Sentences with phrase «almost absurd»

A few years ago, I saw this casual dining room with brick floors and an oversized cow painting -LCB- original source unknown -RCB- and started my almost absurd cow painting search.

So, there you have it: an almost absurd number of announcements coming from Roku today.

``... where the negligence consists in the very failure by the professional defendant to advise the lay claimant of that consequence, the proposition that the claimant should nonetheless be treated as having knowledge of that consequence for limitation purposes (when his very complaint is that he should have been but was not told it by the defendant) is almost absurd.

However, through Sone's almost absurd attempt at something that «can never be realized», viewers find themselves drawn into an unknown landscape — a place of deviance.

Although these can seem almost absurd in nature, each one anchors Taylor's imagined world firmly in the present creating a carefully balanced play between fiction and reality.

It may seem almost absurd to even suggest that the influence of the works of the so - called French, German, and Italian «Post Impressionists,» «Futurists,» «Cubists,» and other «ists,» as exemplified by representative examples at the Armory show, can have any immediate, or even near future effect, upon the generally strong, good and, from the conventional art viewpoint, sane, American painting and sculpture of today, but there is no doubt that the study of these new groupings, called «movements» in painting and sculpture, which have so emphasized and influenced the art of Europe today, for the past 5 years, and even the derision which they have excited, and will continue to excite, has had and will have a stimulating effect.

The almost absurd obsession with getting things just right often displayed by Polytron founder Phil Fish is well known among most independent gaming circles, especially now that said obsession has been shown to the world at large via Fish's role in Indie Game: The Movie.

If it is the old greedy EA or the old incompetent EA I can't say but from a technical point of view it's almost absurd the lack of prudence after all the hype and (apparently) huge pre-order sales the game had.

I have personally adopted and loved six wonderful dogs from Dumb Friends League, and when you add those of my family members, the number climbs to an almost absurd amount.

To get mildly blunt about it, if we are to rule out all - women's awards programs, on the thinking that they're as Bennett summarizes the criticism, «sexist, a ghetto and, in divisive focus on sexual identity, an almost absurd contradiction of fiction's imaginative purpose,» then are we ready to insist that the «real world,» the wider industry and marketplace promote women, both as authors and as reviewers, as readily as it does men?

At $ 199, it's almost absurd to think you can find a better deal on a better ultraportable tablet.

It's almost absurd to say this, but that's how it's supposed to work, isn't it?

The backseat is the premium spot, however, with the standard long - wheelbase A8 providing almost absurd levels of rear legroom.

It seems almost absurd to say this in 2014, but diversity in every aspect of society is paramount.

The tonal shifts drive you absolutely crazy and the sequence of events create an almost absurd take on climate change and the refugee crisis.

This may be the story of miserable, lovelorn people, but the film focuses on the characters» self - involvement to such an extent that it becomes almost absurd.

In that moment, the very idea that life could be painful felt almost absurd.

Though his placing was almost absurd at No. 22, Joyce recorded the fifth best 3,200 time in the state this season at 9:01.42.

That and also believing in herself to an almost absurd degree; a mindset some championchip material fighters need to perform at their highest level.

Everyone is having almost absurd amounts of fun.

The very idea that he might have been born or had parents seems almost absurd, like the idea of one's grandparents having once been babies.

Your next assignment might seem weird or almost absurd and it might be just the right place.

it is almost absurd that we all exist.

With the almost absurd level of customization you can put on a Facebook ad (age, geography, preferences and more) and the detail with which Facebook can report your results, it's a no - brainer for brands to keep using Facebook and other social media advertising.

If not, the idea that you'll be wealthy and successful someday can seem almost absurd at times.

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Some raw moments of history shown in the film are so shocking or absurd they're almost comical, but in the big - picture context afforded by the 56 - minute movie, they make the hair of your skin stand on - end.

In a story almost as absurd as someone stealing $ 20 - million worth of Canada's maple syrup (sigh), thieves in Germany held up a truck carrying five tons of Nutella, making off with $ 22,000 worth of the delicious, unhealthy, hazelnut - flavoured spread.

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).

At that stage of my life I would have joined the church on almost any condition, for I had this absurd idea that the gospel had marked me out for something, whether for reward, rebuke or ridicule I did not know; whatever it was, I felt inexorably driven toward it.

Ball has been shooting well for a couple months, and their black alternate jerseys make watching their absurd number of national TV games almost bearable.

It almost seems absurd to say it, but this fixture does look a bridge too far for the Tangerines.

This one will be almost as much fun to watch as the equally absurd legal squabbles between the Sugar Association and the Corn Refiners Association over what to call High Fructose Corn Syrup.

The second - term congressman said it's absurd that almost $ 10 million was spent on the race for his House seat.

Sullivan, who's been friends with Newell for years, got almost complete access to the scrappy, unconventional and, at times, absurd campaign.

Charging $ 30 for a palette (with cheap basic packaging might I add) is just absurd and almost rude to fans of the brand.

We go to almost every blogging event together and I like that she puts up with my absurd rambling whenever we're together.

Very straight forward, funny, non judgmental - we all have our burdens no matter how absurd, attractive, fit, I make a concoction in the juicer almost every morning that would gag most people, love dogs, art, anything creative and offbeat.

The inclusion of an absurd yet thoroughly captivating celebrity cameo, which essentially stands as a high point within the entire series, perpetuates Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb's better - than - expected third - act atmosphere, although, unfortunately, director Shawn Levy ensures that the film concludes with a whimper by offering up an excessively sappy final stretch that just goes on and on - with this underwhelming climax confirming the movie's place as an almost passable concluding entry in a seriously forgettable trilogy.

The second, in particular, is almost inexplicably absurd in its disregard for plot progression and notable drama.

After Jen is left for dead, her reemergence could fairly be written off as absurd, but its sheer unlikelihood gives her an almost supernatural quality, like she's animated by the souls of wronged women past.

Why it's almost as absurd as a prince, who spends his days with a servant who sleeps with pugs.

The wraparound title of this trilogy sounds absurd, and the manner in which it was bestowed upon these three films — «Shaun of the Dead,» «Hot Fuzz» and «The World's End» — is almost as bizarre (the movies really don't have much to do with ice cream).

An energetic sense of the absurd helps make this animated romp entertaining, even though the script is almost painfully stupid.

(1) Desplechin's subject is not the family in peril; but nonetheless the strange, almost - McGuffin - like of the head, and the events that transpire around it, reverberate as much in the psyche as in the world outside: the absurd theatre of the life inside the mind.

In almost any other movie, the idea of propping your story up through amnesia would be an absurd, risible narrative course, but Liman, aided by Matt Damon, make the absence of self feel paramount in the film and its spectacular action sequences.

In an age where character and stakes take a further backseat to increasingly absurd, conxtext - free bombast (for which the Star Wars prequels take massive flak, with current examples like Jurassic World even more guilty than those lackluster films), Abrams» film feels almost subversive in its steadfast focus on character to get us cheering.

Fifty Shades Freed, more so than the other two entries in this absurd yet undeniably enjoyable trilogy, has almost no narrative drive until the last 30 minutes.

It's so bad that there's a kind of genius to it — and so powered by cliché that it's almost an Ionesco exercise in Theatre of the Absurd.

This unpredictability makes the whole daft chain of events compelling to watch, as does the extremely crude, absurd dialogue and the frequent bursts of violence — almost every character is at some point punched, shot, scratched, covered in blood, shat or pissed on.

In 2018 America, the debate over «selling out» seems almost as absurd as, say, a group of screaming horse - men with huge exposed dicks.