Sentence examples for think it absurd from inspiring English sources

"We think it absurd that Notre Dame can claim a whole ethnicity as its mascot, and further characterize this ethnicity as belligerent: the Fighting Irish," the statement read.

It was a time when people did not think it absurd to demand something like redemption from art.

There is the long-standing answer that we think it absurd to trumpet patriotism in a fashion that other nations find normal.

We might think it absurd to look at such supreme human treasures and ask which artist is best – but that was what the Florentine republic tried to establish, by getting them to work at public expense on competitive battle paintings, Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari and Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina, for the Great Council Hall of the civic palace.

Although artists, critics, and art lovers are likely to think it absurd to deny that a work of art is as real as anything else one might encounter, many philosophers and art theorists have raised questions about the very existence or "mode of being" of works of art.

Don't think it absurd that people who face unimaginable odds still have hope.

Tylor thought it absurd to propose that a person could lack culture.

To cap the farce, Nick Clegg, having backed these market-driven reforms, suddenly announces that he thinks it "absurd" for universities to "whack up the price to £9,000.

In Sweden, Claes Borgstrom, the lawyer representing the two women who have accused Mr. Assange of sexual abuses, told the online newspaper Expressen.se that the women had expected the decision but still thought it absurd and were disappointed.

Friends at the magazine, like Jacques Rivette, thought it absurd that I could recite all of "The Raven" 's dialogue and had seen Carné's "The Children of Paradise" [1945] fourteen times.

Other shareholders thought it absurd to oppose Mr Buffett a good-governance advocate regarded as a hero by investors in his own company, Berkshire Hathaway and voted overwhelmingly in his favour.Mr Harrigan's links to unions (shared, incidentally, by several other CalPERS board members) have also come under fire.