Sentence examples for render absurd from inspiring English sources

This is Morgan using horses the way Ralph Ellison used paint: to render absurd the idea of white supremacy and racial purity.

In Anderson's films, the idea that grownups can be role models to children is rendered absurd.

The script is contrived, shallow, unconvincing and rendered absurd and almost meaningless by a plot naivety that is impossible to ignore once its full magnitude dawns on you.

I question the implication that couples counselling is rendered absurd or abusive because practitioners and theorists have often been mistaken, held values with which we disagree, or even been incompetent.

The drama is shadowed throughout by death and tragedy, and even the notion of victory is rendered absurd by the unbearable physical and emotional price that those who live through it, whether in battle or in private life, endure.

That is what the well-off think they get, but once you try to devise a total audit of each person's merits or faults, the idea is rendered absurd.

The option of war as a solution to the problem of the slump has been rendered absurd, though not impossible, because of the development of nuclear weapons, and I think these factors make the situation slightly different.

But Elizabeth's susceptibility to the dark urges she felt she had smothered under her newly civilized exterior felt contrived to me, and the play's spasms of brutality are so gruesome that any point Ms. Thurber may be trying to make about the way sexual violence spreads its poisonous influence is rendered absurd through overstatement.