Sentences with phrase «absurd ideas»

Where do you get such absurd ideas from?

One of the most absurd ideas I've ever heard.

The viewer is presented with extremely fragile spaces that are looking both into the past and the future, brimming with absurd ideas, actions, and characters.

And yet, though the early decades of 20th - century Russia have been firmly registered in today's art history as a time of radical social and artistic change, the uncompromising and often absurd ideas in Avant - Garde Museology appear alien to a contemporary art history that explains suprematism and constructivism in terms of formal abstraction.

To take Black Ops 2 seriously is to admit that this collection of absurd ideas, worn - out gameplay clichés, and soapy plot twists bears any significance to the first - person shooter genre.

You hate yourself for loving its over-the-top excesses and absurd ideas.

So who is behind these absurd ideas?

Believing in the absurd ideas of an immortal soul surviving our own physical deaths to live happily ever after in heaven at the behest of some cosmic John Frum is every bit as silly as anything this cult did.

Faith is not an act of blind credulity or the acceptance of irrational and absurd ideas.

These are absurd ideas that take a kind of irrational view of the world to really want to achieve.

In hope of being unique, many entrepreneurs come up with absurd ideas that others have no interest in.

The cast do little to alleviate the poorly written script of its bad puns and embarrassing silliness, forcing us to group everyone together as the guilty party responsible for entertaining Schumacher's absurd ideas.

As a child magician, Shlaferman found the secret to inventing the coolest tricks was coming up with the most absurd idea, then reverse engineering it to figure out how to make it work.

Walden took interest in proposing legislation to ban the option because he thought the idea of minting a platinum coin to work around the debt ceiling was a particularly absurd idea that exemplified «the problem of people in Washington not understanding the reality» of the national debt.

Therefore, a believer in unicorns could easily say to me, no matter how absurd the idea, «unicorns are real, prove me wrong, scientific evidence only please».

At that stage of my life I would have joined the church on almost any condition, for I had this absurd idea that the gospel had marked me out for something, whether for reward, rebuke or ridicule I did not know; whatever it was, I felt inexorably driven toward it.

Wang Chhung, for example, cited a cyclic waxing and waning of the light of the sun and moon themselves - yang and yin - and dismisses as absurd the idea that the moon consumed the sun during a solar eclipse; for what then would consume the moon during a lunar eclipse?.

The longevity and popularity of the absurd idea that the United States could ever return to the self - sufficiency of the first half of the 20th century has long puzzled energy experts.

This is an absurd idea — if all our ways of explaining things are products of an evolutionary process, why on earth should we expect to have so powerful a tool?

And I am sorely disappointed that you promoted, by even mentioning, the absurd idea that we deliberately use nuclear explosions to mitigate climate change.

While an animal model of depression may seem like an absurd idea, currently, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), an endotoxin produced by gram - negative bacteria, is used to induce these clinical models in rodents.

Most men have no vision, and have an absurd idea of what is sexy or attractive on women.

I read this great piece yesterday by Mark Manson where he discusses how absurd this idea is.

Ignoring the absurd idea that somehow the Korean resistance to the Japanese was a key to the winning of the war (which the film explicitly states at one point), the creation of noble resistance heroes (even when sometimes compromised) versus the evil Japanese villain is pure escapist nonsense that passes itself off as realism instead of the Tarantino-esque fantasy it actually is.

Back in the long ago days of 2012, the idea of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum teaming up for a buddy cop comedy adaptation of the»80s television series 21 Jump Street seemed like an absurd idea destined for failure, and the movie right away poked fun at the lack of originality in its concept along with the industry trend at large of adapting old series.

That's the sort of absurd idea that a director like Lanthimos can run wild with, and it won the Jury Prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

His superiors initially balk at the absurd idea to transform the Americans into a Canadian film crew, but nobody else is offering a better idea.

I might even try that as a writing exercise myself... come up with a truly absurd idea mashup and see how well and seriously I can write it.

It might sound like an absurd idea, especially for two former professionals with a sizeable nest egg.

However, when I heard there was an actual competitive scene for video games, I laughed and thought it was an absurd idea.

«While films have The Bechdel test, my works have to comply with The Brecht test, which starts with an absurd idea, yada yada yada, and I'm here today showing you my work.

I * think * with that line he's railing against those who have the absurd idea they can «suck less,» much less succeed on any level, without putting in the work.

It should, however, be an absurd idea if you are a scientist.

It's this absurd idea that he «owns» the science that I was getting at... but I had been at the pub all evening.

Though his absurd idea, indeed a reductionist nonsense, that language is thought and, therefore, «necessarily», our thoughts are predetermined is probably more than you would like to acknowledge.

That's an absurd idea, given that one can perform a gauge transformation — change the zero of the total energy — without changing any of the physics.

It is no secret that driving without auto insurance is an absurd idea, driving with auto insurance does not protect you from everything.

One of my favorite scenes from the movie The Break - Up is when Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) comes out with the seemingly absurd idea that she wants Gary (Vince Vaughn) to want to do the dishes.

Not exact matches

There was an absurd element to the movie moment: The idea that the suspect was aided in evading arrest by following the information put out by his pursuers meant to apprehend him.

The idea of entrepreneurs working in glorified garages trying to solve one of the most ambitious problems in physics sounds absurd on the surface.

If not, the idea that you'll be wealthy and successful someday can seem almost absurd at times.

«Honestly, the idea that tax cuts have done nothing is patently absurd,» Cramer said.

As Einstein said, «If at first the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.»

At another time, the idea of a CEO with zero political experience stepping straight into the White House would be absurd.

The idea of waiting eight weeks for a couch delivery seems absurd, especially to younger consumers.

Given that tea is now curated, tequila comes in tasting flights, «master chocolatier» is a bona fide career path and fromagers have their own newspaper columns, the idea of a beer «sommelier» hardly seems absurd.

«No matter how ridiculous an idea, putting it into numerical form makes it sound respectable, even if the implied measurement is transparently absurd,» writes Seife.

«The idea of paying upwards of 1 percent in expenses for an ETF is absurd,» said Matt Hougan, the CEO of ETF.com.

«The idea of paying upwards of 1 percent in expenses for an ETF is absurd.

«The idea that we're waiting for a magic bullet is absurd.