Sentence examples for seeming absurdity from inspiring English sources

But Darwin dispelled that seeming absurdity by laying out a series of steps by which the evolution could take place.

But Karel Janecek, the 38-year-old entrepreneur and anticorruption campaigner pressing to charge Mr. Klaus, said the seeming absurdity of going to such extraordinary lengths just days before he leaves office was beside the point.

"Could I get a Smith from Detroit? Please?" Johnson understands the seeming absurdity of the situation; he was a star basketball and football announcer, known for his spasmodic eruptions during CBS's coverage of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament.

So did Stewart, who seized on the seeming absurdity of the Mets trading away a Cy Young winner and jokingly wondered: "This tremendous story, this tremendous success, I guess my question is, how will the New York Mets screw this up?" Dickey has embraced New York and has said he wants to remain with the Mets, despite the team's flaws.

Posts have targeted the seeming absurdity of interpreting two people pointing at one another as throwing up a "gang symbol".

A cut-off of 25 results in seeming absurdities; America may have a long history of semi-organised racial violence, but having the American civil war last well into the 20th century, as such a threshold would, seems daft.Another important distinction is what the rebels want: the state, or just part of it?

But, of course, Hollywood's dramas and seeming absurdities became the real-life Fitzgerald's own great quarry, as in "The Last Tycoon" and the Pat Hobby stories and others and, according to Latham, Fitzgerald had originally intended the protagonist of "Tender Is the Night" to be a Hollywood cameraman, then a director, before ending up as Dr. Dick Diver.

Such seeming absurdities turn out to have foreshadowed -- and no doubt, facilitated -- a rather startling state of affairs: In the current edition of the Harvard Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups, "Mormons" have their own entry.

"In concreto," James writes, "the freedom to believe can only cover living options which the intellect of the individual cannot by itself resolve; and living options never seem absurdities to him who has them to consider" (29).

The greatest joy in life is to discover that the same absurdities of life seem absurd to you both, creating that lovely moment of breakage when the masquerade of courtship you have been enacting becomes suddenly a backstage embrace: We're on to each other, and to the world, and will forever be in cahoots.

People laugh at things that seem absurd or ridiculous, especially when you are willing to also poke fun of your own absurdity.[11].[11]