Sentences with phrase «absurd when»

Sounds absurd when you put it that way... But somehow the boards and directors who were supporting us as Realtors made sense of it!

Not having a single product reviewed, let alone even a mention, is absurd when you are reviewing bluetooth earbuds.

Indeed, the position becomes even more absurd when one considers the definition of «driving.»

I think its a pity that, when it comes to climate change, what is clearly a mistake (the 2035 date is pretty absurd when you think about it), gets reported as if something deliberately nefarious is afoot.

This state of affairs appears all the more absurd when you recall that every calorie we eat is ultimately the product of photosynthesis — a process based on making food energy from sunshine.

There I noticed that the claims in the conclusions varied between illogical and absurd when compared with the text.

Doesn't it seem absurd when written like that?

Matt Johnson (b. 1978, United States) makes sculptures inspired by everyday objects, which become humorously absurd when the artist relieves them of their original functions.

I just find it absurd when the guts of the Xbox One and PS4 are actually so similar (AMD «Jaguar» APUs).

For example, the regenerative life bar over the one - shot kill, which would be absurd when all shots occur in the same plane.

Under a years worth of new content is absurd when literally every other fighting game developer supports their games for years.

Its absurd when the truth is so obvious.

The fact that EA is going to force me to pay to play their multiplayer (I rent games) is absurd when they give me such a TERRIBLE single - player.

This is particularly absurd when you consider the low risk nature of the current balance sheet — most assets are in cash /» deposits» / bonds, and debt can be repaid at a moment's notice.

Now the use of credit history for job applicants is especially absurd when you're looking at an unemployment rate of almost 10 percent and nearly 15 million workers looking for a job combined with foreclosures and other fallouts in the economic crisis and we've seen plummeting credit scores.

10 dollars is absolutely absurd when you can get them for free in physical form at a library, not to mention used books stores where they cost less than 3 dollars at times..

By the way debit cards like Zenith Visa Prepaid Buxz do work but their $ 2 commission charge is absurd when buying a $ 0.99 app.

These bureaucratic hurdles are particularly absurd when some states have shortages so severe that they have to recruit teachers from other countries, such as the Philippines, to find qualified candidates.26 Though teacher shortages are the product of several shortcomings in the teacher pipeline, including low teacher salaries and poor working conditions, licensure can serve as a meaningful lever to begin to address teacher vacancies.

«It's such a major issue, and honestly, seems so absurd when they were actually considering it.

7 minutes a pop is a bit absurd when you have several hundred people wanting to play and only going to demo the games for 4 hours.

It's kind of absurd when you think about it, since the game that inspired this desire didn't even live up to the promise itself.

It only gets more absurd when you think about it, but men's fashion is a business that can be considered «serious».

Which is absurd when you think about it since every single sports team, and professional athlete has a coach.

«It's a double - edged sword, because you don't want to limit peoples» ability to speak freely, but it does get a little absurd when we have 15 members get up and introduce the same group,» said Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin.

only one year older than Hood also which is absurd when some would say Hood can become a franchise cornerstone but Burks is tapped out??

In either case, it seems at times painfully absurd when one considers the evils to which he himself had earlier, and for several years, allied himself.

To ask what would Jesus do for every aspect of life becomes absurd when you push it to its logical extreme.

But «public relations» becomes absurd when we apply the same kind of advertising and promotional techniques alike to the American economic system, to business in general, to labor, to a political party or candidate, to the policies of a government, to a public utility, to a book, to a church.

In truth, he has no answer, because I described this ludicrous ritual perfectly, it just sounds absurd when you call it for what it is.

Furthermore, the idea that I am just an individual, owing little or nothing to anyone, that I need to be autonomous, seems absurd when we consider our own personal origins: we each owe our conception and birth to a mother and a father; our whole lives involve a series ofinterlocking relationships with parents, family, friends, teachers, society and so on.

It truly is absurd when you hear people moralizing that people should pay their student debt when virtually every other debt class can be discharged through bankruptcy.

Without it, and without its use, we will stagnate, believing we understand all, and that is quite simply absurd when you think about it.

Instead, it is in the control of a higher power that cruelly takes the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year — and this ideology becomes even more absurd when you consider that we are supposed to have a separation of church and state.

Not exact matches

But it's a weak defense, and reminiscent of what Reuters did in 2011, when it used a similar question - posing headline to make the absurd suggestion that George Soros was behind the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Users complain that they're tired of being talked down to, tired of being made to feel like idiots, tired of absurd rules, tired of machines that break, tired of IT support that cuts out at 5 p.m. — when they're expected to work around the clock.

«This is once again an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, how she seeks out to demean her and take her down,» he said, adding that the speech included «common words and values» and dismissing accusations of plagiarism as «just really absurd.»

A seemingly absurd plan to rain Internet down on the earth with drones and lasers took a big step toward reality this week, when Facebook unveiled its first unmanned aerial vehicle.

«When we let our brains loose, then we start to see the reasons that we think the world is absurd,» Garlock says.

That's absurd in and of itself, but when combined with the porn issue... well, that's a whole new level of dumb.

If Poloz was correct, and the media only care about prices when they spike to absurd levels, then let me suggest that some us are about to make up for it by working overtime to explain why the Bank of Canada wants to raise interest rates even though core inflation is trending away from the two - per - cent target.

Meanwhile, Kairbek Uskenbayev, Kazakhstan's deputy economy minister, offered a more spirited defense: such suggestions are «absurd» when «integration is proceeding at full steam» with Kazakhstan's «friendliest and closest» partner.

But when we see someone make the right call on bigger and bigger trades for nearly 20 years running — and deliver 30 % returns even after charging an absurd 3 % of assets and 35 % of profits as Cohen does — it's not envy that is the instinctive response; it's disbelief.

It's absolutely absurd to continue to yell «not scalable» when the fact is right in front of you showing its scalable.

Statements like these sound rather absurd at a time when second - layer scaling solutions are making headlines every day.

Even though the «rates up, metals prices down» reflexive reaction is absurd, it has been baked into the trading algorithms so that it will occur no matter what other factors might be in play when rates are increased.

Personally, I have to laugh when fredso trots out the absurd Jesus «sacrifice» story.

So suspend all disbelief, even when faced with that which is patently absurd and / or contradictory?

When it is proven to exist, I might have reason to worry until then it is only your and your ilks absurd opinion based on absolutely no substantial evidence.

The absurd injustice of this infinite punishment is even greater when we consider that the ultimate source of human imperfection is the God who created them.

When you examine how the Old Testament prophets communicated, it borders on the absurd.