Sentence examples for were not absurd from inspiring English sources
But such issues were not absurd at the time.
The government often handles such transactions badly, so locals' fears were not absurd.
Since "Europeanism" did have some of its roots in Catholic social teaching, and the form of political Catholicism we know as Christian Democracy (all six foreign ministers who signed the Coal and Steel treaty in 1951 were Christian Democrats), and since the Common Market was plainly a bastion against Marxist socialism, these suspicions were not absurd.
Mysteriously, unlike the Cameron-era personnel and political strategies jettisoned overnight by Theresa May, Johnson's bridge and Osborne's infinitely more wasteful folly HS2 seem to have acquired, perhaps through familiarity, almost respectable status, for all the world as if they were not absurd vanity projects, backed principally by industry and hobbyists.
If that weren't absurd enough, there's another in Milan.
It's not absurd, I tell her.
Yet it is not absurd when it comes to Israel.
The idea is not absurd, for two reasons.
But I learned by long experience that it is not absurd; it's the way to do it.
To be fair, the idea of returning to a gold standard in 1980 or 1981 was not absurd.
