Sentence examples for thoroughly absurd from inspiring English sources

It starts when Sehwag fresh-airs a thoroughly absurd roundhouse yahoo at Anderson, who has replaced Broad.

Before 1983, Canada didn't even have a space programme, so in 1969, when nine-year-old Hadfield watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon and decided he was going to become an astronaut, it was a thoroughly absurd resolution.

"Last Night in Twisted River" showcases all of John Irving's biggest liabilities as a writer: a tricked-up, gimmicky plot; cartoony characters; absurd contrivances; cheesy sentimentality; and a thoroughly preposterous ending.

She said while it was at times a "deeply felt and often moving story", it was tarnished by a "gimmicky plot; cartoony characters; absurd contrivances; cheesy sentimentality; and a thoroughly preposterous ending".

To thoroughly test the absurd phenomenon, we go into detail.

Wilhelm's accusations were absurd, since two more thoroughly unpolitical men than King George and Czar Nicholas would be hard to find — or two more ill suited, as Carter makes clear, to occupying positions of power.

After years of public silence about state media calumny, Ms. Patterson issued a letter to the editor calling the article "outrageous," "thoroughly unprofessional," "inciting misinformation" and "absolutely absurd and dangerous".

Ms. Murphy's claim about the absence of data on the emotional lives of animals is absurd, incredibly uninformed, and thoroughly misleading.

Some is trivial and absurd, but the best has perfected the texts and thoroughly illuminated the significance of nearly all the world's great literature.

It allowed the Bruins to be thoroughly outplayed and yet win in overtime and totally forget the absurd moment when Adam McQuaid sent himself to the hospital with a devastating check to himself.

Watching a man build something may not sound like great entertainment, but the absurd pleasure Horne takes in his endeavour – and the lightly cerebral, thoroughly daffy tales he chucks in along the way – make this a delight.