Sentences with phrase «in absurd»

Psychologist MHPs tend to be trained to recognize and be rather publicly self - conscious [96] about acknowledging their own biases, but unfortunately many times this only results in absurd overcorrecting to the point at which they are in fact unable to exert common sense to make decisions or judgments that comport with generally accepted ideas about what is normal or healthy, or even what's realistically workable for the everyday lives of the individuals in question (except, of course, if those ideas have been placed into the popular discourse by the trade associations themselves, or happen to serve the MHP's own agenda).

The theoretical model outlined above stems directly from Attachment Theory, called in oldspeak, conflict resolution, psychoanalytic hydraulic pressure from sexuality, faulty conditioning by the behavioral - cognitive therapists, genetic predisposition from the biology folks, or the Existential belief in the absurd.

While the law made it easier to challenge bad patents, it didn't reign in absurd jury verdicts or overly broad patents that enable the trolls in the first place.

The only thing in his absurd statement that makes sense is to buy term insurance if your need is 10 years or less in length.

The root of LSUC's poor governance can be found in the absurd number of benchers.

«But [i] t a settled principle statute interpretation and language of this statute should not be given a literal meaning if doing so would result in absurd consequences which the Legislature did not intend» [Citations.]

Despite all this, the government has just brought in absurd new allocation rules which are apparently designed to overwhelm us with around one quarter of the family work which the county courts judges have hitherto dealt with and thereby save money.

The plaintiff urged a contextual and purposive approach to statutory interpretation of s. 86 that would not result in absurd results as urged by ICBC.

It would be passing strange if the government of Canada in enacting the Transfer Agreement of 1930 intended to put Treaty 8 Indians in the absurd position of being penalized for defending themselves against attack by wild animals.

replete with such language: it disdains the district court's «abrupt handling» of Appellant's first case; sarcastically refers to Appellant's previous counsel's «new - found appreciation for defendant's mental abilities;» criticizes the district court's «oblique language» on an issue unrelated to this appeal; states that the district court opinion in Jones «revealed a crabby and complaining reaction to Project Exile;» insinuates that the district court's concerns «require -LSB--RSB- a belief in the absurd that is similar in kind to embracing paranormal conspiracy theories;» and accuses Appellant of being a «charlatan» and «exploit [ing] his identity as an African - American.»

The climate crisis has come at a bad time, finding us in this absurd situation, so hamstrung by inequality and its consequent pathologies that we can barely move.

As we know, Mann's view (as expressed in his absurd legal filings) is that le climat, c'est moi.

The deeper truth is that the climate crisis has come at a bad time, for it find us in an absurd position, so hamstrung by inequality and its consequent pathologies that we can barely move.

Indeed, Otto maintains that «Americans find themselves in an absurd and dangerous position: in a time when the majority of the world's leading country's largest challenges revolve around science, few reporters are covering them from a scientific angle.»

Well, the fact that it might not be appropriate for a whole bunch of reasons to reproduce the email exchange with Peter Webster doesn't mean it didn't occur and doesn't mean it didn't provide me with evidence of someone defending the dogma in absurd ways.

In his latest salvo in this absurd battle of the miserablists, Monbiot tells Caldicott,

As it is now the matter of uncertainty of the projections is handled in an absurd way by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

He kept it quiet for * 6 months *, while GMU made one excuse after another, broke all of its own timeline guidelines and engaged in absurd footdragging that makes experienced academics shudder, especially with ORI involved.

I'm content to simply state that anyone who is familiar with the evidence — as I have every reason to assume is true of Latimer — and thinks the effects of which I speak of aren't obvious, is willing to believe in the absurd.

You also made some dumb comment about having to use all three... as if, in some absurd dream of yours I had ever said any differently.

He has maintained his interest in the relationship of words and imagery, of delighting in the absurd, and pointing out the irony in contemporary art theory for more than 35 years.

In his drawings, the contrast of light - shadows and light - darkness reveals the eternal battle of man in his absurd struggle for survival.

Pak Sheung Chuen's conceptual artwork includes performance, intervention, and documentation highlighting the contradictions present in the absurd and mundane of daily life.

Shrigley's talk accompanies Public Art Fund's upcoming exhibition David Shrigley: MEMORIAL, a new public artwork that embodies the artist's interest in the absurd potential and poignant nature of the everyday.

