Sentences with phrase «real absurdity»

In this context, there is a real absurdity.

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That was just the latest in the blurring of fact versus fiction, real versus unreal, in a show that has captured the absurdity of this singular place and time.

To highlight the everyday absurdities that stand in the way of productivity, American Express OPEN is launching a campaign that features the real struggles we all face in the office with videos, social media content and a series from workplace expert Lynn Taylor on OPEN Forum.

The issue between atheists and theists as to whether God is real is either an absurdity or a mystery.

WWE is at its best when things break the fourth wall to a point of real - life seriousness, or go completely the other way and embrace the absurdity of the form.

Mr Hameed added: «Dr. Bawumia is not going to allow himself to be dragged into the realms of absurdities by persons who obviously lack the intellectual wherewithal to debate the real issues and engage in any serious discourse.

In addition to tightening the distinction between fact and opinion, the time is long overdue for lawmakers to undo the absurdity they have created — and the real damage caused to all citizens» prerogatives of democratic participation — when they equate a journalist's controversial allegations about a George Galloway with Joe's controversial allegations about Dr Bright.

«Today, we saw in real human terms the damage and the absurdity of Trump's policies.

«Once again this highlights the need for real ethics reforms, something the Senate Democrats have been calling on for years, and really shows the absurdity that there has been no talk in this budget process of cleaning up Albany and passing the strong ethics reforms,» said Mike Murphy, a spokesman for the Senate Democratic Conference, a 23 - member group which is in the minority.

Coping with the absurdities of online dating is a real part of digital dating.

In either a stunningly brave or misguided act of meta - absurdity, «Real Steel,» which is about a boy, his dad and the robot that changes their lives, actually feels as if it were made inside the mind of a kid obsessed with robots.

Linklater manages a tricky balance as well, never mocking the real life characters, but letting the outrageousness and absurdity speak all on its own.

Either Elizabeth Banks» bizarrely overdressed flack and Stanley Tucci's unctuous TV host are being played more subtly, or real life is catching up to the absurdity of their characters, but they're much more interesting to watch this time around.

2 Days in New York is Julie Delpy's second foray into French family farce, tinged with absurdity, but grounded in the real comedy at which she's so adept.

«Her» always treated Scarlett Johansson's character, the operating system Samantha, like a real and complex person which made her romance with the lonely Joaquin Phoenix totally relatable, despite its innate absurdity.

Alexander Payne who co-wrote and directed this satire, wanted to show parallels to real - world political life and some of its absurdities.

This year audiences were treated to an early screening of Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin, a comedy of absurdity based on the real - life events surrounding the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.

Those comic authors knew how to filigree their movement and syntax to dizzying, exhilharating absurdities in a «reel» context as well as in a «real» one.

I'm resisting the notion of a ranked Top 10 this year because there are enough absurdities in the real world and in pop culture without saying that Good Film A is better than Good Film B. Every movie is a two - hour window onto an alien planet; the infinite differences are what make the medium remain vibrant and mysterious.

One of the first scenes, for example, is a marital spat between Ted and Tami - Lynn that's like a parody of real - life versions, inflected by the absurdity of one of the participant's being a teddy bear.

But infused in all the hilarity and absurdity is a very real sense of yearning, a need to connect both across generations and within your own.

His straight - talk about the absurdity of America's test obsession, failure to meet or even acknowledge the needs of an increasingly diverse student population, and a «reform» movement that has reformed nothing, failed at much and distracted from students» very real needs is a telling portal on what's really going on in American education today.

However overt or subtle the pervasive themes of sex and violence, the relationship between power and submission, or male and female, in Dzama's theater of absurdity everything is accounted for in the continuity of potential rebirth that lies between the real and the dreamed world, life and death.

The struggle he portrays represents the absurdity of a debate over ancient identity which directly clashes with the very modern and very real struggles with national identity, and the void created by the collapse of Yugoslavia.

By calling them Real Pirates however, I am pointing to the absurdity and subjectivity governing most copyright laws which use the word liberally.

[1] His works «depict daily experiences in Mysore, southern India, where he is based, but also reflect wider cultural, political and economic globalization issues» and explore the «absurdity of the real world, representation and abstraction, and repeating images».

With theatrical absurdity, he explores the relationship between the real & the perceived, the natural & the virtual, man & animal; all through altering and manipulating media.

In the electric power world, the real way to make progress is to first realize the absurdity of centralized power plants that throw away the massive amount of energy as heat due to thermodynamic facts about heat engines.

The false belief in this magical equilibrium which the IPCC gang actually suggests can be maintained — another absurdity — is like the false vision of the magical «balance of nature» that doesn't exist in the real world either.

And, because those being brainwashed with ideal gas descriptions with no teaching on the differences between ideal gas and real gases which have real properties of weight, volume and attraction, which have been given different names because they are different from each other, what we also have is the inability of those pushing the GHE to see the absurdities created by extrapolating from their ideal gas..

The poster child recently for this absurdity has been the GPS system, and recently there was some clock put on a satellite which they claimed proved speed slowed down the clock, which on closer inspection showed the same wishful thinking as we note in reading the variety of models produced of an alien world with a cold Sun and no atmosphere passing itself off a this one — here, a real world analysis by a real world scientist blanked out by consensus:

In the never ending battle to beat out absurdities such as Stewie the Grape Stomping Reporter and the real 19th century vampire kit that is (apparently) a must have, here is a little contribution that picks up on my last

In the never ending battle to beat out absurdities such as Stewie the Grape Stomping Reporter and the real 19th century vampire kit that is (apparently) a must have, here is a little contribution that picks up on my last blockbuster; seven categories of lists, each of which is composed of 7 separate lists, where each list has seven items!!!

There's a real patent absurdity going on there, and everybody would benefit if Apple would cool off their dogs.

Mike clearly demonstrates an acute sense of our business and an equally acute sense of the absurdity that is the Canadian Competition Bureau's interest in the affairs of professional Real Estate.