It was an absurd and unnerving notion, but the evidence couldn’t be denied. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was absurd to notice anything said by an idiot. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this had caused us to overlook the more absurd parts of Reverend Wright’s spitfire preaching, even if we hadn’t been present for any of the sermons in question. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Court sent a clear message that appellate courts are largely free to accept the reasons offered by a prosecutor for excluding prospective black jurors—no matter how irrational or absurd the reasons may seem. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Colonel cupped his hands around his mouth and started making some absurd noises that I suppose were intended to be beats. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I know that is an absurd thought, but I believe in the goodness of imagination. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is supposed to be for our protection, though the notion is absurd: we are well protected already. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is the explanation any more absurd than that accepted by those who believe the woman who maintains that she is the channel through which a 35,000-year-old man expresses himself? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A windsock at the end of the field, swollen with moderate gusts, pointed like an absurd finger past the control tower and to the far runway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked faintly absurd, stepping over the carpet of dry leaves in his tight airport suit, his tie blown over his shoulder. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hated any interaction with the police, but now he was inviting them into his life in a way that seemed absurd. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The attacks were growing worse, and my refusal to react incited Nealson into coining more absurd phrases. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to her so absolutely absurd, so illogical, so dangerous. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Roman writers who told the story somehow got the sisters confused and said that the tongueless Philomela was the nightingale, which was obviously absurd. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unless our murderer figured to himself that he had not accomplished his job properly and came back to make quite sure; but that is manifestly absurd! Anything else?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an absurd notion—there wasn’t anything remotely challenging or dangerous about the ridgeline—but you never know. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s such an absurd question, but she knows what I mean. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It would have been absurd to stay there wasting my time. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It’s so absurd; I almost want to laugh. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark couldn’t believe the absurd words coming out of this lady’s mouth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She walked swiftly, keeping time to the absurd jingle running through her head. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Once it all seemed so absurd that I laughed out loud while on my knees. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been absurd to see Lazlo attempt it, but nobody laughed, and nobody looked away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It's absurd that we are free to determine our method and criteria for gleaning, but not the number of gleanings we accomplish. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But right now my only job is to make sure this absurd scene doesn’t turn into some ridiculous faux girl-gang turf war, so I pull Violet away and step in front of her. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“This will probably sound absurd because you’re genuinely kind and strong and good, but if my life isn’t about keeping other people happy—keeping my dad happy most of all—what do I have, Jupiter?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We were having an absurd and inappropriate argument because in the wake of death every single thing on earth feels absurd and inappropriate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The moment felt surreal—no, not surreal, absurd—it had knocked the breath out of me, brought the world around me to a standstill. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the shape it would take—impossible, absurd, and requiring a serious chunk of cash. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The door opened and out popped the head of Mrs. Henning, my neighbor, wearing an absurd feathered hat. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What?” the question was so absurd I didn’t understand it at first. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s an absurd as well as an ignominious position. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole tradition of women bowing to the men, my mom found that absurd. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“This place is so well protected it’s downright absurd,” Hector says, waving at the door. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This, as anyone who lived through the 1920s will know, is an absurd claim. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles watched in silence but he must have found my behavior absurd, especially when I began to pull on my ear, which still ached dully, so I could test the limits of this strange witchcraft. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Prior to the Bostick decision, a number of lower courts had found absurd the notion that “reasonable people” would feel empowered to refuse to answer questions when confronted by the police. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I look ridiculous! These pants are absurd, and this shirt is awful.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It embarrassed her, for in a cooler, quieter moment it appeared to her absurd that she should have taken his action so seriously, so dramatically. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This may sound kind of absurd, but”—Tamika leaned in, her face hard and serious—“when things were really awful with my uncle, I survived thanks to my flower.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Navid’s reaction to my question was so absurd I almost don’t even know how to describe it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Precisely at that point it vanished--and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In recent times his annoyance with the absurd obesity that prevented him from tying his shoes and his abusive satisfaction with all manner of appetites had begun to sour his character. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"We can try again in a few weeks," Michah shouts, in an absurd attempt to reassure us. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I dived into one absurd thing after another, and here I am in the pink house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about how you became Adarlan’s Assassin, and how you wound up in this castle, exactly—and what the details are of this absurd competition.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I know most gunters cling to the absurd notion that IOI is evil. And that the Sixers are ruthless corporate drones with no honor and no respect for the ‘true spirit’ of the contest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, curious townspeople gathered along the edges of the field, fascinated by the absurd scene, eagerly awaiting Pendejo’s arrival. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was round, and capped by an absurd Byzantine cupola surrounded with windows, through which one could see all the rooftops of the city and feel close to the clouds. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s absurd to let yourself get into a state like this. Simply absurd,” she repeated “And what about? A man—one man.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were a different person, I would have pointed out how absurd that last part was. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The California Turf Writers Association, recognizing that a lack of official information had created this absurd situation, demanded that the stewards clear things up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Resha forcefully disputed the government’s absurd contention that the ANC wanted to induce the government to use violence so we could use violence in return. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s absurd,” objected Milo, whose head was spinning from all the numbers and questions. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t it more absurd to fail, to turn back, than to continue? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be absurd, Beatrice,” I said hurriedly, “it doesn't matter a bit. It’s absolutely all right.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“To argue things out to the most absurd!” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I won’t do that. There’s no way I’m sending my daughter away. Revolutionaries taking care of her. It’s absurd! ” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if I hadn’t pulled her up so sharply—perhaps if I’d just made a joke of it and carried on—she’d have seen how absurd it was and laughed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer sounded foolish even to himself, and in the light of what he now suspected it was absurd. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It embarrassed her; for in a cooler, quieter moment it appeared to her absurd that she should have taken his action so seriously, so dramatically. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

But Fermi had a hard time remembering his new name and felt absurd pronouncing it with his thick Italian accent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only joking, such an absurd joke, ha-ha! There’s no such thing as chicken soup!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The idea of going to a quaint tourist destination now is especially absurd. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The question was so absurd it made me laugh. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After euthanasia, thousands of fraudulent death certificates were issued, citing diverse causes of death—some of them markedly absurd. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But as she said that, it sounded absurd. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of Moira, the Aunts were less fearsome and more absurd. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his, and the principle lives on in all its human and absurd diversity. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One route open to the advance guard was to play with the musical possibilities of the surreal and the absurd. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The man scoffed, his shoulders up in a shrug, and he looked about the audience as if he needed validation that Kaisha was absurd. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Bella, you are utterly absurd,” he said, his low voice cold. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Till now, however, this is as far as I've ever gotten, for all life seen from the hole of invisibility is absurd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, okay, it was absurd and yet real and dangerous and if he moved, I'd let him have it as brutally as possible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does nobody see how absurd it is to ask people if they are ready for a black president? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Like the proof of the irrationality of V2, like the discussion of simultaneity in special relativity, this is an argument in which the premise is challenged because the conclusion seems absurd. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And anything Martin touches is strange and absurd and hilarious. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The man picked the most absurd places to walk. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be absurd. How could I trust anybody more? You would only have to show that mug of yours outside the dog kennel and all the thieves would run away at once.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1890s, Populists buckled under the political pressure created by the Redeemers, who had successfully appealed to poor and working-class whites by proposing overtly racist and increasingly absurd Jim Crow laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was absurd to think that the great Scythe Marie Curie, Grande Dame of Death, would care so much for her—and would even think there could be any failure on her own part. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Where one was allowed to live and work could rest on such absurd distinctions as the curl of one’s hair or the size of one’s lips. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I apologize for not living up to your absurd expectations, Papa. Don’t you have anyone else to bother?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So doth even the most absurd of habits, after a time, inscribe itself as law, and come to resonate as ineluctable truth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be your absurd Champion if you agree to free me in three years, not five.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I sighed, and muttered to myself something like, “Yeah, the criminal justice system is racist in many ways, but it really doesn’t help to make such an absurd comparison. People will just think you’re crazy.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not because she was absurd, or repulsive, or because we were frightened, but because we had failed her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

This he said as though it were the most absurd of propositions. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On hands and knees, carrying his gun in regulation fashion, Kantorek shoves his absurd figure over the sand immediately in front of us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I received a shock, my expression changed to an absurd wide-eyed stare, and then that foolish smile again. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the ranch, it was considered an absurd idea. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, but that’s absurd. There’s no need to look a fool. With your appearance, my dear Maxim, you could get away with any costume. You don’t have to worry about your figure like poor Giles.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on the carpet next to Bieber, who is on his back looking absurd with his lips flapped up over his gums. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I dared not offer her the half-worn gloves, the creased handkerchief: besides, I felt it would be absurd. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was absurd of her to have imagined that she could. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt an absurd impulse to josh old Lee, to pat him on the back and ruffle the white hair and tell immoral stories. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a soap opera in America, so I had no frame of reference, but the Iranian soap operas were absurd. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be absurd. Why must you make a joke of everything?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We demanded to be accommodated together, and were given all sorts of absurd explanations why this was impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is totally absurd,” Ignatius said and flapped away. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law forbade taking any of the shards, which seemed particularly absurd, considering they were smack in the middle of a bomb and missile range, bound to be hit and destroyed eventually. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The ritual played itself out with absurd regularity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Today, the expressions “Fertile Crescent” and “world leader in food production” are absurd. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yes,’ he said, ‘I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You see? Imagine a man his age risking what little life he has left for something so absurd as a country.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I tell myself that my alarm is absurd, that there is probably nothing at all there in the darkness watching me, otherwise they would not be firing so low. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I….” I hoped that if I said the words quickly enough, they wouldn’t sound so absurd. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

His finest attacks have been to take the “true Southerner’s” viewpoint and render it absurd, all in seeming to defend and explain it. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My advice to you—” I clenched my fists, though it was absurd, of course. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is absurd,” said the naga in front of her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And I’m wondering how much more absurd this can all get.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“My dear, don’t be absurd. I’m not one to grudge you a present, even though we weren’t asked to your wedding!” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now the absurd situation was open, Jack blushed too. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

We arrived in a small courtyard with a miniature mosque that had been fitted with absurd arched windows made of painted glass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu thought, for one absurd moment, that she was chasing after Master’s car but she came back to say that she had asked Special Julius to follow him and bring him back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Where his pectoral muscles should be, he has a breast weighed down with the words of human beings: by words interred, free-as-a-bird absurd, unheard! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie had the absurd thought that the branch with the can sort of looked like it had just finished taking a sip and was asking another branch if it wanted to have a taste. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her worries are so pedestrian, so soothing in an absurd way, like a holiday from all the things that real people have to care about. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Alter the pathways in his mind? Don’t be absurd.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The absurd, the inspiring, the uncanny, the awesome, the terrifying, the ecstatic—none of these had a place, for you, before. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have the fleeting, absurd idea that if she’s dead I will be accused of murder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the Godslayer had told them in advance, it would have sounded absurd even to him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The idea of Voldemort lurking in Privet Drive was absurd, impossible. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The delay was maddening, absurd, the hourglass long ago upended. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I know that is an absurd thing to consider—a dead horse falling out of the sky—but it actually happened. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Fiver, don’t be absurd! He just smells the same as the rest of them.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got what Mr. Clarkson was saying, but it was kind of absurd at the same time. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

More than once, after a series of absurd reproaches, I’ve snapped at Mother: “I don’t care what you say. Why don’t you just wash your hands of me—I’m a hopeless case.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Was I absurd?” said Biddy, quietly raising her eyebrows; “I am sorry for that; I didn’t mean to be. I only want you to do well, and to be comfortable.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Aech and I had made absurd lists of things we would do and buy if we won the prize. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We have received via post your absurd comments about our trousers, the comments revealing, as they did, your total lack of contact with reality. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the Communists found themselves in the extraordinary— critics said absurd—position of having to govern a people and foment revolution simultaneously. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to spot because it also has a fake ficus tree, taking the fiction a step beyond absurd. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

An absurd lightness draped itself around him; all things were possible, all things were manageable. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That the man was already dead—some little time dead—when they were delivered. But that is surely absurd.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was she—Adarlan’s Assassin!—participating in some absurd competition to prove that she was the best? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He thought of the hundred courts he had come through and of his figure, absurd under its burden. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As always, my passes at omniscience are absurd, but you, of all people, should be polite to the part of me that comes out merely clever. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Water, because of its weight, was the prime enemy, and jockeys went to absurd lengths to keep it out of their systems. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as the words left my mouth, I knew how absurd they sounded. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And it was during those same weeks that those entirely untypical incidents took place at Darlington Hall which must, one supposes, have provided what flimsy basis exists for these absurd allegations. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gabriel and I used to play this game we liked to call What If? where the object was to take turns creating the most absurd “what if?” scenarios. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t Sarai here, but this absurd tame phantasm of her mother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Marjory thought the game was absurd, but her mind went to work anyway. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was even prepared to believe that Neil Armstrong might conceivably even be some absurd kind of name. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The farce of the cold war and the absurd war machine it spawned," he said, "was an ever-growing pathetic joke to me." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head as though the idea were absurd, even though it's the only version of the story I've known until now. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise--she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression--then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She stood outside the mullioned window, stroked the gryphon’s sleek feathered head, and suffered a pang of absurd envy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The assistant director says, “This is absurd, Sergeant Major.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Is that the best that they can do? What an absurd lie,” Ignatius said and with a flip of his tongue pulled in the last visible portion of the hot dog. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed absurd to spend my nights in such cramped quarters with an animal who was becoming roomy in his needs, when I could have an entire island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Having seen firsthand that the conventional method of data gathering was in this case absurd, Venkatesh vowed to scrap his questionnaire and embed himself with the gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The effect was one of enormous strength and energy and craft; he was quite big enough to carry the absurd overdecoration; on him it didn’t look preposterous, it looked barbaric and magnificent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“And so are the Tales'.” “Let’s not jump to absurd conclusions,” said Enoch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The idea that the criminal justice system discriminates in such a terrific fashion when few people openly express or endorse racial discrimination may seem far-fetched, if not absurd. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it ridiculous? I mean, it’s absurd, insanely ridiculous.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How absurd I was sitting in his shop, waiting for him to pat me on the head and say, “Good boy.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of a scythe having milk and cookies before bed bordered on absurd to Citra. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The skyline was intricate and voluptuous and enchanted and absurd. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the trouble with the clans; they had an absurd notion that every man's voice should be heard in council, so they argued about everything, end-lessly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He stopped, knowing it must all sound absurd. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Farmer had already pointed out how absurd it was that the United States had some of the best TB care in the world, but where, he asked, was the TB? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Even if it were an absurd rumor, 40 miles wide of the truth, it would be useless to attempt to alter ‘the verdict of history.’ The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. It is absurd—improbable—it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chocolates?” she asked, laughing bitterly as if Paul Consalvo had suggested the most absurd thing in the world. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is absurd," the queen said at last. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And racism is absurd because it’s about how you look. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was an absurd thought—more of an itch than a thought—and I tried to ignore it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He directs an absurd play within a play, orchestrating actors onstage to whom he is invisible. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The problem began to expand to levels at once more profound and absurd. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt the idea was absurd, but it had sprung into his mind in the very instant of feeling the scrap of paper in his hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, his appearance was absurd—the empty tract of his chin was at the expense of a worried, overpopulated forehead. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought this rather absurd, and protested, but to my surprise she agreed with him. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the most absurd thing that you have ever done.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was being absurd, but knowing that did not make her any less so. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I tried joining in, to forget about my terrible, awful, absurd idea, but when I sang, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” my voice splintered in my throat and came out a garbled, high-pitched mess. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I wish every day of my life could be this absurd. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His critics thought this estimate excessive and absurd. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throwing down an absurd card only works when you’re ironic, not medicated. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“There is nothing so absurd about risking your life for your country!” he declared. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s absurd, Frank, it’s ridiculous. They should not listen to Tabb. How can he tell, after all these months, how holes came to be in a boat? What are they trying to prove?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was liable to drag in bits of what he called poetry; and sometimes, after a glass or two, would allude to the absurd adventures of his mysterious journey. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I grinned at the absurd Arthurian image of the guitar in the stone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Unlike cosmological turtles, this view is not absurd. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The images she’d seen on the news were absurd, really—the storm looked like a white circular saw heading directly for New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Thus, not only is China not a melting pot, but it seems absurd to ask how China became Chinese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well then,” she cried, noticing that her relief sounded absurd, “that was all right.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Professor Quirrell, in his absurd turban, was talking to a teacher with greasy black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The State put Myers on the stand to tell his absurd story about Walter forcing him to drive to Jackson Cleaners because his arm hurt. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He kept on paying them poorly, issuing absurd orders, and shouting them down if they argued with him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he was drunk. God rest him—though it seems absurd to say it.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The medik moved aside, and Kaz blinked twice, trying to clear his vision and make sense of the absurd luxury of his surroundings. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I’m not playing, I never do,” said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

This might seem absurd, but we know it to be true. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Since I became his son’s Champion. So perhaps you ought to devote some additional resources to solving these murders, before I win this absurd competition just because I’m the last one left alive.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It sounds as it always does, simple, impossible, absurd. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would have seemed absurd, given that racial segregation was the primary vehicle of racialized social control in the United States during that period. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Harry had never hated Malfoy more than as he lay there, like an absurd turtle on its back, blood dripping sickeningly into his open mouth. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He said that it was absurd to doubt that a man could be a theist and an evolutionist, as someone had said. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about you, you cave fairy? Plastering your absurd interpretations onto the most innocent of gestures.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Alex rests his elbows on the lacquered white fence boards, fighting back the sudden, absurd feeling he’s underdressed for this. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"I suppose that's no more absurd than letting Jack hold the book." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The big house on the corner was sadder and older than I had remembered, and looked absurd, with its architectural eccentricities, its pretensions to French style, its facade covered with diseased ivy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hates that his name is both absurd and obscure, that it has nothing to do with who he is, that it is neither Indian nor American but of all things Russian. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was absurd, but it relieved my nervousness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this seems absurd, consider the situation in the citrus groves of California, where the world’s most famous and successful experiment in biological control was carried out in the 1880’s. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Lucas began, “a couple of guys said they saw the Lazarus yesterday. Said it swooped down in front of their truck, right behind a diesel, over on Highway Nineteen. That absurd enough for you?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The possibility that Mendel had deduced a fundamental natural rule—a dangerous law—by tabulating pea hybrids seemed absurd and far-fetched to Nägeli. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He called the rumors “absurd” and threatened to send anyone who spread such rumors about the killing and burning of people to a concentration camp. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was suddenly grateful for her absurd costume. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The man had not gone shavepate, not quite, but at least those absurd wings of his were gone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was a perceptive, graceful, sophisticated man who was sensitive to everyone’s weaknesses but his own and found everyone absurd but himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She recounts events from her spiritualist days, delighted when he finds the endeavor as absurd as she had at the time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When the dialysis treatment was proposed he said it was absurd. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing was kinda absurd, and my heartbeat started getting back to normal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“So are you saying that someone made them drink the poison, then threw the bottle in the trash? That’s absurd.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

What seemed more absurd was that this dead black preacher and leader was not even from Alexandra. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time I saw this longing of mine as trivial and absurd, because I’d taken such magazines lightly enough once. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asked to describe and classify mammals, he scribbled down an incomplete and absurd system of taxonomy—omitting categories, inventing others, lumping kangaroos with beavers, and pigs with elephants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And they would laugh, and she would find the strength to continue, partly out of a strange sort of logic: wasn’t it more absurd to give up? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I love their program, but I’ve already broached the subject. It’s the farthest thing. It’s an absurd suggestion.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The idea of the locket being stolen was absurd.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He may then have reasoned that it is absurd for so large a body as the Sun to revolve around so small a body as the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of these children could execute giant steps, baby steps, scissors steps, and a few other absurd locomotions invented by Ruth May. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the one full-length mirror in ladies’ wear, a medium-tall figure is hunched over a cart, her face pinched in absurd concentration—surely not me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He waited for an opportunity, when the talk was going again, and Tom was telling an absurd story about badgers and their queer ways — then he slipped the Ring on. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“On a scale of one to ten, one being perfectly rational and reasonable and ten being absurd and certifiable.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hearing reached absurd, numbing proportions as lawyers tried to ascertain Edwards’s algebra grade in a court of law. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so incredible to me, so outrageously absurd. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Once again he thought about how absurd it was that he wanted it so badly. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I figured you might need some time. But this is absurd. A week’s gone and ... Well, then, as of tomorrow morning I expect you to start behaving like a wife. Fahmidi? Is that understood?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Rather similar, seemingly absurd infinities occur in the other partial theories, but in all these cases the infinities can be canceled out by a process called renormalization. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn from one person to the next as the questions get more and more absurd. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

What if this was only an absurd fantasy? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His argument for the thesis was that if the universe did not have a beginning, there would be an infinite period of time before any event, which he considered absurd. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as absurd as everyone owning clipper ships. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

So we decided that when the robot is delivered to her, the more absurd it is, the better. In ‘Black Mirror,’ Sci-Fi That Feels Close to Home 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Martin Singer, a lawyer representing Cosby, released a statement calling the claims “unsubstantiated”, “ridiculous” and “an absurd fabrication”. Disney to remove Bill Cosby statue 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

To suggest that police in the United States are victims of hate crimes who therefore need additional special protections under the law is absurd. When the Punisher, a brutal comic-book vigilante, comes to your local police department, it can’t be good 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

He was fond of absurd juxtapositions, not just in his drawings but in his titles, too: “The Haunted Tea-Cosy,” “The Deadly Blotter,” “The Galoshes of Remorse.” A New Biography Takes on Edward Gorey, a Stubborn Enigma and Master of the Comic Macabre 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

The use of the “Islamic” label was even more absurd when referring to a painting representing Hindu women performing the Sivaite ritual of the anointing of the lingam. Special Report: Asian Art: 'Islamic' Culture: A Groundless Myth 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

While the plots of those films could feel overwrought and absurd, those qualities almost worked to the films' favor. "Hellboy" needs Guillermo del Toro. 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

His humor was mordant, with a refined sense of the absurd, but never cruel. Denis Johnson’s Generosity 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

The most absurd/surprising moment was past "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks busting through a giant calendar to join in the singing with his harmonica. Stephen Colbert sings YouTube sensation 'Friday' on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' 2011-04-04T15:16:06Z

It has no logic or credibility, and its paranoid view of Washington is too absurd to spur even a second thought. Movie Review: Stephen Dorff in ?Brake? 2012-03-20T22:15:31Z

Trade’s crass and absurd presence is set against the natural vistas all around. Review | Art’s sharpest social commentators since Andy Warhol reveal the state we’re all in 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

But once Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai banned Grass from entering the country, German politicians of all stripes have criticized Israel for its “absurd overreaction.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

“It’s a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the ‘reduction to the absurd,’” Scalia sniffed. Scalia’s still obsessed with sodomy 2012-12-11T16:19:00Z

Set in “Darkplace Hospital,” this is a masterpiece of the absurd and pokes loving fun at horror writers and bad TV both. Perspective | Beyond ‘The Shining’: Let’s talk about our favorite scary stories that take us inside unusual hauntings 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

A haunting first half can’t offset the absurd ending of “I Think We’re Alone Now,” a post-apocalyptic tale with a late plot twist that feels as if it comes out of left field. Review: ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ Finds Peter Dinklage at the End of His World 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The visitor refuses to comply with such a strange order — if anything, he says, it’s the police who should slap him — but the reader is left wondering if reality is any less absurd. Famous in Italy, Rodari Reaches U.S. Shores With ‘Telephone Tales’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

The men and women here are absurd, silly, often adorable, but not really impressive. Review: Eccentricity and Offbeat Humor by BalletX 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

When Williams’s doctor tells him he only has a few months to live, his subdued response is both devastating and absurd: “Quite,” he mutters. ‘Living’ Review: Losing His Inhibition 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

No explanation has been forthcoming, but it would be absurd, in Camus’s terms, to “admit sin and refuse grace.” Lost and Found: A Missing Camus Biography and a Christmas Miracle 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

To be fair, there are plenty of genuinely absurd details in the diarists’ spending habits. Money Diaries, Where Millennial Women Go to Judge One Another’s Spending Habits 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

Wrinkled checked flannel shirt, raggedy jean shorts, freckled legs, bare feet – someone absurd, maybe, a slacker, a lady of leisure. NW by Zadie Smith – extract 2012-08-17T21:55:12Z

An abandonment so awful and absurd calls for fierce survival instincts. ‘Wolf Play’ Review: What Keeps a Family From Falling to Pieces? 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

By this time, a former reality-show host was president, her fictional Brandon Stokes seemed less absurd and many, many people cared about the Supreme Court. And in her spare time, Stacey Abrams wrote a thriller 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Things quickly take a turn for the worse — and for the absurd — as the protagonist is faced with issues and events that can’t be calculated, unlike everything else in his life. Read Your Way Through Helsinki 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

The absurd mess of American health insurance confounds every effort to get Willa’s father-in-law the care he needs. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Large sections were of dead material with absurd maintenance needs. The odd tale of Britain’s wall — a hedge — across a swath of India 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

Making a state secret of a music list may sound absurd, but it’s the protocol that goes with something like the marriage of Prince William to his college sweetheart, Kate Middleton. Westminster Abbey, Scaling Up 2011-04-24T00:49:23Z

For Liszt, the idea of playing his 12 “ Transcendental Etudes ” as a set would have seemed absurd. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

He’s a more confident and intricate rapper than before and, if possible, an even more absurd one. Arts & Leisure Preview: Angry Rhymes, Dirty Mouth, Goofy Kid 2011-05-04T11:00:08Z

It’s a bid to differentiate the characters and inject an Everyman foil to the insular and often absurd podcaster culture on display. Podcasts Get the Hollywood Treatment, Complete With Zach Braff 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Public Schools during the 2017 Emmy Awards in September was the sort of absurd eruption that live television and the Internet love. The education of Dave Chappelle: How a D.C. arts school prepared him for stardom 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

That prompted Cornell attorney Martin Singer to issue a statement later in the week, calling that assertion “absurd and hypocritical.” Soundgarden responds to recent lawsuit filed by Vicky Cornell 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

Her physical beauty is breathtakingly showcased here, but she plays much of the action with a touch of self-amusement, as if she knows she too is wonderfully absurd. Dance Review: City Ballet in Balanchine’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2012-06-06T21:59:12Z

But it’s absurd we feel the need to question parents who are vegan when I see so many kids on the way home from school eating chips, sweets and fizzy drinks. ‘If they’re not eating any vegetables, you panic’: the families raising vegan children 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

“We are relieved to finally bring this absurd case to a just conclusion,” Mr. Dontzin said in the statement. Painter Awarded $2.5 Million in Dispute Over Work He Denied 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

“But in writing, that’s the wit, part of the fun of it, pointing up how absurd it is what people are doing when they’re judging you.” You Are What You Wear 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

“Even playing that absurd actor in ‘Paddington 2,’ I go to enormous lengths to create a full biography, year by year since my character was born,” he said. For Hugh Grant, a Smaller Screen Brings a More Complex Role 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Hand lifts may be the latest absurd cosmetic procedure, but they are hardly the weirdest. The 7 weirdest plastic surgery trends 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Jan. 19, but given the absurd number of presales, fans hoping to score general admission tickets may not want to wait that long. Ticket alert: Zac Brown Band announces Safeco Field concert 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

The cartoonist has an uncanny gift for dramatizing mundane realities and the absurd anxieties that accompany them. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

One Book Called Ulysses, had to have been a foregone conclusion: a whole nation against “one book”? What could be more absurd? 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

“He has this wonderful way where he can have just the silliest, most absurd joke next to the most touching, romantic sentiment,” said Fischer. What follows 'Bright Star'? For Steve Martin, it's 'Meteor Shower' 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

It simply shows male stripping as it so often is: goofball, absurd and sometimes repulsive. Male strippers: Please, just leave it on 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z

At least in this one instance Buster managed to say no to somebody else’s absurd demand. Books of The Times: Mom and Dad and the Two Kids They Damage 2011-08-03T22:00:29Z

So fully has the novel entered the collective consciousness that its title is still used as a catchphrase to describe absurd or impossible situations. Bel Kaufman, Who Told What School Was Really Like, Dies at 103 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Scott wrote in his review for The Times, “a costume drama with sharp political instincts and an aggressive sense of the absurd.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Mrs. Maisel’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

“Listen, Doctor,” she says, “there’s nothing more immoral and unhygienic and absurd than making a woman have a child which she doesn’t want.” How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Scandal” is a nighttime soap in a contemporary setting, and while the plot lines — conspiracy, assassinations, blackmail — have grown ever more absurd, what doesn’t get old is the bad behavior of its lead women. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Prime Time’s Other Women in Power 2014-05-02T12:00:01Z

Faced with a frightening, absurd world, all they have is each other. Your next box set: The Ren and Stimpy Show Unleashed 2011-02-11T08:00:01Z

A proper assessment of this document renders absurd any notion that Bach was a progressivist or a secularist. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

“It was absolutely absurd: I lived in fear of him, I said, and Yngve said dad controlled him and his thoughts even now.” Knausgaard or Ferrante? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

It was absurd, but it really affected the way I perceived my father and mother. In Hamptons, Ammon Twins Put Horror in Perspective 2012-11-14T22:17:45Z

Susan Jones is more effectively amusing and absurd as the highly buxom, aging Dacha Dweller, but Martine van Hamel — who wins her own laughs — makes the role more rounded, with a dash of pathos. Dance Review: Down on the Dacha, Farmers Showing Off Expressive Footwork 2011-01-23T22:45:37Z

Intrusive incidental music, a couple of truly absurd songs and a climax at Pinewood studios. My favourite film aged 12: Gold 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

It’s wholly turbulent yet far from barbaric: despite the slippery carpet below, it is a politely non-jostling, giddily absurd melee of bodies. Blade Rave: the club night where blood rains from the ceiling 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

As the absurd becomes commonplace, Berger’s work suggests, comedy has to be found in the mundane. A Political Satirist for the Internet Election 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The first season of "Bridgerton" had an elaborate series of ruses contrived to keep the lovers apart for as long as possible, ranging from the accurate to the absurd. Dearest "Bridgerton" viewer, loosen your corset because this season smolders to the very end 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

That's absurd because there is no baby and there is no lake. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z

The more absurd the product, the more lavish the encouragement. I deserve it because I want it the most. Come on, Sugar! 2010-12-21T19:00:00Z

It’s the grotesqueness of the sale and ensuing spectacle, and more specifically, it’s the idea that the system is absurd. Perspective | Don’t ask if the duct-tape banana is art. Ask if it’s any good. 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Even during their heyday, their ultra-conspicuous album artwork felt baroque, dynastic, and absurd, like medieval portraiture made by the hand of a Y2K-era Rembrandt gifted an early edition of the Adobe Creative Suite. Review | Like most sequels, ‘Savage Mode II’ is an underwhelming blockbuster 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Her complaints were petty, absurd—which meant, as Margot pointed out, that they were almost impossible to keep quiet about. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

“The fact there is a poster of me in Times Square is absurd.” John Oliver: ‘I’m used to audiences not liking me’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

