Sentence examples for view absurd from inspiring English sources

This higher normativity does not arise from reason, as Plato and Kant would have it, but is, from reason's point of view, absurd, paradoxical, even mad.

But Mr. Bokeria called such views absurd.

Williams's basic point is that, in the practical domain, the ambition of transcending one's own point of view is absurd.

The Chinese, still bruised by the SARS epidemic, are trying to contain it — an effort that American public health officials view as absurd, because the flu is mild and because stopping its spread is like trying to stop the common cold.

As someone who is quite fatigued with the jingoism that currently saturates the daily news, I welcome alternative points of view, however absurd or offensive Mr. Karlgaard deems them.

He called fundamentalist Christians with similar views "equally absurd," though at least they are not trying to kill people.

"I think its views most absurd just such as would originate in a little state like Geneva, which can never see war," she said.

Weingarten said that he and his colleagues at Steptoe & Johnson had begun representing Gülen in 2014, as the Turkish government began making allegations that the lawyers viewed as "absurd".

In silicon valley this would be viewed as absurd and taking 4 weeks off every year would brand someone as a slacker full stop.

That may be an absurd view in white circles, but a 1990 survey found that 30percentt of African-Americans believed this was at least plausible.

He offers them an authentic voice - although his views are largely absurd and the prospect of him running the country alarming.