Sentences with phrase «at absurd»

One client who received a terrible critique from The Ladders on the resume I had written him tells me he immediately sensed something «rotten in Denmark» and laughed out loud at the absurd criticisms made.

While we sometimes laugh at the absurd news that the official North Korean news agency reports, such as finding unicorns and how Kim Jong - un excels at everything humanly possible, the reality is that North Korea is a dangerous state.

If we interpret this regulation as meaning «Failure by licensee or customer», then we arrive at the absurd conclusion that if a customer fails to produce ID on request, the establishment is fined.

It appears to me, caveat as above, that AGW has created a lifeless system in thinking in this «energy balance» much as it has done with CO2 with its destruction of the dynamical system which is all life by thinking of plants merely as «carbon sinks», somewhere merely to store CO2; from which the used to be known fact that CO2 was food for all living carbon life forms is practically unknown and now at the absurd reasoning from not knowing it, that it can defy gravity and stay removed and out of reach from the carbon life forms which evolved from its property of being available at ground level.

And the corruption of the world from the oil giants is at absurd levels — when Denier billionaire David Koch sits on the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, who else in the media world can go after Oil?

Either we must be looking at a fairly steady increase over 44,000 years, putting the start of the warming well before the start of the industrial revolution, or we must be looking at an absurd spike in the last century that is not reflected in any temperature records.

Just look at the absurd situation (my view) as Australia enacts modest carbon restrictions at home while exporting vast quantities of carbon - rich coal to the world's Asian manufacturing hub to be burned.

I became interested in electronics through David, and we formed a company, at the absurd age of sixteen, which we called Custom Electronics, Communication and Control.

It's hard not to laugh and smile at the absurd predicaments he conceives of for each shot, reminding us all to take a step back sometimes and just laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.

Perhaps those critical of for - profit arts might consider taking a good look at the absurd specificity of many grant guidelines (including their funding time - lines) and the beyond - the - pale hoops they entail, as well as admitting to what goes into coaxing Grandma to fork over a grand for next season.

In part one of our story, I rode out to battle against what now feels like the absolutely quaint notion that barraging the game's community with media hyping future cash shop products that conspicuously excludes pricing, then releasing those products at absurd price points with only a few days of availability was a predatory and anti-consumer way to market a product that leveraged fear of missing out to take advantage of players of a certain mindset.

Seeing as it's priced at an absurd amount, it seems a bit too steep to expect it to simply be a way to play old Atari games.

The thing is it's very hard to give a flying f *** about all of these problems when you're bombing through a small village at absurd speeds, reveling in the handling and the loving recreation of a track all motorbike lovers know.

In the images adorning this review like so much megapixel candy both myself and my friend had actually gotten quite lucky, with my mutant playing enemy lucking into a pile of cards that help him pump out weapons at an absurd rate along with plenty of cards that let him convert those to points.

Nowadays those premium redemptions are only available at absurd prices, such as 110,000 miles one way to Europe.

Check Your Premises In their recent paper (available for download via the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) website), Dauphiné and Cooper arrive at their absurd figure of «117 — 157 million free - ranging cats in the United States,» [7] in part, by way of Jessup's «estimated 60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats in the United States.»

I took out a 2 - year 24 month loan from Avant at absurd interest rate.

In March of 2000, at the crest of the dot - com bubble, the NASDAQ Index average P / E ratio peaked at an absurd 47 times earnings.

There is NO WAY I'm putting my money in ANY bank at these absurd rates.

Amazon is talking about ebook sales going to authors while print book sales would go to Hatchette and if Hatchette had agreed to this - showing they cared about their authors - Amazon would go back to large restocking / reorders on print books, discounting print books instead of selling them at the absurd high prices set by Hatchette which they've been complaining about, and re-enabling pre-order buttons.

The ability to toss and catch a vehicle going at absurd speeds makes a fast car into a fun car.

In my weaker moments, I sift through used car sites in the hopes of finding a newer model at some absurd bargain.

But on the Raticosa Pass bend that in times past has served up balletically drifting Lamborghini Aventadors and Ferrari F12s for the viewfinder of Dean's Nikon, the Squadra Corse simply bullets through the curve at an absurd speed.

The original Ford F - 150 Raptor made a name for itself with mighty off - road capabilities, including the ability to fly across open desert terrain at absurd speeds.

Encourage them to play the Absurd Math Odyssey Game at Absurd Math.

His superiors initially balk at the absurd idea to transform the Americans into a Canadian film crew, but nobody else is offering a better idea.

I can't stop freaking laughing at the absurd comedy in this hilarious film.

Though the movie is more than a little ridiculous at times — especially the contrived manner in which the mafia learns of Giovanni's whereabouts — that's to be expected from director Luc Besson, who excels at the absurd.

Get another look at that absurd Tom & Jerry / Willy Wonka mashup film.

That can mean anything, a roaring fire on a rainy day, a drive down the coast with the roof off, travel to the new and exotic, outdoor concerts, tropical sunsets, great wine over intimate dinners, 600 thread count Egyptian cotton, a willingness to smile at the unexpected and laugh at the absurd!

I also loved the movie but was disappointed at the absurd depiction of Attachment Parenting.

These coaches not only win games at an absurd rate but also manage to cover the spread for bettors in Week 1.

Will contrarian teams continue to cover at an absurd rate?

While Joey Bosa somehow was named the Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year, take a look at the absurd stats Michigan senior DT Mo Hurst had, according to PFF:

keeping walcott at an absurd increase in wages, cutting wage bill elsewhere by unloading fringe players and convincing the idiot fan base that in giroud, walcott, coquelin and ramsey he had 150m dollars worth of footballing talent to unleash was what defined the summer window.....

Mickelson has been close repeatedly during that stretch, including in a record - setting second - place finish at that absurd duel in last year's Open.

He's doubled the amount of attempted threes, and he's making them at an absurd rate while rebounding more and turning it over less.

I love that Kathy Hester made an entire book based on something that grows like crazy and costs pennies: Real hip treats, perfectly delicious and nutritious, with none of those tiresome highfalutin expensive groupie foods which seem custom - made for a rarefied diners» community at an absurd price.

Only they could make me laugh so hard at absurd truth.

Foreseeing this objection, the committee responds, that it would be absurd to say, «I would have a guilty conscience if she did X.» It is not, however, at all absurd to say, «I would have a guilty conscience if I helped her to do X.»

and laugh at the absurd.

Not only was it selling at an absurd 30 % discount to its cash balance, but it was also paying an incredible 9 % dividend.

Perhaps more importantly, if we take his new statements literally he is now predicting that installation of a Tory government will immediately cause the economy to grow at an absurd 10 per cent per year, 5 times the current rate by implementing only three - tenths of the Million Jobs Plan.

Not exact matches

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.

Trump critics quickly cheered the nameless Twitter support staffer as a hero; others laughed at the incident as one more humorous episode in a year in which politics - as - usual has become the theater of the absurd.

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

At times, it feels like an absurd arms race, with colleges and universities building bigger stadiums and more grandiose practice facilities, then feeling the pressure to fill those seats.

As Einstein said, «If at first the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.»

The realtors» argument reached its absurd extreme last year, with an advertising campaign suggesting homeowners will be at risk of break - ins and assaults if their personal information became more readily available online.

At another time, the idea of a CEO with zero political experience stepping straight into the White House would be absurd.