Sentence examples for then absurd from inspiring English sources

Then, just as quickly, the writers dismantled that bomb: the affair became risky, then absurd, and then it fizzled.

They work by temporarily supposing 'for argument's sake' that those assertions are true, and then arguing that if they are then absurd consequences follow that nothing moves for example: they are 'reductio ad absurdum' arguments (or 'dialectic' in the sense of the period).

Next up was Seattle-based Qpass, later acquired by AmDocs, where Thau helped push the then-absurd idea of charging for ringtones.

When Greylock invested $25 million in Facebook in 2006 at then-absurd valuation many of the same criticisms were leveled at them, too.

A fashion is hot and then looks absurd decades later.

("Just last month, I bought a thirty-two-inch flat-screen TV!") And then less absurd feelings arrived.

Like my partner, I would love to wait until we're 40; the thought of us having a child before then feels absurd.

Our omniscient narrator is looking back from the imaginary future he now occupies and relaying to us what it was like back then, how absurd it was, how broken and broke the country and everyone in it felt.

Based on the then manifestly absurd premise that the Iron Lady might one day retire, it was called Dunrulin', and assumed that the prime minister of the day had been driven from office and was now taking out her daily frustrations on her neighbours in Dulwich, south London, where the Thatchers had bought a home.

Then the absurd: "If Germany had America's gun laws, we would have never had Hitler".

If we find that Zeno makes hidden assumptions beyond what the position under attack commits one to, then the absurd conclusion can be avoided by denying one of the hidden assumptions, while maintaining the position.