Sentences with phrase «like absurd»

There's also more interactive games for groups of people, like Absurd is the Word, Discovery Patterns, and Word Nerd.

Where does the NY Times get off with a blanket statement like the absurd «in the rural West, the right of humans to dominate nature is as deep - rooted as the laws of physics.»

That sounds like an absurd comparison, but I love those sorts of games where you can plod along and do things how you want to but with no time pressure or no big bosses to deal with — I can make the game my own and imprint my own stories on to it.

Video game levels may often seem like absurd places.

It might sound like an absurd idea, especially for two former professionals with a sizeable nest egg.

Wilson continues, «I like the absurd, I like magical realism, I like fairy tales.

If this seems like an absurd scenario it is because it is an absurd scenario.

The repair costs could make it look like an absurd amount is being spent per student in that old schoolhouse.

Since the superheroes he gathers have silly names (like Shatterstar and Zeitgeist) and even sillier superpowers (spewing acidic vomit and having good luck) the tryouts are more like an absurd SNL casting - call sketch than a gathering of badasses, but the team is mobilized and, in the movie's most subversive and riotously funny scene, they parachute into the city to save the captive Firefist.

The screenwriting teams of Tom Patchett & Jay Tarses (The Bob Newhart Show) and Jerry Juhl & Jack Rose deliver punchline after ticklish punchline and a full complement of masterful running gags (like the absurd notion that Kermit and Fozzie are twins).

The film is peppered with extratextual but unobtrusive grace notes, from a perfectly timed dog's bark (or spit - take) to the quizzical look lovestruck Claudio (Fran Kranz) gives when his friend offers to pretend to be him to win him the hand of sweet Hero (Jillian Morgese): That time - honored Shakespearean trope, for a split second, gets treated like the absurd contrivance that it is.

They all seem to agree that ultimately, the success or failure of a game rarely falls upon the writing, and that what often seems like an absurd moment in games is the result of a huge combination of factors.

Back in the long ago days of 2012, the idea of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum teaming up for a buddy cop comedy adaptation of the»80s television series 21 Jump Street seemed like an absurd idea destined for failure, and the movie right away poked fun at the lack of originality in its concept along with the industry trend at large of adapting old series.

Much like the absurd representation of the Russians in the McCarthyist»50s (and again in the Reaganite»80s) those from the Middle East, those not sharing a Christian background, those who dress, speak, act differently to the shining example of America are an instant threat.

I like the absurd.»

like an absurd object that neither of them really want to handle; it feels like an awkward disavowal of real feeling.

Shocking steps backward for the already awful interplanetary resource collection and the inclusion of a new war room mechanic feel like absurd missteps.

While an animal model of depression may seem like an absurd idea, currently, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), an endotoxin produced by gram - negative bacteria, is used to induce these clinical models in rodents.

It sounds like an absurd statement,» Schwartz said.

An alliance between the Green party and the Liberal Democrats may seem like an absurd proposition.

This sabre - rattling sounds like absurd talk from a megalomaniac madman, yet nobody would like a seemingly irrational leader to possess nuclear weapons.

There are already rumors swirling that LeBron will leave Cleveland for the warmer weather in Los Angeles and Miami but that seems like an absurd proposition.

To anyone that's not a hockey fan that would seem like an absurd price to pay, but here, in McDavid's presence, it feels like a good deal.

But $ 600,000 just seems like an absurd amount for the infraction.

We must think the tree happy, not like the absurd Sisyphus but like the Suffering Servant.

At times, it feels like an absurd arms race, with colleges and universities building bigger stadiums and more grandiose practice facilities, then feeling the pressure to fill those seats.

Not exact matches

It seems an absurd question to be asking about a company like Research In Motion, Canada's most successful and influential tech firm.

Users complain that they're tired of being talked down to, tired of being made to feel like idiots, tired of absurd rules, tired of machines that break, tired of IT support that cuts out at 5 p.m. — when they're expected to work around the clock.

NCIS, the Navy - police juggernaut that attracts its gray viewership like boomer catnip, draws an absurd 17 million viewers a week.

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.

«The times have gotten so absurd I felt like I had to do something equally absurd.

Second, it's absurd: Like the wine glass on the mattress, the image sticks in your head.

It is absurd because you really don't look like Gollum, universal because most people can relate to the desire to always look put together, and self - deprecating because, again, it infers that you look like Gollum.

It would be absurd to try to run a company without email, and it is increasingly ridiculous to ignore communication platforms like Slack and project management applications like Trello.

There's plenty of blame to go around here — the (mostly) no - name cable makers for peddling junk, retailers like Amazon for allowing it be sold, the USB Implementers Forum for not getting the word out all that well — but the end result is anyone with a USB - C device having to take absurd precautions just to ensure they can use older accessories or spare cables without blowing up their phone.

I can say with an absurd confidence what your links need to look like in order to rank well, but just because I can tell you doesn't mean you can get those links.

For Giuliani to suggest that a lawyer could make a hush money payment in a situation like this without the authorization or awareness of his client is absurd.

That is to absurd to own something like that.

Statements like these sound rather absurd at a time when second - layer scaling solutions are making headlines every day.

The idea that Proportional Representation is not good because it does not easily create majorities is another absurd just like the one that capitalism created democracy!!!

that people use absurd creation myths like this to justify prejudices against people in modern society?

I love comments like this that testify to the unfortunate fact that it doesn't matter how dumb or implausible or utterly brainless one's absurd view is.

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).

It sounds like you agreed with my point about the requirement of reading the Quran in Arabic as being absurd... then again... the following words don't make any sense... perhaps you missed some punctuation.

Sometimes a situation that seems like it's devolved just into complete absurdity requires a radical, absurd response — and that radical, absurd response might in fact be more sensible than even the thing it's responding to.

And, if you are not completely disillusioned, help me plant a church where advice like this will not only be unnecessary, but absurd.

They look and sound and feel like your average, everyday person — which is why the «stranger in a dark alley» narrative is kind of absurd.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

If, as Stoics like Aunt Emily believe, he has simply been reabsorbed into the circumambient nothingness, why is human life not absurd and worthless?

I used to think that CNN was just playing into the hands of religious followers by having a belief blog... now, with articles like this one, it seems more likely they are subtly making fun of them by showing the absurd side & how religion evolves to meet the needs of the current religion industry to keep butts in seats.