate (he hadn't yet lapsed into National Enquirer absurdity).

But the story soon hurtles into absurdity.

Practically speaking, things occasionally drifted into absurdity.

Sometimes, this could tip over into absurdity.

In its more overwrought moments, the film collapses into absurdity.

But by making it Joe Franklin she spins it off into absurdity yet again.

As you watch the two movies, you know that grand strategy has collapsed into absurdity.

Seneca disapproved of the artificial cleverness, often degenerating into absurdity, of many declaimers.