Sentence examples for thought it absurd from inspiring English sources

The phrase "thought it absurd" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when expressing your opinion or reaction to something you find unreasonable or ridiculous. Example: "She thought it absurd that anyone would believe such a wild rumor."

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

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.

Back then, programmers also thought it absurd the Mac designers had abandoned the typical alpha-numeric interface in favour of a friendlier graphical one and a point-and-click mouse, making it too easy for users, recalls Leander Kahney, editor of The Cult of Mac news website.

Douglas later stated that she had failed to understand the appeal of the Pink Sheet to voters, and simply thought it absurd.

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

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.

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.

He thinks it absurd that U.S. investors have only 3% of their assets in international stocks.

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