Sentences with phrase «to absurdity»

The 18 - year - old is facing the criticism with composure and grace, and she's been a model for how well - meaning people who get caught in the crosshairs of social - justice absurdity should comport themselves.

«I realized the absurdity of how far I had gone,» he says.

One afternoon in 2011, he stopped by a drugstore to pick up razor blades and shaving cream, and was struck by the absurdity of the experience.

Why it's a must read: Adams's earlier book, The Dilbert Principle, outlined the absurdity and inconsistency of the business world.

Bee is not pointing to the absurdity of it all and shrugging like «What can ya do?»

Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

Experiencing firsthand the absurdity of the Bitcoin ecosystem had only made me more certain that this particular cryptocurrency had no fundamental value, and had long ago outlived its intended purpose.

Donald Trump, a candidate whose propensity for offensive absurdity seems endless, may have finally crossed the line when he bragged about sexually assaulting women.

'' [It] captures the dark humor and absurdity of Army life and the banality of combat and death in wartime.

Examples I've noticed are absurdity, universality, and self - deprecation.

After calling Mill's sentence «unjust and heavy - handed» in a Facebook post last week, Jay - Z wrote an op - ed protesting Mill's sentence and the «absurdity of the criminal justice system» for The New York Times on Friday.

The NIRP absurdity is jackhammering into the foundation of the global economy that has already been damaged by the distortions caused by years of QE and zero - interest - rate policies.

For more than five decades, the world was graced with the creativity, absurdity, and sheer brilliance that is David Bowie.

Of course, there's an element of humor to the store, if not a shade of absurdity.

In a 1932 essay predicting sundry future trends, Winston Churchill wrote, «We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.»

Not unlike Wolfe, his satire of the modern world's oversized egos occasionally turns his characters into cartoons (Yount's wife is a socialite who is selfish to absurdity.

Yet it sprawls to cover modern art, modern health care, modern parenting, the absurdities of professional sport, the lot of illegal immigrants, terrorism, AIDS, the difficulties of assembling children's toys and, of course, money.

Pretty much everyone, including an editorial in The Globe and Mail, has pointed out the absurdity of this.

Twitter users posted countless parodies of the false attack stories, including obviously faked images and stories that soon escalated into absurdity.

It moves the story forward, but highlights the humor and absurdity of what the drunk narrator is saying.»

The exaggeration also helps underscore the absurdity of your negative thoughts.»

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.

At a time when U.S. unemployment is running at 9.1 percent, and Washington is desperate to encourage the creation of new companies (and jobs), the absurdity of turning away a rich source of entrepreneurial talent is plain.

Before you spit out your coffee over the on - the - surface absurdity of that question, let's consider some of the factors that drive Americans» habits when it comes to retirement savings.

And that licensing really isn't needed at all - imagine the absurdity of the government telling Renaissance Technologies, the most successful hedge fund of all time staffed mainly with mathematicians and physicists, that they can only hire CFA charter holders.

We need to be reminded of such absurdities to think this through.

To even suggest a flower could bring down a whole economy seems, to reasonable minds, an absurdity, but that is exactly what happened in Holland in the early 1600s.

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.

Beyond the absurdity of basing investment decisions on a temporary weather event, these recommendations can be harmful to investors because they involve some stocks with very shaky fundamentals at a time when market volatility makes investing in strong businesses all the more important.

The Merriam - Webster dictionary defines the word «haven» as «a place where you are protected from danger, trouble, etc.» Referencing junk bonds as a place where investors «are protected from danger» is the epitome of theatrical absurdity.

Another propaganda tool is the character of Squealer, a fat spokespig for the ruling class that is «charged with the task of reconciling the irreconcilable and parsing the absurdities of non sequitur pronouncements from the pigs» administration.»

Ratings Agencies Would Also Have To Fortify The Decision... Which They Would... Due to Tremendous Political Pressure... Despite The Absurdity Of The Idea.

«We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

When the unstoppable absurdity of shareholder lawsuits runs into the immovable absurdity of Herbalife, they create quite an explosion.

(The new moniker was an amalgam of a nonsense word Markoe and Letterman would say to each other — «melman» — coupled with a nod to one of the Watergate conspirators, Egil «Bud» Krogh Jr.) From the debut, DeForest became one of the show's leading lights of absurdity, a seemingly clueless every - schlub stumbling his way through new - product parodies («Toast on a Stick») or plugging the fictional «Melman Bus Lines.»

The absurdity seems to have no end and the scammers are regularly presenting the old new tools hoping to find new victims.

Yes I recognize the absurdity of a surf - rock band from Minnesota but stay focused here.

Therefore, a sizable dose of fresh absurdities had to be expected, with only small disagreements on the details.

For this, I had to go to audio... and record a pretty epic rant on the absurdity of tariffs.

Reaching a Point of Absurdity: Illegal immigration has been embedded in American society for so long «that we have forgotten its intrinsic contradictions,» argues Victor Davis Hanson.

Giuliani acknowledged the absurdity of his own argument in a Fox & Friends interview on Thursday.

Perhaps today the absurdity has reached the apex of its crescendo with this utterly ridiculous «letter to gold bug» published by Marketwatch: It's time to surrender and let the yellow metal fall to its bear market low

Given its absurdity it's amazing how popular this line of thinking has become in the gold market.

The rest of the propaganda and rhetoric connected to the 2016 election, which was elevated to previously unforeseen levels of absurdity, was little more than unholy entertainment that served to agitate the masses.

We have to end the absurdity of the gun show loophole.

Thank you, President Donald Trump, for your suggestion that teachers should be trained to carry firearms in order to stop gun violence against our students («The absurdity of arming teachers,» Feb. 25).

Even Asia's trading was affected by the uncertainty, and I think almost people will be determined to play their role looking in on the absurdity of the Euro Zone.

It has something to do with acknowledging that, in its very essence, all reasoning involves a venture of trust in an original orientation of truth to the mind and of the mind to truth, and in the ultimate unity of the two; and that, therefore, any attempt to argue from rational premises to rational conclusions that resolutely refuses to invoke what is and has always been revealed — in the mind's most primordial encounter with reality — is not really a process of reasoning at all, but a journey toward absurdity.

hinduism, absurdity of a hindu, ignorant, what proof do you have to substantiate your hinduism, absurdity.

Only by hinduism, absurdity of a hindu, ignorant, but fundamentals of language do not support your hinduism, absurdity.