Sentence examples for mildly absurd from inspiring English sources
He does not find the human comedy funny, only mildly absurd and frequently cruel.
Even calling her New York's junior senator, while technically accurate, is mildly absurd.
One of the things that Thorne does best is to seize the moment, whether it is dramatic or mildly absurd.
But the suggestion that great literature can prove an antidote to the darkest human impulses is mildly absurd.
Surely Stokes has to play; Broad may have to wait his turn but it would be mildly absurd if a player of his seniority was here merely to ferry the drinks for a fortnight.
Where there were pictures of powerful women, the images tended to be subversive: the same photograph of a grimacing Theresa May was used to illustrate three different stories about the home secretary, and two of the three pictures of the German chancellor showed Angela Merkel puffing out her cheeks, looking mildly absurd.
The plot is, to put it mildly, gleefully absurd, and in the hands of a less experienced writer, the novel could have turned into an exercise in stereotyping and score-settling.
"Expanding Horizons" is an apt accompaniment to the "Pastoral Pop" show in the larger part of the Whitney lobby in which sculptors take the idea of landscape to absurd and mildly amusing extremes.
Heath added, "the themes are predictably absurd yet mildly comical given the inclusion of such disparate styles stationed side by side".
Mildly unenthusiastically.
