Sentences with phrase «becomes absurd»

That becomes absurd,» Apple's marketing chief said at the time.

It's all becomes absurd in the end and makes me want to read Vaclav Havel's very Heidegarian «Power of the powerless»: If one person could defy the state by putting in his shop window the state is wrong, rather than the usual posters («Green is good» — not greed, mind you!)

Grasp this, and Eli's example of the three atmospheric layers radiating against each other becomes absurd.

In Switchboard (pavilion), the childhood game of creating an improvised telephone using tin cans and string becomes an absurd and daunting puzzle.

Existence seems to be off balance, the familiar becomes absurd and alien.

After a few dozen hours, it all becomes absurd.

This issue becomes absurd towards the conclusion of the story where I was introduced to at least 5 different puzzles before I could reach the final boss.

What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure - until, of course, they don't.

Without reason, the emotional reaction becomes absurd.

This starts out odd, becomes absurd and then is hilarious.

What was implausible in the older film becomes absurd to the point of insult in this way - over-the-top action comedy that fills up screen time with noise and slapstick whenever it has no idea where to go.

A noisy and violent thriller, a plot that becomes absurd with too many characters and none of them with much depth.

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

The logic becomes absurd.

If no God, no meaning and the concept itself becomes absurd.

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.

The absurd element persists, but from this moment what becomes absurd is the world, its wisdom, its intelligence, its power, its politics, its experience.

Thus the whole Ritschlian attempt to prove Christianity historically suddenly became absurd.

Ultimately, the arguments and the models become absurd.

On screen, it became absurd — but it was his absurdity.

But there's such a HUGE dividing line between those camps that it became absurd.

This has become absurd.

EPA considers CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act has gone too far — becoming an absurd Agency.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

I wish to avoid using the word «hysterical,» but do think that your insinuation that a FaceGlat, or other social networking medium, COULD ever become mandatory is a little absurd.

The demands that society accommodate such absurd personal delusions are becoming ever more aggressive.

Lest, however, we who do not share that anxiety become exultant in the afflatus of our superiority let us remind ourselves that we, too, have our own absurd beliefs and our own selfishnesses and childishnesses and meannesses.

The argument that life begins at conception is absurd in that what should be said is parasitic life begins at conception, actual human life only becomes a valid argument when the fetus is able to live outside the womb, prior to that the life is basically in the hands of the host — mother.

Hence we have every right to think that in that dynamic life which is unsurpassable and hence divine there is, not a becoming more divine, which would be absurd, but an increasing capacity for finding occasions through which God may employ, in one way or another, that which is always remembered; and also, in this very action as it continues on in God's relationship with creation, a growing acceptance of those who have contributed to the cosmic enterprise of love at work in creation.

Until a far greater percentage of churchgoing Americans and Canadians have become more articulate about the faith, it is absurd to imagine that North American church folk could stand back from their sociological moorings far enough to detach what Christians profess from the mish - mash of modernism, secularism, pietism, and free - enterprise democracy with which Christianity in our context is so fantastically interwoven.

It is absurd to think that they become «one flesh» in anal or oral sex or by mutually masturbating each other.

And the more I listened, the more absurd the higher powers became in the language of «recovery» — the higher powers were tables, bulldozers, radiators, goddesses, «somethings,» «any god you want,» «yourself as not - god,» the Big Dipper, Santa Claus, and — on Friday Nights, at our Larkspur Beginner's Meeting — «it» was regularly called «Ralph.»

Tehmina Arora, the director of ADF India, added: «Professor Soren's case just shows how absurd the allegations against Christians have become.

In terms of this Absolute it is sacrifice, not egotism, that becomes odious and absurd.

If on the other hand Agamemnon were to say to her, «In spite of the fact that the deity demands thee as a sacrifice, it might yet be possible that he did not demand it — by virtue viz. of the absurd,» he would that very instant become unintelligible to Iphigenia.

Indeed, even one of the worthies quoted on the back cover has got it wrong: Wilson does not argue that «the criminal justice system has become a kind of theater of the absurd» with murder «explained away by arguments like having a bad day.»

People dream up all manner of absurd worship rituals for their gods, believing that all powerful beings will become upset if they don't receive flattery.

An index of this conception is the absurd dispute in which several rabbis engaged: what will become of the men whose good and bad deeds are equal?

Chen Wang, postdoctoral associate in Yale's department of applied physics and physics and the author of a new study on the topic, told HowStuffWorks, «Not only does the [Schrödinger's] cat «paradox» no longer feel absurd conceptually to physicists [but] even more exotic quantum states are becoming commonplace and attainable.»

This inner poisoning of life... can not... be overcome simply by victory over economic need, political oppression, cultural alienation and the ecological crisis... The absence of meaning and the corresponding consequences of an ossified and absurd life are described in theological terms as godforsakenness... Faith becomes hope for significant fulfillment.

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??

Your opinion does not reflect the opinion of Arsenal Fans and your absurd article should never been put up on this page Do you Honestly think that publicly criticizing Arsenal and Arsene during a period when the club are struggling is of any benefit when did he become such an expert in football anyway??? let's be honest he's not exactly a picture of Health any more outbursts from Usmanov and there should be banners at the emirates with

The injury to Rob Gronkowski's ankle became such a story to the point where it was absurd how much attention one player's ankle could get (including the obligatory Gronkowski injured ankle Twitter account).

Football should be about loyalty and not absolutely absurd what has become of the transfer market.

It's absurd that the issue of gun ownership has become this «private, personal» matter that no one can touch.

Very soon then your baby will become so close to you that you will laugh at ridiculous and absurd words of your friends that taking care of a baby is not a man's business.

It is absurd that the Chairman of a Parliamentary Select Committee such as Mullin should yearn to become a Minister of State.

You don't have to wait for the psychoactive substances bill to become law for the absurd spectacle of its enforcement.