The day before I went to Company, it was confirmed that the actor formerly known as Meghan Markle, 37, is pregnant, and amid all the absurd hyperbole there were some wearily predictable digs. Marriage by this age! Babies by that age! When will we stop giving women deadlines? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

The aspiration to everlasting fame is too remote from the everyday—too absurd—to be worth thinking about. The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

But Hollywood would never allow such cynicism: in the latest absurd movie instalment, Bridget Jones’s Baby, Darcy is firmly resurrected. Brad and Angelina proved there's no such thing as the perfect marriage: so why do we pretend? 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

I'm more interested in what they represent and video game bowling seems to me to be the most absurd area of virtual experience. Barbican bowled over by artist's game installation 2011-02-09T15:43:19Z

In fact, Robert Evans had a kind of 21st-century afterlife as a buccaneering yet absurd player. Robert Evans: eloquent and passionate midwife to the Hollywood new wave | Peter Bradshaw 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

“I’m Just No Good at Rhyming” is the perfect canvas for Smith’s simple and absurd sepia-toned mischief. Your Kids Need a Laugh? Try the Short, Quirky Poems in This Book 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Somehow, it would fit into Linehan's gentle sense of the absurd. Graham Linehan: Twitter has made me 2012-05-27T18:00:01Z

Directed by Shelley Butler, this funny, deftly unsettling piece displays the absurd and destructive sides of romantic relationships. Review | Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

He finds magic in the absurd and the minute. Indie Rap Veterans Return to a Genre Still in Need of Opposition 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The first step, to judge by the absurd crew onstage, will be to change the storytellers. Review: In ‘The Thanksgiving Play,’ Who Gets to Tell the Story? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

It’s one of the smartest, silliest, most absurd, most human comedies of the last decade, and there’s too much talent involved for it to be ruined so easily. Brooklyn Nine Nine and the new era of TV fan power 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

These get dirty, since Grandpa’s involved, and the absurd whiplash between sentiment and filth suggests a parody of the genre. Review: ‘Dirty Grandpa’ Features Robert De Niro on the Prowl 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

“I once thought I was being placed in a lesser-than category by being called a character actor, which of course is absurd.” In the peak TV era, it might be time to banish the ‘character actor’ label 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

This, indeed, is the key to Camus's philosophy of the absurd. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z

One reason the joke is funny is that it’s absurd that Carson would try so hard to reinvent himself. As a Teenager, I Hated Johnny Carson. Then Came the Pandemic. 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

“About the best and dirtiest stories I’ve ever heard — dumpy, absurd body, hair combed by a salad spoon, brown-button Welsh eyes always moving suspiciously or fixing on the most modest person in the room.” A Dylan Thomas Centennial in New York 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

More absurd, and more shocking, is how much they get away with. Movie Review: Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain,’ With Mark Wahlberg 2013-04-25T14:00:02Z

Even a seasoned ballerina might find that absurd. Dance? Easy. The Ballerina Tiler Peck Leaves Her Comfort Zone. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

“The Favourite,” with a profane, erudite script by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, is a farce with teeth, a costume drama with sharp political instincts and an aggressive sense of the absurd. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

I told my sister I was upset that he'd made a boneheaded mistake and then hear from my brother that we're on the brink of divorce, which is absurd. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Cast a wider net to find the support you need 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine putting on sunglasses to look at art. It seems totally absurd.” Dear celebrities (and everyone else, too): Stop wearing sunglasses at museums! 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The beauty of James Bond movies is that they are, in one sense, theater of the absurd. Game On: 'Call of Duty: Black Ops' one of the year's best 2010-11-18T05:16:00Z

“People imagine, ‘Oh well, they get hurt and that’s what they signed up for,’ which is an absurd presumption,” said Andy Armstrong, a stunt coordinator involved in two of “The Amazing Spider-Man” movies. Amid ‘Gung-Ho Mentality,’ Stunt Deaths Renew a Debate Over Safety 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

All are in some ways crude and heavy-handed, their formulations absurd, even outrageous. Arts & Leisure Preview: ?Green Zone,? ?The Ghost Writer? and Conspiracy Comforts 2010-03-31T20:54:00Z

Petronio, an absurd if slightly menacing captain in grey beard and wellies, stomps around unfurling ropes and muttering vicious curses at everyone in his way. Stephen Petronio Company ? review 2010-10-07T21:45:00Z

It functions, she told me, “as an absurd and complicated symbol for racialized individuals in the white cultural imagination.” The World Grieves for Millions. An Artist Grieves for One. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

The upside of this absurd cost is that most people refrained, keeping noses away from iPhones and, instead, buried in books. Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

And now all these complex characters, politically and intellectually refined, fall in the 21st century under the blows of a bad boy driven by an absurd urge that is beyond him. Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Princess of Cleves 2011-03-23T09:30:01Z

He knew a little about the absurd forces of the strange mystery of existence. Twin Peaks recap: episodes three and four – nobody said it would be easy viewing 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

“It’s kind of really absurd,” Ms. Cherry said of her prolonged absence from the city’s stages. Neneh Cherry Will Get an Overdue New York Debut 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Still, it was almost absurd enough to sound possible. Driving the Stake Through Emotional Vampires 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

It was late January, and the Manhattan courtroom drama had taken a turn to the absurd. Whatever became of the anti-Trump prophets? 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

While in Los Angeles, he also studied improv at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, and his penchant for absurd humor seeps into his work. James Hamblin explains dimpleplasty while touring with his book 'If Our Bodies Could Talk' 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

It was a typically playful offering, entirely in keeping with Sievey's wilful sense of the absurd. Chris Sievey obituary 2010-06-22T14:16:00Z

Like the 1985 Martin Scorsese film "After Hours," "The Making of Zombie Wars" puts an everyday guy in manic, absurd circumstances that snowball into more absurdity. Aleksandar Hemon's 'Zombie Wars' springs to humorous life unexpectedly 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

She created a comic persona – wild hair, flailing cigarette holder, splayed feet, absurd costume, loud, cackling laugh – when in fact she was a housewife from Ohio. Phyllis Diller 2012-08-21T17:39:18Z

“I mean, I think it is absurd in general what Black women have to deal with,” she said. ‘Driven by the Potential for Joy’: Comedies Are the Thing This Spring 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

She’s nowhere to be seen in The Devil Wears Prada, because that wouldn’t fit the absurd spectacle people generally hope to see in a movie about the fashion world. 'I Hate The Devil Wears Prada More Now Than I Did 10 Years Ago' 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Some here found Black Swan overwhelmingly absurd, others felt that it was precisely this quality which made it so enjoyable. A dance of death at the Venice film festival 2010-09-05T21:00:00Z

She is, however, an absurd 17-year-old: judgments of what is inevitable at any given age are invariably ridiculous failures of imagination. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z

He seemed to find this question absurd, so he gave an absurd reply. An Appraisal: Taking Big Bites of Jim Harrison’s Voracious Life 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

When Evans considers narrative and performance in much of dance, she is flabbergasted, especially by story ballets with “the most absurd, crazy stories,” she said, that require an “insane” suspension of disbelief. The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

But at least the absurd debate gives writers like myself plenty to say about what would otherwise be a fairly unassuming prize winner. Booker club: Last Orders by Graham Swift 2012-07-24T11:28:36Z

“The LA Times ranking In-N-Out last is absurd, and Chick-fil-A waffle fries that low is insane. We got some issues,” another social media user tweeted. Newspaper's rankings of best fries in US drives wedge between social media users 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Salman Rushdie called the edits “absurd censorship” and tweeted that “the Dahl estate should be ashamed.” As Classic Novels Get Revised for Today’s Readers, a Debate About Where to Draw the Line 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

There seems to be some sense of the absurd. Why Judd Apatow Loves Montreal (You’ll Laugh) 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

But he also said the entire debate was "absolutely absurd." Limbaugh apologizes to law student for insult 2012-03-04T03:38:14Z

The Wooster Group, which in New York generally stages its work in a former metal-stamping plant in SoHo, says the idea that anything it does might threaten a larger production is absurd. Pinter Estate Shuts Door on ‘The Room’ 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

That Amazon boasts of being able to download a book called “Data Smog” in less than a minute does not escape his keen sense of the absurd. Books of The Times: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message 2011-03-06T22:55:16Z

She takes each instruction she is given with an absurd literalism. The Secret Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, the Bartleby of Domestic Work 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Getting a new permit from the security services, the F.S.B., can take two weeks, and the rules border on the absurd. Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Over the next few years, with his director wife, Lillian Franck, Cibis struggled to get funding for his "completely absurd" idea. Pianomania: the little film that struck a major chord 2010-08-16T21:00:00Z

At the edge of Glacier Point’s 3,200-foot cliff, one of the most iconic places in Yosemite, the absurd daylight grandeur of Half Dome and the forested slopes exert their solemn gravity. ‘Entering Burn Area’: Yosemite After the Fire 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

This may sound absurd to people whose idea of wine appreciation is swilling a little red in a bar while their friends are downing cocktails or beer. Want to Pick Better Bottles? Repeat After Me: Wine Is Food 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

The vast bulk of what people say about Christ seems to me nonsense, impossible, absurd. Philip Pullman: a life in writing 2011-03-03T12:00:00Z

As series star Mary Elizabeth Winstead explains, “Nothing gets done. It’s such an absurd explanation for what is really happening in Washington.” In TV’s ‘BrainDead,’ bugs eat the brains of D.C. politicians. (It’s a metaphor.) 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

The absurd vision of “Broad City” reflects how money has warped the reality of the city itself. How Three Quirky Sitcoms Capture the New York Hustle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

They’re often portrayed as awkward or drab, but more often they’ve led colorful, cosmopolitan lives full of harrowing and absurd adventures. Perspective | Their testimony was pointed. Their clothes were reassuringly dull. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Among the positive comments were: “It is something absurd to say in 2017 but she is so brave to show natural legs, you go girl!” Swedish model gets rape threats after ad shows her unshaved legs 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

If you’re getting the impression that “Ted 2” is a pointless and deliberately absurd reworking of an idea MacFarlane pretty well wore out the first time, you would be right. The dude-humor master class of “Ted 2″: Flashes of offbeat brilliance among the expected spank gags and deflated ball jokes 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Joyce was roused to speak with Proust, but the conversation was absurd. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z

Coming in at a tight and talky 74 minutes, “Incredible but True” is a sweetly absurd time-travel comedy that coats its lunacy in a touching poignancy. ‘Incredible but True’ Review: Track to the Future 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

The lawyer wants Samuel to be a character witness, but Samuel’s publisher has a more lucrative if equally absurd idea: Investigate his mother’s radical past and write a scathing exposé of Gov. Packer’s assailant. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Where the show used to beauty in a filthy subway and philosophy in the absurd, season 4 sometimes served up wisdom-on-a-platter in the form of characters like Charles Grodin’s doctor. REVIEW: Louie Watch: Going All In 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Some critics dismiss the culture war idea as absurd given that Trump, a Manhattan tycoon-turned reality TV star, is a product of Hollywood. Trump v Hollywood? Don't expect to see the culture war play out on screen 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

But I sneaked unnoticed into the Everyman Library edition recently and, burrowing deep, loved the rich complexity, the wise and barbed exploration of corruption and the absurd irrationality of the human condition. How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

It struck me as a completely absurd idea. The upside of chronic anxiety: being good in emergencies 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Life is absurd, so just put on some chandelier earrings and rouge to greet it. Movie Review: ‘Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel,’ a Documentary 2012-09-21T00:06:05Z

“Mysteries” had an absurd start of its own. Review: The Philharmonic Revisits an Early Triumph of Its Director 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

It's not fair, as is sometimes said, to claim that operatic drama is always absurd. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z

You’d think an actor who’s so committed to every absurd line a writer throws at him would be just as devoted in a nonverbal role. Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Thurber was a grandmaster of the short story — perhaps best known for “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” — and his often absurd and acerbic cartoons. Please shut up, Mr. President, and read some books 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

And because spending $2 on chicken bingo and nothing on the band seemed absurd, I broke my budget by a few dollars to leave a $5 tip. Frugal Traveler Blog: $100 Weekend in Austin, Tex. 2012-01-31T18:39:03Z

She claims to be “an introvert,” which seems patently absurd. Can HGTV make house-renovators Ben and Erin the new Chip and Joanna? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

A bigger problem is the number of life-changing events this young woman meets up with in a single week and her simply absurd way of dealing with them. Some good work, even if 'Chasing Life' races to the ridiculous 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

"The Court's swift dismissal supports our position that the case was completely without merit and that comparing Willy the Wizard to the Harry Potter series was absurd," the firm said in a statement. Harry Potter plagiarism case dismissed in U.S. 2011-01-07T13:16:53Z

Above all, they must avoid the police, who are a constant, mostly unseen menace — a minor inconvenience, a source of absurd frustration and also, sometimes, a serious, even mortal threat. | 'No One Knows About Persian Cats': Indie Rock in Iran in Bahman Ghobadi?s New Work 2010-04-16T01:56:00Z

Comedies of any age endure because their characters, no matter how absurd the situations they find themselves in, are recognizably human, even when their foibles or follies are exaggerated. Review: ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ and His Misfortunes 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

They are absurd stories your stoned friend might unfold while giggling, but the best of them land at some insight into the human condition, all economy and charm. If Kafka Were Israeli and Wrote About Talking Goldfish 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

It’s precisely the actor’s own power to incarnate Davis as one artist to another that makes the movie’s reliance on artificial dramatic conventions unnecessary, even absurd. Kind of Clichéd: How the Miles Davis Movie Could Have Been Better 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Yet the show, performed in front of a stark prison wall created by designer Colin K. Bills and in ­prisonlike jumpsuits by costumer Robert Croghan, is capable of absurd heights. Review | Felonius Munk’s ‘Nothing to Lose’ is a Second City winner 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

That was the website’s sense of humor: well-read, absurd, knowing. Dear Prudence, how did Slate’s advice columnist find himself here? 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

The old and the new, the real and the surreal, the melancholic and the absurd, the factual and the fictitious are all blended here — blended and dissolved as if in flowing water. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

It's absurd and almost alarmist to mention and compare smaller infractions that can be corrected through character development and education to an abuser like Weinstein in the same conversation. We need to talk about Jennifer Aniston's misguided take on cancel culture 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z

Judge realized years before Jon Stewart did on “The Daily Show” that showing something absurd, then making a face, is all you need for television comedy. The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

She seemed imperious and absurd, completely in control. Music Review: Up Close, Yes. Personal? In Varying Degrees. 2010-12-12T23:34:00Z

Aira unfurls a chain of surreal, often hilariously absurd vignettes in this slim and dreamlike novel, beginning with a chance encounter at a restaurant in Buenos Aires. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Robert Hughes was a 'scourge of phony art and absurd demagoguery', remembered one admirer. Remembering Robert Hughes: What did he do for art? 2012-08-07T09:40:26Z

That is, of course, absurd, but it is an unsurprising policing of the range of acceptable female expression in a genre that has little room for dissent. Kacey Musgraves and Other ‘Tomatoes’ Give Country Its Bite 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The idea that Carrie would be so thrown by the pairing is absurd. ‘And Just Like That …’ Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2 Recap: Relationship Place 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

By the late 1970s, when it was still being published, it was absurd that it did not include any American slang. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z

It was likewise feverish, absurd and symbolic of a clash between the state and a new generation of protesters. Pussy Riot: activists, not pin-ups 2012-12-20T18:35:44Z

It’s an absurd mistake arisen out of muddled thinking around gender equality, and I am a former radical feminist. 'A stellar choice': your thoughts on Jodie Whittaker's casting in Doctor Who 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

In a particularly absurd moment, a Vietnamese gangster threatens the Black veterans as he recounts the My Lai massacre. Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views, Even in ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Photograph: artsdepot There was what sounds like an absurd overreaction with the closure of the main gates to the business park that the offices are on, plus extra security and a police presence. Arts funding dilemmas for local authorities 2011-01-13T13:45:01Z

Amazing to see, but something immensely absurd about it all.... Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

I was sorry that Mrs Chin hadn't grown to like me more, or indeed at all, but it was absurd to imagine that my playing was bad enough to prove fatal. David Nicholls Every Good Boy 2011-07-22T22:01:00Z

The entries are short, tightly written fragments — a funny, absurd, poignant and melancholy gathering of things that once were, but are now gone. The listicle perfected: Henri Lefebvre's 'The Missing Pieces' 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

We are stuck in an absurd, repetitive loop. Let’s talk about sex (more): Education, conversation is the way to help prevent sexual assault 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

The time when “works” of the talentless followers of Marcel Duchamp’s art of the absurd sell in the millions of dollars is not over yet. Auctions: A Serious Moment for Contemporary Art 2011-07-01T13:30:36Z

It's sometimes implied that anyone who becomes an Islamist suicide-bomber must be stupid, because the current jihad against the west is intrinsically absurd. Four Lions may roar, but its laughs are hollow 2010-05-10T10:09:00Z

If you think that choosing to watch ads seems absurd, I don’t blame you. In Vintage TV Ads, a Curious Fountain of Hope (and Cheese) 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Yet even the most absurd scenes have a melancholy quality to them. Review: In ‘With No Fanfare,’ Things Fall Apart 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

It demands that each song be wholly distinct from everything that preceded it, an absurd and ultimately unenforceable dictate. It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

And will “Women’s Fiction” become such an absurd category it’s phased out entirely? Essay: ‘The Second Shelf’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

That's way crazier and way more absurd looking than any of the scripted stuff we had going for him. James Marsden loves playing his "Jury Duty" alter ego, a narcissistic jerk who's "off his rocker" 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Although Russ can be an old fool capable of absurd acts of self-delusion and pomposity, he’s spent decades considering his life in terms of his fidelity to God. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Other, more analytical parts of it bog down in the sheer difficulty of describing a Williams plot without making it sound absurd. John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams’ Fleshes Out the Playwright 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

She experiments with form, with language, with conjecture, with the absurd. Review | Zadie Smith’s debut short-story collection is a dazzling experiment in form and genre 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

In these redactions, stubbornly absurd and carelessly stupid as many of them are, the dialogue of interrogator and prisoner goes on. ‘Guantánamo Diary,’ by Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s easy to be cynical about a Cats movie, then, in large part because a Cats movie seemed an absurd impossibility for so long. Litter-ally terrifying: is Cats the creepiest film of the year? 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

They excite and entice far beyond any reasonable expectation of how we use them, and they are subject to an endless and often absurd evolution of improvements and updates. Review | Some cars are more seductive than art. Should they be included in art museums? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

"For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week," Limbaugh said in his statement. Limbaugh apologizes to law student for insult 2012-03-04T03:38:14Z

Like much of Rich’s work, this story treats the absurd completely seriously as it darts seamlessly between humor and gravity, before arriving at an unexpected happy ending. The Angst of the Creative Millennial, as Fodder for Satire 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Burnham finds that absurd, arguing that those comics are “desperately trying to act like they haven’t lost that thing they love they had when they were younger — the ‘I’m still struggling.’ Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

A hallmark of Bob and Ray comedy was bone-dry delivery of the absurd. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Usually we like to have people who are doing absurd, surreal bits – that's our cup of tea. Kooky queen of comedy 2011-07-16T23:06:31Z

Yes, I know, that idea seems absurd at first. Ways to Spend a Virtual Day With Louis Armstrong 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

It’s both arresting and absurd — too arch to amount to much yet just complex enough to stick in your mind. Dance Review: Jennifer Monson and Friends Perform at La MaMa Moves! 2013-06-24T21:23:03Z

The idea that a Scottish patriot could have a chip on his shoulder and demonstrate an irrational anti-English bias is patently absurd, after all. Irvine Welsh's Booker prize attack makes scant sense 2012-08-21T09:58:32Z

Mr. Cover and Kelley Curran, who enacts four characters with four different accents, manage the task with the most variety and verve, though Brad Heberlee works wonders with an absurd fake mustache. Review: ‘The Dingdong’ Offers Frothy Lingerie and Frisky Behavior 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

It’s mainly a low-impact visit with a deeply absurd, underachieving woman and her nevertheless supportive family. Review | Awkwafina’s TV show doesn’t bring the big laughs, but it does know how to chill 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

It also struck me as absurd that the second violinist, Robert, would suddenly try to usurp Daniel's position. A violinist's view on A Late Quartet 2013-04-16T05:00:01Z

Max finds himself soothed by her presence, even though he knows it's absurd of him to feel that way. "United States of Tara" finds its identity 2010-06-02T18:20:00Z

Sometimes they’re comic, like the visit to an absurd Sufi ceremony led by an Austrian heiress. ‘Homeland Elegies’ Sings for a Fading Dream of National Belonging 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

He makes the smart choice to play the absurd premise straight up. Obama, the funniest president: Laughter isn’t just the best defense—it’s a powerful image strategy, too 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

“The Exterminating Angel,” inspired by the Luis Buñuel film of the same name, depicts an absurd fictional dinner party that spirals downward as viewers realize that the guests cannot escape. A Fall Season of Debuts, Returns and Farewells 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

The fact that she is currently complaining about his depiction of her can’t quite dispel — indeed, might confirm — the absurd, gnawing suspicion that her life has been one long audition for an Errol Morris film. | 'Tabloid': Was It Love? The ?Manacled Mormon? and His Kinky Weekend 2011-07-14T22:11:29Z

Sometimes things could be so absurd and surreal that you have to laugh. Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

“I push myself into the realm of the absurd so that whatever my audience considers impossible suddenly by comparison seems plausible and achievable,” Mr. Ferriss said. The World According to Tim Ferriss 2011-03-25T21:44:29Z

Mr. Olive’s play captures the surreal, satisfyingly subversive tone of Mr. Sachar’s tales, which, like Roald Dahl’s, often pit resourceful children against an absurd and arbitrary adult world. Spare Times for Children for May 17-23 2013-05-16T22:17:51Z

In fact, parents, let me take a moment and go further and say – don’t just lay this absurd burden on mothers-to-be. Hey, moms: Hush up! 2012-07-18T19:45:00Z

We always knew sitcoms were absurd, yet something about them remains appealingly aspirational. Perspective | How do we manage to get along in confined spaces? ‘One Day at a Time,’ perhaps. 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

And Toyota busts the absurd myth that plant-based means somehow dining exclusively on kale leaves. Cookie butter should be slathered on pretty much everything, including cookies 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Undergoing Jabadi’s ham-fisted interrogation, Maziar manages to retain his sense of the absurd, as if realizing that Kafka wrote bleak black comedy about humankind’s awful unfairness. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a way to transition to an absurd new thought that the reader almost certainly was not thinking. A crime of Frankensteinian proportions 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

The future seems brighter than the past, however absurd the belatedness. A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

As much as the absurd voiceover narration would have you believe otherwise, driving heavy articulated lorries through a north Canadian winter is no laughing matter. TV highlights 15/02/2013 2013-02-15T07:00:35Z

Vargas Llosa's novels understand and reproduce the absurd and melancholy tragicomedy of our lives and their occasionally inspiring moments of pure happiness. Mario Vargas Llosa: an unclassifiable Nobel winner 2010-10-08T10:50:00Z

And Tancredi finds himself agreeing with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as he lays into the politically correct Leader whose fear of offending renders his proclamations absurd and meaningless. New book satirizes reality TV, "PC Britain," media 2011-09-29T13:09:54Z

After a few more of these exchanges, I saw him start to slide, as kids often do when subjected to absurd repetition, into a state of delighted hysteria. Modern Love: A Role He Was Born to Play 2012-11-15T21:08:15Z

“I hope this wakes people up. Because there should be no live round anything ever on a movie. We have enough CGI, we have enough — it’s absurd,” she said. Stars stunned by ‘mismanaged set’ in fatal prop-gun shooting 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Richard Burton, who co-starred, described it as "a comedy of the absurd gone mad". Peter O'Donnell obituary 2010-05-05T18:09:00Z

Buechner’s story, though often wrenching, was rich with childhood fantasies, wistful longings and absurd turns that had the audience laughing along. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

This sounds like a bit of a markup, but it is probably small potatoes when you consider some of the absurd prices paid for new works by contemporary artists. Critic?s Notebook: Forrest Bess Paintings at Christie?s and Whitney Biennial 2012-03-22T21:35:57Z

This is a play for the electronic post-9/11 age by a prizewinning, surreal writer who captures well the absurd elements of contemporary life. Review: 'Eskimos' at Open Circle is a tale for our modern, tech-driven age 2010-03-23T22:55:00Z

When rocker boys sacrifice Jennifer to Satan, the scene is absurd and chock-full of Cody’s signature quips, but it is also oppressively dark. What Megan Fox Taught Me About the Power of Subversive Girls 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Even as Handler stacks elision upon lacuna to paper over his plot holes and sudden narrative swerves, the whole house of cards grows more absurd, irrelevant, cloying and rickety. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

We should stop smiling at once and speak out against such absurd presumption. They really want a theocracy: The GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their lord 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

"When I write plays, I try to find a part of myself that I think is absurd and I struggle to deal with or am self-critical about," Eisenberg said. Jesse Eisenberg a.k.a. Lex Luthor puts his powers to new use with his play 'The Revisionist' 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Many of these self-styled advisers look absurd on close examination. Review: Personal finance industry gets drubbing 2013-01-14T17:41:13Z

"All the accusations made against me are absurd. I've been working honestly for many years. I need to finish filming a movie and put shows on." Russian celebrities gather outside Moscow court to demand director's release 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

That subtle intersection of the ordinary and the absurd is her trademark maneuver. Review | In Nell Zink’s ‘Doxology,’ D.C. punk and modern politics collide 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Amazingly, you don’t have to know for certain whether Bloomberg lied about this particular incident to recognize the absurd aspects of this exchange. Perspective | ‘Believe Women’ doesn’t mean women never lie. It means accepting that men sometimes do, too. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Life gets more absurd and more tragic the older you get. Richard Linklater on the enduring appeal of Jesse and Celine 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z

The Israeli show is more overtly tongue-in-cheek and absurd than most, but it makes sharp, sometimes dizzying turns from satire to sobriety. ‘Real Housewives’ in Greece, Israel and Canada 2013-06-06T12:00:01Z

It all seems kind of absurd, doesn’t it? David Tennant Stars in ‘Broadchurch’ on BBC America 2013-08-02T19:02:15Z

They carefully lay a giant egg down in the middle of the vast space, and perform amusingly absurd rituals around it. A French Festival Focuses (Timidly) on English 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

Clinically gifted, she was passionately committed to her patients and the profession: she chaired committees with acuity and kindness, and an irrepressible sense of the absurd. Letter: Bernardine Bishop's passionate commitment to psychotherapy 2013-07-24T15:43:46Z

Moving high-ranking government officials between departments, he wrote, “is no less absurd than rotating Tiger Woods from golf to baseball to football to hockey”. Generalise, don't specialise: why focusing too narrowly is bad for us 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

Indeed, they found such an idea as deeply offensive and absurd as other women found strict abortion laws and constraints on women’s reproductive freedom. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z

It took the period’s fascination with China and Islamic cultures to absurd lengths. An 18th-century Parisian garden of delight can teach us much about what not to do today 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Even if the person is doing something totally stupid and absurd, keep your mouth shut. 7 Holiday Office Party Sins You Didn’t Even Know You Were Committing (and How to Fix Them) 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

But, of course, that’s absurd: We couldn’t care less who picks our fruit. Novel will make you think twice about those beautiful fruits at the store 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

"Attacking me for using cliche in an opera about opera is absurd," says Wainwright. How I fell out of love with opera 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z

Fleshy, female and flagrantly nude, “Fatebe” is simultaneously comic, absurd and fearless. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Viewed in this context, the fight over the Suicide Squad trailer becomes pretty absurd. Warner Bros. Is Forgetting The Most Important Thing About The 'Suicide Squad' Trailer 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

It's my first visit as well, although I'm a good, or absurd, 40 years older than the girls, and in my own way, I'm just as excited, possibly even as nervous. Glastonbury 2010: Paul Morley goes to the festival for the first time. What will he make of it? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

“All the accusations made against me are absurd,” Serebrennikov, 47, said from inside a metal cage in the courtroom. Russian theater director who irked establishment given house arrest 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

He is drawn to life and, at the same time, to self-destruction, like a large-hearted moth to an absurd flame. Books of The Times: ?[sic]: A Memoir,? by Joshua Cody - Review 2011-12-20T22:40:00Z

Here we touch on a potentially absurd but also possibly profound point. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

In Mr. Crowley’s play, the arrival of a central character’s straight college buddy sends him into a frenzy of anxiety — something that would seem absurd in a play set today or even 20 years ago. A New Day for Gay Plays? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

However absurd the premise, you nevertheless need to believe that these women could do damage, pose a real threat, and not just physically. ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Review: Um, You Go, Girls? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

“The whole ‘life’ complex seems so absurd I simply draw what I see,” Herriman once said. The Gender Fluidity of Krazy Kat 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Adès's paraphrase was strewn with absurd technical difficulties, but it was also a substantial four-movement work in itself. Thomas Ad?s 2010-04-29T20:45:00Z

I was reminded of the recent revival of Pinero's The Magistrate and the enormously successful One Man, Two Guvnors; the action in Skios is as madcap, the plot convolutions as absurd. Skios by Michael Frayn – review 2013-04-28T11:00:02Z

"It was absurd. He kept comparing himself to Michelangelo. He doubled down on his whole lie." A 'real' portrait of 'Big Eyes' artist Margaret Keane 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

In many ways, it was the ultimate Machine Project piece: wildly experimental, ridiculously absurd yet dead serious, a reconfiguration of the everyday into something extraordinary and bizarre. After 15 years, a forest, a pig and a giant tongue, Echo Park alternative arts space Machine Project is closing its doors 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The conversation veered from the aggressively personal to the patently absurd, and T. I. kept pace. Pop: T. I. Wants to Learn From His Mistakes 2012-12-21T13:00:19Z

But to pretend that he alone invented this system strikes me as absurd. There are no lone inventors 2013-04-03T18:56:00Z

Castro called the situation "absurd" and said his office would keep giving Felix checks until the problem was resolved. Old enough to recall Mexican Revolution, too old for bank card 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

But Monty Python's Life Of Brian is perhaps a better reference, since this, too, is a dissection of absurd human behaviour rather than an attack on ideology. This week's new DVD and Blu-ray 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

Some acupuncturists make a series of absurd claims, claiming to treat everything from hay fever to depression, infertility, tinnitus and 'children's health'. Why acupuncture is giving sceptics the needle 2013-07-26T09:31:00Z

“About what are you talking?” strikes real speakers of English as absurd. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The actors glide in and out of moments that are by turns intimate, absurd, frightening and poignant. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Jamison loves the sense of sobriety in Wallace’s novel “Infinite Jest” because, she writes, “it wasn’t stolid, or pedantic; it was palpable and crackling and absurd. It was so brutally alive on every page.” Leslie Jamison’s Memoir Finds Its Footing in Sobriety 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

Living in a society that tends toward the chaotic, Brazilians have always had an appreciation for the absurd. Comedy: A Brazilian?s Comic Mania: Social Media 2011-08-04T12:00:00Z

