Sentence examples for sounding absurd from inspiring English sources

"Your hot friend on a balmy summer night telling you about some good news in her life is — How do I put this without sounding absurd?

For some reason, slogging through the fake blizzard left me obsessed with the weirdest story of the week: "Did President Clinton meet N. Korea's Kim Jorg-il or his look-alike?" The prospect that Kim might have sent a healthier version of himself to meet Clinton stops sounding absurd when you consider that even weather is a malleable concept.

Sound absurd?

Sounds absurd?

With his poll numbers foundering, his campaign in downsizing mode and questions about whether he might drop out of the race before the voting even begins no longer sounding so absurd, Jeb Bush needed to stand out at Wednesday night's debate.

These jokes usually started off with serious-sounding but absurd questions.

There are plays on orthography ("he enjoys the co. of women"), scraps of commercial babble ("n' dinette sets"), resounding nonsense ("one night stand forever"), unwitting portents ("discontinued china"), and plausible-sounding but absurd entities, of which a favorite of mine is "aerosol particles suspended in haze".

(Like most chic new stadiums, it had an absurd sounding name from its corporate sponsor, in this case a poultry company: Guldfageln translates as "Golden Bird").

The tale is "so suffused with beauty that its inhabitants manage to speak in fragments of poetry without sounding pompous or absurd," Jessica Olin said in these pages in 2002.

At the same time, the novel gives us a world so suffused with beauty that its inhabitants manage to speak in fragments of poetry without sounding pompous or absurd.

This absurd sounding definition was an attempt to distinguish raves from other, acceptable outdoor music events, and highlights the extent to which the police were intent on targeting the free party scene.