Sentence examples for looking for absurdities from inspiring English sources

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Barry has been quoted as saying, "I wish I was working on a larger scale, and righting wrongs and pointing out injustices, but, really, my tools are looking for absurdities and finding ridiculousness and making myself laugh".

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If we're looking for absurdity, that's it.

I was looking for the absurdity, because where there is this kind of absurdity, there is also sadness.

I was looking for the absurdity, because where there is this kind of absurdity, there is also sadness.

I look for the absurdities around us, because they hold opportunities.

If you're looking for evidence of the absurdity of the U.S. tax code, and you're tired of hearing about the alternative minimum tax, consider the new line that appeared on the 1040 for 2005.

Who is served by Clash stickers at this point in time, other than an anthropologist looking for an object lesson in commodify-your-dissent absurdity?

"The absurd," Albert Camus wrote in 1942, "is born of this confrontation between the human need [for happiness and reason] and the unreasonable silence of the world". Absurdity is the compulsion to go looking for meaning that simply isn't there.

It had hit me, while looking for a storage unit to house a set of '50s nightstands, the absurdity of paying money to store a bunch of stuff.

The absurdity of the position gave some security, for no one seemed to think of looking for a nest in such a place.

"The New Tenants" leavens a scenario of brutal absurdity with self-conscious talk, while "Instead of Abracadabra" stakes out "Napoleon Dynamite" territory with its tale of a misunderstood goofball looking for love and practicing magic in Swedish suburbia.

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