If a tense, noir surf riff out of a spy film didn’t emphasise the absurd stealth manoeuvres that underpin female beauty standards, the Spanx wedgie drove home the indignity. My favourite film aged 12: Bridget Jones's Diary 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Henner's project was described as "a joke" and his images both "an insult to the beauty of photography and The Americans" and "transparently absurd". Mishka Henner's erased images: art or insult? 2012-05-23T14:49:29Z

But mostly, he said, it’s fun to lean into the elements of himself that could be absurd. Stephen Merchant Is an Unsmooth Criminal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

“I confess that this is my idea, and that it is a little absurd,” Mr. Hadmar said of the heels in a phone interview from Paris. The Star and the Creator of 'Witnesses' on Their New French TV Thriller 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

The border was largely imposed on the peninsula by non-Koreans; Ms. Ham’s favorite word to describe this fact is “absurd.” An Artist Unites North and South Korea, Stitch by Stitch 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

To them, there’s nothing absurd about a chimpanzee in a Panzer; if humans and apes were at war, that would simply be the most logical vehicle for the situation. How Planet of the Apes became a truly modern movie franchise 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

This vision could have seemed absurd because Orji didn't exactly have direct access to the comedy industry; however, she remained rooted in faith. "Insecure" star Yvonne Orji reflects on DMX and her destiny: "God's out here playing tricks on me" 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z

In "Knight and Day," the movie's absurd physicality is played as effortless clowning replete with repartee that is supposed to remind you of 007 but in fact is embarrassing flat and banal. "Salt" adds flavor to summer movie menu 2010-07-18T17:58:00Z

“It seemed rather absurd. We decided to let them organize how it was to be done.” Not All Monuments Men Were Men 2014-01-29T18:13:42Z

In the first scene, a chimpanzee goes berserk on the set of a sitcom, a moment of absurd, bloody terror that becomes a motif and a thematic key. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

After all, Mr. Pynchon’s novels have a reputation for difficulty, but they are jam-packed with lowbrow references and gags, dirty jokes, goofy song lyrics, shameless puns, ludicrous anagrams and absurd acronyms. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

School is back in session for the sweet, sometimes absurd British comedy “Sex Education,” which leans heavily into its streaming-series freedom to portray adolescent sex for what it generally is: awkward, mediocre, part of life. ‘Sex Education’ Is Back. Here’s What You Need to Know. 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

In fact, Mr. Frey’s embellishments and fabrications in many ways represent the logical if absurd culmination of several trends that have been percolating away for years. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

In “Succession,” the stakes are grave, but the characters approach them with flippancy; in “Gemstones,” the circumstances are absurd, but the characters take them incredibly seriously. Miss ‘Succession’ Already? Here’s What to Watch Next 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

The immense, repetitive manual labor that’s involved reeks of the absurd, and yet the process also suggests meditative homage. Why everything in this 'Living Room' is covered in gray felt 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

To be 65 and still doing something this absurd — that’s part of what I wanted my signature to be. Jerry Seinfeld Is Making Peace With Nothing: He’s ‘Post-Show Business’ 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

The eponymous album's charms are summed up, for me, by this song, which manages to be, all at once, deliciously tuneful, utterly absurd and yet oddly touching. Old music: Stephen Malkmus – Jenny and the Ess-Dog 2012-06-26T12:49:20Z

That and a scene from the other middling comedy that similarly locked up Aniston, are absurd reminders of how much stupidity floats in this industry's stream beside once-in-a-generation shows like this one. "Friends: The Reunion" is The One We Could've Lived Without 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

This time, Coll unleashes her wit on the D.C. real-estate scene, a subject so absurd these days that it seems almost to mock itself. ‘The Stager’ finds hilarity and touching moments in satire on local real estate

I mean, it just seemed so absurd to me. Forget local & slow, a hotter more crowded world means technology will have giant role in your food 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

After you've gone through the angry bit, take the argument into the realms of the absurd. 76 minutes with … John Lydon 2012-05-31T20:30:00Z

Season one mostly focuses on the fictional Stede's momentous and oddly romantic meeting with the infamous Blackbeard, told through absurd comedy that softens and makes light of the brutality of real piracy. Here's what "Our Flag Means Death" gets right about the Golden Age of Piracy 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

Giuliani dismissed the action as “a theater of the absurd,” but The New York Times reported that “city officials were stunned” by the success of the strike. Will “alt-labor” replace unions? 2013-01-29T20:45:00Z

It's impossible to tell where autobiography ends and invention begins, but it's safe to say that the more absurd and incredible the anecdote the more likely it is to derive from Story's own life. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

The characterizations of the union bosses are absurd. Won't Back Down: Maggie Gyllenhaal Burns to Be Erin Brockovich 2012-09-27T18:01:29Z

Her moody, sulky, witty line-deliveries have something self-deprecatingly absurd in them: there is a little of Mae West in Grahame, but with more dark realism. Who is the best Oscar-winning supporting actress of all time? 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Straub does an entertaining job of filling the house with mismatched characters, so that everything they do together is automatically absurd. In ‘The Vacationers,’ Emma Straub Looks at Infidelity 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Transmetropolitan: No comic is more directly relevant to our current situation, nor more hopeful in its own absurd way. Top 11 Inspiring and Oddball Comics to Keep Your Spirits Up While Resisting and Persisting 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

In character-driven comedies, funny people say funny things and fall into funny situations, but it’s all contained within the realm of plausible realism; nothing absurd or unbelievable occurs. Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z

The play is a tragedy with comic interludes, an exercise in the absurd. Review: 'Eskimos' at Open Circle is a tale for our modern, tech-driven age 2010-03-23T22:55:00Z

Gelatin’s work is often raw, brutal and absurd, and often intentionally, but playfully, repellent. In This Exhibition, You Walk Through Excrement 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

“How absurd is it to have a dress that luxurious in a time like this?” she said. That ‘Ziwe’ Look 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

As it was in early feminism and would become again in art of the 1990s, the body was Lankton’s primary subject: gorgeous, gross, absurd, sick and, above all, mutable, bulking up, thinning down, ever-changing. ‘Greer Lankton,’ a Retrospective at Participant Inc. 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The closest we get is Strong’s ability to imbue his flustered dad with an absurd amount of gravitas. ‘Nocebo’ Review: A Troubled Home and a Sick Mother 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

I’m pushed to these moments in people’s lives where real life does become absurd, and I think those are usually moments of grief or moments of extreme boredom or extreme anger. Elizabeth Meriwether Writes Scripts for Stage and Screen 2010-05-08T02:42:00Z

Yes, I'd been doing a sort of absurd version of it for many years. Emmys 2014: 'Fargo's' Allison Tolman marks a major understatement of the year 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

He was doing what we plan on doing: being silly, being absurd and just having fun. Jimmy Fallon set to take over ‘The Tonight Show’ 2013-12-11T19:24:35Z

On Sunday the world will learn whether Emmy voters prefer their sketch comedy to be traditional, feminist, incisive about race, hiply absurd or drunk. Emmys 2015: Watch Videos From the New Sketch Comedy Category 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The best comedies discover their magic somewhere along that fine line dividing stark reality and absurd honesty, often taking a few episodes to get there. Amazingly, "Abbott Elementary" finds laughter in the challenge of teaching in underfunded schools 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Atheism doesn’t excuse his propagation of absurd conspiracy theories, even if they are presented in secular language. Bill Maher, atheist fundamentalist: Why he gives nonbelievers a bad name 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

“It’s absurd. It’s like talking to a child!” he says. Eli Roth: ‘I miss films where you think the makers were insane’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

What he wrote, she says, was "awful and absurd, but it wasn't a joke". The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? 2010-04-26T21:00:00Z

After a month, it seemed absurd to call him back. #MeToo and Encounters That Resist Easy Moralizing 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

It descends into a cauldron of iffy acting and unexciting plot convolutions: crude, extreme, absurd and unsatisfying. Trance – review 2013-03-28T15:30:02Z

Tonight's double feature is a reminder of how pleasing "Futurama" can be when it's doing what it does best: being clever, boisterous and absurd. The sci-fi vaudeville charm of "Futurama" 2011-06-23T18:24:00Z

The six comedians relived the some of the absurd things they had to do for the show, including doing interviews on gay penguins and participating in war-reenactment ceremonies. WATCH: Stephen Colbert invites his former “Daily Show” colleagues on “The Late Show” for a reunion 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

If the old tales were ever remembered by the masculine elite, they were parodied as rustic and absurd. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z

"I think it's a little absurd, don't you?" she said. I made the cake from "Dickinson," an underrated feat of domestic labor 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z

On Thursday, Melania Trump did her part to freshen up this self-evident tragedy by making a costume choice out of the theatre of the absurd. Interrogating Melania Trump’s Statement Jacket and its Fast-Fashion Fascism 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

According to the lawsuit, a lawyer for Disney told the estate the special’s use of copyrighted music was “fair use” because of its documentary nature, an argument the estate called “absurd.” Michael Jackson's estate sues ABC for copyright infringement 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

It would all be very eery and horrifying if it were not at the same time absurd and comical. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z

Then, after a brief conversation between the creature and his maker, Berry transforms into Frankenstein, then back into the creature, before the piece rushes to its absurd, icebound conclusion. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

Carefully assorted contestants of colorfully divergent backgrounds cohabitate for several weeks and are encouraged to find a true love from among the other competitors through a series of absurd contests. Theater Review: ‘Nobody Loves You,’ TV Satire at Old Globe in San Diego 2012-06-08T21:59:29Z

These services may seem a bit absurd now, but they may soon become more mainstream, just like previously debatable outsourced personal services that are now everyday aids. Our outsourced lives 2012-08-15T15:37:00Z

“The objectification and scrutiny we put women through is absurd and disturbing.” Jennifer Aniston Is Not Pregnant. Why Do We Care? 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

“Sounds absurd, but you know what I mean? Are humans, like, cracking the God code or something?” The Future According to Grimes 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kimball called the lawsuit “absurd,” saying the filing was meant to generate publicity and to shore up the America’s Test Kitchen brand. Food Fight Heats Up as America’s Test Kitchen Sues a Founder 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Cowboy Bebop might seem like an absurd title, but it is pretty accurate: the show is a jazzy, freeform tale of life on the cosmic frontier. Cowboy Bebop remake: please Netflix, keep the anime classic wild and raw 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Perhaps there is a touch of Bret Easton Ellis in this casually absurd play, which is packed from beginning to end with dark ironies. ‘Fall River Fishing’ Review: So She Dated an Axe Murderer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

This amateur criminal investigation becomes so absurd it verges on comedy. Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Again and again, women and men tried to achieve a connection, and, as is often the case with Bausch, the results were by turns absurd, silly, and disturbing. Whole Selves Becoming Visible 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Operas should instead be absurd in a way that is truer than reality. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z

He is first seen tactfully failing to contradict Mr Woodhouse's absurd opinion that wedding cake is harmful. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z

To many critics, the song’s broad strokes made the absurd suggestion that centuries of racial strife could be solved over a caramel macchiato. Brad Paisley’s country continues to expand its borders

"We're not trying to link thematically directly with the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games, because we're not a sporting event, so it would be absurd for me to make that claim," Mills said. Edinburgh festival director Jonathan Mills extends his contract until 2014 2011-02-03T13:58:56Z

Because, let’s face it, giving awards for “the best” for an ultimately unquantifiable art – in which value is subjective and endlessly open to debate – is absurd. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: What Oscar Can Learn From Tony About How To Put on a Show 2011-06-16T16:54:02Z

Grisham also writes that Trump “frequently said insane things to foreign leaders” that ranged from absurd to disconcerting. Takeaways from Trump aide’s account of chaotic White House 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

“In my opinion, the situation is so absurd that it is hard to even comment on it. This initiative - after 40 years - is primarily aimed at causing media noise,” he said. Swiss probe rape allegation against Roman Polanski 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, that's exactly what we did at the press conference, which offered one of the most felicitous and absurd combinations I've experienced in several years of coming here. "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps": Gekko's back! 2010-05-14T15:15:00Z

“We both realized how absurd and insecure we were being,” he said. How to Complain at a Restaurant? Just Ask Our Critic 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

In “Cluck,” the image of Nadia Tykulsker lovingly trying to coax a raw chicken into flight as she is assailed by lemons was nicely absurd, yet the piece was underdeveloped. Cora Dance Presents ‘Stories’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

This, for her, is better than sex: the music swells, the lights flash, the absurd sense of invincibility grows and, whatever the grimy surroundings, "a smooth jazz band follows everywhere I go". Gambling | Theatre review 2010-03-23T22:40:00Z

The absurd name Throbbing Gristle, for instance, did not mitigate the fear and loathing that Margaret Thatcher’s Middle England felt for the band. The Reinventions of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

However, he added, “banning every computer-related device on planes would be absurd.” Update: The Mystery of the Flying Laptop 2012-04-04T15:17:45Z

Of course it would be absurd to claim that populous shows are intrinsically superior in some way to those with fewer performers. Critic's notebook: In a time of cutbacks, some love for the big cast on stage 2011-08-10T19:48:03Z

There are arguments that we rightly reject just because their conclusions strike us as absurd. Can we prove that God exists? Richard Dawkins and the limits of faith and atheism 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

Obviously no one expects a Hallmark film to tackle such thorny issues, but if the alternative is to saddle Jews with absurd and dated stereotypes, I'd rather have none at all. Hallmark's latest Jewish offering: An order of "Hanukkah on Rye" piled high with racial pandering 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

It could still be a slasher film, with the requisite stabbings and dismemberment, but underscored by a sense of the absurd. Analysis | From slasher villain to LGBT icon, ‘Child Play’s’ Chucky changes with the times 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

He enclosed the almanac in a letter to Jefferson, writing, “I apprehend you will embrace every opportunity, to eradicate that train of absurd and false ideas and opinions.” A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Some of the cat’s most comically absurd escapades are entirely consistent with the look-and-say method, minus the terrible literalness that Hersey decried. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Why, that would be as absurd as the U.S. government planning 9/11. Could Charlie Sheen's breakdown be an act? 2011-03-03T15:04:00Z

True, they failed utterly, but where they went, others more successfully followed: A Flock Of Seagulls seem absurd now, but their wonky hair and synthpop tunes made them the toast of rock's new coliseum, MTV. TV highlights 10/02/2012 2012-02-09T20:00:04Z

Ms. DeGeneres, born in Metairie, La., started out in a New Orleans comedy club, making a name for herself with observational material that sometimes veered into the absurd. Ellen DeGeneres, a Signature Star of the Obama Era, Says Goodbye 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

In short, these immature, fairly pitiable protagonists go about their absurd project in all the wrong ways. "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy:" Gen Y gets its group grope 2011-09-02T01:01:00Z

The censorship, the police raids, it was absurd, and America seemed to have welcomed me. John Lydon, Angry Older Man, Reflects on Life as an Angry Young Man 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

And like most comedy that’s both smart and deeply absurd, it will probably find an audience that is as niche as it is devoted. On ‘Beef House,’ Family Sitcoms Get the Tim and Eric Treatment 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

You know," says Webb, "it was kind of absurd. Marc Webb: the latest director caught in Spider-Man's web 2012-06-21T20:00:01Z

Titled after one of Ms. Kalman’s books, this absurd travelogue will feature dancers contemplating ordinary objects, friends, strangers and philosophical ideas, immersing themselves in situations both amusing and heartbreaking. Maira Kalman and ‘The Principles of Uncertainty’ Head to Jacob’s Pillow 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

In the film, it requires a long static shot – and an absurd moment where Redford does indeed move his hand in a weird way. The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view 2013-05-14T14:21:41Z

Of course it’s absurd to live your life dreading some unspecified disaster.” Julian Fellowes: The Creator of ?Downton Abbey? 2011-09-11T05:00:22Z

“The claim that cultural institutions that engage in such propaganda should be ‘exempt’ from accountability measures simply because of the abstract assumption that ‘art and culture are above politics’ is absurd.” Festival in Oslo Rejects Film by Roy Zafrani, Citing Cultural Boycott of Israel 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Irons’s sensitivity to Prufrock’s hesitation on the brink of utterance allows the poetry to bring out a prophetic impulse without sounding entirely absurd: “Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

This was a great example of the surrounding cast somehow managing to not break character during a sketch that plays to Mr. Hart’s strength: being absurd. ‘S.N.L.’ Takes On Omarosa Resignation (or Firing?) 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

Because of this very commercial significance of awards for commercially minor films, the Academy’s decision to create a new award for “popular films” is more than absurd and desperate: it’s rankly offensive. What the Oscars New “Popular Film” Category Says About the Art—and Business—of the Movies 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

That is an absurd overstatement, of course, since no one is shooting back or planting roadside bombs intended for them. Television Review: ‘Stars Earn Stripes’ on NBC, With Gen. Wesley Clark 2012-08-12T21:33:26Z

Then, 10 years ago, Sandford started his second, avowedly humorous series about Davenport’s sidekick, Virgil Flowers, who came to embody the author’s sense of the absurd. John Sandford: A thriller writer having a little fun with the genre 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

“The fact that it became such a big story shows how the media rewards the theater of the absurd,” said Pehme. The Swamp: inside a revealing look into Washington corruption 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

It is, she added, "absurd" to moan about the details of daily life, "a late postal delivery or people speaking too loudly into their mobiles". Radio review: Reasons to Be Cheerful 2010-08-09T05:45:00Z

“They seize on every new false accusation, no matter how absurd, because it lets them bring up this story. It is like a curse which keeps coming back and I can do nothing about.” Roman Polanski: media 'making me a monster' – and it's Weinstein's fault 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

In contrast to the content they were meant to modify, these labels were inert, uninteresting and frequently absurd. What Was Donald Trump’s Twitter? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

A huge chunk of the suggestions are simply absurd, and I don’t think I’m going to stop cutting off conversations as soon as someone brings up their star sign. Bow down to the vulva! Why Gwyneth's Goop Lab isn't all bad 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The term “Mary Sue” is rooted in a long history of dismissing female characters and holding them to absurd double standards. “Star Wars” doesn’t have a heroine problem: Arguing over whether Rey’s a “Mary Sue” is missing the point 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

A morning that arrives with the huckster strolling into the Oval Office should always strike us—and the kids who already expect so little of us—as an instance of the absurd. Obama’s Lessons, Unlearned 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

That’s absurd to me, because I thought of this idea before Trump was even a candidate for president. A New Look at the Often Barely United States 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

But it’s a film that’s so absurd and so ridiculous and something that is the subject of sustained debate over whether they knew what they were doing or whether it was just a horrible accident. ArtsBeat: The Animated Life of Seth MacFarlane, From 'Family Guy' to 'Ted' 2012-06-19T14:00:19Z

Could it be that by making the absurd Carroll we all know from our childhoods newly absurd, Barry has flipped what was upside down now right side up? The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

How could I explain that my friend was interesting even if his choice of pendant was, agreed, absurd and even wholly condemnable? T Magazine: Vexed in Venice 2011-12-01T00:10:20Z

Professor Luhr said that Mr. Blatty gravitated toward the absurd in his comedy career, usually in the form of slapstick, which is why he was drawn to Mr. Edwards, a slapstick specialist. The Comedic Side of William Peter Blatty, the Author of ‘The Exorcist’ 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

As critics have shown, Pym's gifts include dispassionate irony, absurd humour, the depiction of London as a place of endless eccentricity, and a humanistic concern for the lives of the lonely. Letters: Barbara Pym is no Miss Marple 2013-06-06T19:59:01Z

In films, blatant allegory seems absurd, so when it's in play it has to keep its head down. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z

Here was a jacket that would look great over a light sweater or, as I found, under my most absurd winter jacket, a drapey faux Fair Isle sheath from Engineered Garments. Critical Shopper: The Armoury, From Hong Kong, Brings Men’s Clothing to TriBeCa 2014-01-29T20:58:08Z

As he told Truffaut, the best MacGuffin is "the emptiest, the most non-existent and the most absurd". Anne Billson 2011-01-06T22:00:03Z

“I find our obsession with class to be absurd,” he told me. John le Carré, a Master of Spy Novels Where the Real Action Was Internal 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Klein put it another way: “In the fashion world, you can never be too absurd.” William Klein, Who Photographed the Energy of City Life, Dies at 96 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

People now find the words “honor” and “patriotism” absurd. Reclaiming the Past in the Internet’s ‘Infinite Present’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Retro-futuristic, erector-set contraptions, Hope's towers are specific and physically insistent in their solutions, however vast or absurd the problems they address. Daunting power of the hand, mind and machine by Matt Hope at Ace Gallery 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Buress approaches race the same way he does most subjects: from the side, with a hint of the absurd. Critic?s Notebook: Hannibal Buress Approaches Comedy From the Side 2011-11-03T12:00:04Z

It’s equal parts elegant and absurd, and, while not exactly a simple recipe, it’s easy enough to pull off if you’re willing to trust in Heatter and do exactly what she says. Remembering Maida Heatter, a Charmingly Shameless Self-Promoter Who Became a Legend of Desserts 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

Right as the words were coming out of my mouth, I knew how absurd they sounded. Vail, the Thrifty Way 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

It’s an absurd notion, given the endurance of the sex trade and the explosion of considerable other options for women’s employment. When prostitution wasn’t a crime 2013-02-20T06:34:00Z

For years now, television has greeted the end of October by rolling out special Halloween-themed episodes and slasher fare, but never before has it seemed so absurd. Forget Halloween. TV shows have thrills and chills all year-round 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Seeing this as a threat to American patriotism, or perhaps more accurately, to conservative identity, is just absurd. How conservatives exposed ridiculous truth about their ideology as they flipped out about this shoe 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

In this context, imagining such Arab nations as a significant future anti-IS force is absurd. We’re not beating ISIS like this: America has no easy solution to its Middle Eastern crisis — and maybe none at all 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

"It’s absurd. As long as they’re both able to find an audience, it’s not a problem." Turing film celebrates 'difference' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

In the segment below, Oliver presented the growing issue of overheating prisons across the country this summer – creating potentially fatal conditions – and the absurd lack of compassion officials have demonstrated. John Oliver says this summer, we're cooking prisoners to death in temps as high as 150 degrees 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

The older Loring sometimes resembles the lovable but absurd Don Quixote, but his younger self would make a perfect action-movie hero. Review | Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than detective novels. Let’s not forget his more swashbuckling stories. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Such a disconnect would be absurd in this day and age, wouldn’t it? Why Won’t Anyone Help Me in This Sex Shop? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

LVIV, Ukraine — Some morsels of news are so grim and absurd that they sound like they were conceived in the warped imagination of bored satirists. Is There Anything Funny About the War in Ukraine? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

There are childhood reminiscences and lifelong regrets, short-term schemes and sudden plunges of near-catastrophic awkwardness that, in various sequences of carefully stage-managed lunacy, highlight absurd comedic crises of indecision in petty but embarrassing disasters. “Only God Sees Me”: Revisiting a Brilliant French Comedy Released Twenty Years Ago 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

This may seem like progress, but it could also be regarded as a kind of absurd end state for Aristotelian thinking. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Dressed in feathered wings and a high school prom gown, she took to the San Francisco streets as Chicken Woman, a character at once human and animal, clown and angel, transcendental and absurd. Art Review: A California ‘State of Mind,’ Circa 1970, at Bronx Museum 2013-07-11T19:19:47Z

Outraged by the N.S.A.’s memo, Gun leaked the Koza email — hence the printer scene — which was published by The Observer, whose editors and reporters are portrayed as a bickering, absurd bunch. ‘Official Secrets’ Review: Betraying Her Government for Her Country 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

“The main narrative of this Arc de Triomphe is that the path to peace is war, which is an absurd idea.” A Monument Man Gives Memorials New Stories to Tell 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

For reasons too absurd to list, she convinces him to round up a posse to follow her back into the swamp to recover those murdered on the tour boat in the first film. 'Hatchet II': Sequel cuts loose with more blood and guts 2010-09-29T19:12:00Z

Which moustache was the more dangerous or absurd? Duck Soup: No 7 2010-10-18T10:47:00Z

Yes, it is absurd that all the men are wearing spacesuits or typical high fantasy gowns, but she wears her various skintight, fabric-light outfits with confidence and verve. My streaming gem: why you should watch Starcrash 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

As the senior Muslim correspondent on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show," actor Aasif Mandvi parodied some of the media's most absurd notions about Islam, the Middle East and essentially any brown culture that qualified as "foreign." Aasif Mandvi bridges East-West gap on 'Daily' basis and now HBO 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

The absurd hysteria that has paralyzed the United States with fear since 9/11 is the source of this multibillion dollar waste of time, money and good sense. Letters: Letters to the Travel Editor 2012-04-13T03:09:54Z

If you find this absurd turn of events stirring, then this movie is for you. Movie Review: Aliens Fight Heroic Earthlings in ?Battleship? 2012-05-17T21:13:08Z

Whenever there's some debate now about whether women can perform at high levels in technical fields, it's absurd. Dig into those archives! The story of a lost code breaking woman of World War II 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

A certain comfort with the strange and the absurd. Festival of Books: Bring on the anxiety for Khakpour, Doten and Nicholson 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Since Star Trek on TV and before that on stage, drama has sought to find imagined parallels that comment on, illuminate or bring to wider attention the logical consequences of absurd or dangerous political developments. Olivia Williams on Hollywood inequality: 'Nobody, until now, gave a damn' 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

“One of the difficulties of being alive today,” Petri writes, “is that everything is absurd but fewer and fewer things are funny.” Ten books to read in June 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

The rest of the album charts his more usual course between the absurd and the personal. Neil Hannon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

The sound is terrible, the script and acting school-play bad, and when the "freaks" at last take their revenge, I find it absurd to imagine that any adult might be scared. Going out by staying in: where to watch the arts online 2010-07-25T20:31:00Z

The overwhelming response was “ridicule” — French for ridiculous and absurd, as well as comical and amusing. ‘Ridicule’: The French Reaction to ‘Emily in Paris’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

He made the universal absurd, the absurd universal. Charles Barsotti, Cartoonist With Humor Both Simple and Absurd, Dies at 80 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Sitting on the sidelines isn't an option — you can't win if you don't play — but it can be a bewildering and sometimes absurd process. Damien Chazelle's wild, crazy ride to the Oscars with 'Whiplash' 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

To the unacquainted, it sounds like an absurd comedic premise, but the absurdity is the premise. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

"I think it's absurd that this should have occurred in the first place; I think the museum simply should have relinquished them in the beginning on moral grounds." AP Interview: Posters seized by Nazis being sold 2013-01-17T16:30:11Z

She says she plays an “irreverent idiot,” whose prejudiced worldview is supposed to be absurd. Schumer’s unfortunate “Trainwreck” lesson: Amy’s casual racism isn’t one of her bad habits to overcome 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

I love the way they move from the deadly serious to the totally absurd mid-sentence, in the way only university students can. TV review: Last Tango in Halifax; Fresh Meat 2012-11-20T23:00:01Z

Strangely, her ferocious, vanity-free performance is most entrancing when most absurd. | 'The Milk Train Doesn?t Stop Here Anymore': Reaper Arrives? Grab a Kimono 2011-01-31T03:01:00Z

The beginning of this piece rides on an absurd, almost comic wave. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

The vision of Mr. Mendes with his bulky old camera and flashbulbs seemed anachronistic, if not absurd. Who Says Old-Fashioned Street Photography Is Dead? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

For 30 years, the family was mothballed in this absurd religious schism, each child returning alone to see Mother. Mum and Dad: the prism through which we see our siblings ​ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a caustic, absurd comedy, a psychological drama of sibling dependence and a wry take on venture-capital medicine and privilege. Adapt or Die 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

“For historians on the left, it was absurd and indefensible, so there was no reason to study it.” Amid Diamond Jubilee Fever, Scholars Reflect on Monarchy 2012-05-28T16:54:59Z

Fancy another film featuring an A-list actor in an absurd costume? What’s on TV Monday: ‘David Bowie: The Last Five Years’ and ‘A Ghost Story’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Fifty minutes may seem pretty short for a full Green Umbrella program, but there were enough notes, and there was enough exhausting nonstop insanity, that anything more would have been … what, absurd, overkill?  The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

In an interview on NBC’s “Today” show, he said it was “absurd” for Mr. Baldwin to deny responsibility. Alec Baldwin Seeks to Avoid Liability in Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

It is absolutely absurd to think that human nature will cease to be human nature in the pressure cooker of playing in the Olympics. Michael Phelps isn’t the greatest 2012-08-02T11:55:00Z

But there’s a time for optimism, and then there’s a time when a character’s dogged, sunny faith becomes absurd and tedious. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: Wake Up, Travis 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Such a question, notes David Bezmozgis in his essay "The Novel in Real Time," once made Philip Roth worry about contemporary fiction, which he feared might be overwhelmed by "our absurd and almost unaccountable reality." Blame and forgiveness in David Bezmozgis' 'The Betrayers' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Contrary to what the VA’s acting director told Congress earlier this month, the facility is still making its patients wait an absurd amount of time to get a basic doctor’s appointment. Jon Stewart blasts “deadbeat” Congress for disgraceful penny-pinching on veteran healthcare 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

“The idea that I have something against him I find absolutely absurd. I don’t know him. I don’t like or dislike him,” Brenner says. From Dallas’s top kitchens, reviewer Leslie Brenner is feeling the heat

If we must have absurd fetishwear, let's see it on men, too. Why must action heroines wear S&M stripper outfits to kick butt? 2011-03-31T21:00:00Z

But in “The Marvels,” the bits of absurd comedy tend to feel strained, because they clash with the movie’s mostly utilitarian tone. First reactions to “The Marvels”: See what critics are saying about the MCU’s woman-centric film 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z

Trump is inherently absurd, making it extremely challenging for the straight news to offer serious coverage. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

The aspiring writer soon discovered that the absurd destructiveness of his mental compulsion was matched only by the absurd elaborateness of his retrospective justification for it. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

And yet they never put it in the ads for Grief Town how absurd it often is. “Grief was not like anything I imagined”: A widower’s perspective on loss and mourning 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

They are the work of Dana Schutz, the 35-year-old American painter who has gained a reputation for her colorful, grotesque creatures that are whimsical, absurd and often a bit horrifying. Inside Art: Israel Museum Receiving a Work by Gerhard Richter 2012-01-12T22:30:37Z

“While it seems sort of absurd, the person left the review with no irony,” he said, laughing. Noted: A YouTube Series: ‘Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews’ 2012-08-01T21:48:35Z

Shocks, absurd twists and viewer boredom swiftly ensue. Films out this week 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

It has a sense of absurdism but absurd isn’t its only mode. These Movie Scenes Might Not Be Important, but They’re Pretty Great 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The whole situation felt absurd: was I seriously going to be that tourist? Conquering your fears in Alaska: go big, or go home 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

There are varieties of musical fury that are both miraculous and absurd to have at home, and Coltrane’s concert performances are among them. “Both Directions at Once,” Reviewed: The Thrills—and Limits—of a Rediscovered John Coltrane Recording 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

It’s very alluring as a project, the story is magnificent, and almost absurd at the same time.” 2010-02-11T08:28:00Z

Unique premise aside, “Memory” is an absurd slog. ‘Memory’ Review: Getting Too Old for This 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Through boom and bust, war and peace, terrible tragedy and absurd pettiness, David Letterman was there, cracking jokes and ushering us to the inflatables. Farewell to David Letterman, 'a force of nature' 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

