Sentence examples for though absurd from inspiring English sources

His acquaintance with the O.S.S. spymaster Allen Dulles had made him an easy though absurd target for Stalin's last purge.

The ability to identify (which was intact) was not accompanied by the appropriate feeling of warmth and familiarity, and it was this contradiction that led to the logical though absurd conclusion that she was a "duplicate".

Though absurd by the standards of modern science, what Mr. Blagdon created looked enough like modern art to earn him a niche in the pantheon of 20th-century Outsider artists.

Ever since Marie Bonaparte's pioneering study from a Freudian perspective, published in 1934 (which, wrote Richard Wilbur, "though absurd in all the expected ways … comes up with many constants of imagery and narrative pattern"), Poe's works have often been considered proto-psychological.

While Jasmine drowns her sorrow in vodka and pills, Ginger helps her plot an alternative, though absurd, career path: take a computer course so she can get the skills she needs to take an online course to become a decorator.

Though absurd, his observations are uncannily revealing and often self-deprecating as they call attention to the questionable mega-plex the extreme sport industry has become.

It would be absurd, though, to try finding a connection between the tragedy and the music itself.

It would be absurd, though, to suggest that Hawking's disability was the most significant thing about him, or that the most significant thing about his disability was how irritable it made his ex-wife, Jane.

Surely, though, it is absurd to suppose that the greatest conceivable island actually exists in reality.

Such a master of duplicity deserved to have his ambitions overturned, even though the absurd Rabadash would take the fall.

This, though literally absurd, is metaphorically as near as we get to a solution of the mystery.