Sentences with phrase «against absurdity»

The Court's final consideration was the rule against absurdity.

So, how do you propose one would argue against the absurdity of the Southern Bap leaders encouraging followers to continue discrimination and bigotry?

Only thus will this destiny receive its true meaning and character even if, seen from outside, everything seems to be the same, whether we trustingly accept it or violently protest against the absurdity of life.

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Thank you, President Donald Trump, for your suggestion that teachers should be trained to carry firearms in order to stop gun violence against our students («The absurdity of arming teachers,» Feb. 25).

lololol I say these last things to demonstrate the absurdity of making character judgments against someone I do not know.

The tension that Israel knew throughout her life as a nation between faith in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity, of the divine promises implicit in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine promise for the nation and the incredible historical odds against fulfillment — all of this Israel is mindful of in the shaping of the stories, and in the reading and cherishing of the stories.

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So that to attempt to suppress unemployment by incorporating the unemployed in the machine would be against the purpose of Nature and a biological absurdity.

Against this tendency, Kurzweil was unsparing in his criticism, referring to the «palpable absurdities of the Ahad Haamist philosophy.»

It had been a gesture against the watered down theology of «Jack Absurdity», Karlstadt.

Any test case against a CBD seller would draw attention to both the absurdity of a law which even the department who wrote it and are tasked with enforcing it don't understand, and the truly arbitrary nature of our drug law enforcement.

Sanders has called for a revolution against the billionaire class, but accomplishing that inside a political party owned by Wall Street and other big business interests is an absurdity....

Against all odds, Kidman makes the audience forget the absurdity of the role she's playing.

Only in the last half - hour do the usual Emmerich absurdities pile up: I laughed outright at the character who, past 65 and diagnosed with a massive brain tumor that will kill him within months, can not be stopped by a ferocious beating, being stabbed in the neck with a sharp implement, then being crushed against a wall by an SUV moving at a minimum of 30 mph.

Much of the movie's charm emanates from the gleeful absurdity imbuing every single piece of the puzzle the three against all odds succeed in putting together.

Countless enemies clash against heroes in glorious combat that mixes strategy and absurdity.

There is even a reveal somewhere in the film about one's motivations stemming from a desire to «wage a war against God» that may make a few eyes roll at the sheer absurdity of it.

With an eye for the absurdities of captivity, from the jailers» attempts at political «re-education» to the daily battle against rats and hunger, Townson candidly tells the story of his ordeal in «Hotel Fidel Castro,» along with the often outrageous tales of other foreigners trapped in the web of Cuba's twisted justice system.

Da Corte emphasizes the theatricality, and even the wonderful absurdity, of daily rituals and how they construct and reflect our dreams and ideologies: a young woman shops for shiny, brilliantly hued objects with the help of an attendant on stilts as a skateboarder rolls by; three bare - chested young Adonises play beer pong, and a mummy sings karaoke against a Matisse mural.

Humor is one of our first lines of defense against the tragedy and absurdity of life, against our failures, insecurities and pain.

In an earlier and separate FOI case against the BBC, Supreme Court Judge Neuberger argued the opt - out should be interpreted narrowly - otherwise the BBC could withhold information about «cleaning the board room floor» using the journalism get - out clause - an absurdity.

Quite apart from the absurdity of arguing against truth in favour of being inside the teetering structure — it is a preeminent brittle structure — whether arguing high or low sensitivity — because that's what the punters want to hear — on a blog where science is meant to mean something and the policy nexus is in another room anyway.