That, along with Letterman's unique, absurd humor, is what drew me and so many others to him. Feeling the loss of David Letterman 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s absurd and it’s funny, even though it’s horrible, the way we are stripped of our humanity. Everyone is gaslit into thinking it is normal.” Ilana Glazer on the Terror of the Modern Birth System and ‘False Positive’ 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

I mean, I get the sentiment and a part of me even agrees with it, but the request is basically absurd. Upset 'Walking Dead' Fans Petition AMC To Bring Back Beth 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

It is hard not to smile at a time when pressmen were so dashing and heroic, when they were called something so absurd as pressmen. Foreign Correspondent 2012-08-27T15:48:42Z

Of course, Pete is still the show’s most noxious embodiment of entitlement, always believing that the world owes him whatever happiness he encounters — even if it’s an absurd fortune and a private jet. 'Mad Men' Recap: The Long and Winding Con 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Where Landscape with Chainsaw had a fine sense of the absurd in its poems of self-doubt, the overall tone here is less jocular, with sharper accents of guilt and shame. Water Sessions by James Lasdun – review 2012-10-05T21:55:01Z

“To us, it’s an absurd scene,” she added. Perspective | You think your job has baggage? Try playing Donald Trump or Fidel Castro. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

We immediately started, Day 1, with an incredibly emotional scene, and we just started laughing because it was so absurd to meet in this — Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, Wildly Close 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

In an amusing touch, he’s portrayed by a human actor, Zach Kononov, not a puppet, adding a layer of absurdity to this already absurd conceit. Review: The Golden Girls, Back Again as Wisecracking Puppets 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Lips lead singer Wayne Coyne called the record "an absurd joy" in a news release. Flaming Lips break 24-hour record for live shows 2012-06-29T03:07:09Z

Just admitting that out loud and knowing that people are going to read that, it’s absurd. Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

A very interesting character, I hope his story doesn't prove to be absurd. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 2: The World Said Enough 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Already there are all these absurd ‘legendary people from Irish history’ brand names being invented. Irish whiskey was once on the verge of collapse. Now, it’s booming. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

“Fistful of Vengeance” offers the kind of large-scale entertainment you hope for from an action film where the absurd logic is secondary to the rowdy fights. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

It's a really funny, absurd, over the top, physical comedy. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Stone was gutsy and energetic, Ms. Faris wide-eyed and absurd. Television: Anna Faris and Other Female Hosts on ?Saturday Night Live? 2012-02-26T03:04:12Z

If the change will be greater via the use of invented, absurd material, so be it.” George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z

The notion would be absurd if the garbling of the transliterated words weren't so ingeniously Shakespearean. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

And in Mrs. Clinton’s speech, she fitted her opponent with an absurd crown to cast him as her show’s erratic, vain and autocratic King George. Her Shot: Hillary Clinton Shares a Vision of America Out of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s Mr. Meyer, who died in 2004, became known for outlandish films like “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” and “Vixen,” most of which featured absurd plots and insatiable naked women with large breasts. Kitten Natividad, Movie Star in Russ Meyer’s Bawdy World, Dies at 74 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

And given the music’s elemental beauty, it seems absurd that it languished for all this time, all but unrecorded by others. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

So the idea that he's going to expend real political capital to reform the drug war is absurd. David Simon on America's war on drugs and The House I Live In 2013-03-30T23:00:00Z

Speaking of absurd, a Cannes screening of "Inside Job" provided one of the more amusing incidences this festival of art imitating life. Cannes films mine financial collapse for material 2010-05-18T04:27:00Z

So it all gets channeled into these very absurd books. "My editors were just egging me on": "Yellowface" author on depicting the cutthroat publishing world 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Emily’s pursuit of an absurd, culturally reinforced fantasy—that of the stereotypical hot guy who presents himself as daring but caring, protective as well as adventuresome—nearly costs her and her mother their lives. Amy Schumer’s Comedy Deserves Better Than “Snatched” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Over all, they form a complex portrait of a re-forming city, one that’s best navigated with an appreciation for the absurd. Art in Review: Basim Magdy: ‘A Steady Progress of Nothingness’ 2013-05-02T19:31:24Z

It's athletic, it's absurd, but best of all it's supremely unselfconscious. Pusha T, Stan Tracey, Pissed Jeans: this week's new live music 2013-06-29T05:00:14Z

“If nothing the president says can be trusted, reporting what the president says becomes absurd,” wrote New York University professor Jay Rosen. Perspective | Trump’s message of mistrust is sinking in, even in journalism’s new ‘golden age’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

“With things like the unregulated zip lines stopped, there are fewer opportunities to be completely absurd,” he said. In Laos, a Haven for Tubing Offers More Peace, Less Partying 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

But rather than doing so on its own terms, here fashion becomes a faint and absurd reflection of contemporary art, aping its style without its content. Do high fashion and art really mix? 2013-06-26T00:40:00Z

What makes the movie funny is not the dialogue, but the juxtaposition of the dialogue with the reality that exposes it as absurd. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

If this season of “The Bachelorette” seemed absurd to you, try “Baby Bachelorette in Paradise” on for size. Jimmy Kimmel Says He’s Sorry for Thinking Trump’s Vacation Is a Vacation 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sokolsky proposed a seemingly absurd idea: a series placing a model in what appeared to be a giant soap bubble in or over familiar locations around Paris. Melvin Sokolsky, Surrealist Fashion Photographer, Dies at 88 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Since 2019, Andrew Callaghan, 23, has been crisscrossing the country in a beat-up R.V. with his two best friends, documenting the absurd, outrageous and infuriating aspects of American life. He Had an R.V., a Camera and a Plan to Document America. Was That Enough? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

“Both of the filed charges are not only deeply flawed, but under the true facts, totally absurd,’’ he added. Weinstein lawyers fear 'bad PR' could taint jury in sexual assault trial 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

A review in The Guardian called it “a flawed attempt to reclaim the narrative” that is “by turns sympathetic and absurd.” Prince Harry’s Memoir Has Record Breaking Sales 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

Others, while dismissing the exercise as absurd, sent in their own top 10 lists, often with injunctions like “Don’t you dare leave out Mahler!” The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Joking with my friends, I tell them it’s a process of continuously elevating aspirations that are persistently more and more absurd. Seeing Beauty in 'Talking Heads' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

He adopted a hypnotically drowsy tone on “Better Things,” which insisted on a distinction between “the singing of real birds” and “those absurd birds that simply everybody’s heard.” Music Review | Magnetic Fields: A Folksy Palette of Despondency at Town Hall 2010-03-11T23:10:00Z

Calls on the entire gay population to take up a chronic pharmacotherapy are, as a consequence, patently absurd. 'Honestly, it’s a revolution. It's so great taking control' 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

To tell my comedian friends that I believe in God is absurd, but then again, if someone goes through recovery there's the notion of a higher power; obviously they define it on their own terms. Jim Gaffigan’s second act is much richer than his Hot Pockets persona 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

These are temperamental, often eccentric films, including Michael Mann’s safecracker drama “Thief,” Ridley Scott’s lush fantasy “Legend,” and “Miracle Mile,” a darkly absurd, romantic tale of nuclear holocaust. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z

The skunk, the chicken, the king’s edicts seem less formidable than absurd, and the recurrent introduced voices of both Twain and Stead may please postmodern-minded adults more than children. A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

But what was, perhaps, the most telling was not the absurd suggestion that her voluntary resignation signaled the collapse of academic freedom successfully wrought by the p.c. police. Donald Trump, FDR and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson problem: Here’s how we stop defending historical racism and move forward 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Resemblances between these absurd but deeply enjoyable movies and the full-length “Swan Lake” are easy to spot. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z

The absurd aspect comes later when the frugal producers opine on why their version of Taken is making so little money... ‘Taken 3,’ Starring Liam Neeson 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

How do you proceed in a case like this, lovingly yet firmly, when your father asserts nothing but unconditional acceptance of his wife’s absurd demands? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Father and stepmother object to girlfriend because she’s ‘heavy’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Dr. Seuss: Will: Thou knave who pens these “books” for youth, with talking fauna most uncouth: Thy “doctorate”? The thought’s absurd! Style Invitational Week 1378: It’s (emergency) Parody Time 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

The absurd bloodbath involved in getting it is, but is endurable for the ensuing gag about the $140 million painting continually being mistaken for a dirty old tarp. Mark Wahlberg and Mark Wahlberg's Muscles Are On a Boat in Contraband 2012-01-12T16:35:43Z

I’ll leave it there for now, though the litany of the dreadful, the unlikely, the inexplicable and the absurd could be extended in every direction. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Honigmann asks questions both earnest and absurd yet doesn’t cut them, presumably because she knows, at this point, how to ask the right absurd question. ‘Buddy’ Review: Who’s a Good Pup? This Pack of Lifesavers 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

It seems absurd to complain of what’s described as a “trailer park ballet” — let alone one with this title and a set that prominently features a toilet — as being neither subversive nor vulgar enough. ‘Chris March’s The Butt-Cracker Suite!’ at Here 2012-12-01T03:33:58Z

I only wish I could say that this absurd story feels more subtle in execution than in summary. In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Young adult television typically cleaves into two camps — it’s either about the absurd comedy of teenage life, or its unending tragedy. ‘Finding Carter,’ Starring Kathryn Prescott, Debuts on MTV 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Her questions were so off-base that they seemed absurd. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z

Is it absurd to think that appearing in “The Wizard of Oz” might have changed his life? “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Luckily, she has a keen eye for the absurd. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

It's quite a cast and a good thing too, considering the almost uniformly absurd character types they miraculously manage to animate. 'The Slap' may challenge notions of fault, but abuse is abuse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

This wouldn’t be an absurd idea at all if “Punching Out” were especially personal or reflective. Books of The Times: Watching a Once-Proud Piece of Detroit Disappear 2011-01-18T16:57:38Z

Hensher, author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted "The Northern Clemency," is no genius with plot here, and he pushes coincidence to an absurd degree. 'King of the Badgers': A media circus in England 2011-09-21T23:08:04Z

“People who become the butt of jokes, of doing things as ridiculous and absurd as what allegedly happened, have a harder time working.” In and outside court, Smollett fights for reputation, career 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

I know it's absurd and precocious and, of course, at three, you don't really know what that means. David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z

Final takeaways: I'm looking forward to Dawn's hopefully doing well in "LCK" — as well as Tom C's absurd hat and glasses as shown in the promo. "Top Chef: World All Stars" cooks with sugar and spice (and everything rice) 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Balancing astute social commentary with pointedly absurd tragicomedy, this twisted gem was endlessly intriguing and weirdly engaging. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-03-09T18:00:01Z

In “Preparation for the Obsolescence of the Y Chromosome,” the choreographer Michelle Ellsworth considers the possibility, building on her body of jubilantly absurd yet pragmatically minded work. American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gill is virtually unrecognizable in his dark wig and tawny makeup, absurd mustache and gaudy attire. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z

Bruce Willis is the police chief: lonely and depressed for reasons of his own, and Edward Norton is the scout troop leader, preposterous yet dignified in his absurd shorts and long socks. Moonrise Kingdom – review 2012-05-24T14:15:01Z

After all, a mild sense of the absurd, intellectual vanity and insatiable curiosity are not notably gendered characteristics. The bolshie, brilliant history of the women of Doctor Who 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Today Hollywood laughs at all us wannabes, filling their coffee shops with our dreams deferred and absurd. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z

One of the most important is the idea of the absurd. A guide to György Ligeti's music 2012-08-27T12:11:24Z

He moves seamlessly among Martin’s customary modes: blissful dreaminess, nervous scheming and slowly growing alarm when his absurd plans go sideways. ‘Moone Boy,’ a Comedy Series With Chris O’Dowd, on Hulu 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

But Vinterberg’s delicate, grounded direction and the actors’ wonderfully loose performances insist upon authenticity, creating a tonal mishmash that’s endearingly absurd. ‘Another Round’ Review: They’ll Drink to That 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Her dances unfolded on urban landscapes as seen through Ms. Miller’s eye for the absurd. Joan Miller, Modern-Dance Champion, Dies at 77 2014-04-04T00:18:48Z

“It’s been going on for nearly a year. Frankly, it’s kind of getting absurd. There’s nothing there. We’ve heard that time and time again. . . . There is no ‘there’ there. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is suddenly the star of the feel-bad story of the day 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

"How To Train Your Dragon is a joyously absurd adventure that wears its themes lightly," writes Channel 4 Film's Anton Bitel. You review: How to Train Your Dragon 2010-04-06T15:38:00Z

However absurd his works might appear to be, he understands the place of the artist, recognising that his work exists in a global world of social, cultural and economic relations. Tate Modern's sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand 2010-10-11T13:08:00Z

Our brilliant young writers, he claimed, were afraid to capture the dazzling variety and absurd clashes of real life. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe saved American fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

She drew on her own absurd experience at the dentist for her version, set in present-day Los Angeles. ‘Made in L.A.,’ at the Hammer, Excavates Hollywood’s Past 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

The character takes a bit of getting used to – she's too broad to be believable, and not broad enough to be fully absurd. Loretta Maine 2010-08-13T13:01:00Z

Alas, it was also probably too bright, too absurd and released too early in the year for any voter’s serious consideration. Movies Survived 2020. The Oscars Diversified. There’s More to Do. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

The scene is both wondrous and absurd, comedic and tragic, and it looks at life at large both from close up and from afar—an outlandish yarn that nonetheless ends with a moral shock. “The Laundromat,” Reviewed: Steven Soderbergh’s Flawed, Thrilling Tale of Financial Greed 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

In fact, its negotiations with fantasy, fable, song and allegory are so organic, continuous and unpredictable as to make any summary of its plot sound absurd; but absurdity is neither Morrison’s strategy nor purpose. Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The scene where she sings a rousing version of the Cranberries’ “Zombie,” complete with cello accompaniment, is an absurd delight. ‘Ode to Joy’ Review: Reasons Not to Be Cheerful 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Tell me you haven’t muttered this under your breath: “He refuses to wear a coat, an absurd affectation, as if coats were somehow ‘square’ or un-cool, as if there were something ‘hip’ about hypothermia. ‘Us’: A fractured family’s trip into parenthood’s regrets

"Someday all the world will sing my song," Liam sings, and heard live, it doesn't sound a wholly absurd suggestion. Beady Eye ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:45Z

And the recurrence of the Teddy bear provides a visual joke—absurd, undercutting, and non sequitur—that keeps building. A Piercing View of the Twentieth Century, Through the Eyes of the Teddy Bear 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

This was a funny concept for a while, and then it became absurd, and then a national tragedy happened and it became not funny but actually an emotion approaching tender, even aching. Six teenagers are running for governor in Kansas, and suddenly this doesn’t seem so preposterous 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

It was absurd, but it kind of relayed the sentiment that people were so excited about seeing some new faces in the fashion industry. New York Fashion Week: Fashion Week, Ten Years Later: A Bond Forged in Tragedy 2011-09-07T01:27:28Z

Ms. Wright and Ms. Watts address their roles with skill and conviction, but this has the effect of making the story seem even more fanciful and absurd. Movie Review: ‘Adore’ Gives Young Lovers to Robin Wright and Naomi Watts 2013-09-05T21:32:42Z

About driving that absurd black Ford Taurus up and down the Belt Parkway. | Modern Anthology: Manly, or Close 2010-11-24T19:06:00Z

Mr. Urban, a New Jersey native and a playwright of works serious and absurd, clearly draws on personal experience here. Review: ‘Nibbler,’ About the Sweet Horrors of Youth 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

The server room sex with Ryan sparks an absurd, open staff meeting that could play on “The Office.” Aidy Bryant doesn’t think ‘fat’ is a bad word. Her show ‘Shrill’ proves it. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

It seemed to me the most absurd thing in the world, coming from a man who has seen a whole lot of suffering. Why end a child’s cancer treatment? 2013-09-05T19:43:00Z

And, as soon as the Nobel’s nonfiction barrier is, at last, broken, the fact that it ever existed will come to seem absurd. Nonfiction Deserves a Nobel 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

That very first monologue is totally manic and absurd and unfocused in a way that I think many of us were when the pandemic started. Instant Artifacts of a Disconnected Time (and Lots of Hugh Dancy) 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Acts that once seemed implausible, absurd — media pronouncements full of hatred and lies; young men marching with flags and torches — become everyday occurrences. Walk Through This Exhibition With Dread. You Know Where It Leads. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

A New York Times profile published a day before his "SNL" appearance includes a quote where he calls industry prevention protocols absurd. Woody Harrelson's anti-vax joke raises questions about what we excuse in likable people in our lives 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Amy fakes a pregnancy—only to be required, by byzantine demands of the plot, to gain an absurd amount of weight, lose her looks, and plot her own suicide. Marriage Is an Abduction 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Some were absurd, some were successful, some were both. Tom Ewing 2010-08-19T21:29:00Z

I once thought that fur hammocks were absurd bourgeois luxuries, but actually, they are what I’ve unknowingly spent my entire life searching for. Critical Shopper: Alexander Wang?s Store Opens in SoHo 2011-03-01T23:27:55Z

“I was so accustomed to the city’s absurd cult of money that it took me years to notice I didn’t have any artist friends left in Manhattan,” he wrote. Los Angeles and Its Booming Creative Class Lures New Yorkers 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

But if you subtract those geographic indicators, these cynical stories of humble people embracing absurd illusions illustrate the universal impulse to believe in a better future, no matter what. | 'The Optimists': Best of All Possible Worlds: When Life Gives You Mud, Take a Mud Bath 2011-07-27T22:21:43Z

Seeing Bob in the flesh diminished him, as it became increasingly difficult to see his extreme vision as absurd, rather than moronic. TV Review: The Joy of (Train) Sets 2013-01-23T22:30:03Z

This is a small selection of the thousands who have had to endure the absurd stringencies of the UK Border Agency since the points-based visa system was introduced. Artists and academics regularly refused UK entry, say campaigners 2010-03-16T19:51:00Z

In the end, the turbines didn’t really add anything to the show, except an absurd sense of delight each time you looked up at the white blades. Fashion Review: Chanel, Chloé, Saint Laurent, Valentino: Fashion Review 2012-10-02T23:37:20Z

The idea that Genoa would let him build something as out-of-scale and arrogant as the Shard in the heart of its historical district is absurd. Why Renzo Piano's Shard is out of tune with London's historical heart 2012-08-09T11:46:06Z

For children, the questions often asked about poetry’s status are so beside the point as to seem almost absurd. When Did Poetry Speak to Us? When We Were Very Young 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Wales will be represented by Bedwyr Williams, whose work encompasses sculpture and absurd performances verging on stand-up comedy. Venice Biennale to showcase new generation of young British artists 2013-03-18T19:36:10Z

There’s an absurd amount of footwear in there. A Tour of Rock Climber Tommy Caldwell’s Garage 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

A friend of Mr. Bowie’s, talking about the absurd amount of sex that went on in the singer’s home, reports, “I used to wake under a pile of bodies.” Books of The Times: David Bowie, the Cool Chameleon From Mars 2011-07-21T22:10:17Z

We are simultaneously in Shadow’s mind and the collective unconscious, wandering the vast unknown like lost lambs in a dystopian theater of the absurd. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

True to Greene's character, this already complex situation became frequently bizarre, confusing and absurd. Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z

As authors, my girls find the absurd in both sorrow and joy. Samantha Hunt: By the Book 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

In truth, this is a gorgeously absurd comedy podcast by Benjamin Partridge. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

I don't know which of those two premises was most absurd. Yuck: A taste of things to come 2011-02-03T22:50:01Z

Before the Duplass brothers moved into the prestige documentary world with “Wild Wild Country” they were executive producers for this absurd animated series, which follows the lives of discontented animals living in New York. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Quantico’ and Lollapalooza 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

You certainly don’t stand around in a circle and chat about the city you’re in, and the idea that the lighting girl would quit because the band won’t change the setlist is just absurd. Real-life roadies review Roadies: 'I felt like a nurse watching an hour of ER' 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

An example that I admire is simpler, more modest, and more absurd. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

Such statements are absurd prima facie and baseless upon closer examination.  Oh God! The lord’s my sex guru: Pious perverts, quasi-incestuous misogyny and the twisted world of religious sexual repression 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

“One is far, far more absurd, but that’s just a dial that I can turn,” Mr. Wain said. David Wain Tests Mainstream Credentials With ?Wanderlust? 2012-02-18T02:53:02Z

"The idea that technology will change how we function would be just absurd." Author Toibin sees novel surviving new technology 2010-04-20T22:32:00Z

The resulting figure — Tigerman — is an absurd amalgamation of metal shields, a gas mask and bits of fur and bone — but no gun. ‘Tigerman,’ by Nick Harkaway

After I left the museum, the city and everything around me felt profoundly different for days — menacing and absurd, like a demented carnival, but also more vital and alive. Bruce Nauman, Art Provocateur, Returns. Are You Ready? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

At its best, “What the Hell Did I Just Read” is reminiscent of Douglas Adams’s work, stuffed with layers of absurd pastiche. Everything you think you know about ghosts is wrong 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Yet this pace leaves space for moments of stillness and allows the material to reveal itself. But only when animals and outstandingly absurd human beings enter the film does our interest truly wake up. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z

His crudely drawn illustrations are wry, smart, sometimes angry, sometimes self-effacing — but almost always absurd. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

But these are absurd times – and who better to assist us in both understanding and coping with them? How late night's "Daily Show" alums are uniquely prepared to bring us through this moment 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

Merely tinkering with existing rules, he goes on, is absurd, given the serious illness of the patient. Books of The Times: Nouriel Roubini Calls for Reform in ?Crisis Economics? 2010-05-06T21:49:00Z

In terms of the film’s humor, is the situation just so absurd that you want us to laugh? Cannes Film Festival: Director Asia Argento on Giving Up Acting 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

But to weigh these exceptional and very different shows on a scale seems absurd. Best TV Shows of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

I have a friend who says that, in fact, Horne was too beautiful, that her glory was slightly absurd. Why I celebrate Lena Horne 2010-05-11T10:43:00Z

Can he get past absurd tasks like trying to defuse a bomb based on instructions from a “deaf girl” whom he can’t understand? Television: ‘The Joe Schmo Show’ Returns to Spike 2013-01-06T04:22:04Z

At the time, a representative for Allen told The Associated Press that the article was "so fictitious and extravagantly absurd that he is not going to comment." Was Prince a dad? The secret kids of some prominent people 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Which at this point is unnecessary and even absurd; as Sundance itself proved with "Rectify," television is now a sovereign nation, writing its own laws, answerable to no one. Sundance's 'The Honorable Woman' a brave foray into conflict 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

The warnings of social disintegration and virtual imprisonment sounded by today’s social media skeptics would have seemed absurd to the kids of Makeoutclub. When the Internet was for strangers 2013-02-17T17:00:00Z

A.I would say that for this season, it would be more to spark that curiosity of the absurd and that feeling of when you were a kid and going to that carnival. Lou Eyrich goes for ‘wonderment’ with her costumes for ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’

Some are only happy to end slavery if equality goes no further: the idea of giving black men the vote, for example, seems to them nearly as absurd as giving it to women. Lincoln: more jaw-jaw than war-war. And no vampires 2013-01-23T14:26:46Z

He lies in bed and imagines absurd scenarios: a family of cows sitting down to a fancy dinner; a duck carrying a rifle; a washed-up Tarzan pitching reverse mortgages on television. They Are Also 2 Wild and Crazy Guys 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

And at that point, there's nothing sort of funny or absurd to say about it. Vintage chat: Moyers and Stewart 2011-05-18T16:30:00Z

In a Magritte-inspired bowler hat, umbrella in hand, Brent Carver is a wonderfully novel Jaques, dispensing with the usual sighing gloom in favor of an almost perky fascination with the absurd ways of the world. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z

Meanwhile, the void of explanation is filled with speculation ranging from the cynical to the absurd, the likely to the very unlikely. There’s a ton of crap in the sky we haven’t shot down (yet) 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

“It was experimental and totally absurd,” Ms. Bravo said. TS Madison Steals the Spotlight 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

To dig into all aspects of it as this article attempts to do is absurd. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

It's a wildly uneven film, ranging from the monotonously ceremonial to the absurd, with the acrobatic star proving giddy to the point of clownish. How Robin Hood became a socialist 2010-05-11T21:01:00Z

That meant that five, six, seven sticks fell every time they were dropped, building the cacophony and also the sense of absurd hilarity. Review: Bang on a Can Marathon Stays as Eclectic and Playful as Ever 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

As Bong Joon-ho's Mother shows, some mothers will go to absurd lengths to protect their children, no matter how malformed, moronic or miscreant said issue may be. Bong Joon-Ho's tormented Mother has a lot in common with the film noir classic Mildred Pierce 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

Regnard rampages through a series of absurd situations that challenge the ingenuity of Mr. Elrod’s Crispin, the chief mastermind behind the youngsters’ attempts to stall the wedding until Geronte has breathed his last. Theater Review: ‘The Heir Apparent,’ by Way of David Ives 2014-04-10T02:00:01Z

Dollar is offering only a partial refund, which seems absurd. Help, Dollar said I was a ‘no-show’ and took my money 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Clearly written with real affection for its antecedents, the lurches into wild surrealism amuse far more often than they irritate, and the repartee between the protagonists often attains an almost dizzying level of absurd pleasure. Bleak Expectations by Mark Evans – review 2013-01-13T00:05:12Z

But where “Manhattan” is grounded in reality, “The Manhattan Projects” goes on sci-fi journeys that are bizarre, absurd, colorful and darkly humorous. If you like the new TV drama “Manhattan,” you’ll love this darkly hilarious comic about the atomic bomb 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

This is, of course, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s satirical takedown of gun violence in the US, highlighting the absurd truth that school shootings have now become commonplace. Post-outrage TV: how South Park is surviving the era of controversy 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Posner gives huge and equal bearhugs to Chekhov’s absurd comedy and touching pathos while leaving room to banter with the audience. Who says “Life Sucks”? Chekhov, through Posner, at Theater J 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

He has lost that essential sloppiness that allows the rest of us to drift untroubled through dead metaphors, misleading statements and absurd exaggerations — the grease that keeps the machinery of modern life spinning along. In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

“I don’t care what you think of the man’s politics,” Letterman said, after playing the absurd JibJab-esque stunt “…but that was impressive.” Rand Paul gets the David Letterman treatment in glorious, absurd 2016 gag 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The irony of course is that comedy tends to focus more on politics when it is easier to mine the material — the more absurd the political climate, the more jokes there will be. Trump vs. "SNL": A political comedy Americans are actually watching 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Equally absurd is the cabaret provided by a chorus of black dancers in a speakeasy behind a corner drugstore, a show worthy of Josephine Baker at the Folies Bergère in 1920s Paris. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z

There are known knowns, there are known unknowns and then there is a musical offering an absurd yet apparently plausible explanation for how the United States went to war in Iraq. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

As the ballet proceeds, it also proves to be littered with absurd and ineffectual entrances and exits. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Revisits Three Works 2012-06-01T22:46:12Z

It was, of course, a wild goof, as absurd as the bugs in a David Cronenberg movie. If only Hunter S. Thompson could have lived to take on this election 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Tom Sanders, emeritus professor of nutrition and dietetics at King’s College London said that it was “absurd to suggest that sugar is addictive like hard drugs.” Is sugar really as addictive as cocaine? Scientists row over effect on body and brain 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

It’s the black and the absurd which started with World War I. From the stand point of the 20th century, to be melancholic is good mental health. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

“Mozart in the Jungle” has its share of absurd moments, including several attempts at magical realism that threaten to verge out of control. A Pop-Cultural Moment for Classical Music 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

But in concert his nicknames for Clemons were famously nuts, over the top, absurd, funny, endearing. Memorial service held for 'Big Man' Clarence Clemons 2011-06-21T20:05:00Z

They seem tragic and absurd, like nearly everything else that happens in this movie, which is often elusive in its meanings and operatic in its effects. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z

Racial essentialism is absurd, and I think all of us are ready to leave it in the papers of the past. ‘Commercial’ vs. ‘Literary Writing,’ Cozy Mysteries and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

“Meteor Shower” plunges into the absurd without establishing a philosophical grounding for the mania. Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' plunges into the absurd at the Old Globe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

After a strong introduction to Frank Underwood through his Secretary of State vendetta, the show veered absurd with the story of the yonic water tower and even the teachers’ strike. House of Cards Watch: I Ate the Whole Thing 2013-02-08T14:00:42Z

Meanwhile, in parallel, Earn spends a long day in jail, a sequence that manages to serve as both social commentary and absurd entertainment. As real as a dream 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Like "Idol," "X Factor" is based on a British series and showcases singers ranging from the talented - a 13-year-old with a big voice among them, according to the "X Factor" preview - to the absurd. 'X Factor' goes X-rated as singer's pants drop 2011-09-15T18:26:28Z

But Prose immediately starts spinning her own clever espionage thriller around the absurd one that Simon is editing. Review | Francine Prose’s ‘The Vixen’ turns Cold War paranoia into smart comedy 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Collectively titled We English, the large-scale prints form a series of petrified tableaux in which grouped figures, set against local landscapes, appear as stills from a theatre of the absurd. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

If her onstage persona is opaque but impulsive, her conversation seems tinged with a very Russian fatalism, disillusionment and sense of the absurd, sometimes bone dry, sometimes contemptuous, sometimes wildly amused. Want to Be a Star? Take Your Lumps 2010-12-26T02:24:10Z

It’s a great example of Matt’s comedic genius, because when you find out the real reason the kid has been denied, it’s absurd. 'Mad Men' Q&A: Jared Harris on Directing This Week's Episode and Playing Lane Pryce 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

It was just so absurd, and they were crying about how wonderful it was to reach this moment in their lives. Grace Helbig's Guide to Taking Fashion Less Seriously 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

The meme pokes fun at a person’s failures, but it also turns them into an internet-wide game, one in which everyone messes up, and everyone receives the same absurd rebuke. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

As the band’s main lyricist, Wood juggles the cryptic and the apparently confessional, the self-lacerating and the absurd. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

Morphing Figures, Mismatched and Distorted In the Surrealist parlor game exquisite corpse, artists build a figure on an absurd assembly line. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z

“The idea that Erewhon is a baseline for how the majority of Angelenos eat is not only absurd, it’s beyond offensive.” How Erewhon Became L.A.’s Hottest Hangout 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Parr has a way of revealing the absurd in the mundane. Real Food, No Filter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

That opening scene, from “Carnival Round the Central Figure,” is steeped in the absurd — the man’s face is caked with white makeup, and a menacing nurse sits nearby, holding a needle about three feet long. | 'Carnival Round the Central Figure': Death Be Not Predictable 2011-01-20T21:28:30Z

When the president was in search of a new communications director last year, George tweeted it was “absurd” that the president so often says one thing and then does the opposite. She works for Trump. He can’t stand him. This is life with Kellyanne and George Conway. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

But this restaurant — what we're trying to do here is absurd. Grant Achatz: The making of Chicago's top chef ... and what's Next 2011-02-15T06:00:00Z

