Sentences with phrase «absurd situation»

... This is the kind of absurd situation you get when you take religion too seriously.

However absurd the situations may become in those films, they all rest on the personalities of the star - crossed lovers.

The genius of the film is that amid the in - jokes and absurd situations there's a pertinent examination of identity, celebrity and who actually controls our actions.

The viewer is invited into a visual world populated exclusively by middle - aged men engaged in ambiguous and often absurd situations.

Which add up, actually, to a pretty absurd situation.

However, you won't be able to predict where it's going to go from there, as Freeway continually puts its characters in absurd situations and delivers the unexpected.

That gives Apple more price flexibility, and should hopefully avoid absurd situations where the digital version costs much more than the paperback.

Essentially a string of gags loosely looped together, a set of absurd situations for the actors to clown their way through, Talladega Nights is an affable entertainment, both a celebration and a satire of lowbrow pleasures.

His works span across different media, including performance, installation and video, and «unveil upside - down and sometimes absurd situations from specific social contexts, questioning the contradictions and power relations in today's society.»

In her regular newspaper column, mock TV shows and other works, Eğrikavuk creates absurd situations that highlight the manipulative power of the media.

While questions about the divorced and remarried remain vague and unanswered, as often happens with the Holy Father, then it may happen that the following absurd situation occurs: A penitent [in confession] says he wants to continue living as husband and wife with his partner, and then he asks for absolution, referring to various bishops» conferences and finally to the pope himself.

Some rely on superstition, some rely on habit and routine, but all of them — at least those who aren't complete head cases in the ring — have something they lean on to tolerate the absurd pressure of what is an inherently absurd situation.

The script has some creative perks, including inserts of satiric humor amidst this outrageously absurd situation (though the film as a whole is far from campy enough to enjoy on that level).

Hints of emotional insight within the narrative remain unresolved yet some great comedic performances and absurd situations manage to carry the film forward.

Team up two guys from opposite sides of the tracks, maybe throw in a likable juvenile, and put them in ridiculous and absurd situations filled with hilarious dialogue.

Gunn's masterful grasp of action, humor, and heart, and his eye for finding humanity in the most absurd situations are the master key to unlocking Guardians of the Galaxy's continued success.

The duo bond over one absurd situation after the next, which include encounters with numerous bystanders, sympathetic bikers, clueless restaurant patrons and sassy child beauty pageant contestants.

Well, look around — every single day, you'll see the same absurd situation: Investors (& the financial media) constantly apply drastically different valuations to companies / stocks which share essentially the same underlying financial metrics.

Elliott Erwitt is an American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings — a master of Henri Cartier - Bresson's «decisive moment».

The artist's career often replies upon absurd situations and unexpected forms to express the unease of navigating through adulthood.

But my particularity is that my displacements and my relation to the field exist through a performative process: I experience in real time my condition — one of a migrant, an exiled Black man, a ceaselessly alleged offender — and I am always obliged to prove my humanity and face absurd situations imposed by life.

Look, this is a completely absurd situation.

Clad in underwear or sleepwear, her macho subjects are depicted in absurd situations that often involve bodily functions, suggesting that even these private moments are shared.

We would potentially fall into absurd situations where the drafters of the contract, a private website owner, may have to be called to court to ask them what their intent was behind specific terms of the contract.

It's full of cheesy one liners, plenty of absurd situations, a ton of pop - culture references, and the kind of tacky jokes that you'd expect to hear from your «trying to be cool» Dad.

He observes, give names to, and restage unconscious gestures, habits, fleeting poses, and sometimes absurd situations.

After the interim Liberal leader had expounded on the «absurd situation» before us — a cabinet minister unable or unwilling to stand in the House and explain his actions in helping divvy up millions in «border infrastructure» funds for bike racks and gazebos in his riding — the Prime Minister stood and restated the script about this having been «thoroughly aired» and there being «process improvements» to be made and so forth.

An absurd situation?

Regarding the other European top leagues in which a transfer window ended a day before, in Spain Barcelona remained calm on the last day, but before the Catalans have signed Arda Turan from Atletico Madrid and Vidal from Sevilla while Real Madrid due to an absurd situation have failed to sign Man Utd goalkeeper David de Gea.

Many women loved the HBO series Girls because of the absurd situations the infantile Hannah (played by show creator Lena Dunham) always found herself in.

It aims to end the absurd situation whereby a child can be denied a place at their local state school because their family is of the wrong religion or of no religion.

And you end up in the absurd situation where you stop these good, popular, life - changing schools from opening — by law.

After the delegation, Ian Lucas wrote about the visit in a blog for the Huffington Post, where he describes witnessing «an absurd situation» in Hebron «where settlers are protected by a massive Israeli Army presence, stopping day to day life for many local Palestinians who try to run shops and travel to their own homes.»

Denise Jewell Gee: «Boozy Sunday brunches may sound trivial, but this is just another example of the absurd situations that develop when inertia allows outdated regulations to sit on the books.»

«As well as the expense, it led to the absurd situation whereby we were funding a million spare bedrooms at the same time as hundreds of thousands of other families were living in overcrowded homes — with even more on council housing waiting lists.

Must parties meekly accept the «autonomy» MPs have of them, which too frequently leads to absurd situations and bad behaviour.

«We are in the absurd situation where if we increase the state pension, child poverty actually goes up,» he said.

When comedic timing and absurd situations are at their worst, «You Again» opts for moments of random slapstick to fill in the gaps.

Enough takes a reasonable premise - a battered wife tires of running and decides to fight back - and completely ruins it with an laughably bad screenplay filled to the brim with clichés and absurd situations.

But the real power is Reynolds delivery and the absurd situations he puts himself in.

But if you can put expectations aside and lose yourself in the ravishing dreamscapes and absurd situations that Maddin creates on his tiny stages with his mad collaborators, you'll discover a cinematic experience like no other.

It's a film that disdains the hysterical screeching of Divine Secrets of the Ya - Ya Sisterhood in favour of pleasant understatement and measured response — the rare movie about women that respects them while offering some genuinely funny moments based on character rather than absurd situations.

As always, Anderson finds legitimate warmth, humanity, and humor in weird characters, absurd situations, and weirdly stylized banter.

With a premise like that you might think the movie would be terrible, but it's actually very funny, with Johnson approaching the absurd situation with just the right amount of annoyance, and a great supporting cast — including Julie Andrews, Stephen Merchant and Billy Crystal — having the time of their lives humiliating him in every magical way possible.

I really love how our director, Jordan Vogt - Roberts, allowed us all to react to these absurd situations in an honest way.

For instance, I had a situation this year where an erstwhile, quite delightful young man named Charlie threw a book in my face in front of the rest of the class and I did find myself in the absurd situation of «what do I write that you should do here?».

We now have the absurd situation where 11 year olds will be tested on grammar that no adult has ever had to learn and the school will be judged afterwards on whether the head should be sacked or not as a consequence of these half - baked ideas.