Sentence examples for obvious absurdity from inspiring English sources

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Well, despite its obvious absurdity, I wanted to go to Dickens World.

He said the absence of full relations with China was "an obvious absurdity".

On one hand, there's the prize's obvious absurdity – its inevitable subjectivity, not to mention the plain silliness of deeming one book better than another.

The obvious absurdity of the original moral calculations — that a quick result would teach the German militarists a lesson or, on the other side, put the French empire out of business — led people to make new, desperate ones.

Since "the most obvious absurdity" (MS, 59) is death, Camus urges us to "die unreconciled and not of one's own free will" (MS, 55).

A variant of the obvious absurdity objection is that epiphenomenalism leads to a feeling of loss of self, or a sense that we can no longer regard our actions as ours.

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Mr. Goldberg's hits keep on coming as he reels off obvious absurdities.

But at least that second argument puts the first one in perspective, and might help the game avoid some of its more obvious absurdities.

He seems to think that people are empty-headed if they don't obsess about the obvious absurdities of life and that intelligent people can't possibly be happy".

One line of argument holds that the object theory "contains in itself obvious absurdities and thus contradicts sound reason" (Tractatus 6.2.2).

The first time around, you'll notice the obvious absurdities: frozen jalapeno juice icees, bacon brownies, deep-fried dandelions.

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