Sentence examples for was absurd about from inspiring English sources

What was absurd about this chapter was that Kerry's comment drew more media attention than a New York Times story that disclosed an October 18 classified briefing of the US Central Command reporting that Iraq was edging toward "chaos".

I mean, I don't mean to be absurd about it, but I guess I can make the point of absurdity with an absurd point -- I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse.

I honestly can't believe I've just written a whole column defending Kim Kardashian on feminist grounds, a woman I believe to represent so much that is absurd about our age.

'I alone can fix it?'" she asked at one point, letting the questions hang there as a description of everything that is absurd about this close-fought election race.

"When it's sneaked into our lives, to figure out what's absurd about the way we live every day is challenging, but rewarding".

The paper said it was "absurd to talk about economic aid to the North".

The presence of Vincenzo, for me, seemed to be an organising principle around which all that was absurd and corrupt and heartbreaking about the alley could be appreciated.

We found it hard to resist the suspicion (though we knew it was absurd) that the novel was about us.

If "that's what he said," Trump's statement is "absurd and "just about... obscene," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y).

It's absurd to talk about inculcating 21st-century skills in classrooms that resemble 19th-century sweatshops.

It is absurd to wonder about people "without mobile phones" when there are more mobile phones than people in the UK.