Sentence examples for slight absurdity from inspiring English sources
Heseltine has always been a high-profile politician, whose active, warrior stance(and slight absurdity)is reflected in his nickname: Tarzan.
It is the Hop Exchange's ambiguities and slight absurdity that make it moving: industrial/rustic; grand/fragile; mass-produced/hand-carved. The Bluewater shopping complex also alludes to Kent's hop-growing history, with things on its roof that are supposed to recall oast houses.
A little absurdity never hurt.
The Sword of Honour trilogy is essentially Waugh's war recounted, with all its absurdity, personal slights and bitterness, not some symbolic conflict between the values of Christendom and the atheistic impulses of Soviet Russia, and the shameful compromises of Britain's wartime alliance with her.
"I don't think he is," de Jong said with a slight smile, as if he recognized the absurdity.
Where most films and television shows about teenagers focus on the horrors — the pressures of school, the temptations of drugs and sex — "Only the Young" dwells on the quotidian realities of those years: the restless hanging around, the joys and slights of friendship, the absurdities of dating.
Her rage turned to outrage, a slight shift, and Ms. Vandenberghe somehow managed to channel her frustration toward the absurdity of the traffic laws.
Mr. Nichols stages the movie with a languid deadpan, so that Mr. Shandling's slight remoteness isn't jarring; it becomes a piece about small-scale reactions to the absurdity of the everyday.
Adding absurdity to tragedy.