It now seems absurd that anyone once believed the ocean was inexhaustable: fish stocks are in dismal shape and scientists say overfishing is a global problem with potentially irreversible consequences to ecosystems and human livelihoods. Confusion at the fish counter: How to eat fish responsibly 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

"It's absurd and ridiculous and…" He sounds anxious, defensive even. David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z

“There’s plenty of jokes that are absurd and crazy and aren’t in the real world, and those are also really fun too,” she said. Michelle Wolf Doesn’t Want to Be Your Folk Hero 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Haida is a self-proclaimed philosopher in the making, and he sits on the cusp of the earnest and the absurd. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

They want to build it in Dallas, a dream of a future that is as absurd as it is tragically doomed. Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

A costume covered in cartoonish inflatable breasts, it’s an ambiguous infantile fantasy, at once absurd and terrifying. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

The report’s findings made it all the more absurd that Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, a world-class dissembler herself, was ever so graciously offering Thursday to accept apologies from reporters. Perspective | Mueller’s report proves why Trump loves Fox News — and why he needs it now more than ever 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

By contrast, creating an aesthetic that’s vaguely familiar yet thoroughly out of time, “Kat Hats,” by Daniel Pinkwater, with illustrations by Aaron Renier, plunges us into a geography of the absurd. A Hat Tip to 4 New Picture Books 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Rather he produced sensational hoaxes firmly grounded in truth to expose “absurd and ugly hegemonic reality.” Humor and media hoaxes put social justice ideas on the map 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

I’m sure something absurd will happen to Pete, which I relish anticipating. “Mad Men” Premiere: Another Day at the Office 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Yet despite her absurd quagmire, Winnie is a trouper, discharging her daily rituals between the clanging of a bell that wakes her up and orders her to sleep. In 'Happy Days,' character is buried in sand, wrestling with life 2012-03-14T20:22:04Z

They find it hilarious that a birdwatcher would visit Colombia's most dangerous region looking for parrots; "thirty years of low-intensity warfare", writes Fountain, "had given the rebels a heightened sense of the absurd". Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain – review 2013-06-29T08:00:19Z

His new book is not insanely funny nor hilariously absurd. Review | Gary Shteyngart takes aim at white male privilege 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Claveloux’s comics encapsulate the desire to change or reinvent oneself — but also to undermine society and the absurd sense of order it imposes. Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Bobby’s sexist pronouncements are outrageous, but his stunts are so absurd and self-serving that they’re hard to take seriously. Review: Advantage, Bobby, but Game, Set, Match, Billie Jean 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

In the most elusive role, the bossy elder Stepsister, Roman Zhurbin is compelling and often wonderfully absurd. Frederick Ashton’s ‘Cinderella,’ at American Ballet Theater 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Patek means principally to be comic or satirical or absurd. Dance Review: At American Realness Festival, a Range of ‘Fringe’ 2014-01-16T23:19:53Z

It’s an absurd assignment, of course, but no different from other plots and counterplots of the era. Review | Arthur Phillips shows that choosing a leader was no easier 400 years ago 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

“This was an absurd lawsuit from the very beginning, and we’re gratified that in the end, a notorious criminal didn’t win,” he said in a statement. Judge Dismisses Noriega's Lawsuit Over Video Game 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

There's also something charmingly British about the whole absurd story. Not the Booker prize 2012: Paint This Town Red by AJ Kirby 2012-08-29T12:44:14Z

Even though “Kapoor & Sons” goes from lightly comic to more darkly dramatic to pretty overtly melodramatic, it never loses its lived-in quality or plunges into the absurd. Review: ‘Kapoor & Sons’ Centers on an Indian Family’s Flaws 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

"Much of the humor in the finger-popping first act derives from Jack and Betsy's absurd situation," said the New York Post newspaper. 'Honeymoon in Vegas' ups ante for glitz in new Broadway version 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

“It is just completely absurd,” said Ms. Mann, 28, who lives alone. What to Do With 50 Pounds of Potatoes? The Quandaries of Bulk Buying 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

Season 2, despite its often absurd settings and awkward dialogue, raises the ante, Sharma noted, and the characters make bolder decisions, turning them into messier, more difficult-to-pigeonhole versions of themselves. With ‘Four More Shots Please!,’ India Gets Its Own ‘Sex and the City’ 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Instead, the weariness coming from the show seems to be more emotional and civic-minded—an expression of shared uncertainty, a common lament about the absurd pace of the new Administration’s outrages and follies. “Saturday Night Live” and the Limits of Trump Mockery 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

It's distractingly clean and bright; absurd for a film supposedly set on the wild frontier. Reading group: Truest grit 2012-12-06T11:09:52Z

"All the accusations made against me are absurd. I've been working honestly for many years. I need to finish filming a movie and put shows on." Russian celebrities gather outside Moscow court to demand director's release 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Most of those qualities are on view in “Magic Mike,” in which Mr. McConaughey plays the utterly absurd Dallas with an impressively straight face. Matthew McConaughey Shifts Gears 2012-07-06T23:59:02Z

Mr. Dean, a stand-up comic with a taste for the absurd, presents this comedic art project about his own work. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Harrison, only 50 at the time, seemed to find this question absurd. Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z

But I did find it surreal and absurd that Mohan was even recalled to the Leveson inquiry to defend her, with the best part of half a day devoted to the issue. Never mind Page 3, internet porn is what damages young minds 2013-06-13T14:44:47Z

Memorable and absurd staging is often used to help a Eurovision act stand out, especially given that during the final, viewers watch 26 entries in two hours. Netflix’s ‘Eurovision Song Contest’: Here’s What You May Have Missed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Director and writer Ben Lewin said after a screening on Saturday that he tried to capture O'Brien's "self-deprecating humor and view of life as the absurd." "Beasts," "The Surrogate" aim for post-Sundance success 2012-01-29T22:32:03Z

Some of the moments are enchanting, others charming, but plenty are tiresomely cute or dully absurd. Theater Review: ‘Murmurs’ Brings Slapstick to the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-26T20:44:14Z

It confirms Ms. Christov-Bakargiev’s taste for esoterica, her sense of the absurd and her mostly respectable mysticism. Review: Making Connections at Istanbul’s Biennial 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

We need comedy — that is, some of us do — to make sense of an absurd world. Nobody punctures blowhards better than Jon Stewart on 'The Daily Show' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Employing a pinched, nasal French accent of stage stereotype, Mr. Kayden is very funny in her sniffing acceptance of the absurd behavior of her employers. Theater Review: ?Don?t Dress for Dinner? at American Airlines Theater 2012-04-27T02:00:01Z

To say that this year, with “The Tale” sitting right there, is pretty absurd, but one still has to look at the big picture. “Black Mirror” won the wrong Emmy Award: Why the TV Academy needs to revise Its TV movie stan... 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Maisel’s second series swapped storyline for absurd set pieces in Paris and the Catskills that did nothing but show off Amazon Prime’s Emmy-abetted budget. Sorry episodes: the most disappointing TV shows of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Today, with the future of the country and maybe the world on the line, that notion sounds far more absurd than seven Californias. Is the System Rigged Against Democrats? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

“Bedtime Stories” mimics the sort of dark tales of human nature that fill the schedule of reality channels like A&E and Investigation Discovery, turning them into absurd and creepy yet unsettlingly ordinary vignettes. ‘Mr. Pickles’ and a New Tim & Eric Show, on Adult Swim 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Perhaps better than any animal, they represent the absurd dignity of life, of abiding persistently in a world that is trying to kill you and will eventually succeed. TV Weekend: Last March of the Penguins? 2012-03-16T18:45:08Z

They say they found no shortage of absurd material to bring life to the otherwise un-filmable realm of computer programming. HBO's 'Silicon Valley' tackles tricky, quirky tech world for TV 2014-03-31T21:58:21Z

The current hysteria and paranoia over “free speech wars” on college campuses is one of the most absurd and illustrative examples. The truth about the campus “free speech wars” 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lee, Mr. Lifeson and Mr. Peart are stunningly fluent technicians — a handful of the band’s live concert films capture the Rush experience in all its absurd glory — but how did they get that way? | 'Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage': On VH-1, Prog-Rock Wizards Onstage, Maybe Angels Off 2010-06-26T00:47:00Z

He continues his set, mixing the abstract and the absurd with attacks on Cameron's welfare reform. Lee Ridley: making comedy out of silence 2012-06-06T17:26:50Z

We start to take ourselves really seriously and it starts to become really absurd. He slept with a lesbian: Summer’s hottest rom-com 2012-06-13T00:05:00Z

He cites various passages that are either contradictory or seemingly absurd in the modern world. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Two Books About Muslim Identity 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

But the main one, she said, is that a family suffered, and that no matter how absurd these events seem, they’re personal. A Murdered Spy’s Widow Relives Her Loss Onstage 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

What makes the whole thing even more absurd is that the film is about the later stages of Simone’s life. Hadley Freeman: why cast a lighter-skinned actor as Nina Simone? Here come the racesplainers 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

There was tragedy and there were absurd and funny situations. 'Mustang' director Deniz Gamze Ergüven on Turkish film, L.A. riots and 'Escape From Alcatraz' 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

"I do believe that is absurd to contend that his staff and advisers would devise criminal schemes whose only aim was to benefit the defendant," the judge said. Hard time looking likely for Blagojevich 2011-12-07T03:48:00Z

The story kicks off in the aftermath of Star’s suicide attempt, the film’s tone at once bleakly clinical and deadpan absurd. ‘Queens of the Qing Dynasty’ Review: Secret Soul Mates 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

The idea that there might be a clear answer is absurd. ‘Hooded; or Being Black for Dummies’ Review: A Tragic Pageantry 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

In the movie  “Brazil,” the main character’s mother purchases repeated plastic surgery until she becomes something grotesque, a symbol of our vanity gone monstrous and absurd. Not Quite “Brazil”: Meg Ryan, plastic surgery and my mother’s augmentation 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

You don't describe Caesar's murder, you have to be Brutus … Making such links, such comparisons, might seem absurd to onlookers. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z

Although these 10 absurd tales may seem immeasurably delirious, as if drawn from the depths of the unconscious, they possess timeless and universal qualities. Read Your Way Through Tokyo 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

The dark humor is just a way to exorcise some of your demons by writing absurd, borderline lyrics. Matt Berninger has always been funny: “I actually think The National’s stuff has more humor than people pay attention to” 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

It's funny, scary, absurd - creator/director David Lynch at his finest. 'Twin Peaks' on Netflix streaming includes broadcast version of pilot episode 2011-04-19T14:00:24Z

Everybody's crazy in his universe, because everybody belongs to the same absurd social order. ArtsBeat: 'Sunshine Boys' in London: Anatomically Improbable 2012-06-25T15:40:09Z

The story follows an unnamed gig worker as she navigates a series of absurd temp jobs: ghost pal, pirate, assassin’s assistant. New & Noteworthy Anthologies, From Climate Reporting to Gun Violence 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

As absurd as some of these representations seem, many people believe they are real. My online impostor: When that Facebook profile isn’t you 2014-04-01T23:00:00Z

And modernisation—above all the arrival of the railway—ultimately turned the whole concept of banishment into an absurd anachronism. Prison without a roof 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

This characterization of her working methods, though meant as flattery, struck Ross as absurd. Lillian Ross, celebrated New Yorker writer, dead at 99 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Some people find them absurd, while others fiercely evangelize their importance. Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help? 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Antisemitism has such a long, violent history that it seems absurd to claim it’s getting worse. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

His show features classic physical clowning comedy and absurd visual humour and was described as "breathtakingly brilliant". Silent clown scoops comedy award 2012-08-25T15:39:29Z

But he also approached these escapades with a keen appreciation of magicianship’s absurd side. Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z

The host Nathan Fielder “helps” small businesses by coming up with nutty, often completely absurd marketing schemes, but it’s never totally clear who is on the inside of this inside joke. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Please Like Me’ and Films Leaving Netflix 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Since then, the plots and the stunts have remained impossibly absurd, sometimes enjoyably so, as here. ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Still Running 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

Whitehead will represent his party-pooping countrymen in that absurd den of hedonism known as Sin City. ‘The Noble Hustle’: bets and bluffs in a high-stakes game 2014-05-08T22:06:01Z

“You are clumsy,” the cat tells her, “but you have the beginnings of a poem, absurd feeling anguishing in translation.” New Fiction About Family Members Gone Missing 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

"I would be the first to concede that any critical theory carried to extremes is absurd," he wrote in 1970. Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows 2012-06-21T14:30:15Z

Like many of the scandals covered, this story is harrowing and absurd in equal measure — Litvinenko’s killers inadvertently left a huge trail of radiation behind them across hotels, bars and public transit in central London. 6 Podcasts About Political Scandals and Upheaval 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

The show’s humor is absurd, cheerfully vulgar and always in line with the loony, outlandish stories it tells. ‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’ Review: A Breezy, Engaging Summer Refreshment 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

“If you just believe fully in what you’re saying, it will reveal itself to be absurd.” Everyone's a little bit political: 'Avenue Q' puppets stage their own Clinton-Trump debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

But it was when Solange broke from these formal structures, showing a more spontaneous, absurd side of her dancer self, that “Ode” felt most personal. Review: Solange Turns the Guggenheim Into a Sanctuary for Dance 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

The trend became known as glam rock: a combination of hard rock, flash, often absurd silver costumes and an attempted, androgynous glamour. When Bowie met Burroughs 2013-03-09T09:01:00Z

Evancho is uniquely positioned to sustain this absurd line of reasoning. Jackie Evancho and the Politics of Childhood 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Modan entertainingly draws on genre — including an absurd “Seven Samurai” plot — as Nili pulls together a motley crew including a Palestinian man and a bunch of goofy young settlers. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

He specializes in crowd work and self-evidently absurd arguments, like making the case that other countries hate Americans because we have the best cheese in the world. 4 Comedy Specials to Watch: Seasoned Stand-Ups Making Debuts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

No doubt Strauss would have found such speculation amusing if not downright absurd. Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z

“It was all very absurd and ridiculous,” she said. Julian Wasser, the ‘Photographer Laureate’ of L.A., Dies at 89 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

“At first the name Darkside was an absurd inside joke, and then it gave us this feeling of, ‘Can you really do that?’ Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

I personally think it would be absurd now to airbrush this film out of history and behave as if we never had time for it. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

“You ask absurd questions, or basic questions like, where is Canada?” he said. Comedy: A Brazilian?s Comic Mania: Social Media 2011-08-04T12:00:00Z

I mean, they are, and when you build them into an absurd symphony of tooting, like Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles, you have to be made of stone not to laugh. Laughing Gas: In Defense of the Fart Joke 2013-10-02T14:28:05Z

Don Miguel de Castro, a black envoy from the African kingdom of Kongo to the Dutch court, looks forbearingly out at us from under his absurd Rembrandtesque hat. An Enthralling Show of Afro-Atlantic History Illuminates Brazil 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

All you could do was stare at the TV as the absurd gulf between rationality and Heston's "mission" deepened. TV review: Silk, Heston's Mission Impossible 2011-02-23T08:00:05Z

Life is absurd; we must learn to enjoy the beautiful amber that coats the fossils of death strewn all around us. My Civil War: Re-enacting in the days of 9/11  2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Villoro recounts his adventures with a mix of irony and empathy, with a sense of humor and a feeling for the absurd. A Chronicle of Mexico City and Its Multitudes 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

The absurd contradictions in this scene have been growing only more conspicuous. L.A.'s theater community resumes discussion of wages and fiscal health 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

In this painfully resonant story we see the absurd fragility of our own humanity. An errant gun threatens many lives in ‘The Death of Rex Nhongo’ 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The very concept of “limited release” as a criterion for review has become absurd now that viewers nationwide can get hold of a new film at the touch of a button. Our Dated Model of Theatrical Release Is Hurting Independent Cinema 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Occasionally we have seen the absurd side and collapsed into giggles about what a Martian would think if it caught us in this ridiculous pose. My life in sex: ‘Sexual activity at our age can seem like a pilates class’ 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

The obtuseness of privilege — and the mania that aims to preserve it with absurd rituals and at unimaginable emotional cost — get a thorough workout, even in such a short play. Review: Royalty as Horror Show in ‘Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!’ 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

It would be absurd if it wasn't so tragic. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

There’s a certain scene in the bath that is seared in my brain, and the ending is absurd French philosophy grossness. 'Will make you jump out of your skin': readers on the best underseen horror films 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

But Reygadas's decision to shoot many scenes with a bevelled lens, like a still-camera viewfinder that creates a central focus "ring", is annoying and absurd. Post Tenebras Lux – review 2013-03-21T21:30:02Z

It goes barreling through assorted predicaments — romantic, footloose, violent, absurd — with amusement buttressed by grit. Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s an absurd, ridiculous, racist poem, but I don’t think it was published just to make fun of,” she said. Uncovering Strangers in a Strange Land 2013-09-03T16:40:40Z

Writer Joey Green, 58, has carved out a career as a dispenser of quirky tips that straddle the line between absurd and ingenious, all proven to work in a pinch. How to foil leeches with pantyhose and other travel tips 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Delivering deadpan snark as absurd clips played, the comedian provided a sort of color commentary for the reality TV era and launched his own Hollywood career in the process. Streaming TV and Podcasting Feed Into a Fast-Growing Talk-Show Universe 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Yeats once named Poe “the greatest of American poets,” which does sound absurd. Review | Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

Depp's legal team, however, told "Today" that Heard's claims of there being an online smear campaign coordinated against her were "utterly baseless" and "absurd." “Depp v. Heard”: The 6 most shocking moments from Netflix’s doc about the viral celebrity trial 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z

By insisting on full restitution, the idea of “long-term loans” to African countries becomes as absurd as it sounds. Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

In one riveting scene, the men save a wounded kite from a riverbank, swearing and complaining as they navigate a tricky, absurd and potentially dangerous situation. ‘All That Breathes’ Review: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

The satirists were completely disregarded as news producers continued to make ever more melodramatic, repetitive and graphically absurd programmes. Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z

Kuhlman once conned a pro-Trump art collective into accepting an absurd collage jammed with guns, breasts, explosions and multiple guitar-playing Trumps — a work of satire that also could be interpreted as a fan’s sincere celebration. The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Kármán” is loving, tragic, and empathetic, with a wryness so delicate it’s almost holding its breath; “Clouds” is gently deadpan, interweaving the quotidian and the absurd. The Screening Room: “People Are Becoming Clouds” 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

The violence in “Bonnie and Clyde” that outraged some critics was already there in “The Left Handed Gun” — and it was ugly, blunt, cruel, absurd. Film: Arthur Penn, a Director Attuned to His Country 2010-10-09T08:13:00Z

Technical innovations have since made possible images more absurd, bizarre and disjunctive than any the original Surrealists could have imagined. Art Review | 'Twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic at International Center of Photography 2010-03-11T23:02:00Z

What made the jokes about Richter so gently absurd is that no one has more persuasively countered the popular image of the sidekick as a pathetic sycophant. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Costumes are often inspired by current events, and sometimes partnered outfits make for adorable, if absurd tableaus. Around Town for Oct. 21-27 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Apparently, when some conservative Christians ask themselves, “What would Jesus do?” the answer they come up with is, “Put up absurd, offensive billboards, preferably reminding passersby they’re going to hell.” 10 most absurd right-wing Christian billboards 2014-05-06T11:00:00Z

Homo sapiens are piggish and dirty — despite the species’ absurd pursuit of cleanliness through creepy beauty treatments. In Transit: A Prague Musical Returns, Funny and Dark 2011-02-15T11:00:22Z

Creating a show about Jane Marple but making her young is as absurd as creating a show about Mahatma Gandhi but making him a talking fish. Gene Weingarten: Have you lost your Marples, Hollywood? 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

As the weeks passed, the collaborations became more absurd — Jean would re-duet some of the funny ones, in on the joke she unintentionally made — and even opportunistic. How Big Can a TikTok Duet Get? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

It’s a memorably absurd moment capturing the lives of the Regency-era idle rich, and a line my sisters and I used to trill aloud with laughter as we watched and rewatched the show as kids. Sense and social distancing: 'Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen's heroines' | Josephine Tovey 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

"It's ridiculous, everyone is immature at the age of 10 but I was a particularly immature 10-year-old, and to think I've stood by a decision I made then, there's really something absurd about it." Irish composer Raymond Deane talks Achill, Alma and ABBA too 2013-02-14T14:01:41Z

Price manipulation in a market that is spontaneously strong seems as absurd as it is reckless. Auctions: In Contemporary Art Sales, Big Is Better and Famous Is Best 2011-05-13T12:00:05Z

The fact, for example, that Damian is tapping and inspiring others to tap is treated as at once absurd and worthy of an ovation. Ridiculous! Fabulous! On Broadway, Tapping in Quotation Marks 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Women senators, including me. It’s outrageous. It’s absurd.” Perspective | Kirsten Gillibrand didn't just play the gender card. She defiantly played the whole deck. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, they made fun of the status quo, or took it to absurd conclusions; other times, they imagined utopian futures. Architects Dreaming of a Future With No Buildings 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

What are we to make of the claim that “stakeholders” include “any person, organization, object, or factor that could influence, or be affected by, a decision or situation”? This is absurd. Review | ‘The Power of Ethics’ offers a way forward in an increasingly muddled world 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

“And even though she was still quite ill, she was full of laughs and great absurd suggestions,” he said. Miley Cyrus and Wayne Coyne create trippy video, get matching tattoos 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

In fact, it makes sense that the shift to Biden from a bombastic and absurd blowhard like Trump would send comedy through an adjustment phase. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

“I had to go to meet my dream,” she says of the event, realizing that it sounds absurd. ‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Even many of those who find the exterior absurd will appreciate the galleries and how they interact with the art. At new French museum, the building steals the show 2010-05-10T13:43:00Z

And one of the more absurd aspects of the criticism of "The Help" is irritation that it's a success in the first place. Why "The Help's" critics are all wrong 2011-08-16T15:59:00Z

Key to its appeal was reinventing the cartoon format with a sophisticated sense of absurd comedy, something that would later be crucial to "The Simpsons." 'Simpsons' celebrates its 26th season with — what else? — a death 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

There are glimpses of Bridget in the writer’s quick wit and sense of the absurd — though Fielding exudes a considerably greater sense of control than her hapless heroine. Bridget Jones is Back in ‘Mad About the Boy’ 2013-10-14T14:44:34Z

"Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics," Morrissey wrote on the fan website True To You. Morrissey: still not Margaret Thatcher's biggest fan 2013-04-10T11:48:24Z

It is a farce and it is absurd. "High Desert" star Patricia Arquette on fighting for equality: "We need to claw back some territory" 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

By some absurd fluke, The Canyons might turn out to be a masterpiece. The Canyons: 2013's most pointless movie? 2013-01-03T12:57:33Z

One of Heller's more absurd characters is Major Major Major Major, cursed with his unfortunate handle and unfavorable likeness to Henry Fonda. 15 things you might not know about "Catch-22" 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

The idea that those two records represent a certain amount of coasting is absurd to me, "Sky Blue Sky" in particular. How Wilco's Jeff Tweedy became a great American songwriter 2011-09-27T14:01:00Z

I think I take rage to an absurd level, but the core of it is real. Eddie Pepitone: 'I'm just another clown on the bus like you' 2013-04-13T05:00:00Z

It was absurd to ask a historian of Tudor England to speak about urban riots and social networks. knew what they wanted from him – and they got it. Has Newsnight lost its way? 2011-08-20T23:06:06Z

He writes that “B.B.’s technique of playing a guitar like a human voice” became “so ubiquitous, so universal, that the notion of this sound originating with a single man sounded absurd.” Review | A new biography depicts B.B. King as ‘the first guitar hero.’ But does it truly see him? 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

His ability to pivot from the absurd to realpolitik is just as compelling to behold in its nascent state in “Better Call Saul.” ‘Better Call Saul’ Stars Bob Odenkirk of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

It might seem absurd to suggest that modern capitalism could depend on someone like Nat Bramble, but Newman will have you believing it's the system's fault rather than his. The Trade Secret by Robert Newman – review 2013-06-07T17:35:01Z

“This was my subway stop, and the fact that they were turning it into 42nd Street seemed absurd,” Mr. Lethem recalled. Inside Jonathan Lethem’s Oddball Trove 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

The case was absurd, but the government played hardball, hounding him for a decade and finally convicting him on a different charge. Art Review: ‘Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde’ at MoMA 2012-11-15T22:48:46Z

Brady also said that it was absurd that a man, who was interested in her because of her profession, expected her to delete photos of her surfing in athletic clothing. Jonah Hill's brand of soft boy misogyny is still misogyny 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

It was pretty absurd, but it was some real pageantry from this all-conquering music scene. On EDC's second night, a conquering mood in the air 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

This bit of literary advice is coherent with Proust's  general closetedness – a secretiveness that was all the more absurd since everyone near him knew he was gay. Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z

But the larger, tragic landscape Harun sketches is acutely destabilizing, wonderfully inscrutable and, at moments, ravenously absurd. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Rhythms are delicious, melodies charming, sonorities sensuous, and the structure absurd: it seems to contain about 20 codas. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z

A stunning first scene immediately establishes the highly charged atmosphere in Dima El-Horr’s carefully controlled first feature, filled with absurd moments and symbolic gestures. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z

The case walked the line between absurd and tragic. A Senate candidate. A murder plot. An undercover cop. A giant fiasco. 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Instead of merely standing around in his absurd costume, however, Pope.L offered dollar bills to people approaching the bank. What Makes Pope.L’s Art Endure? (It’s Not the Famous Crawls) 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

And in kind of a more macro way, it's really about absurd notions of masculinity and aspirations for masculinity and why we pursue forms of masculinity that are a lot of times not healthy. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

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. My life in San Francisco’s restaurant alley 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

The comedy choir wars are more intense, more absurd and more lowbrow fun than ever in "Pitch Perfect 2." 'Pitch Perfect 2' brings more lowbrow fun 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The book is charming and absurd — think “This American Life” meets “Alice in Wonderland.” Our top science-fiction and fantasy picks for October 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

In turn, Schumer and co. brilliantly tackle the absurd and unfair Hollywood beauty standards that older actresses are subjected to. 15 feminist Amy Schumer sketches that will make you stand up and cheer 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Of course, if you’re a parent wrestling three car seats into a car, this may sound a bit absurd. Motherlode Blog: Zone Defense: From Two Children to Three 2012-03-14T17:55:21Z

And Salman Rushdie, the prizewinning author of “Midnight’s Children” and “The Satanic Verses,” called the changes “absurd censorship.” Roald Dahl’s Books Are Rewritten to Cut Potentially Offensive Language 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

We no longer need it to spread information or "make fun of" news cycles that are already absurd. How late-night political comedy needs to evolve: Be more subversive 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

“It’s so ridiculous and absurd that he decides to build a rocket,” the playwright says. Perspective | A Palestinian play comes to the Kennedy Center, offering a comedic olive branch 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

The clip, viewed almost a million times, suggested a scenario both hilariously absurd and not altogether implausible. For Taylor Swift and Drake, Friends Serve the Brand 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

“All of this is absurd, all of this is ridiculous,” said Kondelis. The Scheme: the crazy untold story of bribery, business and basketball 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

What feels fresh to the observer may not feel quite so fresh to the observed, and Elmaleh stumbled into his fair share of clichés in his sketches of the American absurd. Gad Elmaleh’s Translated Comedy 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

He was so pretty, with his absurd curls and isosceles triangle of a nose and creamy brown face. Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Trump’s embrace of the worst in American journalism, and his scorn for the best, is absurd. Trump doesn’t hate all media. He just has terrible taste. 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Pensotti has a marvelous sense of the power of the unpredictable and absurd in everyday life. In 'El pasado,' the stage spins, and so do the characters' lives 2012-02-11T20:42:03Z

Putin's attack and his reasons for it are anything but funny, but they are entirely absurd. Politics & performance: Why Zelenskyy succeeds where others fail 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

Completely absurd and untranslatable, but it sort of makes him. Why I prefer the US version of The Killing to the Danish original 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Ken Ham is remarkable in that he’s raised millions and millions of dollars for this worldview that is absurd, untenable and obviously wrong. “That’s where I’ve failed as a scientist”: Bill Nye opens up about the climate wars 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Adults look absurd sleeping in public: flopping head, snapping chin, snoring, drooling, mouth agape. We’re in the golden age of travel pillows. Too bad we hate them all. - The Washington Post 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

Caesar should be absurd, but never at any time will you feel the urge to laugh at him, though you might laugh with him, as he grows up and realises his destiny. Rise of the Planet of the Apes ? review 2011-08-11T13:01:01Z

Engaged in acts of searching, examining, collecting and displaying the meteorites, the hunter is revealed as heroic, absurd, self-assured and oddly vulnerable. Review: An engaging show of 'Meteorites' at Winston-W?chter 2010-12-16T21:53:12Z

It trades on abominable but vague future threats that are absurd when you speak them out loud. ​'​Sick​ and​ asphyxiating​'​​ – why we live in an age of anxiety 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Even as I frame the question, I know it's absurd and unfair. Reading group: Truest grit 2012-12-06T11:09:52Z

I wanted to press into Steven’s belly and say, “Isn’t this image of us, two tiny people in love, huddling at the foot of America’s greatest ocean liner, absurd?” Modern Love: A Once-Upon-a-Time Romance 2011-03-03T20:37:34Z

That’s one of the tricky parts of Ibsen’s text — the long list of characters, the insistent verse, the constant setting shifts, the frequent and abrupt dips into the absurd and surreal. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

His novel invites you to view the world as fundamentally absurd and usually awful, but also to recognize that laughter is a mighty, and cleansing, recompense. A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

The fact that the women were paid far less than their male counterparts not only offended Americans’ natural—if spectacularly inconsistent—sense of unfairness but also seemed, in this case, absurd. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

To that extent, I suspect that were it the plot of a novel it would in fact seem familiar rather than absurd. Romulus and Remus. Prospero and Antonio. David and Ed... 2010-09-27T10:37:00Z

Obviously the play goes into the realm of the absurd. | Playwright Thomas Bradshaw on Race, Porn and Suburbia 2014-01-29T23:00:38Z

So nearly every inch of Alvernia has been modeled, at what looks like absurd expense, and with impressively bonkers disregard for the facility’s future resale value, on Giger’s work. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z

The get-up is borderline absurd, perhaps, but Hardy carries it off and it is entirely consistent with the period. Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

It’s great that he’s got so many female characters – there are more women on tours now – but a production manager in high-heeled shoes is absurd. Real-life roadies review Roadies: 'I felt like a nurse watching an hour of ER' 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

When he hears that she’s evinced interest in playing the trumpet, he derides the instrument as absurd and insists that she play something more respectable, like piano. | 'Parents? Evening': Julianne Nicholson and James Waterston at Flea Theater 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z

What writer could think of a political entrance more absurd than riding down an escalator to kick off a major campaign? The Fake Donald Trump Movie Isn’t Funny Enough 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

And there is nothing more absurd than someone who aspires to show good taste in contemporary art. Why I've joined Damien Hirst's bad taste party 2010-09-28T14:07:00Z

The side plots veer toward the ridiculous and not in the poetically absurd manner of Gary's history. Ha Jin roves U.S. and China, charting 'A Map of Betrayal' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

