Sentence examples for yet absurd from inspiring English sources

The Pakistani government has made some efforts to promote a more moderate version of the religion, but it confronts an ideology that has hardened over 30 years, producing rational yet absurd men like the one we see in this interview.

I didn't tell him how scared I was of snipers from that day on, holding back the instinctive yet absurd urge to walk around with my hands over my head.

I am, so to speak, living evidence of the fact that only a pragmatic two-state solution (or better yet, absurd as it sounds, a federation of three states: Israel, Palestine and Jordan) can bring peace to the region.

Smith is breezy, canny, and understated, and Robbie hides scalpel-sharp wiles behind a poker face, but the writers and directors, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, submerge the stars' easy chemistry in a murky stew of clever yet absurd plot twists of a nearly superheroic hyperbole.

"Plans for a Future Romance" invests a kind of cinematic significance in specific memories of a blue scarf and "text messages about snooker and sleep"; in "The Tea-party Cats", a group of improbably suave yet absurd poseurs preen whiskers that "nicely referenced their bowties".

This additional obstacle to the already high-risk process of pharmaceutical R&D would be the logical, yet absurd, outcome of bureaucrats' cost-benefit determinations.

That line, similar to the theme of Patek Philippe ads, may have been wishful, but it was not yet an absurd way to talk about consumer electronics.

They had money to spend, and yet an absurd combination of convention, prejudice, faux concern, and fear kept them from where they most wanted to be.

The characters are so believable and yet so absurd, and that's a really difficult tightrope to walk from a creative writing point of view.

Instead, the N.C.A.A. told Tanesha that she should "stay away" from Rose — thus claiming yet another absurd power: the power to dictate who an athlete's parents can befriend.

And yet, how absurd it would seem if we were to apply similar logic to any other type of crime … "Police warn motorists not to drive after speeding drivers cause crashes in local area".