Sentence examples for stark absurdity from inspiring English sources
On the opposite shore, Clare Boylan's unsentimental acerbity demonstrates that the new share-your-pain bathos of post-Diana Britain has failed to melt its Irish neighbours into goo.In her first collection since her celebrated "The Safety of Objects" (1990), Ms Homes captures the stark absurdity and befuddlement of the American suburbs.
With my new novella, the bawdy political satire Bye Bye, Miss American Pie, I wanted to take that free-swinging approach to the stark absurdity of the American election process -- and the attendant hyperventilating media coverage -- but with a more patient and literary spin.
It allows her to take a simplistic view of global politics, basically for the fun of it, and to show up some of the starker absurdities of the war in Iraq – such as her protest (or rather Fontaine's) against going after Saddam because he may have weapons of mass destruction.
His raw, stark reading delivered the lyrics' full absurdity and pathos, while his intermittent Texas twang brought hints of the subversive humor that, so necessary to Mr. West's self-conscious, multilevel critique of society and himself, is only rarely felt on "808s".
The stark surreal images evoke a mixture of terror and absurdity that comes as close to the experience of an actual nightmare as anything I've seen on the screen.
As Menthol Matin, she collaborates with Parisian musician Flavien Berger to create Some Silly Stories, a multi-episode animated series that alternates between absurdity, toilet humor, and critical examination veiled in a stark black-and-white, comic-like style.
Adding absurdity to tragedy.
Absurdity and hypocrisy abound.
