Sentences with phrase «too absurd»

This idea is too absurd for anyone to have even proposed it.

The first part of this claim is too absurd to address reasonably, but the second part — that scientists are paid substantially to support pseudoscience — has some truth to it.

The «doublespeak» line is too absurd to even take seriously.

While offensive, the court found the parody too absurd to be taken seriously as defamation.

I know it sounds too good, too absurd, to be true, but believe it.

He is not a cynic — his works are too magical [4], too absurd for kill - yourself cynicism.

Now, I've been to this store several times over the past couple years, and they have a decent selection of retro games and their prices usually aren't too absurd for most games, but can get a little up there for more rarer titles.

The idea that anybody could try to justify not spaying and neutering dogs in this country, while millions are killed each year in horrific and agonizingly slow methods because of overpopulation, just shows that there is truly nothing too absurd for breeders to propose in their attempts to protect an industry that is responsible for misery, suffering and death.

(Saying that they didn't understand even that would be too absurd and therefore unfunny.)

A theory way too absurd to take seriously... at first.

The idea isn't too absurd.

I tore urgently through the book's outlandish chapters, each one crammed with anecdotes that, despite reading like a novel, were simply too absurd to have been fictionalized.

The fanciful tale is too absurd to take seriously.

Now all they need to do is figure out how to bring back the time travel conceit without making it too absurd.

There isn't much of an ending, big stars drop in and out of the feature, and a few moments seem far too absurd.

But «Bad Samaritan» plays out with all the somber determination of a plausible drama, and after a while the plot is simply too absurd to be taken that seriously.

While attempting to adapt Peter George's novel Red Alert for the big screen, director Stanley Kubrick found that he kept needing to cut out certain real - life details about the emergency nuclear bomb procedures because they were simply too absurd to work in a serious drama.

The ending is too absurd, e.g.. Also it's not that exciting all the time.

The film ultimately fails, either because the premise is too absurd, or the execution isn't absurd enough.

The situation itself is simply too absurd for us to accept, right from the start.

Repeatedly he sought to undercut many of his colleagues» interpretations or to explain them away because they seemed too absurd to be true.

The ridiculous sums on offer was highlighted by Ozil in his new book, where he revealed: «When I got an offer from China last summer I didn't need advice because the offer was too absurd,»

To call these other things causes is too absurd.

Frankly, this is too absurd.

That our superiority in personal refinement or in religious creed should constitute a difference between ourselves and our messmates at life's banquet, fit to entail such a consequential difference of destiny as eternal life for us, and for them torment hereafter, or death with the beasts that perish, is a notion too absurd to be considered serious.

And when the bible is proven to be too absurd to believe you stick your fingers in your ears.

One might then as well set up the thesis that the interest in mechanics, physics, chemistry, logic, philosophy, and sociology, which springs up during adolescent years along with that in poetry and religion, is also a perversion of the sexual instinct: - but that would be too absurd.

your comments are too absurd to be real.

«The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation...» ~ Ingersoll

He called for a rejection of the creeds and beliefs of the Churches of his day «too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice.»

That's just too absurd a concept for me to accept.

it was too absurd.

Not exact matches

It reminds us, precisely in its absurd elevation of the trivial, not to take ourselves too seriously.

I remember not being too impressed by these refutations at the time, but now, some of them seem quite absurd.

I think that would be an «absurd» assumption too.

Lest, however, we who do not share that anxiety become exultant in the afflatus of our superiority let us remind ourselves that we, too, have our own absurd beliefs and our own selfishnesses and childishnesses and meannesses.

To take an incredibly complex thing and say it's too complex to have come about naturally... and that claim by supposing the existence of an even more complex thing (a god) is absurd.

Doubtless too, in reaction from that absurd pretence of individualistic independence.

There are already too many people who claim atheism is a religion, which of course is absurd.

that too would be absurd.

Similarly at mass, the inept folk group who demanded that the congregation sing with them prompted in Dillard the feeling that this too was a descent into mystery, the well of the absurd, where one sacrificed education, dignity, distance and propriety for the sake of a glimpse of the sacred.

Whereas the old Marxists believed in something, albeit something absurd and dangerous, New Labour believes in nothing; «nothing» as defined by John Lennon in his sentimentally pernicious imagination: «No heaven... no hell... no countries... nothing to kill or die for and no religion too.»

Eddie, too, gets a «part» on the show, and Beha skillfully and humorously teases out the absurd implications of staging and scripting a person's life, filming it, and then pretending it's reality.

It is likely that the latter no more believes in Satan than Twain did, and it is likely too that he is less concerned with improving the damned human race than with undermining its pieties with a hermeneutic of suspicion, perhaps employing a flexible tongue to anatomize its absurd claim to be superior among creatures.

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.

The idea that Americans that are born and raised here can't be terrorists is absurd, you get Christian extremists as well, which can lead to violence too, as history has very clearly taught us.

I am (a) a delusional schizophrenic; (b) a naïve child, too young to know that that is silly (c) an ignorant farmer from Sudan who never had the benefit of even a fifth grade education; or (d) your average Christian Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because: (a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

I like to make it with absurd amounts of fruit and berries of all kinds, lots of citrus slices too.

The thought that Oliver lasts that long is pretty absurd too.

This is getting to be absurd; guys are getting flagged basically for hitting the quarterback too hard.