Sentence examples for once absurd from inspiring English sources
He makes his preacher seem at once absurd and demonic.
And unlike Jane, Megan is no dope; she's at once absurd and genuinely powerful, with an interesting case to make for her philosophy.
At once absurd and elegant, passionate and glacial, "Misty" stands for the whole album, locating all kinds of love in cold climates.
The simple folk who lived in such places might be admirably brave, but they were also, as are Buffalonians today, at once absurd and pathetic.
Crostini spreads — ricotta topped with fresh peas and a fillip of pea purée; artichoke hearts on a bed of whorled potato; a meld of pecorino, olives and sun-dried tomatoes — arrive via a rolling pin inset with tiny copper pots, a presentation at once absurd and adorable.
"Like, 'Wait, I smell gender fluid.' 'I'd like a little gender for my coffee.' " By now, more than a dozen Hood By Air employees were in the hot tub, and the gathering looked at once absurd and utopian: creative directors splashing and laughing alongside their junior associates.
Time and again, businesses with seemingly dicey prospects have ended up becoming huge successes, and price tags that once seemed absurd have turned out to be bargains.
@NoToFeminism has since become a Twitter sensation, spitting out sporadic, typo-ridden missives that are at once hilarious, absurd and, occasionally, horrifying.
What is it worth quantifiably and qualifiably?" One bit of good news, transit planners say, is that the authority — rarely seen as avant-garde — has proved at times quite resourceful since the storm, turning repeatedly in recent months to ideas that might have once seemed absurd.
Environmentalists have long complained that GDP treats the despoliation of the planet as a plus (via the resulting economic output) rather than a minus (forests destroyed).In recent years economists have therefore been looking at other measures of well-being even "happiness", a notion that it once seemed absurd to quantify.
Once this "absurd praise" has been discounted, it is possible to hail Priestley "for the qualities which he really possesses, and take Angel Pavement for what it is: an excellent holiday novel, genuinely gay and pleasant, which supplies a good bulk of reading material for ten and sixpence".
