Sentences with phrase «into absurdity»

If we try to answer that question by employing logic we lapse into the absurdity of circular reasoning.

How have we allowed ourselves to lapse into this absurdity?

While a number formats have faded, others have multiplied into absurdity.

They mastered the art of leaning into the absurdity of those puzzles, using comedy as a way of highlighting the absurd cartoon logic they relied on.

But the scenario quickly escalates into absurdity when the saleswoman has trouble comprehending the question.

If we were to say that the Quran and the Bible BOTH teach the truth, we would run into absurdities immediately.

James, I'm sure that I could extend several of your positions into absurdity too.

As for slipping into absurdity: i * know *, isn't it great That's why I don't think it's cogent to adopt the «how dare you think you know the truth» line of reasoning.

If every time someone says «you can't know you are right» they are criticized because they too claim to know something, the fact that no one can know they are right, we're going to quickly plunge into absurdity.

On learning that she landed an interview with Barack Obama (that would occur the following day) on the day she endured a painful bone marrow extraction for the blood condition myelodysplastic syndrome: «[It] reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.»

Though the film's offbeat tone veers a little too far into absurdity at times, particularly the scenes involving House's cartoonish social worker, it helps to freshen up an otherwise familiar story.

It gets outrageous enough, it seems like Daredevil is actually going to break into absurdity.

Forget the ridiculousness of Norsemen from outer space: Guardians offered up an ambulatory houseplant and a talking raccoon, and leaned hard into the absurdity of both.

It's as if Berg wants to play the film straight while the events leap into absurdity, but it leaves the ideas more interesting than the delivery.

Digging herself ever deeper into absurdity, Paula launches a pursuit with battalions of police that descends into classic 1970s chase - movie car - flipping.

It's here that Gladiator's seriousness tips over into absurdity, and it's this ending that holds the film back from being a truly spectacular piece.

The narrative does descend into absurdity, but this is part of what makes the film enjoyable.

Audiences will laugh at the ridiculousness, but may not be moved in the end when it attempts to infuse a little humanity into the absurdity.

In a world where The Dark Knight has pushed every comic book property to its most existentially gritty, Thor was a reminder the genre can still, heaven forbid, retain an element of honest fun — without delving into the absurdity of failed attempts of the past such as Daredevil and Fantastic Four.

This plays beautifully off how morbid and grotesque both the song's content and Maddin's images are, tapping into the absurdity that The Forbidden Room wears so well.

Eventually an unexpected plot turn «sends «The World's End» spinning into an absurdity that must be experienced fresh.»

Kingsman: The Secret Service An intermittently amusing comedy - drama from director Matthew Vaughn («Kick - Ass»), starring Colin Firth as a British secret agent who takes a novice under his wing, the movie collapses into absurdity in its second half, sloppily careening from silliness to sentimentality.

A teenage girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) has her first period in a room full of clueless males (There is one laugh when her date, played by Jimmy Bennett, calls 9 -1-1 and asks why the operator is laughing), and Halle Berry and Stephen Merchant use a game of Truth or Dare to liven up a blind date (The first two dares, which use the surroundings of a restaurant, are solid, but then it quickly jumps into the absurdity of tattoos and plastic surgery).

Certainly, by the time the film veers into absurdity, the entertainment quotient has already been met, so it is good enough to see, even if it overreaches far more than such an intelligently - conceived thriller ever should.

We can enough, if we buy into the absurdity of the movie's premise, but there's a better, more fundamental question: Do we really want to understand either of these guys?

Just because you are anxious to get a dog, DOES NOT mean that you have to rush and feed into this absurdity of puppy mills, if you really love dogs you would die if you saw how these puppy mills operate.

The Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and»80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus.

Answer the substantive point rather than attempting to extend into absurdity and then saying «look it's absurd!!!».

Egoyan leans into the absurdity, treating the material more like an exploitation flick than the prestige drama that Plummer's magisterial presence in the lead role would suggest.

Because it's philosophical nonsense, that either leads you into inconsistency, or leads you into absurdity.

«The Ultimate Deletion» leaned into the absurdity, with dramatic music, lengthy anime-esque monologues, and even a fireworks attack launched by Hardy's faithful drone, «Vanguard 1.»

The second hour picks up speed and becomes more interesting, with some dips into serious drama that are particularly effective, but an unbelievable side - story into Holly's background before coming to New York drags the film down into absurdity.

Sullivan's projects are driven by a mischievous fascination with and defiance of this kind of preciousness — a desire to parody and contaminate the staunch forms of Modern idealism by teasing them into absurdity.