Sentences with phrase «absurd insistence»

But there is not a single indication that Briffa would have preferred to leave the pre-existing curve as closer to the «truth», despite McIntyre's absurd insistence on his weird version of the facts.

Yet, there is this absurd insistence on natural ventilation when it comes to houses — despite research demonstrating poorer outcomes for indoor air quality, comfort and energy efficiency.

Many of his «reforms» had predictable disastrous effects, not least his absurd insistence that Windham High School must become two independent «academies» to serve the ideological purpose of offering «school choice,» even though the evidence is thin, to non-existent, that «choice» leads to increased educational equality.

Politicians — most notably, I'm afraid, Ed Miliband — have been pandering to this with their increasingly absurd insistence on red lines that can't be breached and manifesto commitments that can't be touched.

If the doctrine of sin received a strong emphasis in his writings, it was because he was attempting to save modern Christianity and culture from the sentimentality into which it had fallen «by its absurd insistence upon the natural goodness of man.