Sentences with phrase «by absurd»

We as fellows got tired of seeing our fellows in the legal community getting taken advantage of by these absurd lead gen companies and other organization run by NON ATTORNEYS, taking your money for little if any real results.

At its worst, efforts to air - tighten and increase the insulation of homes is being undermined by the absurd practice of knocking holes in walls.

Heartland are certainly very upset and, assuming that one can take seriously anything said by that absurd blowhard Joe Bast, feel their reputation has been damaged.

Yet those falls are, as we all now know, the consequence of over-production in the East, not advances in production of them, after markets were created for them by absurd levels of subsidy, especially in Europe.

She brings a manic bathos to these scenes that lends them both gravity and levity; in every wide, glassy pair of eyes, grave questions of moral certitude are undercut by the absurd.

Martyn's work is characterised by his absurd (and pretty unique) sense of «humour», and usually incorporates animals, film references, and science going badly, badly wrong.

The Guatemalan Civil War (1960 - 96) is a recurring subject in his work, which — although often softened by an absurd and humorous approach — fails to conceal the force of history that precedes it.

This is what I mean by absurd.

Across the entirety of the game you will be traversing 2D, side - scrolling levels as you chase after Bandage Girl, surrounded by an absurd amount of hazards and traps laid out to make your adventure as difficult as possible.

-- Anne Sexton On Clouds — ``... what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about...» — Yevgeny Zamyatin «If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise.

But it all bored me senseless to tell you the truth, and a good hour of relative inactivity was followed by absurd dollops of exposition that rushed to fill the storyline's many gaps.

Fueled by an absurd chain of events involving an undercover cop, some stolen drugs and the internal affairs officer on his trail, «Sleepless» tries so hard to imitate peak Michael Mann that bo Odar even resorts to aping the director's trademark visual style.

Like a «Saturday Night Live» sketch, it's propelled by its absurd humour, from silly erection jokes to hilariously surreal exchanges («What?

You should always question any supplement that claims to increase your muscle by absurd percentages.

«I will therefore continue to stand four - square behind Marc and assist him in his efforts to clear his name, and his reputation as a veteran anti-racist campaigner, which have been besmirched by this absurd NCC ruling.»

So it's back to reality for all you Rovers fans, back to watching a team who despite the outrageous targets laid down by the absurd owners, are fighting for their Premiership status.

It makes it rather difficult to play team defense against featured skill players, as evidenced by the absurd numbers WKU's guys posted last year under Brohm.

Not only did they shorten the game by an absurd amount — Kahnle, Robertson, Betances, and Chapman in a postseason schedule with regularly scheduled rest days should be against the rules, really — but they added a third baseman and a no. 2 starter, both of which they desperately needed.

By Sunday, Penn State will compartmentalize and shift, trying to bottle all the emotions created by an absurd amount of really good things, using the same techniques they learned during the post-sanctions roster drought.

Robert, it is partly because believer idiots such as yourself also get to vote and impact the laws that the rest of us have to live by, and you are influenced by your absurd religio - dogma.

If the doctrine of sin received a strong emphasis in his writings, it was because he was attempting to save modern Christianity and culture from the sentimentality into which it had fallen «by its absurd insistence upon the natural goodness of man.

I was simply making a description of the facts and evidence clearly in display by your absurd opinion.

Many bands these words describe have come from across the Atlantic and are surrounded by absurd amounts of hype.

Not exact matches

Speaking by phone from Detroit, Eight Mile Style publisher Joel Martin said he'd been infuriated during the trial by the defense's absurd contention that «Lose Yourself» wasn't original because it used the same chords as other songs.

There was an absurd element to the movie moment: The idea that the suspect was aided in evading arrest by following the information put out by his pursuers meant to apprehend him.

The charge is absurd, but no more so than the repeated attempts by Mulcair and Trudeau to smear Harper for running «eight - consecutive deficits.»

In a world dominated by celebrity fad diets that range from the absurd, like Reese Witherspoon's alleged «baby - food diet,» to the absurdly unaffordable, such as Gwyneth Paltrow's $ 200 «moon dust» - infused breakfast smoothie, calories can seem like the most scientific option for improving your health.

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.

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.

If Poloz was correct, and the media only care about prices when they spike to absurd levels, then let me suggest that some us are about to make up for it by working overtime to explain why the Bank of Canada wants to raise interest rates even though core inflation is trending away from the two - per - cent target.

But the ill - informed enthusiasm of novice investors, magnified by credit, pushed valuations to absurd levels that could lead only to an ugly crash.

«This bias is absurd and why I never watch NBC,» one commenter wrote, and dozens responded by posting photos of Winfrey kissing disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein on the cheek.

Nikolay spent years as a currency trader with Credit Suisse so he understands the absurd level of fees charged by the current system.

After declining sharply amid an onslaught of negative news (including an announcement by Google that it would no longer accept cryptocurrency - related ads, which strikes us as an utterly absurd decision), bitcoin made a short term low in March 18 at $ 7,325; from there it rose to a short term peak at $ 9,188 on March 21.

You are well - protected by legal red tape that requires an absurd amount of surety about everything used on people.

His point is that he thinks it is completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings on the planet are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife».

If these are attributed to causes and the elements and it is claimed, «Causes created these,» it is unreasonable, impossible and absurd a hundred times over, just as it was to claim that the potion in the pharmacy came into existence through the phials being knocked over; by accident.

it is absurd to think that the 93 % of Americans who claim to be christians are being persecuted by the other 7 %.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

It is absurd, but it is also an accurate reflection of the arguments advanced by the putative defenders of artistic freedom.

The idea that the unitary character of totalitarianism is negated by the situation in Italy during Mussolini's rule in Italy is absurd.

I just was made crazy by all the absurd comments prevously and now.

Living by these 2000 year old mythologies in today's nuclear world is absolutely absurd.

try reading further:» «To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

The idea of creatio ex nihilo, or nontemporality, is regarded as noncontradictory by some, and absurd by others.

Such a view would not be quite so absurd as might at first appear: the divine temporal evaluations would seem to be no more arbitrary than those of the constitution of the primordial nature in Whitehead's view; and the divine subjective aim toward the maximum of value intensity, together with the property of everlastingness and the Categoreal Obligations (constituted by the primordial nature) of Subjective Unity and Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence of the growing series of divine temporal evaluations.

I remember not being too impressed by these refutations at the time, but now, some of them seem quite absurd.

Only by recognizing the past as that given reality with which every present has to do can these absurd consequences be avoided.

Requiring a permit to evangelize is «not only absurd and offensive, but also creates the basis for mass persecution of believers for violating these provisions,» read another open letter signed by Protestant Churches of Russia leader Sergei Ryakhovsky among other signatories.

It is absurd, and a misuse and misunderstanding of how the Word of God is written, to try to prove an error in the Word of God by finding a seed smaller than a mustard seed.