Sentences with phrase «from absurd»

You are arguing from the negative... or, at worse, from the absurd....

- is that he seems to advocate the limits of humanities freedom, and might find cogent arguments from the absurd movement to help him make his own, but how can you tell someone who knows precisely what they want to know?

You make a couple of assumptions which range from absurd to true but misleading.

The only sense which can be distilled from this absurd article is that sharks only attack you when you're wet.

The criticisms have ranged from the absurd (water vapor is still not 95 % of the greenhouse effect, particularly in a glacial world where one expects a drier atmosphere) to somewhat more technical sounding (like criticizing the way they did the weighting of their proxy records, though the results aren't too sensitive to their averaging method).

Fluxus artworks embraced everything from the absurd to the commonplace, from the violent to the tedious, and often followed a socio - political agenda, in order to ridicule the conventional aesthetics of the art world and empower both the artist and viewer.

The possibility for new ideas and ways of thinking that evolve from the absurd encapsulate Bas» thinking behind the entire body of work, and he takes as his point of departure the absinthe induced writings and absurdist theatre concocted by Alfred Jarry.

Taking satirical cues from the absurd structures of reality TV, Khoshbin presents a backdrop of projected videos, outrageous colorful costumes, and elaborate handmade props.

Like a textbook from Southern California Conceptual art heaven, we go from the absurd into the ridiculous on a nightmarish journey fraught with historical omissions, hypocritical assertions, erroneous assumptions, bad curatorial decisions and bad scholarship.

Animal Super Squad is a new vehicle platformer taking cues from the absurd physics and big ramps of the Trials series, swapping helmeted rider with reckless animals in slapdash machines on wheels.

Some games might shy away from the absurd, but the Saint's Row series revels in it.

Still, nearly all of the enjoyment from getting behind the wheel comes from the absurd mash - ups of death Frank cobbles together and racking up huge kill numbers.

There are an abundant number of scandalous credit card issuers that will charge you exorbitant fees - ranging from absurd application fees, processing fees, annual fees, and more nickel - and - dime expenses that you will pay upfront before you ever charge a dime in purchases to the card.

But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys — from his grandfather's tumbledown house to the hallowed towers and spires of Yale; from his absurd stint selling housewares at Lord & Taylor to his dream job at the New York Times, which became a nightmare when he found himself a faulty cog in a vast machine.

8:22 is a far cry from the absurd 7:08 posted by the new Nismo GT - R, but there's a clear lineage evident.

It's refreshingly free from the absurd futuristic design found on other FCEVs like the Toyota Mirai, instead appearing as a sleek, handsome crossover.

Bursting with limitless creativity in both form and content, Swiss Army Man goes from the absurd to the emotional to the whimsical to the profound and back again.

Sorrentino's use of symbolism ranges from absurd to inelegant, but this crystallising moment is perhaps the most eloquent expression of the film's emotional power.

In a hilarious clash of cultures and conduct, the loudest laughs will emanate from the absurd way both cops and robbers traipse around Ireland attempting to mimic the Americanisms they have adopted from television shows and pop culture.

There are real characters here, and the laughs come from the absurd over-commitment to them, as well as some solid joke writing.

Unfortunately that's not enough to save it from its absurd second half.

Smith's tone shifts wildly from absurd comedy to real terror, but given the film's insane premise, the approach works because nothing is ever what you expect.

It's nicely designed and photographed, but the movie careens from absurd comic overstatement to something darker and more troubling.

Meanwhile former Home Office minister Norman Baker's book is billed as an «entertaining account of Westminster and constituency life, from the absurd to the deadly serious».

The government's new Psychoactive Substances Act starts from the absurd premise that anything which «is capable of producing a psychoactive effect» will henceforth be banned.

You know, I wonder how many women actually get a substantial increase in milk production from those absurd pumping schedules where «substantial increase» means enough production to feed an infant on an infant - demand schedule.

He forced Alcindor to attempt all the shots in his repertoire, from dunks to that majestic hook fired from an absurd yard above the basket, to jump shots outside Lew's best range.

Doubtless too, in reaction from that absurd pretence of individualistic independence.

Over the years, Russia has been a country which has been known for many things ranging from their absurd diplomatic relationships to the popular Russian Vodka.

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.

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.

The health questions are also a little absurd — if we are going to make illegal anything as harmful as marijuana, we should be banning everything from African rock pythons to hot dogs.

It is absurd, frankly, to suggest that a recusal from a single specific investigation would render an attorney general unable to manage the leadership of the various Department of Justice law enforcement components that conduct thousands of investigations.

The Remain campaign would have us believe the EU would impose tariff barriers in retribution, but the truth is we import nearly # 70bn more from the continent than we sell there, so it would be an absurd act of economic self - harm for the EU to start a trade war with Britain.

Using the word «tyranny» once and «absurd» nine times, Judge Orenstein accused the DOJ of trying to use the authority of the All Writs Act to get through the courts what it couldn't get from Congress.

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.

While the absurd spirit of the out - there comedy remains in «10 Years Later,» its 90s setting changed some things, from the hair to the fashion to the music.

«The suggestion that these promises that are coming fast and furious from Mr. Horgan and the NDP can be accommodated within a balanced budget, absent massive tax increases, is simply absurd.»

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.

The renewed talks sparked protest from the Trade Justice Network and other civil society organizations, calling these secret negotiations absurd and undemocratic.

Yet it is absurd to suggest that reductions from current levels will call forth some renaissance of hard work.

I also believe that the current move up in the miners from mid-January reflects the absurd amount of short - selling and naked short - selling that has infested the mining shares since April 2011.

Sanders shot down an absurd notion from Ryan, who is also a political analyst for CNN, explaining to her that the White House press office does not talk to the president's legal team about their legal strategy.

In an absurd letter from his lawyer to Manhattan federal Judge Alison Nathan, Wey was upset that his ankle bracelet and court - enforced nightly curfew conflicted with an evening at the ballet.

... I look at this person's comments and keep thinking about a study I read recently that stated that «it is impossible to tell religious zelotism from parody in print, since both sound equally absurd».

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

this idea that morality somehow comes from religion is absurd and dangerously misguided.

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.

The «absurd» laws that we see today (such as no pork) were instilled in Jewish society in order to protect the Jewish people (diseases from foods like pork were much more common).

This «good» is what keeps people from seeing how absurd religion really is.