As far as “Key And Peele” sketches go, it’s almost restrained: This is a show characterized by a conceit being stretched and stretched to the point of absurd oblivion. Gallows humor in the age of #BlackLivesMatter: “Key & Peele” returns and “Why? with Hannibal Buress” premieres, not a moment too soon 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

“My new plan is to go out and buy a jumbo-sized bag of lard-fried potato chips and eat them all in one sitting, and um . . .” I paused, struggling for something even more absurd and rebellious. Trading my bicycle for a Harley: Learning to ride a motorcycle at 57 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

On one level the frivolity of “Birthday Offering” is absurd; on another, the dazzling grammatical construction of its every dance is compelling. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z

They are places that are as absurd as they are dire. Impressive exhibition tells the story of Latin America in pictures 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

He takes real events and nudges them into the absurd. | Hugh Bonneville: Hugh Bonneville, Star of the Olympics Comedy ‘Twenty Twelve’ 2012-06-24T03:30:52Z

The reality is more complicated, but something of the corrosive, absurd logic of the culture wars is captured in the interactions between David and the gang of good ol’ boys who become his mortal enemies. | 'Straw Dogs': A Remake of ?Straw Dogs,? by Rod Lurie - Review 2011-09-15T22:30:47Z

I am enormously sympathetic to unsympathetic characters, and I greatly admire Shriver’s willingness in the early going to have other characters push back on Serenata’s absurd and caustic misanthropy. You May Not Like Lionel Shriver’s Characters. That May Be the Point. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

And then I wonder if it really is better and I start thinking maybe it actually is terrible and then I just become absurd. The indirect director 2012-12-06T01:00:00Z

More often, the comments are playfully, flexibly absurd. Carly Rae Jepsen’s Ecstatic Hymns to Love 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Elsa’s ambitions seem absurd and delusional, until, in what is certainly a joke about show business, viewers learn she went from a failed career in cabaret and carnival side shows to television stardom. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

He’s been terrific in each film, but “Sorry to Bother You” is the showcase Stanfield has been waiting for, a film that’s absurd, brilliant, creative, furious, emotional, political and bizarre. Is Hollywood ready for the brilliant weirdness of Lakeith Stanfield? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

If your tolerance for the absurd is low to begin with, the swat-swat-swat of verbal volleys here probably won’t convert you. ‘Rosencrantz’ review: Clever hybrid stager, thy name is Posner 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

As a reader I might laugh at that point, but I would do so because it presents an absurd picture of an impossibly fast competition, and not because I’ve never made such mistakes myself. ArtsBeat: Back to Grouse County: Tom Drury Talks About ‘Pacific’ 2013-06-13T18:08:44Z

In the Bible, unnamability is evidence of holiness; for Beckett, it is the cornerstone of the absurd. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Bobcat Goldthwait called him “human pot,” explaining, “Listen to him long enough and you feel stoned and see the world as absurd and amused as he does.” Steven Wright, Master of the One-Liner, Tries His Hand at a Novel 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

But tucked inside these carefully told, almost anecdotal narratives are intense emotions, intractable social problems and human truths that are too deep, too sad and perhaps too painfully absurd to name. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z

By some absurd alchemy Magnum PI ended up perfectly written, perfectly cast and perfectly soundtracked, managing to be both of its time and utterly timeless. It was acceptable in the 80s: why Magnum PI should be spared reboot hell 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

The level of revisionism at work here isn't merely absurd, it's insane. Bro, say can you see? "America: The Motion Picture" shows we're not just dumb, we're drawn that way 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

So impressive is the technical accomplishment that one forgets that the action, while ostensibly unfolding in the context of a real and recognisable war, is operating safely within the absurd liberties of Hollywood convention. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

It's tempting to suggest that Sandler makes such horrifyingly vacuous films, in which absurd gags float around in a killing void resembling outer space, because he is cynical or does not care. "Just Go With It": Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman and a sheep 2011-02-10T20:30:00Z

The corporate vacancy of this subway boogie-woogie looks especially absurd after dancing through Robbins’s New York — which, to me, feels as far from today’s pacified, digitally isolated city as Troy or Babylon. Review: An Aching Ode to Jerome Robbins’s Lost New York 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Think of Twiggy and Penelope Tree’s trompe l’oeil lashes of the late 1960s, which opened out their already huge eyes to wonderfully absurd proportions. | Lashing Out 2014-02-17T18:00:53Z

Lonely, credulous Helena starts listening to an absurd fortune teller, played by Pauline Collins. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger ? review 2011-03-17T22:00:01Z

When revealed in January of last year, at Balenciaga’s fall 2017 runway show, the Triple S looked majestically absurd, the kind of sudden, awkward stylistic jolt that inspires eye rolls and copycats. My 8-Month Search for $900 Sneakers 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Ten years ago this question would be deemed dramatic and even absurd, but now the possibility seems like a bleak reality. We fell in love at Borders 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s humane and absurd, and rarely out of touch with the Joseph-Heller-like notion that, as Mr. Marra puts it, “stupidity was the single abiding law of the universe.” Books of The Times: ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ by Anthony Marra 2013-05-07T20:50:26Z

Endings are artifices, especially in movies, where the happy ending is a convention so deeply ingrained in mass entertainment that the unhappy ending has become a similarly absurd convention of art-house productions. Richard Brooks’s “Fever Pitch” Never Got Its Due 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Human society, as depicted in Twin Peaks, is what’s really uncanny – a beguilingly absurd Kafkaesque simulation that satirises the real thing. Twin Peaks recap: episode five – is anyone here even human? 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

That is, naturally, absurd, but it is a clear reflection of a somewhat unexpected emergent racial reality in hip-hop. White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

"Not going to apologize for it either. If you're willing to believe and promote these absurd and dangerous lies, well, you deserve to be mocked for it." Don Lemon, this is no laughing matter 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

For his absurd comedy, Tim Burton wanted to pay homage to old B-movies, so his aliens looked sort of shoddy — purposely. The aliens in ‘Arrival’ are stunning. How do they compare to other film creatures? 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The film’s ultimate joke is that when given the opportunity to return to normal Soviet life, the two men keep choosing to dither in this absurd purgatory. Strange Lands Series Celebrates Soviet-Era Sci-Fi Films 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

His absurd physical comedy worked like a charm on me. Are Bitcoins More Real Than Boyfriends? 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

What's most remarkable about the project though is how smoothly the initially absurd figure of the white artist is absorbed into Elmina's fiction. This week's new exhibitions 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

“We were lucky enough to get a couple of hours with a bedridden Miley Cyrus. And even though she was still quite ill, she was full of laughs and great absurd suggestions.” Watch Miley Cyrus in the new Flaming Lips video 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

That this sorry, misogyny-riddled excuse for an activist group continues to be taken seriously, to attract big name celebrity supporters, is both depressing and absurd. PETA’s ridiculous new birth control stunt 2013-12-03T15:45:00Z

“We watched Silverado. It was an absurd thing to do, to watch a movie about cowboys,” she said. Exploring Their Own Paths Together 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

In 1990, he found financial stability in a characteristically absurd and brutal fashion. Richard Belzer, Detective Munch on ‘Law & Order: S.V.U.,’ Dies at 78 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

“Curve of Departure” opens with an old man named Rudy watching absurd tabloid TV in a hotel room, and by the end of Rachel Bonds’s gorgeous little drama, that seems like a wry joke. Review | Warmhearted ‘Curve of Departure’ hits Studio’s strike zone 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

The content is . . . well, not only is it undeniably vile, it’s irrefutably absurd. Perspective | Wolfie James and the insidious role of female white nationalists 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

"The idea that you can be sued because perhaps they don't like what you wrote, for whatever reason, is absurd." Author faces civil suit over 'Three Cups of Tea' 2012-04-18T11:46:04Z

The absurd competition — and worry not, we don’t actually get up and play — proves to be a worthy metaphor. Review | You’ve never seen a play quite like Woolly Mammoth’s ‘Underground Railroad Game.’ 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

The name Hello Kitty may sound absurd, but it definitely implies cat. The Top 15 Minutes of Fame of 2014 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

But the show’s brand of humor delights in the absurd, the makeshift, and the overblown. With “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp,” Netflix cracks the reboot code 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

She began to ricochet between wild weeping and absurd happiness; she paced floors, unable to settle; insomnia became the norm. Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan - review 2013-01-24T09:01:01Z

We took two very familiar experiences — basketball and church — and made an absurd combination. Robin Thede Is on a Mission 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Other characters in the series are also presented as tropes that don’t get complicated in ways that are particularly interesting, and yet aren’t campy enough to get played off as simply absurd. Insatiable: how offensive is Netflix's controversial new comedy? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Then there are attitudes which, to us, seem absurd, comic even, but to them are defining. Extracts from Tony Blair's new memoir 'A Journey' 2010-09-01T12:16:00Z

In her new “ha: a solo,” which isn’t a solo at all, she wobbles between chaotic and rigorous, casual and formal, absurd and obscene. Dance Review: Spontaneity, Nudity and Absurdity: It Is What It Is 2011-03-25T22:43:59Z

And that’s why North Carolina’s absurd little stunt is so pitiful. Forget the theocracy, North Carolina 2013-04-03T19:57:00Z

And so he steps forward to confront it, and discovers — like so many figures in Pinter’s plays and in modern drama — that the absurd is existence itself. At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

You know, for me personally and creatively, I’ve always had a very broad sense of the absurd.  Dead Tree Alert: TV’s Bumper Crop of Blood; Plus: Kurt Sutter on the Uses of Mayhem 2013-02-28T13:14:43Z

Peacock calls speculation that White was not involved in completion of the album "absurd," as is much of the speculation over how the tour ended. The Civil Wars release new album despite hiatus 2013-07-08T18:02:41Z

But only occasionally do his barbs still hit, as in the increasingly absurd suggestions about how to market the land to gullible investors. ‘Donogoo,’ a 1930 Farce About a Financial Scheme 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The work for hire clause attempts to state that the record labels are the creators of these works, which is absurd. ArtsBeat Blog: Don Henley Urges Artists to Know Their Rights 2011-08-16T12:20:50Z

And then there’s Ms. K., with her millions of followers–but counting her self-portraits would be as absurd as counting sand. Woman Posts 12,000 Selfies on Instagram 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

“I worked with people I met off Craigslist,” Tam said, explaining that he would film his “unrehearsed and absurd” interactions with these strangers, often paying them a few hundred dollars for their participation. The Forgotten History of Chinese Railroad Workers Rises From the Texas Dust 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

"Every time she looked out her window," April reflects, "something more absurd was happening." Loss and attraction power Maria Flook's 'Mothers and Lovers' 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Its subject is absurd: an imaginary society of birds living on the moon. After a Climate Catastrophe, These Birds Flocked to the Moon 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

It robs the aspirational Bottom of the absurd dignity that in the best productions not only makes him a figure of fun, but a painful and touching character, too. A Midsummer Night's Dream - review 2013-03-08T16:04:46Z

Matters of marriage, sex, science and womanhood are raised by Ruhl, a continually inventive playwright whose lyrical sense of the absurd is as acute as her insightful probings into the psyches of her quirky characters. ACT to stage the electrifying 'In the Next Room' by Sarah Ruhl 2011-07-28T19:32:04Z

“The Trump presidency has certainly created a problem for writers of political TV drama because reality is moving so quickly in more absurd and unpredictable directions than your average TV show,” she says. How Donald Trump has blown the White House drama out of the water 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

The world of film seemed “more than usually absurd”. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘Pushing myself is part of my life’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

The result, provoking more titters than thrills, comes perilously close to the absurd. The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-01-25T17:40:44Z

“Of course Oscar was a precursor of the theater of the absurd in that play,” he says of “Earnest,” Wilde’s last and greatest comedy. The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z

But that cannot possibly blind me to the absurd notion that woman will accomplish that wherein man has failed... Emma Goldman: a thoroughly modern anarchist 2010-10-06T12:00:00Z

An essential theme of “Fargo” in all its forms is that the accumulation of bodies is pointless and absurd, exposing pettiness and evil in the harsh light of the winter sun. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 5: ‘Once Upon a Time ...’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

“Niki and Flo” is a fascinating stylistic hybrid, its observant naturalism infused with a delicate, almost coy sense of the absurd. Movie Review: ?Niki and Flo,? a Film by Lucian Pintilie 2012-03-01T00:25:38Z

Of course, the phrase is absurd even when confined to the prism that is America's view of itself: who's to be the judge? Yes, the men of my father's generation were better at being men 2013-05-17T19:01:02Z

She also found the notion of carrying a cellphone absurd. 'Wild' and 'Tracks' Explore Isolation 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

The ballroom pas de deux features some absurd grappling, with Guillaume manhandling her calf and then her thigh. Dance Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s Take on Prokofiev’s ‘Cinderella’ 2013-05-07T21:35:23Z

And that’s why the notion to “represent all points of view equally” is absurd and sometimes wrongheaded. Perspective | What’s a journalist supposed to be now — an activist? A stenographer? You’re asking the wrong question. 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z

Here it examines an absurd moment in the history of Bucharest, where I was born and raised. At Arles Festival, 7 Promising Photographers to Watch 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

I curl up with an extra large bowl, topped with an absurd amount of fresh scallions, and catch up on a few shows before I start fading to sleep. Coconut rice breakfast bowls, mushroom ragù and TikTok toast: The food diary of a "weekday vegan" 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Not as good as Matthew McConaughey, who steals the show with his performance as an egotistical district attorney with hilarious eyeglasses and absurd hair, but still pretty good. If Jack Black can make an excellent movie, surely anything is possible 2012-07-26T16:00:00Z

It is a morality play corrupting to both white and Papuan players cast into these absurd but very funny roles. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z

The elevator mishap, the center of the movie, is absurd and turns the film into an instant and derisive comedy. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

To me these events sounded absurd, but now I surveyed my own loot and took a surprising comfort in the uniformity of it all. Modern Love: Anchors Don?t Come in Pretty Boxes 2010-04-23T17:02:00Z

British high society in the 1920s saw a rise of decadent dress-up parties with absurd themes. A London Party for Your Inner Child 2010-06-27T10:00:00Z

Many of his films were hokey, with absurd plots and over-the-top acting. George Kennedy, Versatile Actor Who Won an Oscar for ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ Dies at 91 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Forty years later, some of the stuff sounds ridiculously dated – “Flying Teacup,” for example, is absurd. Remembering Daevid Allen, co-founder of Soft Machine and Gong 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The crisis of the book, where Fatima immolates herself to implicate her neighbour Zehrunisa's son Abdul, an absurd act of vengeance that goes badly wrong, is recounted at the beginning. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-29T07:00:03Z

In a statement, Tom Harvey, a lawyer for Mr. De Niro, called the accusations in Ms. Robinson’s suit “beyond absurd.” Robert De Niro and Ex-Aide Take Each Other to Court Over Office Behavior 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Davies's production precisely captures the contradictions of a work in which people are absurd without being worthless. Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-17T13:13:58Z

Shabbily dressed in clothes that look inadequate for the fast-approaching night, he greets the aid workers, inaugurating an amusingly absurd, confusing conversation. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

But when the choice is up to two 60-somethings who spend their lives hunting the absurd? Review | You’re invited to dinner with Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, but you’ll have to go to Staten Island 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Listening to the music over and over, I am repeatedly struck by its rollercoaster quality: vulnerability countered by sudden violence, absurd comedy snapping into bleak sorrow. Daniel Kramer: Carmen, I've cracked you 2011-01-12T21:31:00Z

Who or what, in the final reckoning, is the true grotesque — the absurd, unhappy princess, those desperate to get close to her, or the system propping them all up? Beauty, Bad Temper and Scandal in a Riveting Look at Princess Margaret 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

I think I prefer the coolness of a padded bathroom; it suggests an almost absurd fascination with style. On the Runway: Marc Jacobs: The Beautiful People 2011-02-15T03:14:29Z

“Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd,” he says. 'We can't wait for Hollywood to change' - the directors reframing black history 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

The current adulation of Reagan, from the Tea Party and others, is absurd. Sundance 2011: fewer stars, more ideas 2011-01-30T00:06:59Z

Rowling called on Thursday for a plagiarism case against her to be dismissed, describing it as "unfounded" and "absurd". J.K. Rowling calls Potter plagiarism case "absurd" 2010-02-18T12:38:00Z

This is not absurd fanfic, it is just another night at the Royal Lodge in Windsor. Unmaskings, burkinis and vegan cheese: the alternative ‘women of the year’ awards 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

It features a wide range of scary, humorous and absurd cultural and political anecdotes. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

Even within this grim premise, Bong finds moments of absurd comedy in the police investigators’ incompetence. Parasite director Bong Joon-ho: 'Korea seems glamorous, but the young are in despair' 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

“But this is an epoch of sudden changes and startling surprises. What may appear absurd today will assume a serious aspect tomorrow.” These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The seemingly absurd amount plays the role of liquid and fat, which eliminates the need for butter and, in turn, eliminates the usual butter pitfalls. Behold! The lemoniest scones in all the land 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z

Maurice may be an absurd case, but he’s an expert guide to the envy-riddled world of highbrow publishing, a realm of “covetous hostility” where success is publicly admired and privately mocked. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Johnson’s long-running project, called “Movie Stars,” consisted of photomontages and collages made with cardboard, about three feet high, that featured faces of celebrities — or his signature absurd bunny. Ray Johnson’s Camera Was Disposable. The Photos Are Unforgettable. 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

Witty and passionate, they insisted that it is a writer’s duty to protest, and dismissed as absurd the notion that one should only protest within the bounds of the law, as Gokhale and Dalrymple argued. At India?s Jaipur Literary Festival, Oprah and the Tiger Mom, But No Salman Rushdie 2012-01-23T18:00:07Z

Other entries fully embrace an actor’s reputation, only to push it into absurd extremes. ‘Call My Agent!’ Puts a Human Spin on Show Business 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

Preventing this from coming off as too affected, however, is the characters' awareness of how absurd life has become, and how ordinarily dangerous it can be outside of the fantastical world they've constructed. HBO Max's must-watch "Station Eleven" brings comfort and joy after the eerily familiar apocalypse 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

I'm as absurd as ever and they are gratefully patient. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

The United States of “Chain-Gang All-Stars” is like ours, if sharpened to absurd points and flung a few decades into the future. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Was there something about the architectural character of Florissant that led officers to defend it with such a dramatic and ultimately absurd show of force? Race, violence in Ferguson, Mo., cop killing play out on Main Street 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

The music — brainy, hyperactive, overloaded, bitterly absurd — is a ferocious counterattack. black midi Bristles at a Bleak World With ‘Hellfire’ 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the deskbound realm is just too absurd for satire. Review | If you hate office life, you’ll love — and laugh at — this novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

In more promising news, the episode’s highlight was its only pre-recorded section, and one of its more absurd: a skit in which Quentin Tarantino shot Clive Palmer’s new political ad. Wednesday Night Fever gets off to a lukewarm start – TV review 2013-07-03T23:14:01Z

But for all the absurd digressions and circuitous detours, “Antkind” remains propelled by Kaufman’s deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull’s-eye wit. Review | Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

What’s more, the diversity of countries’ populations also makes the narrowing view of a single national way of being all the more absurd. A Few Thoughts About British Actors Playing American (and African-American) Roles 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Lyrically, Tudzin has a knack for articulating how hard it can be to form authentic human relationships in a world clotted with the detritus of an increasingly absurd consumer culture. Illuminati Hotties’ Wonderfully Warped Punk-Pop 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

I had runs where I made absurd choices in the hopes they would work out. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2021 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gilliam’s work in that influential sketch comedy troupe was unique: Besides being a performer, he was the animator, drawing absurd cartoons as transitions between sketches. Terry Gilliam and the Time He Shared a Crew With ‘Star Wars’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Adams chalks it up to the sheer ridiculousness of the images, saying that the more absurd they appear, the funnier they become. What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything? 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Only when the story ends do you realize that you’ve been bamboozled; Lee Child’s best-selling Jack Reacher series, for example, brilliantly distracts readers from realizing the novels totally rely on absurd happenstance. ‘Fear’ Review: 3 Men in a Shed, 1 Missing Girl on Their Minds 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Though there are flashes of humor, almost always mordant, this is not “M*A*S*H” but something far darker and more absurd. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z

“Tabu,” which manages to be dryly absurd and deeply romantic, begins with a surreal vignette about a widowed hunter who throws himself to the crocodiles, and perhaps comes back as one. Film: At Berlinale, Something for Everyone 2012-02-17T17:13:20Z

Two of the best films to come out of the festival in recent years were from Ireland: the absurd comedy "Zonad" and Conor McPherson's cathartic ghost story "The Eclipse." `Bombay Beach,' `The Guard' highlight Tribeca 2011-05-02T11:46:04Z

It’s hard to overstate how absurd the look was, and yet, as with your multi-shearling dress, it had an ineluctable logic to it. Both Sides of a Fashion Eccentric 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Miller’s first novel, the brilliantly absurd “The Last Days of California,” relayed the story of a zealous Alabama family taking a road trip to the rapture. Down but Not Out: Fiction Filled With Second Chances 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

“I take it very seriously, let’s just say that. I do also recognise that it is absurd.” Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I’m fascinated by my own anger’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

“Confronted with the business end of music,” he wrote, a composer is apt “to be confused, absurd, out of his element.” John LaMontaine, Composer, Dies at 93 2013-05-15T02:27:49Z

Is this the most absurd use of the asterisk to date? Daily Mail gives Pamela Stephenson Connolly two stars 2010-10-07T12:09:00Z

Saxon Palmer, as his rival suitor Hortensio, in disguise as a music teacher, harvests more honest laughs than you’d imagine with his absurd comic accent and a mustache that won’t stay put. Theater Review: ?The Taming of the Shrew,? at the Duke on 42nd Street 2012-04-03T21:16:19Z

As fans of his FX show well know, the man is great at exploring dark topics in unexpected ways, and his musings on aging continue to layer absurd gags around a profound kernel of truth. Louis C.K.’s new stand-up special: From kids to death, the comedian covers familiar, very funny ground 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lahr includes the synopsis of a Williams story that was part of Mike Nichols and Elaine May’s act, and it captures only a soupçon of how absurd the scenarios become out of context. John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams’ Fleshes Out the Playwright 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

And Norman Mailer, who provides an epigram at the beginning of the book, says people find it very difficult to believe it could have happened the way it happened because it suggests an absurd universe. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z

“As dark as the story can get — and people were really hurt — there is something so absurd that it’s funny. You can have humor and real drama, simultaneously.” The Doctor Is in Too Deep: Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd on ‘The Shrink Next Door’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

“I’m contoured to hell. The story around Jen being undesirable is absurd.” As She-Hulk, Tatiana Maslany Is Beautiful When She’s Angry 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

The idea that flat shoes could represent progress may seem absurd. Couture in the Shadow of the Women’s March 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

While it lacks novelty, it doubles down on absurd inconvenience: guests must navigate a velvet rope shared with a nightclub, a dark hallway, an elevator, another corridor and a bleak staircase humming with ice machines. Bo?te: JBird, a New Speakeasy in Midtown: Review 2011-09-21T21:44:49Z

It never dawned on me for a second that it would be hazardous to my career or something absurd like that. "The L Word" star Jennifer Beals on why we need "Generation Q" more than ever 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

They lived in the town of Frostbite Falls and found themselves embroiled in all manner of absurd plots involving espionage and devious villains. Creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle dies 2010-10-25T04:24:00Z

What’s most absurd about the “Vanishing Race” image is that its subjects are riding horses. Books of The Times: ‘Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher,’ by Timothy Egan 2012-11-11T23:33:07Z

It’s all a tribute to the absurd nature of the monuments men make to themselves. Datebook: The art of an influential school, video dystopia, the drawings of a Chicano activist 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Something — his inner Pittsburgher, perhaps — keeps his focus not on the “big” but on the “absurd.” The 373-Hit Wonder 2011-01-07T15:27:23Z

Instead, he uses its exaggerated morality, its absurd plot twists and its memorable one-liners as jumping off points for discourses about Buddhist teachings. Looking for Buddhist Wisdom in ‘The Princess Bride’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Clad in a rollneck and forever gently clasping a glass of red wine, Lucont represents all the jokes and illusions we have about the French taken to an exaggerated and absurd level. This week's new comedy 2011-07-08T23:09:24Z

To comment on the dramatic change seems cruel, while to not comment on it would seem an act of absurd denial. Renee Zellweger’s face is the elephant in the room 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

It isn’t, as this year’s Presidential-campaign xenophobes would have it, conformity to some preëxisting national culture that, given the nation’s immigrant origins, it would be absurd to call nativist. Finding the American Ideal in Queens 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

“Ever cry so hard and so thoroughly,” she asks, with deliberate pace, before shifting into the absurd, “that when you finish you like jazz?” A Year When Death Loomed in the Laughter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

It manages to be at the same time slice-of-life and cosmically absurd, reflective and irreverent, fantastical and grounded. Review: ‘Forever’ Is a Thrilling Story of Boring Love 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

“The Dadaist loves the extraordinary and the absurd. He knows that life asserts itself in contradictions,” wrote another. ‘Destruction Was My Beatrice,’ by Jed Rasula 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

But maybe so will you, because while "Ted 2" is absurd and occasionally disgusting, it is also wickedly funny. 'Ted 2' is overstuffed and absurd but wickedly funny 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

But, from the outside that sounds completely absurd. Addiction is a learning disorder: Why the war on drugs is useless, AA undermines treatment, and addiction studies can learn a lot from autism 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Thanking the Tate, she also commended the other shortlisted artists for their "respect, camaraderie and a sense of the absurd". Elizabeth Price wins Turner Prize 2012-12-04T13:02:04Z

Last month, Adult Swim announced it ordered 70 new episodes of this absurd animated comedy, pleasing fans waiting for new material since Season 3 ended in October. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Love Means Zero’ and ‘Rick and Morty’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

At the moment of the ultimate humiliation, there’s Lillian, trying desperately to maintain her composure and live up to the absurd power of The Gown. TIME?s Favorite Cultural Moments of 2011 2011-12-27T15:00:22Z

I was thinking about movement in this absurd way. How artist Camilo Ontiveros acquired the belongings of a DACA deportee and what he did with them 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

She stretches the original, often relatively long works to sometimes absurd lengths to tap into their transformative power. Marina Abramovic 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z

And my heart just started beating faster and my hands clenched up because, to me, it's so absurd. 'Mad Men' stars remember biggest bombshells hurled at them on series 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

“We begin with a character who is a bit absurd, and then, slowly, we begin to peel these layers back from her,” Weil says. ‘Solos’ is a veritable who’s who of actors. Here’s why it needed ‘true masters of the craft.’ 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

“I spend quite an absurd amount of money on handmade clothing for my dolls,” said Ms. LaFond, 31. Tally of the Dolls 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

The version of tango propounded by “Forever Tango” is tango for tourists, madly glamorized and highly absurd. Dance Review: ‘Forever Tango’ Incudes ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Alumni 2013-07-15T02:00:01Z

Growing up in the 1970s, I personally became aware of Curtis the way most people of my age did, I guess – in Lew Grade's cheerfully absurd and now affectionately remembered action-comedy TV show The Persuaders. Tony Curtis: a true Hollywood star 2010-09-30T13:11:00Z

Always trust an actor when in middle age he starts to see the absurd aspect of his own image. David Thomson on Jack Nicholson 2010-08-05T21:22:00Z

Morrison also talked a lot of poetic mumbo-jumbo, some of it interesting, some of it absurd—shifting from high diction to low—and maybe these qualities fed into Billy, or at least into the story. David Means on Waiting for the High to Kick in 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

“Sometimes the risk in these high-profile sales is absurd — beyond absurd,” he added. In Auction World, Edward Dolman Aims to Make Phillips a Player 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

It has structural integrity: Characters develop; later episodes will give context to what seems merely absurd in early ones. 'Other Space' on Yahoo Screen a sweet, nutty confection 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Though some of the “absurd and spiky” moments that Brydon enjoyed are not in the finished cut, there were, they say, fewer moments of conflict in this series. ‘I like it when people think this is real’: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on The Trip to Spain 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Slahi’s memoirs are filled with numbingly absurd exchanges that could have been lifted whole cloth from “The Trial”: ‘Guantánamo Diary,’ by Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

In one way, CNN’s efforts were an improvement from NBC’s first round of debates a couple of weeks ago — at least there was no absurd demand for a show of hands on complex policy proposals. Perspective | The debate format is an embarrassment. Here’s how to make it better. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

This is the kind of absurd cultural performance that raises suspicions on Twitter but, shifted just one tab over, powers a thoughtless workout. This Is Your Brain on Peloton 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

The primal trauma of “Annie Hall” is young Alvy’s neurotic realization that the world will eventually come to an end, destroying all traces of human life and retroactively rendering all action absurd. The Existential Genius of Late Woody Allen 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

When Korzhavin wrote about the arrest, forty years later, he described it primarily as absurd. “Every Day I Wake Up in a Strange Land”: Remembering the Russian Poet Naum Korzhavin 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

It is absurd to talk about the “rights” of Russian artists when one sees innocent civilians, children and maternity wards being indiscriminately bombed. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

A crew of six arrived at my home and proceeded to march me through a series of increasingly absurd scripted "scenes." "Real Housewives'" child exploitation 2010-05-31T18:01:00Z

The audience participation in her final section was indeed sweet, an absurd group chant to ward off procrastination. Dance Review: Jennifer Lacey in ?Gattica? for American Realness - Review 2012-01-15T23:13:51Z

To see Reddick really let loose, watch him lend his intimidating rep to full effect in the Comedy Central satire “Corporate” as a hilariously psychopathic boss with a spiritually absurd name: Christian DeVille. Watch Lance Reddick’s Best Performances 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

“So to say she was trying to be a distraction is absolutely absurd.” Is Your Body Appropriate to Wear to School? 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

His vast compound included, among other absurd trappings, a concrete dinosaur park and a private zoo, including two hippos, illegally exported from Africa. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-01-17T08:00:01Z

The result is a mix of the realistic and the absurd, with a hint of pop culture. Artist captures war as seen by children - toys included 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

Its absurd plot is oddly plausible to anyone familiar with the grand schemes and great scandals of Chinese officialdom. Chinese writers avoiding key issues amid censorship fears, says author 2013-02-06T13:11:00Z

Some might recall its previous tenant, the faux speakeasy Charles, which went to absurd lengths to create exclusivity. Bo?te: The Windsor, a High-End Sports Bar in the West Village 2010-12-22T17:30:26Z

The practice, they say, takes rules aimed at preserving old architecture to their literal, and absurd, extreme. Stars battle to save Smithfield market 2013-07-20T23:06:02Z

Let’s hope so: it’s absurd to think that a writer so dedicated to exalting the stories he loved should be denied the same passionate appreciation—the chance to influence in the same way. Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

The whole concept of separating the art from the artist, as you say, is absurd. Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

“Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and lick the pregnant hinges of the knee, where advantage may follow fawning.” Style Invitational Week 1433: Questionable Journalism 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Even more absurd, she is called “brave” for it. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

So it appears that Viator is denying your request for a refund because you didn’t cancel within 24 hours — which is absurd, of course. Travel Troubleshooter | A canceled Viator tour, but no refund? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

