Sentences with phrase «seems absurd»

The idea of preparing purchase contracts to submit blind offers for a buyer who has never seen a property seems absurd to most Realtors.

If adults join cults, it seems absurd to dismiss the possibility that children can not be coerced into rejecting a once loved parent.

Closing off a potentially fruitful source of skilled, competent candidates — and a new generation of business leaders — seems absurd to me.

If it seems absurd to imagine one smartphone running two voice assistants, consider what Sonos» CEO said to Variety on Friday.

In practice this claim seems absurd, and only under very ideal conditions would this hold up to scrutiny.

Buying Bitcoin is famous for its open, borderless, and decentralized nature, so it seems absurd that buying Bitcoin would be restricted because of where you are trying to buy it.

This goldie - lookin Lightning cable seems absurd at first, a piece of shiny nonsense that surely costs a fortune, aimed squarely at the kind of fools that pay real money for Swarovski crystal and Vertu phones.

The idea of a battery - free mouse seems absurd, but there's actually a good reason why this peripheral does not come with a battery inside.

The fact that I had to hit the power button to wake it up seems absurd.

People are already acquainted with that branding, and it seems absurd for the company to waste away that potential.

To me this seems absurd and completely lacking in understanding of how technology is actually developed.

If this seems absurd it is but so is your decision.

In this context, Marvel's choice of using OHC data rather than making direct use of the available net flux data from the model runs seems absurd.

We're rich enough by and large to not miss the benefits of biotech, but it seems absurd to me to plough on with our dirty coal and ludicrous windmills when there is such a quantity of natural gas easily accessible.

If the former, then it seems absurd averaging outputs of a number of models, only one of which could possibly be correct.

This just seems absurd to me.

As well as effective aerosol forcing of -1.2 W / m2 being mcuh stronger than the IPCC AR5 ERF of ~ -0.7 W / m2 over 1850 - 2000, the land use change effective forcing of -0.7 W / m2, arsign from a very high efficacy of 3.89, seems absurd to me.

So the fact that climate modelling was recently singled out as being somehow non-scientific seems absurd.

If the analogy at first seems absurd, it's because the three bodies of work from the vantage of outer appearances alone, defy comparison.

Leveille: It's a reinterpretation of Hylas and the Nymphs — which was a hugely popular Victorian - era theme.Some have criticized it for depicting male Victorian sexual fantasy, and I think it does, but I have no problem with that in the sense that all of art history has been an exploration of male fantasy so singling this one theme out for criticism seems absurd given the whole picture.

The topic of multiplayer only games not being able to charge full price is a heated one at the moment, yet seems absurd in so many ways.

But charging 35 times as much for holding a similar portfolio of stocks seems absurd.

In these days of AWS and other profoundly cheap / scalable hosting that just seems absurd.

Overweighting companies that issue more and more debt just seems absurd.

One mused that it «seems absurd that there is only ONE copy of an e-book in demand and that only one person can use it at a time.

Seems absurd at this point but I think that's the case.

Putting the onus on libraries to gather market analysis data for the publishers seems absurd.

The GT3 now feels so fast in a straight line that it seems absurd to expect any more performance from a road car.

Improvements seems really nice, but given how much (or rather how little) of them is there this price hike seems absurd.

Certainly it seems absurd for him to claim that his parents had less influence on his eventual academic success than Mr. Harris, who first encountered him only late in high school.

In just a few short years, technology has become so ingrained in our culture that going to school or performing a job without it seems absurd.

At first you're rolling your eyes at what seems an absurd stretch of a premise, but soon enough you're buying its always - on - edge predicaments and after a few episodes you're hooked into its story - upon - story acrobatics.

And poor Jonathan Banks gets little more than a couple of scenes, which seems absurd coming off of his recent fiery performance in Mudbound.

Each and every scenario seems absurd and unbelievable, and to maintain these situations, each and every character must act like the dumbest person who ever lived.

Comparing it to poetry seems absurd — after this, this is about a man who uses science fiction technology to «relive» the antics of his assassin ancestor 500 years earlier — but this isn't your regular action movie.

For a film with a $ 150 million budget to look like television is unconscionable and it seems absurd that no one was able to convince Jackson not to adopt the format, or at least not to try it out on a franchise with so much riding on it.

Actress Clea DuVall's debut as a writer - director is crisp and clean - looking, but even the basic set - up seems absurd: A gathering is called by the clueless and obnoxious Annie (Melanie Lynskey) to her family's preciously gorgeous Savannah country estate in order to stage a «marriage intervention» for her unhappy older sister Ruby (Cobie Smulders) and her emotionally distant husband Peter (Vincent Piazza) in order to convince them to divorce.

So the thought of wearing them throughout the year just seems absurd.

As soon as we find out one such crucial item is available, we'll give you a heads up, regardless of the fact that the timing of the content seems absurd.

Having it be 70 + degree's here in the beginning of November seems absurd, so I welcomed the Northern Italian coast with open arms.

I wrote those titles mostly in chronological order, since choosing how to order the events that shape your life seems absurd.

It seems absurd to think that humans have had it all wrong all this time!

And when you consider that light is actually heat, it seems absurd to hand your precious body over to the nearest wand - toting beautician.

In modern times, the idea of voluntarily going without eating seems absurd to some, though to many people throughout history, the idea of eating 4 - 6 times a day would seem equally absurd.

A link between bedroom furniture and cancer seems absurd, but this, the researchers conclude, is the answer.

Although this statement seems absurd, it describes a very real behavior that subatomic particles exhibit.

The alternative — that physical laws should vary with the observer's motion relative to some undetectable, unknowable frame of reference — now seems absurd.

The idea that we create reality seems absurd.

Seems like a pretty ambiguous law, any foreign national that discusses politics with a US citizen is going to have an influence over the person they are talking to, I don't see why campaign donations should be some sort of separate category in this regard, seems absurd to me.

The idea of appealing to European protection seems absurd.