a husband without them is an absurdity.
"So far as practice is concerned the attempt is an absurdity.
That he should ever fall into a thoroughly unpleasant position—wear trousers shrunk with washing, eat cold mutton, have to walk for want of a horse, or to "duck under" in any sort of way—was an absurdity irreconcilable with those cheerful intuitions implanted in him by nature.
And now that the providential occurrence was apparently close at hand, it would have been sheer absurdity to think that the supply would be short of the need: as absurd as a faith that believed in half a miracle for want of strength to believe in a whole one.
The absurdity that clung to everything connected with Dirk Stroeve gave it a curious note, like an unresolved discord, but made it somehow more modern, more human; like a rough joke thrown into a serious scene, it heightened the poignancy which all beauty has.
The absurdity of her curiosity and her fears—could they ever be forgotten?
Nothing could now be clearer than the absurdity of her recent fancies.
Such absurdity!
The very absurdity of the thing shows her malicious intent.
She woke with a cry of horror—a gasp of relief—a short laugh over the absurdity of her dream—a miserable sickening recollection of what had happened.
Step 3 So, you have either to accept to live in a crazy world full of violence and absurdity, trying to be happy on your "personal island", where only your family and your friends have importance for you, or you have to transform this crazy world into a place where everyone will have the chance to be happy, otherwise you will never be really happy too.
Mr Scionti said: We are getting closer to reaching Churchill's prediction in 1931, who said that "we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium".
L'Étranger (The Stranger) 《》 Often one of the first books assigned to French-language students around the world, Nobel Prize-winner Albert Camus' 1942 novella about an absurd act of cruelty committed by an Algerian man named Meursault is unmatched in its profound exploration of the human psyche and the absurdity of life.
But as David Goldblatt tells us, little has changed in what is often a story of Olympic absurdity and its disconnect from reality.
However, its third season, which was kicked off on April 24, takes the series' comic absurdity to a new level.
Because we both knew that in Afghanistan, and particularly in Kabul, such absurdity was commonplace.
Bruni reminds us of the absurdity of obsessing over a kid's 14- to 17-year-old stage in life.
The 65-year-old, who reportedly spends much of his time in the United States, has a cult following for his intricately-crafted tales of the absurdity and loneliness of modern life, and peppers his work with references to pop culture.
when the heart of honor get hurt of time, the comity is to cure its good medicine , Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
" "All I really do is point out the absurdity of the fans and all the products," the anonymous blogger tells the BBC.