The fact that “Trump versus Clinton will almost surely be the choice this November,” they observe, is the result of the totally absurd method of election used in the primaries: majority voting.” Donald Trump, the ultimate “Survivor”: How watching Richard Hatch win laid the groundwork for Trump the GOP nominee 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

I realize that when people oppose this they say it’s a limit on free speech, which is absurd. Doxxing victim: “This isn’t about porn, this is about humiliation” 2014-03-02T01:00:00Z

The 1949 version seems absurd because it so recklessly abandons Fitzgerald's sublime blueprint – but sticking to it doesn't seem to work either. The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view 2013-05-14T14:21:41Z

The absurd comedy of this scene depends on Lynch’s satire of suburbia: if hubby comes home with wads of cash, who cares if he’s not the same guy who left? Twin Peaks recap: episodes three and four – nobody said it would be easy viewing 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Those latter-day films, he writes, turned the “grandiloquent and operatic” series into a franchise that’s “cartoonish and absurd, and more squarely aimed at kids.” Review | You think ‘Star Wars’ is childish? You don’t know the power of the dark side! 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

This business of shifting the attack on Mereen from land to sea is absurd. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Herbert retorted that he was witnessing and documenting a death over which he had no control, and he called the animal rights group’s complaints “utterly absurd.” In ?One Pig,? Matthew Herbert Finds Music in a Pig 2011-10-17T23:39:17Z

The characters are sketches at best and absurd caricatures at worst. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Muriel Spark 2010-05-13T14:52:00Z

"I said on day one this was all absolutely false and I'm certainly pleased that's now been admitted by the lawyers responsible for transforming absurd fabrications into a real-life nightmare for me." Attorneys apologize to Hollywood execs for filing 'untrue' sex abuse claims 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

Set during the German siege of Leningrad in World War II, the story follows two young Russians on a perilous, absurd mission. New & Noteworthy, From Quentin Tarantino to Comic Essays of Female Friendship 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

And the examples she cites range from gruesome to absurd. Born to riot: Why sports fans love to brawl, smash and set things on fire 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Emma Watson: Makes a very valid point about the absurd pressures placed on women with regards to expectations over family/partners and that being single is fine. ‘Self-partnered’ Emma Watson is right: we need more ways to be single | Brigid Delaney 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Frisch’s script, more absurd drama than comedy, will indeed strike you as obvious at times. Review | ‘The Arsonists’ at Woolly dramatizes the modern world on fire 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Depp replied: “It was one of the most absurd, unexpected statements that I have ever witnessed in my life so, yes, initially I did laugh because it was so strange.” Johnny Depp denies hurling phone at Amber Heard during breakup 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

A&E called the lawsuit meritless and the assertion that the documentary was suppressed “absurd,” saying its decision to not rebroadcast it additional times was based on lower than expected ratings. Filmmaker’s Suit Says A&E Networks Suppressed ‘Watergate’ Series 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Others are pointedly absurd: “Night vision only works on the north side of trees.” Review | Art’s sharpest social commentators since Andy Warhol reveal the state we’re all in 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

I tried to ask myself, What kind of curtains are “us”? It sounded like a completely absurd question with no sane answer. I finally own a home – and can relax my 'transient immigrant' aloofness 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

I curse the hours I have lost, The toxic fumes from your exhaust, the honkers; It’s really getting quite absurd; I’m watching drivers flip the bird As they go bonkers... Style Invitational: Do over the do-over — enter any of the year’s contests 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The writer-director Bernard Rose takes a highly indulgent view of its hero, seeing him as a modernday Robin Hood running rings around the absurd sheriffs who pursue him as he provides a public service. Mr Nice ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

I did a reader poll recently to test my theory that nothing our mercurial president might do or say — however absurd or outrageous — would be truly surprising. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Spot the fake news headline 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

And to introduce an old note of dissent, the real problem with Booker in an age of global fiction based on the Anglo-American tradition is its absurd omission of American writing. Is the Booker a barometer of the best literature? 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

But his show offers a keen and incisive distillation of how much has changed since the turn of the century, and how dizzying and absurd it can seem to people of any age. Review: In ‘Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!,’ He’s Too Hot to Live 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

The characters are caught somewhere between well-observed types and absurd caricatures. Review: Skewering White Pieties About Diversity in ‘Admissions’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Holed up with his unhappy daughter and a taciturn lab assistant, he fends off attacks by Russian, American and freelance spies, each of them a different shade of absurd. ‘The Unknown Man of Shandigor’ Review: A Sci-Fi Fable of the Nuclear Anxiety Age 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Our world has become as absurd as anything Cohen could conceive. Review | Sacha Baron Cohen still knows how to punk America, but his new show erodes what little trust we have left 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

The latter seems patently absurd in the age of “Fifty Shades,” but you can safely bet a Romney administration would do the same. GOP, hands off my porn! 2012-09-02T01:00:00Z

After more than a decade solving 208 of the most intricate, gruesome and devilishly absurd homicides in picturesque rural England, Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby has retired. Critics' Picks: Pianist Barnatan's 'Gaspard de la nuit' on new CD 2012-07-18T22:11:04Z

Finally, we might choose Camus’s third option, which is to live an “absurd” life, recognizing the futility of existence but accepting it and somehow finding happiness in the struggle. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Or at least step back, take a break and — as Goya prompted us to do — laugh at the absurd state of the world and the functionaries who rule and govern us. Review: In Goya’s Shadow, Andrea Fraser’s Videos Skewer Social Institutions 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

But when it came time to make the song’s now-legendary music video, Devo ran with the S&M theme to absurd extremes. Everything we thought we knew about Devo’s “Whip It” was wrong 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

From the more absurd trends like Batmanning and Cinnamon Challenge, to those with an underlying charitable cause like the Ice Bucket Challenge, social media trends spread like wildfire. The 15 social media trends that defined a generation 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

As a journalist, now, I can read the court documents and understand where – from American’s standpoint – this behavior was kind of absurd. My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Every barter is loaded with questions of fairness that can also sound a little absurd: Would you trade me a brick for two sheep? The Glorious and Barbarous Bartering of Settlers of Catan 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

He has no perceptible charisma, while his pseudo-scientific methods and historical affectations are absurd in the extreme. TV highlights 11/12/12 2012-12-10T20:00:02Z

It’s extraordinary to think that this absurd and wonderful parody of “Jonny Quest” has been on the air at various points since 2003. Smart Watch: “Better Call Saul,” “The Sinner” and more top TV picks of the week 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town section, meanwhile, found him seeming “unduly cheerful” for a philosopher of the absurd, a notion Camus gently rejected. Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Wry humor, absurd dialogue and unflagging energy propel a series of manic adventures — all realized in their own distinctive visual style — that lead, in the best Hollywood tradition, to the kids forming a band. ‘We Are Little Zombies’ Review: Rocking Away the Pain 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

To leave us mourning the loss of a baby ant seems to me both absurd and more than a little sentimental. | 'The Battle of Stalingrad': At Lincoln Center, Souls Suspended in a Siege 2010-07-21T21:17:00Z

The “Thank You for Smoking” author does something many authors have tried but few have managed: He effectively satirizes the Trump administration with an absurd tale narrated by the president’s imprisoned chief of staff. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

But something smears across the lower part of the painting, grisly and absurd: looked at from the correct angle, this distorted image reveals itself as a skull. A world of discovery is tainted by a dark shadow in Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors 2012-08-21T10:36:01Z

“Task: to be where I am. / Even when I’m in this solemn and absurd / role: I am still the place / where creation works on itself.” A Nigerian-American Bildungsroman, in Mormon Country 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

“It’s a very good time to be a political reporter if you’re any good,” he added, “but the salaries being kicked around are absurd.” 2016 campaigns are beefing up staffs. So are the media who will cover them. 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Davenport loftily asserted that “the Blacks seemed inferior to the Whites in ability to criticize absurd statements.” Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z

This is a bizarre film in many ways with baffling and sometimes absurd emotional moments – but with a radioactive atmosphere of pure, nauseous evil. Meek's Cutoff and Post Mortem shine at Venice film festival 2010-09-06T09:48:00Z

As the geological, financial and personal barriers the cousins face grow increasingly absurd, the movie works up a satisfying sweat. ‘The Hummingbird Project’ Review: They’re Running Cable and Chasing Money 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

I cringe at that thoroughly cliche thought now, but looking back, it seems only marginally more absurd than any other excuse I provided myself. The victory I never thought I’d see: How the Supreme Court just saved young gay lives 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

But Krasznahorkai constantly pushes beyond the expected, escalating everything to the brink of deliriousness with an absurd list of 20 banks. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Amazing story about what went down via @guardian: "It’s wholly turbulent yet far from barbaric: despite the slippery carpet below, it is a politely non-jostling, giddily absurd melee of bodies." Why Popular Culture Is Still So Obsessed With Vampires 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

I'm trying to create a show that catches you up on the news, but is specifically designed to find the funny and the absurd. Trevor Noah talks to Salon about worrying less about Trump’s spelling and more about democracy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Dropping the bomb of my dad’s death during final wedding preparations often seemed both absurd and maudlin. The Wedding That Wasn’t Sad 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

In the fictional world of “Tár,” the conniving conductor played by Cate Blanchett has been showered with an absurd amount of awards. Inside the Oscars’ Best-Actress Battle Royal 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

“Insect Fashions,” in which bugs strut down a runway, flaunting their absurd wings, legs, shapes, and patterns, is a kind of elevated taxonomy: a parade of eye-popping creatures, glorified by wit. Richard McGuire: The Art of the New Yorker Spot Illustration 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Barrow, who came up as a skateboarder in the ’90s, is often as acerbic as he is absurd — a relentlessly perceptive older brother. Skateboarders Won 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

The claims are "so fictitious and extravagantly absurd that he is not going to comment," said his spokesman. Farrow paternity story 'absurd' 2013-10-03T10:45:37Z

I know it must sound absurd to people who aren't drug addicts, but it just seemed preposterous the idea of not taking drugs. Russell Brand: methadone is a bad way to treat heroin addicts 2012-08-11T23:06:16Z

In the principal role of Philip, Mr. Ryan oozes earnestness and yearning, doing his determined best to make credible Philip’s absurd behavior. Theater Review: ‘The Correspondent,’ a New Play by Ken Urban 2014-02-18T22:15:19Z

His signature laconic tone was unmistakable: wide-eyed yet world-weary, and shot through with grace and absurd humor. Review: Byronic Heroism Can’t Save ‘Sardanapal’ in Berlin 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

On Sunday Netflix will release 15 new episodes of the willfully absurd sitcom about the Bluths, a family of self-centered lunatics. ArtsBeat: The Final Countdown: Jason Bateman on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-20T18:00:08Z

The context suggests immediately how absurd it would be to divorce the Harlem Renaissance from questions of sociology and — most obviously — race. The dazzling Harlem Renaissance that flowered nearly a century ago celebrated in Ohio 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Because we live in the “Gore-Tex vortex” of Boulder, Colo., which means we travel with an absurd amount of outdoor gear, we added a Yakima Skybox to our roof. How to plan the perfect road trip 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Published in 1942, Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” remains a landmark of international literature, an example — despite its author’s denials — of the existential absurd. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

An absurd rating if it keeps away the young people who most need to hear these harsh descriptions of bullying. Review: ‘A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story,’ One Woman’s Push for Acceptance 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

It's simultaneously absurd and senseless, which makes the threat all the more frightening. HBO's "The Outsider" to "Wrinkles the Clown" – why the boogeyman is all over our TVs 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Age as a mitigating factor is absurd in this context. Perspective | So, what should we do with the Kyle Kashuvs of this world? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Describing huge groups of people in a few traits is absurd, but that doesn’t mean those reductionist ideas don’t shape us. Janeane Garofalo Never Sold Out. What a Relief. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Although the comedy is pushed to fairly absurd levels, the play never abandons the terra firma of naturalism, making Margery’s dalliance with Timothy a somewhat queasy subject for comedy. Theater Review: ?Hand to God,? by Robert Askins, at Ensemble Studio Theater 2011-11-12T00:45:29Z

Moments after we arrived, the trip became complete pandemonium when we spotted a black bear in our driveway, a scene made more absurd by my friend Jen shouting: “Journalism, Kinsey! Film this on your phone!” Why the often-parodied girls’ weekend is needed now more than ever 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

But Stafford Smith turns out to be positively bouncy with good humour and silly jokes and an eye for the absurd – so much so, in fact, that at 53 he retains an almost teenage quality. Clive Stafford Smith: 'The jury system in this country is utter insanity' 2012-07-08T19:00:02Z

No longer does David’s view of numbers — as spinning stars, as music — strike Simón as absurd. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

In fact, some of the prohibitions seemed absurd even at the time — I mean, no blindfolds, really? GOP, hands off my porn! 2012-09-02T01:00:00Z

The concept may sound absurd, but Marvel Studios has proved it can pull off superhero comedies, with this summer’s highly successful Guardians of the Galaxy. John Slattery and T.I. Join Ant-Man 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

“Quixotic in the literal sense. This ridiculously absurd effort to do something in an environment that’s so hostile to art.” How Much Hip Can the Desert Absorb? 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

To argue that entertainment does not impact culture is absurd. Fresh spate of sexism, violence ominously familiar 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s the subject matter that seems absurd. Weeding the Worst Library Books 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to drum up actual feelings about the goings on when they’ve become too pulpy, magical, or absurd. Let the Flayings Begin! “Game of Thrones” Returns 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

I knew the city was becoming more expensive by the day — but $6.55 was absurd, even in Washington, D.C.. Coffee and community improvement districts: Unpacking the mystery of the $7 Starbucks macchiato 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

During the pre-game or breaks, you can ramble on about that Pepsi ad or absurd spectacle that is the halftime show. A Guide For Looking Smart About the Super Bowl 2011-02-04T06:00:00Z

Like many of our late-night dinner schemes it never quite got off the ground, but our shared sense of the absurd is also sometimes not so funny. My friend the Iraqi 2013-03-21T00:00:00Z

Whether on a sketch program or an ostensible game show like the absurd, clue-driven “Take a Good Look,” Kovacs was always the real main event, aiming to surprise, entertain and, perhaps above all, play. That Kovacs Touch: Comedy?s Lunatic Fringe 2011-05-06T23:24:49Z

By embracing the absurd and truly embodying it, Colbert has made politics and public policy uproariously funny, while providing much-needed bouts of sanity for devoted news junkies. Conservatives just aren’t funny: Why the right will never have its own Stephen Colbert 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Yossarian’s only way to avoid the missions is to declare insanity, but the only way to prove insanity is a willingness to embark on dangerous missions, thus creating the novel’s absurd ‘catch-22.’ George Clooney's 'Catch-22' reflects on 'insanity' of war 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

He noted that even if Bulger's defense strategy was as "absurd" as many felt it was, it would still have forced open the trial to the larger issues that swirled around it. Whitey Bulger: An American crime drama 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

While these stories are often absurd, they are nevertheless clearly intended as comments on where we are and where we’re headed. Review | Chuck Klosterman tries to make sense of our absurd reality in ‘Raised in Captivity’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Wary, touchy, proud, sometimes slightly absurd, he becomes a wonderful subject for himself. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

An absurd understatement, I mean, since it’s one of the great individual human achievements of all time. Human spirit climbs to another level in Free Solo 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Eric was mostly just annoyed at the absurd questions he’d wake up to every morning, one of which was about the anonymous woman who claimed her husband bit her as a result of her diabetes. When Your Love Life Is a Punch Line 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

The story gets more extreme and absurd from there. Is Lakeith Stanfield the coolest actor of 2018? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

One cannot be a burglar without breaking into a structure, and the law goes to almost absurd lengths to define what these structures might be. Geoff Manaugh's 'A Burglar's Guide to the City' is a unique take on urban planning 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

The museum's offerings range from the absurd to the historical. Moscow sex museum sparks controversy 2011-07-12T14:29:02Z

Nor would it be absurd to note the resources available to both. Kim, Caitlyn, and the People We Want to See 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Hallucinogenic and frequently absurd, they alternate between the barbarically cruel and the banally quotidian. In Munich, Young Directors Offer Horrors Both Real and Fantastical 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Chapter by chapter, we shift back and forth, from the ever-swelling calamities at the academy to the absurd machinations of Hollywood. Review | Emily M. Danforth’s ‘Plain Bad Heroines’ mixes up a delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

The viewer feels no sympathy for Chip, while Galifianakis’s flair for the absurd and postmodern slapstick actually works against the verisimilitude and utterly banal Bakersfield feeling that the show works hard to create. How much Zach Galifianakis is too much? ‘Baskets’ pushes the limits. 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

One reviewer called it “absurd” and “impossible to imagine,” but the event has solid support from other sources. ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and the History in Historical Fiction 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

“We can see many absurd things like people flying to see the coral reefs before they die,” she said, noting that climate change is a main culprit in the reefs’ deaths. The No-Jet Set: They’ve Given Up Flying to Save the Planet 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

He even marked the place, time, and date in the titles, with absurd formality: “Phoenix, Arizona. Friday December the Eleventh. Two forty-three pm.” Psycho at 60: the enduring power of Hitchcock's shocking game-changer 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Whoever is deemed the loser — which is usually the one who couldn’t work up the nerve to do or say whatever ­absurd thing the others asked — is given a punishment. These four friends grew up pulling pranks. Then they turned their shtick into a cable TV empire. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Presented with a hobby that some might dismiss as pathetic, Jamison’s empathy engine begins to rev, to seek “beauty in what other people found absurd.” Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

How absurd to think that black-and-white photographs from 100 years ago would produce colors in the same way that digital photographs do now. How AI is hijacking art history 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Her prose rambles from animal gags to dirty talk to infinitely beautiful meditations on the nature of perception that deflate and turn absurd before they can turn philosophical. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

In contrast, Times of London reviewer Libby Purves found it "absurd and hugely enjoyable," with terrible dialogue but "brilliantly clever" design and powerful performances. 'The Bodyguard' stage musical opens in London 2012-12-06T13:21:10Z

This is a frivolous lawsuit for absurd claims that are made-up and fabricated. Former nanny sues Sharon Stone, claims harassment 2012-05-24T00:34:09Z

It was so absurd I could only laugh. Next Stop: Uncovering Charms in Montenegro’s Capital 2013-09-05T13:01:37Z

Asking business schools to stigmatize all behavior that does not maximize welfare would be absurd. Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z

Eça is a master of the absurd and his novels are full of such nincompoops, our cowardly alter egos. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Another that I usually abhor are on relationships or self-help, but I’ve really enjoyed Laura Kipnis’s “Against Love” which explores the absurd rules of love and marriage in the West since the 19th century. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

There is no divine appearance in Kill List, no conjuration, just bleakly absurd acts of extreme aggression, suicidal and murderous all at once. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

"The art world is filled with absurd price tags that most people find impossible to justify," Daniel Blake, vice president of value brands at Anheuser-Busch, said in a statement shared with Fox News. Natural Light unveils $470M diploma display to highlight college debt crisis 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

I suspect not, because some of their recommendations are absurd. Why the Research on Viewing Is Best Ignored 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The “Miss Universe official” states that only Putin could have approved holding the pageant in Moscow, which is absurd. Was the 2016 Election a Game of ‘Russian Roulette’? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

That sounds absurd, since all clothes are theoretically clothes you wear. Diary of a Cruise Season 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Bernstine is always a revelation and always a gift, a sandpaper-voiced actress of good sense and great humanity with an ability to make the absurd seem perfectly plausible. Review: In ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,’ Co-Workers Weather the Storm 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

But as Jason O’Connell proves in a hilarious and explosive performance as Harold, the cult of masculinity that Vonnegut lampooned is still with us, absurd and menacing and terribly, terribly vain. Review: Toxic Masculinity, Vonnegut Style, in ‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

At first, it was just absurd and funny. ‘Not Much Scares Me.’ Then She Entered the Haunted House. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Also German comedies, Bulgarian costumes, Romanian hotels, fatherhood and the anxious, absurd state of the human race in the 21st century. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Then Will pointed out that would be absurd; this was a church. I do, again: ‘There is nothing as deadly serious as a second marriage’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z

Despite the publication's typically absurd claim to a daily readership of 4.3 trillion, the intent of the brief is far from ridiculous. 4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong — why The Onion’s defense of satire should be heard by SCOTUS 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

Inwardly, he dissects the absurd banality of his life while he observes, with an acute sense of cynicism and occasional brutality, the slow decline of his doting middle-age parents. ‘The Evenings,’ a Dutch Classic, Arrives in English. It Only Took 70 Years. 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Season two has been exciting, tense, infuriating and absurd in equal measure. Homeland: season two, final episode 2012-12-23T22:30:00Z

“We are in one of those rare unharmonic convergences when reality is more absurd than satire,” Dowd begins one column entitled “The Mogul and the Babe.” Maureen Dowd’s Latest Book on Everything Hillary and Donald 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

In its golden age, The Simpsons was silly, sweet, deep, fiercely political, absurd, sharp, sad and, above all, hilarious. When good TV goes bad: how The Simpsons ended up gorging on itself 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

What if we are detained on arrival due to the absurd difficulty of entering the region? Searching for Saboun Nabulsi, the olive oil soap that connects Palestinian-Americans like me to home 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

It’s an absurd, naïve and beautiful moment, a willful defiance of all the rules of proper filmmaking. Xavier Dolan’s ‘Mommy’ Depicts a Clashing Mother and Son 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Stephen’s ressentiment drives him to more and more desperate choices, less and less realistically, culminating in an absurd and anticlimactic trip across the country. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

I don't know any serious Black intellectual, artist, or activist responding to Ye's absurd claims. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

But it hasn't a clue what to do with its own potential, quickly dissolving into absurd logic. 'Man on a Ledge' plunges into silliness after illogical missteps 2012-01-25T21:45:04Z

That was the trouble with the clans; they had an absurd notion that every man’s voice should be heard in council, so they argued about everything, endlessly. Our “Game of Thrones” fantasy: Democracy is almost nonexistent in Westeros—and we like it that way 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

And this may seem like an absurd statement, but every woman I married, I really loved when I married her. Kenny Rogers opens up about childhood, career in memoir 2012-10-01T21:23:16Z

This acceptance of stillness in such a loud, spectacular book, which may also be read as Beatty's brand of narrative whispering, is where this novel is at its most dazzling and ironically its least absurd. Paul Beatty's bruising, satirical 'Sellout' is driven by black voices 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Still, a Christmas feast without its meaty centerpiece of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding seemed a little absurd. For Christmas With the McCartneys, a Vegan Yorkshire Pudding 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

In 1980, Wolfe emerged from his self-imposed netherworld with “In Our Time,” his book of mocking sketches and stinging essays about the 1970s’ absurd fashions, trendy morals and silly conceits. Tom Wolfe’s Lesser Known Career as a Cartoonist 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

While that small drama is consuming everyone, a patient dies in the most absurd manner imaginable; Dawn receives life-changing news; and the future of the unit itself is threatened. ‘Getting On,’ Played With Crudity and Grace 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

"Everything was wrong, the world was absurd," he wrote in his memoir. 50 years later, Dylan's motorcycle crash remains mysterious 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The absurd situation raises questions about authority and the nanny state. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-08-17T23:05:38Z

What is absurd is that they could have had a cup of tea and talked to him. Cliff Curtis on his "slow burn" Maori cop thriller "Muru" and how it's like "Avatar" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

We spend an absurd amount of time watching Ben Carson study for school, but later, his wife’s miscarriage is wrapped up in approximately 30 seconds, as if it’s no big deal. Ben Carson’s hilariously bad TV biopic: Outrageously incoherent and brimming with obnoxious politics, it’s a quintessential Carson calling card 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

She also found herself stumbling upon practices that sounded almost too absurd to be true. A long history of being dissed: New audio book uses humor to recount mistreatment of women 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Zweig at the time was regarded as one of Europe’s most prominent humanist-pacifists, and the absurd crudity of the police action so outraged him that he began packing his things that night. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Not only did the prodigal son return, the success of the Take That reunion has endowed Barlow with a stamp of absurd authority. This week's new live music 2013-01-05T00:06:06Z

Now, she is obviously looking for another opportunity to cash in," Bloch wrote, in a statement "This is a frivolous lawsuit for absurd claims that are made-up and fabricated. Sharon Stone sued by former nanny 2012-05-24T11:15:38Z

But they’re also absurd, stale, embarrassing — in the same way that seeing the world through the lens of your social media feed is absurd, stale, embarrassing. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The premiere opens with a sequence set to “Galaxy Song,” Monty Python’s cheerfully existentialist ode to the absurd miracle of life. On ‘Better Things,’ a Small Story Goes Out With a Big Bang 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

All of this striving — absurd, tragic, grotesque and beautiful — can feel like too much. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z

My tastes run more towards the dark and absurd than the epic and grandiose. My life with J.J. Abrams: The moral code of the celebrity Doppelgänger 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

As Barry weaves in and out of gridlocked traffic, gently singing to himself, each of his pursuers falls away in absurd accidents, the most ludicrous culminating in a perversely ridiculous stand-off at a car dealership. From beignet bites to a deadly dance, here are 2022's best TV episodes. Well, six of them, anyway 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

This, though literally absurd, is metaphorically as near as we get to a solution of the mystery. Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

The statement is in such absurd contradiction to the sights depicted on film that you wonder, nearly 70 years later, how anyone could have bought into it at the time. Ansel Adams' Manzanar photos at Bainbridge museum 2011-07-26T04:11:47Z

A lottery for a high demand show like ‘Hamilton’ is absurd. Would You Pay $849 for Tickets to ‘Hamilton’? Readers Respond. 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

When I wrote it, people seemed to find the characters’ global concerns absurd. Has Your Dystopian Play Come in Handy? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

It catapults toward fury, and the mood rubs off, in part because we’re seeing it in Washington as a presidential campaign tails off into its own absurd rings of overheated subplots. A political ‘Kiss’ with theatrical surprises at Woolly Mammoth 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

But as the weeks have gone on, Olivia has become an absurd character. The Bachelor: season 20, episode four recap – are these people space aliens? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

To observe that a play about extreme suffering is also explosively funny might seem absurd. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z

The premise is yet another example of Holofcener’s ability to mine the mundanity of life for the absurd. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nicole Holofcener on the Absurdity of Everyday Life 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a beautifully absurd moment in a movie that wittily points to and sometimes upends its narrative. Movie Review: ‘Le Grand Amour’ by Pierre Etaix 2012-10-18T23:49:11Z

And I really try not to cross it and have it become absurd for the sake of being absurd or crazy for the sake of being crazy. Dead Tree Alert: TV’s Bumper Crop of Blood; Plus: Kurt Sutter on the Uses of Mayhem 2013-02-28T13:14:43Z

Yet another permits a member of pop royalty to poke at absurd designations of racial identity in the knowing way of a person who has dealt with such questions her entire life. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

It is the creepiness of our time, the strangeness of our cities, the paranoia of this absurd age. A modern masterpiece: Mike Nelson's The Coral Reef 2010-06-14T12:55:00Z

I, for one, found something cathartic in Dr. Illouz’s brief critique, when she called Ms. Winfrey “absurd” for “making suffering into a desirable experience.” Beliefs: The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering 2011-05-28T00:30:15Z

When you look at it this way, all of the absurd verbal bowing and scraping is precisely the point. Why the baroque politeness of diplomatic notes is what the world needs now 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Day converges with night; people cavort nude or in absurd military costumes; familial, class and animal-human relationships are turned upside down. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

They used a tape recorder hidden in a briefcase to record their absurd encounters. Mal Sharpe, Groundbreaker in Street-Level Pranking, Dies at 83 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

The field of obstetrics requires women to enter into an absurd realm, or perhaps to simply remain within the absurd realm in which we already exist. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z

“This Is the End” offers an entirely different and fictional global apocalypse, which starts with a sinkhole in Guatemala and plunges into absurd battles with demons, cannibals and an ax-wielding Emma Watson. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Hell or High Water’ and ‘This Is the End’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The moviemakers had an enormous heads-up — one bigger than the absurd skyscraper the fictional Mr. Grey resides in — about these issues. “50 Shades” of coercive sex: The movie is even worse than the book 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

“The guy whose idea to save the Middle East was to reconstitute the mercenary armies of old — saddle up, Hessians, we’re going in — that guy finds your ideas absurd — How does that taste?,” Jon Stewart nearly packs up his bags after learning the latest Donald Trump news 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

If you could only choose one absurd exaggeration, would you say you are the least racist person in the world or the most respectful of women? Style Invitational: You’ve got the powers — what would you do with X-ray vision? 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Having thus stipulated, it would also be absurd to pretend not to notice the connection. ‘We Own This City’ Review: Baltimore Police Problems, Rewired 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

And never mind that it’s absurd to require artists to pass such litmus tests in the first place. Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

These titles make adults out of them; attempts to ban such books would constitute banning adulthood, which is absurd. John Steinbeck attracts the wrath of parents in Turkey 2013-01-11T20:00:14Z

Because as I learned more about Silicon Valley, and how everything works, it can be an absurd place. The Women of ‘The Dropout’ Want to Humanize Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

But then everything to do with this character is patently absurd. | 'Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter': Their Bright Teenager Is a Cannibal 2011-04-11T21:51:44Z

In hindsight, some of the Academy’s choices can seem downright absurd. The 12 Most Controversial Best Picture Oscar Winners of All Time 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

As disembodied limbs point and wipe amid fields of symbolic props, the gestures of the powerful are rendered hollow and absurd. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

One critic, Jason Holz, had even started a Change.org petition to convince fair organizers to ditch the doughnuts, calling the idea “absurd.” Minnesota State Fair removes doughnut offering from 2019's New Foods List amid controversy 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

The traditional Italian cocktail is bitter and bubbly, with just enough sweet and tart flavors for balance, best served over ice in a balloon glass so big it goes past absurd into downright glamorous. The best non-alcoholic spritzes to buy or make at home 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

The bad news is Columbia Pictures shelled out $42 million to make the absurd take on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Box Office: 'Aquaman' stays strong with $51.5 million in second... 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Never mind that the accusations of anti-Americanism are absurd on their face. At the Telluride Film Festival, the Past Isn’t Safe at All 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

It’s an image that is at once absurd, tender and vaguely terrifying as we realize Carl is past the point of no return. What’s the best show about poverty, crime and crazy sex? It’s ‘Shameless.’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Even though I might make slightly absurd films, I am more affected by work that is grounded more in reality. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

For subject-hungry Hollywood, it is too juicy a story to resist: a tale of megalomania, scandal and surreally absurd incident, with a supporting cast of colourfully extreme characters. White House downer: why Hollywood should steer clear of a Trump biopic 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

For Camus, Sisyphus is “the absurd hero,” condemned to search for meaning — to keep pushing uphill — in the total absence of meaning. Review: Compassion Is Expensive for a Cabby in ‘Old Stone’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

But viewers have to wade through too much absurd plot and incoherent moral messaging to find the rare meaningful moments, and I don’t think many will make it. Is Netflix’s ‘Insatiable’ as Offensive as It Looks? Let’s Discuss 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jacquot shot much of it at Versailles, which deepens the period verisimilitude, yet while the gilded rooms and satin clothes look sumptuous if often suitably absurd, almost clownish, the people in them breathe. Movie Review: ‘Farewell, My Queen,’ Set at Versailles 2012-07-12T21:53:22Z

