Sentence examples for perhaps absurd from inspiring English sources

It is like Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" transported into the world of "Leave It to Beaver," an inadequate and perhaps absurd formulation but one that I hope conveys the full measure of my astonishment and admiration.

WITH regard to gay marriage, I think I may occupy an even narrower and perhaps more absurd slice of intellectual terrain than Barack Obama does (in Richard Just's characterisation).

Perhaps most absurd of all is the claim that "The miners were on their own in a Britain that found it could get along without either coal or communities - and increasingly without unions too".

Some intellectuals, like the social theorist Ernest Gellner, thought that Havel's rhetoric of love triumphing over evil had been admirable, perhaps, but "absurd, indefensible" as an explanation for the fall of Communism; that softness, Gellner wrote, had allowed members of the old regime to escape unpunished and reap enormous profits in the new economy.

It is perhaps an absurd suggestion, but would you maybe like to get a cup of coffee and catch up on a quarter century of life?

What's curious, perhaps even absurd, is that we are on the same team, literally, or have come to be so over the years, on each other's sports teams that is.

Absurd Axiom five: Perhaps the most absurd, the most naive of all.

The sum may sound absurd – perhaps it is absurd – but it's just the latest example of how this 20-year-old gonzo publisher divides opinion.

Perhaps it's absurd to worry in these terms about a silly, disposable movie like this.

Perhaps the most absurd legacy of the Volstead Act of 1919 is its effect on Chicago's nightlife.

Perhaps the most absurd encounter came at a Southampton soiree given by the Spanish painter Gines Serran-Pagan.