Kantor's piece for the Times first ran online on February 21st; the next day, Britain's Daily Mail ran an absurd, unsourced, and unreported story that called Sandberg's "feminist project" a "failure" and compared her to Gwyneth Paltrow, who lends her name and efforts to a lifestyle Web site.
"Harry's girl is (almost) straight outta Compton" ran an absurd headline in the Daily Mail.
Divisions in the Conservative party were once again highlighted when Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, was accused by his former cabinet colleague Liam Fox of running an "absurd and demeaning" scare story about the impact of a Brexit on the NHS.
But to suggest that the Mets are only upset about the beaning of their star player because they "got their fannies handed to them" (for the record, the champions won their three games by a combined five runs) is absurd.
Most years, one would shy away from the question of what kind of art the world is making now for fear of running into absurd generalisations based on 90 pavilions (88 now that Kenya has pulled out over the very high ratio of Chinese to Kenyan artists selected by Italian curators, and Costa Rica has quit after the curators tried to charge its artists €5,000 to appear in Venice).
When it's over, you feel like you just ran an absurd marathon with your mind as well as your body.
"Our ability to cut into their base is what's in question to some point," he said, adding that Republican super PACs "ran an absurd amount of ads in Colorado Springs over the summer".
In addition to discussing political issues, Huckabee took Politico to task for running an absurd story on him and addressed recent accusations from Chris Matthews that Huckabee's desire to more forcefully confront Israel's enemies was similar to Huckabee calling for an ethnic cleansing in the region.
She cued up a selection of instrumentals that ran the absurd gamut from Eiffel 65's "Blue" and Drowning Pool's "Bodies" to "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini," all while sing-songing moves nonstop (everything from honky tonk to show tunes is fair game, I learned).
More broadly, the Wimbledon production, which will play to full houses throughout its five-week run, showed how absurd are recent predictions of the panto's demise.