Soon enough, Donald Duck was wearing a sombrero and dancing with a parrot named Jose — absurd stereotypes, perhaps, but a lively bit of multiculturalism for wartime audiences. Are we ready for a gay Disney princess? We may be closer than you think. 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

A spokesperson for Scholastic, Rowling's American publisher, commented: "The court's swift dismissal supports our position that the case was completely without merit and that comparing Willy the Wizard to the Harry Potter series was absurd." Harry Potter plagiarism case thrown out of US court 2011-01-07T12:55:43Z

This is a realm of absurd stock characters and hoary narrative devices: cruel governesses, kindhearted orphans, counterfeit wills, hidden passageways, long-lost relations, doppelgängers, clues hidden in paintings, castaways, coincidences, sudden returns from the dead. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

“It’s absurd – I’ve never really owned my representation as a woman. My history has been invented by the imaginations of men.” Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

The bathos of the latter tends to casts an absurd light on the former. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

It would be absurd to see Tudor England as more economically realistic than Medici Florence. Velázquez: the artist of Spanish decline 2012-06-11T09:48:33Z

As each expert indulges his own biases, Toña and Polo reenact the prelude to the train wreck, but with absurd exaggerations. Gala’s ‘Yo También Hablo de la Rosa’ punctuates its social commentary with humor 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

It is the pun simultaneously multiplied and reduced to the absurd. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z

While Horn is hidden away in the studio, adding final touches to the double Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, Morley twiddles his thumbs and dreams up ever-more absurd gambits to hype it. ZTT: 'Every record company panicked after Two Tribes' – a classic feature from the vaultsZTT: 'Every record company panicked after Two Tribes' 2013-01-01T11:00:00Z

Portraying this as an exposé was especially absurd because The Post’s first story last week made clear that none of the women approached the reporters. Perspective | The ugly echo chamber of Hannity and Breitbart is why women wait so long to report abuse 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

In other words it’s another dream of America, feverish, lovely and absurd. Review: In ‘The Salvation,’ a Hero Lays Waste, Western Style (Danish, Too) 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

So far, the tv series has not improved the novel, but I will hang on because of Hugh Laurie and my absurd hope that films and tv shows will miraculously get better. ‘The Night Manager’ Premiere: Do You Have to Love le Carré to Like This Show? 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

The hat provides the element of the absurd that Mr. Currin is known for. Jennifer Lawrence’s New Vogue Cover: a John Currin Painting 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

His work is structured around the key insight that the ever-increasing presence of the camera in both public and private life legitimises or even occasions behaviour that would otherwise be recognised as absurd or harmful. Chris Morris: the Orson Welles of British comedy? 2010-04-14T09:03:00Z

Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said that would be absurd and called the situation the defense team's own fault for refusing to delay the trial when he and the judge suggested it. Defense for Jackson doctor might seek trial delay 2011-04-29T19:49:19Z

Framing Harriet’s crisis with Ben as mere ambivalence feels comically absurd. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z

Everything here is just taken to its absurd extreme and features a tone-deaf dude without a shirt swinging around a cartoon sword. Son of Zorn: the strangest comedy on TV 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

It may fairly be said of Hillenburg that creating "SpongeBob Squarepants," and causing millions of people to laugh through the absurd antics of that show's carefree characters, was likewise his first, best destiny. Stephen Hillenburg, who brought joy to millions with “SpongeBob Squarepants,” dies from ALS 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Fraser takes us from this absurd and awful situation across five decades of British history, which were marked by near-constant parliamentary and public debate and agitation about the rights of Catholics. Antonia Fraser Revisits a Volatile Era in British Catholicism 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

“There’s absurdism in the news right now,” he said, “and it’s getting more and more absurd in a very despairing and awful way.” Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Thomas Adès … 'Most of the time I sit and watch operas and think: this is all absurd'. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z

A concatenation of many things gave Mr. Haggerty the unusual — he frequently called it “absurd” — inclination to make gay country music. Patrick Haggerty, ‘Lost Pioneer’ of Gay Country Music, Dies at 78 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

“It is so absurd,” he said, explaining that he sees himself as “the last exponent of the social center,” not a right-wing figure. A German Painter’s New Rule: ‘Never Answer a Critic’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Scott Smith provides a parallel text about experiencing performance as life-enhancing, then takes it to absurd extremes. Dance Review: Vincent Dance Theater in ?If We Go On? 2010-04-16T22:37:00Z

High demand, unseasonably cool temperatures in farming regions and limited supply are resulting in scarcity or absurd prices for the latest “it” food. Cauliflower is so hot right now you may not be able to afford it — or find it 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

And yet what seems absurd on the page is often tragic, even operatic on screen. Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z

Even with the vintage watch market reaching absurd heights, those models may offer a relative deal. Omega’s Moonwatch Enters the Stratosphere 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Charming and simple but impeccably made and acted, “The Man in the Hat” courses through with a love for stories, cinema, and above all, people — in all our random, absurd and banal glory. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

No sooner do you walk into the building where New Century Theatre Company’s “The Trial” is playing, than you are thrust into Kafka’s absurd world. A spellbinding descent into chaos: ‘The Trial’ 2013-04-11T18:36:42Z

It’s somehow all even more absurd than it sounds. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Archer’ 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Noah was given six weeks to create his own version of the program, all during a presidential campaign that became so absurd and unprecedented as to seem the work of deranged comedy writers. How Trevor Noah went from biracial youth in S. Africa to leading light on U.S. TV 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The Chicks staged dramatic readings of the most absurd takes over Zoom. The Chicks Are Done Caring What People Think 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Although Gough's mannered elegance was hardly suited to the social misfits erupting in the new wave of British drama or the theatre of the absurd, he did not ignore either movement. Michael Gough obituary 2011-03-17T19:38:43Z

Early in the play he remarks, regarding the lurking match seller, “I really can’t tolerate anything so absurd, right on my doorstep.” At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

As Allen says, “This is absurd — as if ‘life’ consisted of production values or hokey premises or unearned, happy endings.” In support of Stephen King 2012-07-18T14:16:00Z

That scene was a lot of fun, it was physical, and absurd, and over the top. Joe Alwyn gets into three (very different) characters 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Theirs is for survival and ours is absurd in comparison. Jake Gyllenhaal: 'End of Watch changed my life' 2012-11-08T17:01:46Z

To speculate on whether an absurd novel influenced Rausing would be ridiculous. Did Hans Rausing read my book? 2012-07-22T19:00:07Z

The Spectator’s wine writer, Bruce Palling, called natural an “absurd clean cult”. The cult of natural wine – 'this is like punk or acid house' 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

In Act I a bathroom solo that’s nearly absurd becomes an original expression of frustration. Dance Review: ‘Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises,’ by the Washington Ballet 2013-05-12T22:15:22Z

It often tackled subjects and themes that audiences weren’t used to seeing — foreign affairs, social trends, public-health issues — and did so with a combination of panache and subterfuge that today seems either absurd or visionary. Time Marches ... Backward! 2010-09-02T17:53:00Z

The charm of this Vine was its blend of the comic, the dubiously sexual and the absurd. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

He pleads — he often sounds frustrated, like you’ve just said something absurd and he’s trying to correct you without raising his voice. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

But Ginsberg’s breakdown seemed like an abrupt, absurd way to cull a cast member. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Watch: Switching Positions 2014-05-12T14:22:36Z

I can see it now: George — frustrated and whining about being excluded by the Master Sandwich Orderer, while everyone around him weighs in with their own absurd solutions. Perspective | Ask Amy: Sandwich issue brings Costanza to mind 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Panama City can feel rather absurd at times. Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z

There's some hilarious twangy banjo music, and it retains some of O'Connor's absurd jokes and funny stuff with a gorilla costume. Reading group: John Huston's Wise Blood is an unlikely cinematic feat 2012-12-21T15:10:19Z

This is the exact moment at which all of Colbert’s fans would say that it’s absurd to hold him responsible for this result, or anything, really, because he’s “just a comedian.” Colbert is not a pop culture prophet: Why we deified the “Colbert Show” host 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

In one particularly absurd scene from the second episode of the season, the much-younger Franco tries to encourage Tommy to get his act together and be a better father to his two teenage daughters. "Rescue Me": The tragedy of the modern guy's guy 2010-06-29T15:01:00Z

His most famous work, “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” is an absurd anthropomorphic romp that blurs the line between animals and humans, humor and pathos, life and death. Emotional heft and humor at the heart of Rajiv Joseph's 'Gruesome Playground Injuries' 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

As is customary, we left our shoes near the entrance and settled onto pillows on the floor around a low table that was soon covered with an absurd number of small plates. Next Stop: In South Korea, All Roads Lead to Yeosu, Host of the World Expo 2012-06-08T18:29:26Z

A film about slavery with any verisimilitude would be absurd anachronism if the word was avoided to soothe modern sensibilities. Django Unchained: is its portrayal of slavery too flippant? 2013-01-10T21:00:04Z

However, the author displays a knack for uncovering the absurd and delightful. 3 Books That Take Us Inside the Lives of Britain’s Royals 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

While the adult table might get bogged down in politics, kids will go down a rabbit hole of YouTubers and knock-knock jokes bordering on the absurd. "Mrs. Maisel" and lessons from the kids' table 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

Based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella, the story delves into questions of identity, psychosis and self-preservation with absurd and sometimes agonizing humor. | A Comedy Director Gets Serious 2014-05-02T21:15:47Z

She published her only New Yorker story, “How to Give the Wrong Impression,” in 1992, at 25, and the story, included here, remains cutely absurd enough to have the makings of a sitcom. Review: ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow,’ Except for That Illicit Affair 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Visually, then, is captivating, and despite a lack of narrative, it evokes a universe that combines Lewis Caroll's knack for the absurd with the underlying violence of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Limbo 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

I thought it was absurd and sad, but everyone is entitled to their opinion. Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist Is a "Manual on How to Be a Human" 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

“It took talking to four employees, not counting the staff in the First Aid building and thirty minutes for me to talk to someone in security. Thirty minutes! That is absurd!” Mom claims that Hersheypark 'dropped the ball' during alleged child abduction incident 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

I am a fan of Monty Python, and not just because I am English, but because we need to laugh at the absurd aspects of human nature, which is often far removed from authentic nature. Animal Doctor: Are my cats trying to play mind games with me? 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Memories of Christmas morning, for example, might warm our hearts; but seen dispassionately from the outside, the whole frenzied spectacle is bizarre and absurd and delightfully funny. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

A: I thought the script was oddly funny and dark and absurd, but also moving and relevant. Steve Carell goes from "Office" to end of the world 2012-06-20T19:27:37Z

The fantastical and absurd can sometimes yield more insight than realism. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

A dark humor threads through these pages, and the novel as a whole often combines the tragic and the absurd. This Week in Fiction: Annie Proulx Discusses Her Upcoming Novel, “Barkskins” 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

The band took the name from a lyric from a Tricky song Aaron: It was absurd! Hitting the big time 2011-03-07T16:40:17Z

It is absurd for Barr to claim that her support for Israel is why she was fired, particularly since support for Israel is still overwhelmingly the mainstream position in American politics. Roseanne Barr suggests she was fired by ABC because she is Jewish and supports Israel 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Objectively, we may know that the music is daft, speaking in tongues is absurd and the Bible is nonsensical, but it never feels as if we're being asked to sneer. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Revelations by Alex Preston 2012-09-25T14:27:51Z

While “Soprano” is considered a pioneering work in the theater of the absurd, Ionesco preferred the term “theater of derision.” The Week Ahead: Sept. 25 ? Oct. 1 2011-09-23T18:25:15Z

They seem absurd next to any fair measure or observation of the facts. License to kill: Can any amount of evidence convict a white cop who shoots a black man? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

It gave it a theater of the absurd feeling. Q&A with Rango Director Gore Verbinski 2011-03-04T16:50:00Z

And while most parents agreed that the idea of preschool homework was absurd, most also went along with it anyway. Motherlode Blog: Should Preschoolers Have Homework? 2012-02-22T16:49:08Z

All of her plays bear certain imprints: they are interested in interrogating women in power, in finding human tenderness and absurd comedy even in great tragedies, and in placing several generations of women in conversation. The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

But even so, suggesting that "upper-class Englishness" has ever been a concern of the judges is patently absurd ‑ and unfair. Irvine Welsh's Booker prize attack makes scant sense 2012-08-21T09:58:32Z

In Forbes.com in March I observed that much of what the driver told reporters was absurd. Why Didn't the Media Do a Better Job on Toyota 2010-07-22T16:20:00Z

It’s an absurd premise–stranger than fiction–but Streep refuses to caricature Jenkins, imbuing her with great heart. Off-Key, but on Point 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

In Hill's frame narrative, the much older Arthur listens to his step-children telling absurd ghost stories round the fire. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 2012-02-10T22:55:08Z

In some ways, assigning numerical value to works of art, as year-end lists typically do, has never felt more absurd. The best Seattle albums of 2020: Critics choose the top releases of the year 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

The book calls to mind the absurd, grim comedy of Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett, or Withnail and I. But it's also a joyous book. Not the Booker prize 2011: the shortlist 2011-08-18T09:45:51Z

Our law is as absurd as our finance. A novel by Hilaire Belloc with twenty-two drawings by G.K. Chesterton 2012-06-05T06:30:00Z

Sir Paul McCartney, whose barefoot stroll across the road gave rise to all manner of absurd conspiracy theories, welcomed the news today. Abbey Road zebra crossing preserved in asphalt as well as vinyl 2010-12-22T16:59:40Z

The fact that Coco's character is on a reality show that takes place inside a season where everyone else spontaneously bursts into song is uniquely absurd. "Dear White People" visits the "Big Brother" Cookout via a pointed parody of reality show racism 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, drawing on a prodigious memory, Cope spun memorable tales from mundane training incidents and absurd and wondrous encounters in battle-scarred European towns. 'How the World Was' a vivid tale of a 20th century California boyhood 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

And he did so with such success that he set in motion a cycle of product enhancement that has now been taken to absurd extremes: we're talking about razors of course. Kenneth Grange: A very British modernist 2011-07-19T16:08:16Z

What Germaine Greer called an "absurd version of masculine uniform" was often policed with vigour: gymslip-type tunics over collared shirts and masculine ties, precise regulations stipulating skirt lengths and the thickness of stockings. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

It makes the discussion of semantics, the political jockeying, the ecological philosophy, seem absurd, or at least beside the point. Don’t Call It Katrina 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Others, meanwhile, claimed that it’s absurd to protest a deceased shark at such an event. Dead shark 'paraded' through town at British seafood festival sparks debate 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

As absurd as “The Interview” is, the attack against it is more so. Absurd, this fuss over Three Stooges-like 'The Interview' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Women remain grossly underrepresented at the highest echelons of American science, and continue to face absurd claims of “innate” inferiority, whether from former Harvard presidents or senior engineers at Google. Mushrooms, Magma and Love in a Time of Science 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Robbe-Grillet calls for the creation of a new form of fiction that reflects the "more modest, less anthropomorphic world" we live in today – one which is "neither significant nor absurd," but simply is. In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z

Recently, he told CBS that his focus was “absurd public policies.” 7 times John Oliver perfectly captured what’s wrong with America — and triggered real reform 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

The use, or overuse, of Baldwin has been much lamented by “S.N.L.” stalwarts, who claim that his Trump seems merely to parrot, with no discernible point, the absurd falsehoods and braggadocio of the commander-in-chief. “Saturday Night Live” Takes on the Midterm Elections 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

The spinning accelerates, the platform now rotating without pause, along with the pace of the performers’ interactions, which grow messier, more intimate and more absurd. Review: On Faye Driscoll’s Life Raft, Spinning Toward the Unknown 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

As the show is reinvented at every outing, and the performers so seamlessly transform even the most absurd ideas into rapped stories, the quality of the audience input may not matter that much. Review | Lin-Manuel Miranda and Co. do it again. But this time, the hip-hop show is all for laughs. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

Existentialism in its Kunderian manifestation, like its cousins the absurd and the surreal, claims laughter to be an essential element of man’s defiance. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Joke-driven comedies, by contrast, start with the absurd and unbelievable and go from there. Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z

What our critic said: This is “a farce with teeth, a costume drama with sharp political instincts and an aggressive sense of the absurd.” How to Watch ‘Black Panther’ Free and Other Oscar Movie Tips 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

The best defense of “24” might be that it’s an absurd fantasy, where America has survived multiple nuclear attacks and major cities are free of traffic snarls. ‘24: Legacy,’ Scripted From Trump’s Dire Islamophobia 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Babies by this age! – seem more absurd than crossing those thresholds yourself. Marriage by this age! Babies by that age! When will we stop giving women deadlines? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

He pointed out the flaws in their thinking, and would satirize the absurd logical conclusions of their otherwise illogical governing process. Jon Stewart's Daily Show skewered the powerful and pushed US satire forward 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Another piece lists tired, absurd and yet not entirely banished slurs against African Americans. In the galleries: Bodies that are more than flesh and bone 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

“Yeah yeah, the character in the book is like, it is absurd to think that you could buy something and wear it, and it be a declaration of something intrinsic to you. It’s absurd!” This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

The Russian prison system is appalling but also absurd, filled with actors who are easily thrown off script. ‘Riot Days’: A Memoir of Punk Protest and Prison Activism 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Recoiling from absurd infatuations with third-worldism, even Maoism, on the left, many writers and intellectuals in Anglo-America began moving to the greener grass on the political right. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z

And what’s more absurd than using this monstrous Latin word in a song? Theater: Maybe ‘Orange’ Will Work 2013-07-19T18:16:37Z

That's the type of stuff that keeps me interested, real life in absurd circumstances. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 2: The World Said Enough 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

I liked that it was absurd and unrelatable in a lot of ways. Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z

The Daleks are a wonder of pop art's fantastic vision, at once absurd and marvellous. Daleks are a legacy of British pop art 2013-02-25T15:04:55Z

Many fingers have been pointed this way and that, including at Zimmerman, to account for this absurd outcome. He lost to George Santos. Now he’s trying to make up for it. 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

For much of the world, the zombie apocalypse is not some absurd fantasy; it’s a recent memory. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

To intrude yourself too much may be absurd. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

Its stagnant-to-slow growth, its incremental approach to adding new features and its adherence to formal limitation would be deemed intolerable or absurd in other corporate contexts. Twitter Is Stuck With Itself, Too 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

As the principals step forward for the final chorus of “A Weekend in the Country,” envisioning their upcoming visit to a grand estate, each carries a revealing and slightly absurd item of personal luggage. Review: In a Rueful ‘Night Music,’ the Clowns Are Finally Here 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

But nothing really adds up, and the ending is downright absurd. George Clooney off-target in "The American" 2010-09-01T00:04:00Z

Ronald Lauder, an American businessman and collector who is president of the World Jewish Congress, wrote to Mayor Geisel calling his justification absurd and asking him to reconsider. Why Did Düsseldorf Cancel an Art Show Honoring a Victim of the Nazis? 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

At first it was absurd and seemed to come out of nowhere. "Last Week Tonight" is a 2020 mood – bizarre, fatalistic, and inexplicably thirsty 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

It’s absurd, outrageous, digitally fabricated and needless to say the Flash will save the day. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

In his novel “The Zero,” Jess Walter used a Kafkaesque sense of the absurd to conjure the post-traumatic stress disorder the nation suffered. The 9/11 Decade: Outdone by Reality 2011-09-01T16:55:45Z

The jokes were easy and familiar, but the delivery was well paced and the physicality had a direction, broadening into bumps and flips as the requests grew more absurd. DanceNow Festival Keeps Performances Short and Snappy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

That might surprise some in the hospitality industry, considering that Mr. Levy was the frontman at Charles, a West Village bistro that took the unmarked, pseudo speak-easy restaurant to absurd lengths. Up Close: The Velvet Rope Comes Down 2010-10-27T18:04:00Z

To say that you lose track of time would be absurd, since nearly every shot that does not show a timepiece includes one character asking another for the time. Critic’s Notebook: In ‘The Clock,’ You Always Know the Time 2012-07-16T20:15:34Z

I am very interested in the plays of Will Eno, master of the profound and the absurd. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The process of discovery is never tidy or elegant; often it’s absurd, full of blunders, miscalculations and moments of terrible blindness. Books of The Times: Michael Byers?s Novel ?Percival?s Planet? 2010-08-22T23:51:00Z

So she brings her authentic love of cooking and crafting to plenty of absurd ideas you shouldn't try at home. Amy Sedaris on Her Hilarious New Show and Jerri Blank 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

But she has the viper tongue of a cynic, the woozy posture of a drinker, and the stubbornly absurd sorrow of an unrequited lover. Clarity, humor make this ‘Seagull’ fly 2013-01-31T17:44:16Z

But the body language abounded in absurd incongruities: now formally gracious but now bizarre, with one man manipulating a woman by her ankle; another woman wrapping her thighs about her partner’s waist. Dance Review: ‘Ballet Across America’ at the Kennedy Center 2013-06-11T20:57:15Z

This might be the most absurd restaurant in the UK, a Barbie-on-MDMA fantasy serving unintelligible food at prices to make your eyes water into matching pinkness. David Shrigley at Sketch, London W1 – restaurant review 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

For designers already at big houses, the pressures must reach absurd levels. | Fashion Review: After the Pressure, the Smoke 2011-03-09T00:49:32Z

The strongmen, dressed as Edwardian bathers, bring a touch of camp to their absurd manliness; the trapeze artists hangs on as if her life depended on it. Smoke and Mirrors 2010-08-18T20:30:00Z

The Michael Jackson vocal comparisons no longer seemed quite as absurd, his signature falsetto soaring and his tenor oozing poise and confidence. Review | The Weeknd embraces his superstardom at Verizon Center 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

These coincidences could be marvelously absurd, too, as when a boat emblazoned with the name Hornblower Hybrid trundled toward the reedlike Mary Read, a hulking impostor in the middle of her meticulous, melancholic solo. River to River Festival Embraces Ambiguity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

For centuries, of course, that has been the norm; mostly the role has been played by actors sporting more-or-less absurd humps, lumps, prostheses and braces to simulate the “bunch-back’d toad” described in the text. Review: Danai Gurira Makes a Sleek Supervillain of Richard III 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

With all due respect, it’s utterly absurd and disingenuous to suggest that DeGeneres — who challenged Jenner’s evolution on the issue in a calm yet respectful manner — has anything to do with her widespread unpopularity. Ellen isn’t your scapegoat: Caitlyn Jenner has no one to blame for her tarnished public image but herself 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

As it is, this band's nuanced grasp of the absurd slips a little at the end when the message becomes more partisan, with Occupy-style placards that say: "We are the 99%". Neon Neon – review 2013-06-08T23:06:01Z

Lennon’s play with pronouns reached absurd heights, of course, in the first line of “I Am the Walrus”: “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” ArtsBeat Blog: I Me Mine: The Beatles and Their Pronouns 2011-08-29T14:30:32Z

It suddenly seems like an absurd and dangerous thing to throw oneself into the ocean for fun. Three Decades of Lifeguards at New York’s Jones Beach 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

“People keep on telling me, ‘How can you cover an album on which the words are so absurd?’ How Angelique Kidjo’s love of a Talking Heads classic turned into one of the year’s most vibrant albums 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

A faint aroma of the absurd clung to their names. Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The 1984 satirical rockumentary, “This Is Spinal Tap,” was inspired in part by the same aspects; the film got some of its biggest laughs by utilizing Led Zeppelin’s absurd 1977 Stonehenge stage set. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Luckily my movie is so absurd and funny that a lot of boys are like, “wow, that was surprisingly really enjoyable.” Happy 200th Birthday, Pride & Prejudice…and Happy Sundance, Too 2013-01-28T14:50:07Z

Three characters in various states of arrested development would be a tall order for most films, and it proves too much for one as enamored of the fey and absurd as Alison Bagnall’s “Funny Bunny.” Review: ‘Funny Bunny,’ About a Trio of Outsiders 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

I wrote to the Telegraph after I saw Lewis's absurd, grandiloquent, voluminous list quoting a maximum of two lines of poetry, which if he's standing for a chair of poetry, is entirely absurd. Oxford poetry professor candidates clash over 'Elizabeth Taylor's eyes' 2010-06-15T14:02:00Z

It’s better if the national dances of “Nutcracker” are more large-spirited than, as here, engagingly absurd. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Nutcracker? at BAM - Review 2011-12-15T23:14:49Z

The idea that I was going to have to go away from home for over a year and actually make a film just seemed so absurd to me. With ‘Tár,’ Todd Field Returns to Directing. Where Has He Been? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

The franchise, you’ll recall, began in 2013, introducing the meteorologically absurd notion of tornadoes that suck sharks out of the ocean and rain them down on urban areas. Review: A Shark Storm in the Desert. And That’s Just for Starters. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

I have a hard, possibly absurd rule about vintage clothing: I won’t buy something I, or my imagined self, wouldn’t have worn in its original time period. Critical Shopper: Raiding Someone Else?s T-Shirt Collection 2010-08-18T00:40:00Z

The fact that convicted murderers and rapists go free after serving only years or months in jail makes the cruel and draconian punishment for nonviolent crimes all the more absurd and perverse. Meet the real Walter White: This man sold meth to save his son’s life 2013-12-16T01:00:00Z

It was a result of retail therapy in the wake of my mom’s devastating death, absurd wedding indulgences and anticipation of freelance checks arriving any day now. I asked my husband to take away my credit card 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Many of the performances are over the top, especially the enjoyably absurd bravado of the warring emperors and the clownishly bizarre behavior of “the brilliant but underappreciated” general, Han Xin. ‘Under Siege’ Review: A Heady Mix of Dance and Martial Arts 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

It sounds absurd, but in his world, those two realities can coexist. Pyer Moss and the Power of Black Truth 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

A First Amendment expert calls the lawsuit absurd, regardless of whether the books contain fabrications. Author faces civil suit over 'Three Cups of Tea' 2012-04-18T11:46:04Z

We decorated our loft — exactly 1,300 miles from the closest set of relatives — with a 12-foot tree, the only thing that didn’t look absurd with our ceilings. Peace on Earth — and at home for the holidays 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

So the fact that there’s still something obscure about their first album as Future Brown is absurd. Future Brown, Confident Song Collective, Cooks New Stews 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

A pair of Brobdingnagian-size trousers are at once absurd and delightful. Perspective | At the Paris shows, disparate points of view beautifully coexist 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

The whole thing, he said, was “fake, absurd, amazing, delicious.” Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

She writes about the “intellectual, almost absurd distance” among her family members while she was growing up, and she frequently sounds like someone who sees the world at a remove. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

The self-conscious orotundity of his speech is emphatic but not overdone: he is gullible, not absurd. Othello – review 2013-04-27T23:07:10Z

“He really saw the Soviet regime as ridiculous and by extension, the explicit confrontation with it as absurd.” He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

If Waterston’s work is about the art world, it is about the deeper, structural corruption of it, not simply a visceral protest against its absurd excesses. ‘Filthy Lucre’ and the complicated relationship between artist and buyer 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Which, when you think about it, is what happens in the comedy we call absurd: jokes become funniest when they’re repeated so often that they stop making sense. Theater Review: ‘The Old Woman’ Stars Dafoe and Baryshnikov 2013-07-08T21:03:21Z

Her sister agrees, adding that the idea that women wouldn't like animation is an absurd cultural presumption, but one that still persists. Isn't it iconic? Alanis Morissette is Jenny Slate's imaginary friend in Fox's "The Great North" 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

But a half-hour phone conversation with Shore noticeably darkens when he is asked where his parents were throughout these absurd chores. The rebirth of Pauly Shore 2011-06-09T15:47:00Z

The dinner that follows is practically theater of the absurd. Charlie Kaufman's exasperating "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" could've been a masterpiece 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

It is getting increasingly absurd to observe intimate relationships filtered through the machinery of social media. Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

So, engagingly, there is plenty of room to recognise what makes Zakalwe laugh, "the sharing of time and place between the grand and the petty, the magnificently vast and the shoddily absurd". Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-07-27T21:50:00Z

That balance between the truly mournful and the absurd. ArtsBeat: Todd Haynes to Make Film of My Morning Jacket Show 2011-05-03T14:40:57Z

But the idea that brunch was ever anything but what Shaftel calls “conspicuous consumption disguised as urbanity” is absurd. Leave brunch alone! 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

However, she also blogs fashion photos, kittens, absurd gifs, found pictures of beautiful food with such frequency that the reader figures she must be eating the stuff often, and raves about Miley Cyrus. Anorexia’s scary online empire 2012-07-28T12:00:00Z

Donald Trump’s absurd yet frighteningly real campaign for the presidency is hard for anyone with a moral compass to see to its somehow plausible conclusion. We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

He might concede that his “Red Eye” was often “nauseating”—not to mention inane, ramshackle, mindlessly sarcastic, sneakily smart, patently absurd, and generally refreshing. In Praise of Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The prose is nowhere distinguished and is occasionally absurd. A Norwegian Novel Complicates the Canon of New Testament Fiction 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

She has an incredible amount of anchor cred from her years co-hosting “Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update and knows how to deliver absurd punchlines with a disarming twinkle in her eye. Amy Poehler? Louis CK? Who should host the “Daily Show” next 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

As almost anyone in fashion can tell you, there was a time not so long ago when the idea of his avoiding cameras and flashing lights would have seemed absurd. Zac Posen’s Path From the Red Carpet to the Bottom Line 2013-05-31T22:16:15Z

"It was the best job in the world, but I was doing sketches — a lot of absurd characters." 'Last Man on Earth' has the last laugh 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

When I tell him that gay bars used to be raided by police or that drag queens were once arrested for their art, he finds this absurd. Drag is not dangerous: How exposing your kids to drag performance can be a good thing 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

He speaks dismissively of actors of the nineteen-thirties and forties, who, he said, were “like breakfast cereals, the same with every role. . . . That kind of acting became absurd.” Just Let Marlon Brando Talk 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

“And then all these little kids share their ideas and thoughts — it’s profound and absurd stuff.” Kids at heart: Seattle musicians are devoted to their young audiences 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

Some modern readers claim that Blake's plot is absurd, but, as Martin Pugh points out in Hurrah for the Blackshirts!, Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

It wasn’t the Algonquin Round Table, but the chatter leaned toward the witty and the absurd. How I Became a New Yorker Cartoonist 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

His “Ring” is full of adults obsessed with appearing younger — through exercise, plastic surgery, absurd attempts at hip clothing — even as, more than in most stagings, they visibly age over the cycle. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

It was absurd how naive I had been. David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z

But the vivacity of his characterisations is just an incidental pleasure of this twisting and twisted set, in which the contents of Franken's subconscious – now absurd, now antagonistic – are paraded across the stage. Will Franken – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-09T15:24:46Z

Drunk on missionary zeal and military grade Red Bull, the dancers re-enact an absurd swing-yer-partner performance that just might bring peace to the Middle East. Can Art Change the World? With Song, Dance and Cowboy Clichés Two Shows Offer Different Answers 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

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