Sentences with phrase «often absurd»

Speaking about the (often absurd) classified government documents he and Holzer have both used in their work — Holzer has projected redacted classified documents onto buildings, while Paglen has done the same with the code names of government surveillance programs — Paglen noted that these government records, especially when recontextualized, expose a grimmer side of abstraction.

Robert Cumming (b. 1943) is an American photographer / sculptor / bookmaker who borrows from the artifice of theatrical sets to construct his elaborate and often absurd images.

The theater of politics, in Nicky's work, is often an absurd space.

These will plot a map through Baruchello's excessive imaginary, where a form of storytelling, critically engaged and often absurd, is constantly re-invented.

His performances are often an absurd convergence of his theater training and experience, years of corporate Internet marketing jobs, and his interest in esoteric modes of physical and non-physical exchange.

Miguel Soares (Portugal) H2O is a 3d animation about marine trash and the often absurd reactions of maritime flora and fauna to these «alien visitors».

And yet, though the early decades of 20th - century Russia have been firmly registered in today's art history as a time of radical social and artistic change, the uncompromising and often absurd ideas in Avant - Garde Museology appear alien to a contemporary art history that explains suprematism and constructivism in terms of formal abstraction.

Gina Dawson's sculptures mash - up nearly - readymade, easily identifiable materials into often absurd compositions.

He creates photographs, films, sculptures, and installations that combine contemporary aesthetics with primal urges — violence, sexuality, and companionship — and the resulting work is often both absurd and hilarious.

His recent works simultaneously employ his signature cartoon - like drawing style and investigate formal implications in abstract painting with psychedelic and often absurd space and color.

They're the sort of things you see in the movies — action - packed, entertaining, and often absurd (but in the best way possible).

They're often absurd, sometimes dangerous, and always an absolute laugh.

While I like the concept in general, the implementation is mostly lackluster, with very few films managing to actually prove themselves worthy of the often absurd prices demanded for their viewing.

With her usual keen eye for detail and humor, Isaacs takes a hard look at the sometimes impenetrable, often absurd social politics of upscale New York.

Far from deterring readers from buying an Indie's book by employing their misguided campaigns designed to discredit and end a writer's career, and by writing their often absurd so - called reviews, in fact all they achieve is the exact opposite.

One of the strangest things about today's twenty - four - hour news cycle of cable television and nonstop Internet blather is how it's made possible a veritable explosion of improbable, sometimes amusing, often absurd nonfacts, misnomers, and false narratives — e.g., President Obama is a Muslim from Kenya

No Escape shouldn't work as well as it does and yet, strong performances from an unlikely cast make for a taut thriller that plays to the tune of Taken, becoming an often absurd yet emotionally resonant tale of survival.

Their views are often absurd.

Release: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 [Theater] Written by: John Erick Dowdle; Drew Dowdle Directed by: John Erick Dowdle No Escape shouldn't work as well as it does and yet, strong performances from an unlikely cast make for a taut thriller that plays to the tune of Taken, becoming an often absurd yet emotionally resonant tale of survival.

Between 1999 and 2006, he made a series of six films dealing with the often absurd adventures of Kapa and Pepe, two comical anti-heroes played by actors Zoltan Mucsi and Peter Scherer.

New Horizons» favourite Guy Maddin's The Forbidden Room is a matryoshka of a film, where each oneiric vision of hapless submariners or amorous lumberjacks opens onto the next often absurd and surreally comic chapter.

... «The humour largely comes from his original and often absurd solutions to any problems and his total disregard for others when solving them, his pettiness and occasional malevolence.»

One is fear based, often absurd, seeing pregnancy as illness, believing that interventions make benefit greater than risk and using safety as a canard for control.

Choosing not to play on a beautiful day simply because one of 54 holes was considered unplayable gives the impression that the players are wimps and that the game itself is so precious, so uptight, that it can't be conducted unless it conforms to a set of rules that are often absurd.

In retrospect our enjoyment of the whole novel depends upon our having dwelled within the particular episodes which, felt in isolation from the rest of the narrative, are often absurd, unintelligible.

And it is often absurd.

Not exact matches

«There was a touch of the absurd in the unfolding drama, as international money managers harshly castigated the very same Asian governments they were praising just months before... But, as often happens in financial markets, euphoria turned to panic without missing a beat.»

Such stories often teach similar lessons about hard times: Suffering is necessary, the «false self» must be abandoned, and «everything belongs, even the sad, absurd and futile parts.»

The revolutionary role of the printed book has been described often enough and it would be absurd to deny it.

We shall often have occasion to point out that in these stories the feverish activity of the believer is absurd.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

When people try to make something sound absurd with their questions, it often simply reflects an overly literal questioner.

I mean, it is very very hard to take anyone seriously who says absurd things like «The «6 days / 6, 000 year - old - earth» meme is either propaganda to distort and mock Christianity, or often well - intentioned assumptions by new or superficial christians.»

But as soon as you start making assertions like «Jesus was born of a virgin and was raised from the dead,» or «when we die, we are reincarnated over and over until we reach enlightenment» you find yourself having to force yourself to believe things that are unproven and unprovable and often patently absurd.

They know they don't have a leg to stand on, so they will often settle for trying giving their own absurd theory equal standing to the well - known scientific facts.

This conflict often operates in the alcoholic's marital relationship, where he will marry a dominant, mothering woman (who protects him to an absurd degree) and then so resent the dependency as to turn the marriage into a civil war.

Doubtless it is absurd to dwell on death as such; it is equally absurd to attempt to deny it, to cover it up, to pretend that it is not there — one thinks of the pathetic way in which contemporary funeral customs so often try to disguise what as a matter of obvious truth a funeral is all about.

An awareness of promise often miraculously blossoms even amidst the most absurd circumstances: barrenness and infertility; conditions of oppression and slavery; exile from homeland; death by crucifixion.

I too have felt the machinery of Christianity, its rituals and teachings and habits of mind, remote from the way I lead my life and, in that sense, if not absurd, then certainly useless, because I didn't (and still often don't) use it to guide and govern my life.

Contrast this with Christianity, which is now largely considered mythical and irrelevant; or with politics, now largely considered corrupt and all «spin»; or, indeed, with philosophy, now often thought of as an absurd, esoteric pastime.

And because the jargon of English studies is often unnatural, any effort to «translate» it sounds absurd.

I'm not religious, and I often get frustrated when fundamentalist Christians try to pass laws based on their beliefs, but this lawsuit is absurd.

This happens to me often but I find it totally absurd since I pretty much read about food all day.

When I explained that Gwyneth often said absurd things like, «Whenever my hands get dry, I just pop over to Paris for this amazing hand cream, etc. etc.,» my mother simply responded, «She lives in London, Serena.

We, Clemson, Ohio State, and a few elite others will and do pay absurd money to keep our best coaches, which forces other aspirant schools to pay out for hopes, dreams, and prayers, often with poor results.

We no longer need the stroller, diaper bag, and absurd amount of gear that babies often travel with.

People with causes are often wonderful, but my main interest that afternoon was eating free samples of snacks made with absurd amounts of dates and kale.

Another commented, «It is a bit absurd that the most productive members of the laboratory workforce are relegated to second - class status: Obtaining benefits is often difficult, and retirement plans [are] impossible.»

I stole a pack of gum at the age of 5, often stole cookies from the cookie jar, and ate an absurd amount of candy bars while I was young.

The sheer amount of metaphors batted about, ranging from outdated to absurd (and indeed often both), are clear for all to see.