As Paolo Herkenhoff explains in his catalogue essay for Milhazes» exhibition Mares do Sul, rather than trying to create a destabilizing effect, «Milhazes aspires to encountering harmony in the absurd, her painting not being the collapse of order but that moment that follows vertigo.»

Rejoice in the absurd, the frustrating, the tragic before stepping back into reality!

An influential professor and artist in Istanbul, Eviner is known for her drawings and paintings in ink and acrylic that depict fantastical human - animal creatures, and for her multimedia videos and installations that feature performers engaged in absurd gestures and ritualistic actions.

Spencer frequently uses humor to discuss dark subject matter, and his characters often find themselves in absurd situations.

In this absurd, nerve - racking film, a famous tightrope walker moves expensive - looking paintings across a mountain crevasse.

In his works, plump figures decorated in pearls and dainty high - heels frolic amongst toads, flamingos, snails and fruit in an absurd yet uncannily familiar world.

Drawing his inspiration from pop culture and American expressionist painters such as Willem de Kooning, Todd James, often called «master of modern - day satire» seems to strip down his characters to a cartoon level showing them in absurd and meaningful situations as a witty comment to todays society and reality.

Yuen - Ying Lam's art practice explores the emotionality of being human in this absurd world, where many relationships are tainted by power, fear and hatred.

His practice employs collage, painting and video to recontextualize quotidian objects in absurd and fetishistic narratives.

Schutz is best known for her vibrantly colored paintings of abstracted individuals in absurd or abject situations.

One is inside a large cardboard column, which stands in absurd contrast to the grandeur of the galleries.

A series of collages made with images sourced from newspaper archives and Ebony and Jet magazines consider female representation, imagining women in absurd juxtapositions with deer heads, flames, and architectural elements.

Paul Pretzer paints scenes depicting fabulous creatures engrossed in absurd acts with allegorical still - life arrangements.

Other artists are less guarded and more self - parodic, delighting in the absurd and the abject: the wonderful Boris Mikhailov, gleeful with a dildo, bleak and comic with the rubber bag and enema tube; Marcel Duchamp, femmed up as demure coquette Rrose Sélavy in Man Ray's portraits; Joseph Beuys in his fisherman's vest and trilby.

Drawing on literary sources ranging from Emily Dickinson to Walt Whitman, Oliver's dramatic photographs document private performances in which he engages in absurd or painful activities like draping a heap of bacon over his own head or pinching his body with a legion of clothespins.

These figures are like strange actors or chess pieces in an absurd drama of their own.

The effect is eery: the uncanny reality of the Soviet regime enhanced by the mould growing on the furniture and the sense of being lost in an absurd system.»

As for the world around you, I'll say this: It's not easy creating an entire universe for the benefit of a single racing game, but Sprint Vector manages to make you feel at home in its absurd reality show - driven future.

It's an adventure game that challenges you with keeping the titular protagonist breathing and moving, while also completing his day to day activities, which often get him caught up in absurd and ridiculous scenarios.

Multiple game modes provide a stimulating orgy of objectives: penetrate and be penetrated as fast as possible or compete in absurd, silly and sexually suggestive games and challenges.

Once you managed to wrangle the game's internal logic you could usually manage to figure out the more insane solutions Doomsday, though, steps over the line numerous times throughout it's 8 - 10 hour runtime, dropping in absurd answers to problems that nobody will feel like they solved through clever thinking.

It's a ridiculous little game where you need to cooperate with others to complete orders in absurd kitchens.

Affiliate blogging creates the opposite result: rather than laying out all the options and weighing them carefully and objectively so that readers can make the decision that works best for them, credit card affiliate links lead to motivated reasoning: since affiliate bloggers don't think of themselves as bad people, but do write blog posts promoting the credit cards that pay them affiliate kickbacks, it's absolutely necessary for them to be emotionally invested, for example, in the absurd notion that the Hyatt credit card annual free night certificate really is the best way to get a hotel room in downtown Seattle.

Even in the absurd case where every KU book borrowed is never opened, Amazon would distribute those funds equally to every author whose book was borrowed.

The operation itself is described in excruciating detail; the whip is soaked in a poison that smells so foul «even the attendants in the emergency room were too revolted to drain the pus,» but then, in an absurd, almost Kafkaesque shift in tone, Amir berates his body «for not being able to make more pus.»

(In an absurd but sadly appropriate coincidence, as I write this, yet another in a long string of near - weekly fender benders has just occurred at the four - way stop outside my office window.)