Sentence examples for playing absurd from inspiring English sources

In comedy, I am so used to playing absurd wacky characters that it was intimidating to play a more real man.

It was easier for me to play absurd lines of dialogue when I said them with [a distinct] rhythm.

The language and story lines tend toward 90's-style Bollywood masala, with shallow characters playing out absurd plot lines.

Ms. Flockhart carried on, gamely playing out absurd plots, but Ally had long ago ceased to be a model real women could identify with.

The sight of American politicians playing their absurd game of chicken with the global economy left the rest of the world with conflicted emotions, ranging from despair to barely concealed glee.

The ruthlessness on display by those playing with absurd amounts of money is no different than street criminals deciding it's easier to off a competitor than to make a deal with him.

For me, a magnificently out-to-lunch Lia Williams attempting to commit suicide by running at kitchen knives as Eva in Ayckbourn's moth-eaten play Absurd Person Singular leaps to mind.

Iran has played this absurd game before.

I told him the whole idea was ridiculous and yet I'm now about to get on a plane to New York to play an absurd guerrilla gig in Barneys.

At the other end of the scale, Graham Bristol says that, in the 90 days between 31 January and 30 April 1959, Norwich played an absurd 27 matches, including three lots of fixtures on consecutive days.

At an Urban Outfitters outside Philadelphia, he saw a book called "Would You Rather," a parlor game that the two men once played where absurd dilemmas were presented -- "Would you rather have pool cues for nipples or lose your right to vote?" -- and tackled over a beer or three.