Sentences with phrase «absurd ways»

Well, the fact that it might not be appropriate for a whole bunch of reasons to reproduce the email exchange with Peter Webster doesn't mean it didn't occur and doesn't mean it didn't provide me with evidence of someone defending the dogma in absurd ways.

The historical record shows that the old - timey rich, in their struggle to stave off ennui and entropy, devised some remarkably absurd ways of passing the time.

Once you find out just what's going on, you'll probably laugh at all of the absurd ways Rowan Joffe (The American, 28 Weeks Later), who is not very faithfully adapting the novel by S.J. Watson, has to contort the plot in order to get us all the way to the ridiculous climax that is supposed to be exciting and revelatory, when all of the while it is quite depressing and only raises more questions than answers.

We know he's strong, but he just keeps finding more and more absurd ways to show it.

Our capacity to deal with what we call the realistic problems of life would be weakened without this element which contains something profound in spite of the romantic and even absurd ways in which it may be expressed.

Others will try to make it appear our absurd ways are wrong, but doom awaits them.

This is one of the most absurd ways to pay an adviser, because it simply doesn't make sense, it's costly, and can create conflicts of interest.

Geben stepped up in an absurd way.

At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1935, the eminent astrophysicist Arthur Eddington declared that «there should be a law of nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way».

Most readers think that government may have spent the taxpayers money in an absurd way.

Once the studio comes up with an absurd way to revive all of its newer superheroes, the older ones will retire and the MCU will continue making successful movies for the rest of eternity, while the film industry smolders around it.

In a hilarious clash of cultures and conduct, the loudest laughs will emanate from the absurd way both cops and robbers traipse around Ireland attempting to mimic the Americanisms they have adopted from television shows and pop culture.

The first example of the learning of the debate is the one of the color: the defendant asserts, in an absurd way, that all colors are inevitably red.

Without prompting, Doig refers to the sale, saying «the way auction houses write about paintings as masterpieces seems such an absurd way to talk about a contemporary work of art.

As it is now the matter of uncertainty of the projections is handled in an absurd way by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Female cats, for example, howl and urinate everywhere when they go into heat, which is an absurd way to try to get a mate.

Not exact matches

«Laughable... they're suing us because the way the trucks look, which is absurd.

One obvious way out of the lawsuit would be for Allergan to say «come on, Pershing Square, your reading of the poison pill is absurd, of course it doesn't mean that, why are you embarrassing yourself with this lawsuit?»

It's absurd to suggest that only people who are «serious» about finding God will end up seeing things your way, because again... many folks will just never have the chance to learn about Jesus or the bible, because that information just isn't available to them.

The sentiment behind the interview and its fallout is as clear as it is absurd: It matters not how a professing Christian loves, or how much fruit of the spirit is exhibited in his or her life; the only way to determine whether someone is a «real Christian» is to sit around a coffee table and talk about theology.

It's absolutely absurd to suggest that something that is inevitable in a three - body planetary system is in any way connected to a millennia - old book of fairy tales.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

To see the world in the Christian way — which, as I say in the book, requires the eye of charity and a faith in Easter — is in some sense to venture everything upon an absurd impracticality (I almost sound Kierkegaardian when I say it that way).

Way to abandon earnest inquiry in favor of blind acceptance of absurd supersti.tion.

Shape is clearly in the man in a way in which it would be absurd to say that the man is in his shape.

By the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insane.

Hence we have every right to think that in that dynamic life which is unsurpassable and hence divine there is, not a becoming more divine, which would be absurd, but an increasing capacity for finding occasions through which God may employ, in one way or another, that which is always remembered; and also, in this very action as it continues on in God's relationship with creation, a growing acceptance of those who have contributed to the cosmic enterprise of love at work in creation.

Equally absurd is the idea that Smoot - Hawley contributed in any significant way to the rise of Hitler or to World War II.

He is so low in an absurd and amusing way.

He was realistic enough to see that any such statement is absurd on the face of it and is denied by the way humans fail in loving and hence are in desperate need of the assurance that love is central in things.

If you would like to prove to yourself that God is imaginary, here is one easy way to do it: Look for places in the Bible where God is an absurd, unmitigated jerk instead of the «all - knowing», «all - loving», «fully - enlightened» being that he is supposed to be.

In the same way, it's not obviously absurd to imagine, as Aristotle did, that the universe has existed forever in much the same way as it exists now.

The only way around this is the absurd «multiverse» postulation where you could have infinite permutations of rules, and that is REALLY grasping at straws.

Our exploration in this chapter should therefore concern the question: How did «recovery» move from the «Way» to irreligious «spirituality» to absurd deities.

But if this is asserted and if we do not wish to think of the orientation of the development by God as a series of arbitrary measures taken by him and as giving impetus to the development from outside (a way of representing the matter which is absurd in fact and method, for all kinds of reasons), then this orientation can only be conceived as happening precisely through, and out of, 11 the of course ultimately divinely - created reality of what Is itself developing in that way.

All this is absurd, but contracepting couples contradict their own vows in a similar way when they refuse to be open to the gift of life.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

Some people do (A little unsettling that our Government f eels that way imo), but to be frank i think it is rather absurd for anyone to expect a country ON THE OTHER HALF OF THE WORLD that is THOUSANDS of years older than we to have the EXACT SAME values as we do.

That was Part I of the nitty - gritty of gay unions way beyond the absurd cultural «wars».

There is a way, even when things are as light as can be, in which the life - wasting potentialities of cult - dom are never lost sight of, and in which we wind up rooting for our cult - creators to find some semblance of happiness amid the absurd wreckage of life they've unleashed.

Remember — anything from the Bible that appears contradictory, absurd or immoral is either 1) Taken out of context 2) A translation error 3) A metaphor 4) The ineffable Way of God that must be accepted on faith.

If there is, then perhaps fundamental desire to live and enjoy life may function to moderate the nationalistic frenzies, the absurd struggles for power, the long ingrained historical hatreds, and the blind ideological fanaticisms that now stand in the way of creative, effective responses to the present crisis.

the way catholics justify their traditions is as absurd as those to handle snakes and drink poisen (mark 16 for you keeping score)... but at least their insanity is in the bible (most likely an added passage) unlike those whos make this crap up

If you leave it that way and show how absurd it is, you've defined it as absurd, and so it is.

Job has no way to reply, and no need; the earth is infinitely bigger than he; how absurd he would look standing at the edge of the sea and trying to whistle up the waves.

In any case, when people laugh together at something absurd in their own group, it can be a way of affirming that they belong to it.

Doubtless it is absurd to dwell on death as such; it is equally absurd to attempt to deny it, to cover it up, to pretend that it is not there — one thinks of the pathetic way in which contemporary funeral customs so often try to disguise what as a matter of obvious truth a funeral is all about.

From an atheistic perspective, it is absurd, unreasonable, and irrational to anonymously give to charity because there is no one and no God to see your «good» act, so why give to anyone who can't return the favor in some way?

I too have felt the machinery of Christianity, its rituals and teachings and habits of mind, remote from the way I lead my life and, in that sense, if not absurd, then certainly useless, because I didn't (and still often don't) use it to guide and govern my life.