Sentences with phrase «absurdity in»

The dissent's argument that certain conduct would remain legal under the majority's construction does not create an absurdity in law.

The namecalling reaches a new level of absurdity in «Why #BlackLivesMatter Should Transform the Climate Debate ``.

Ecological citizenship is the framework in which we can see both the need for individual responsibility and the absurdity in laying the onus of responsibility on the individual, both the ecology that sustains communities and the sustainability demanded from communities in order to maintain a balanced ecology.

I spoke to Martha Wilson at the Franklin Furnace office in Brooklyn about the evolution of her art, her relationship to feminism, absurdity in art, and the Culture Wars.

Both artists were influenced by the prankish brand of French Surrealism and the ideas of Marcel Duchamp, the intellectual who flung absurdity in the face of the art collecting establishment.

The visual language of rough music suffuses several works; pieces by Alex Hoda and Mark Essen in particular reveal traces of domesticity and absurdity in their form.

Plants as characters, body parts as characters — a certain absurdity in the frontality or cropping.

Many Fluxus artists incorporated found objects into their work and like Dada artists before them, also embraced absurdity in their work.

The presence of humor and absurdity in her work is used to disarm the intensity that seems inherent when engaging in the discourse of black culture.

Maybe in such an audacious title for a small solo exhibition some viewers will find the absurdity in genre - defining elsewhere, or maybe they will just think I am a pretentious asshole; either way, I'm happy.

Meanwhile, Imitation of Wealth passes for «high culture» to demonstrate the absurdity in bestowing institutional visibility upon certain artists while excluding others.

New solo exhibition of multidiciplinary artist Neill Wright; The Atrophy and the Ecstasy, an exploration of lived absurdity in South Africa.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa New solo exhibition of multidiciplinary artist Neill Wright; The Atrophy and the Ecstasy, an exploration of lived absurdity in...

There is some absurdity in the wide smile, showing imperfections.

Kader Attia is one of my favorite living artists, largely because he's unafraid to cast a critical eye across various cultural lines to search for humor and empathy in misunderstanding and absurdity in different societies» hypocrisies.

To see the endless absurdity in this, however, note that credibility is also a goal for people who routinely review products, including books.

Although his life is certainly much happier now than when he was hooked on drugs or working as a department store elf, Sedaris still finds plenty of absurdity in the airports, hotels, book tours and vacation - home renovations that now fill his days.

The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona is a high - water mark for absurdity in NASCAR's homologation rules.

Most new designs are evolutions or derivations of what came before, with little variations in details, maybe as simple as integrating separate trunks into the body form, as was done in the early 1930s, or adding fins to enveloping shapes, as was done to the point of absurdity in the»50s.

Amy Schloegl monitors students applying the concept of absurdity in their graphic organizers.

What I mean by a sense of humor is an ability to see absurdity in the class, school meetings and in oneself, and an ability to laugh at it.

Blending romance and paranoia into a black comedy that confirms our best hopes and worst fears about the powers that be, it has no problem exploring absurdity in all this manifestations, and doing so with forthright violence of which Sam Peckinpah would be proud, and an existential nausea that might give Sartre pause.

Every moment offered a fresh surprise imbued with sophistication and absurdity in equal doses.

With lesser talents or weaker resolve, Kingsman could have been too light and silly to make an impact, and the movie does start to groan a bit under the weight of its own compounded absurdity in the final third.

The Book of Henry starts well, begins flirting with absurdity in the middle — and ends in crashing disaster.

With a fiendishly clever script from Jack Reacher writer - director Christopher McQuarrie, the finest action - sequences - as - adrenaline - soaked - therapy - sessions money can buy, and a captivating performance from newcomer Rebecca Ferguson, the fifth film in this endlessly inventive franchise hit yet another level of delicious absurdity in its exploitation of masculine vanity.

It's certainly more of a comedy than his last two films, but the bizarre laughs are rooted in absurdity in a way unlike his early works.

It's a mode that takes the seed of something historical — that pigeons were used to send messages in the war — and warps it to absurdity in order to create an effective multiplayer mode.

Honing techniques inspired by Stabley Kubrick, combined with a story that would seem to be inspired by Michael Haneke, Lanthimos twists his absurdity in favour of a horror story.

An intermittently amusing riff on British spy movies, starring Colin Firth as a secret agent who takes a novice under his wing, «Kingsman» collapses into outlandish absurdity in its second half, sloppily careening from silliness to sentimentality.

There's absurdity in the tragedy, and vice versa; nervous giggling generated during moments where we just want to cry out due to the tension being so palpable.

Things reached new heights of absurdity in December 2016 with a shoving match over the fate of a wayward male deer who showed up in Harlem.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

Most disbelief, stems from the absurdity in the scriptures, not the modern theories of evolution or «Big Bang»

More simply, there is absurdity in talking of time's going ahead backwards.

Yet, they find no absurdity in the idea that a non-believer, who fails to profess his / her faith in Jesus Christ and ask for the forgiveness of sins, but lives a good life (goodness for goodness sake, if you will) will burn in hell because of his / her failed acknowlegement of his / her «Creator.»

It is then forced in freedom to choose either to postulate a fundamental nothingness or absurdity in existence, thus denying intelligibility and destroying itself, or to transcend itself toward the infinite God of love who has made Himself known through the finite, visible structures of this world.

Your absurdity in a nutshell.

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If you're going to speak absurdities in this world then those absurdities deserved questioned and scrutinized.

It may be able to avoid the absurdities in which it now ends up.

I just like looking for absurdities in metaphors.

It is thus one of the supremely important books, not only of the Old Testament but of all ancient literature, and its common caricature, as the narrative of a fish literally swallowing a man and disgorging him alive after three days, is one of the most regrettable absurdities in the Western world's long mistreatment of the Bible.

Sometimes humor is the most effective way to point absurdities in our culture and behavior as a species (think about how much more palatable The Daily Show makes the news!).

Those comic authors knew how to filigree their movement and syntax to dizzying, exhilharating absurdities in a «reel» context as well as in a «real» one.

I'm resisting the notion of a ranked Top 10 this year because there are enough absurdities in the real world and in pop culture without saying that Good Film A is better than Good Film B. Every movie is a two - hour window onto an alien planet; the infinite differences are what make the medium remain vibrant and mysterious.

The issue being of course, now Grand Theft Auto Online exists, which ran the realism of GTA V into the ground and planted a playground of absurdities in its place, where does that leave Saints Row?

The convening also forefronted artists such as Postcommodity, Autumn Knight, and Guillermo Gomez - Pena, among others, who gave performances about identity and identity politics, called out the racial divides and absurdities in arts administration and funding structures, and lay bare contemporary colonizing forces.

Both characters wander through their own worlds, allowing Smith to create an unsettling mixture of humor and pathos while commenting on discrepancies and absurdities in our culture.

Not exact matches

The 18 - year - old is facing the criticism with composure and grace, and she's been a model for how well - meaning people who get caught in the crosshairs of social - justice absurdity should comport themselves.