Sentence examples for thought absurd from inspiring English sources

"What would I do if someone from Al Qaeda came to me?" he said, repeating a question he thought absurd because of its obvious answer.

The racist overtones compounded legitimate concerns about the project but it strengthened a long-held liberal suspicion that any research on the biology of violence was eugenics in disguise, something Wolfe thought absurd.

In the second volume of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," which came out in 1970, Child felt driven to give a recipe for baguette, something that Richard Olney — who comes across as the best cook and the worst snob of the group — thought absurd.

Why should what America deemed to make economic sense at that time be thought absurd now?It should also be noted in Iran's defence that the nuclear agency has as yet found no conclusive evidence that Iran is running a nuclear-weapons programme.

Shakespeare was still the test all actors had to pass, though in crudely adapted form, the texts constantly sacrificed to what Tanitch neatly calls "visual histrionics": when Kemble gave his Coriolanus, he was accompanied by 240 soldiers, which was thought absurd.

For the (one would think) absurd price of €1000.

To reject historicism is "to claim … that it is entirely possible that all actual scientific practice, past and present, is irrational and 'unscientific', which is in turn to accept the (I think) absurd further consequence that scientists might be bad at doing science" (Brown 1989, 98).

He did say we could sell our contract to a neighbor, which I thought was absurd.

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

Criado-Perez thought this absurd, and typical of a culture that does not celebrate female achievement or recognise the importance of providing visible role models.

As I listened to the MC introducing me, I recalled the comment and thought how absurd it was.