Sentences with phrase «written absurdity»

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

The archdeacon is so close to God that he is gathered up into a self - annihilating vision of the Eucharist that — for all the strangeness of its writing and the absurdity of the plot — bears some kind of comparison with the closing cantos of the Paradiso:

Have you ever thought of the absurdity of books being written on how to pray??

But it was people reading everything this politician wrote and elevating those words to a point of absurdity that has done the world so much harm since.

Richard Wright wrote that the book «brilliantly exposed some of the absurdities of the 80s church».

Back then I wrote, «Let's put this absurdity to rest right now.

I won't launch into a long - winded rant on our food supply fillers and additives of frankenfood extraordinaire, but I WILL link to a post I wrote awhile back weighing in on the HFCS advertising absurdity that made all of us in the health and nutrition (and branding!)

(Ok I'm actually cracking up at the absurdity of my example as I write this comment, just FYI) I also want to live in a society where if Dr. Sears feels he needs to comment on my parenting he's allowed to do so, because otherwise, as has been pointed out, how will anyone find out he's an asshole?

Beyond the absurdity of trying to write a contract which could serve as an algorithm for making arbitrary presidential decisions, the US constitution states that officers of the US can be impeached only for «high crimes and misdemeanors».

Any test case against a CBD seller would draw attention to both the absurdity of a law which even the department who wrote it and are tasked with enforcing it don't understand, and the truly arbitrary nature of our drug law enforcement.

Yet in one of the cruel absurdities of legacy, Ehrlich's name is invariably linked with a book that he and Anne Ehrlich, his wife and long - time collaborator (and the corecipient of many of his prizes), wrote in a few weeks in the late 1960s, at a time when the world seemed to be coming undone.

Written by Mark Perez and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein — who cowrote «Horrible Bosses» and «The Incredible Burt Wonderstone» and helmed the 2015 «Vacation» — it starts out borderline ludicrous and keeps piling on improbabilities, until it leaves our world behind and become an exercise in absurdity.

The film, also written by Blair, manages an impressive balancing act in term of its tricky, quicksilver tone, which constantly oscillates between foreboding, menacing, hilarity and absurdity without ever feeling incongruous.

Anchorman 2, which was written by Ferrell and McKay, is better when it gives in to absolute absurdity: A sight gag involving a slo - mo RV crash is totally, dismissively dumb, but the fact that it's set to Captain and Tennille's «Muskrat Love» makes it inexplicably hilarious.

The Coens» first film was this extremely well - written and well - directed neo-noir that blends violence and humor and relies on an insane amount of misunderstandings and absurdities involving its characters - something that would become their trademark narrative style.

Brilliantly edited, written, and acted, Sexy Beast is a genre film about the absurdity of its subject: crazy men, their ladies, and violence.

There are songs throughout, though Mitchell didn't write them, and the production numbers have a geometrical elegance and absurdity that suggests a porno Busby Berkeley.

Despite its second - rate writing, however, «Strike Back» is a mostly enjoyable guilty pleasure that revels in its supercharged absurdity.

Also written by the Key & Peele comedian, it's a well - controlled work that builds dread through subtle strains of absurdity before turning into a full - blown, jump - scary nailbiter.

Written and directed by newcomer Noah Baumbach with an excellent ear for absurdity and a keen eye for the offhand realities of everyday life in a den of unmitigated slack.

There are plenty of solid laughs intentionally written in, but an equal amount of unintentional chuckles at the absurdity of it all.

Director Eugenio Mira goes full Brian De Palma here, and screenwriter Damien Chazelle (yes, that Damien Chazelle) continually ups the absurdity without slowing down the film's lean pacing (seriously, between this and Whiplash, Chazelle has mastered how to write a film without any fat whatsoever).

What's funny isn't just the over the top absurdity of some the scenes, but the extremely well - written dialogue.

But one dad has decided to show everyone the absurdity of the whole process by writing a donation check using the very same math he watches his son struggle with every night.

A little over two years ago, shortly after Total Boox entered the library market, NSR published a story written by Total Boox CEO and Founder, Yoav Lorch, on the absurdity of ebooks disappearing from devices.

The writing style and protagonist touch Hugh deeply in a way that the insanity and absurdity have been recurrent themes stuck in his head.

My first paragraph was written to be «tongue in check» in order to demonstrate absurdity.

Repponen worked with audio producer Jon Earle to write short descriptions, which they term «flights of fancy,» that «enhances the overall sense of absurdity, mystery, and humor.»

While writing a previous «Letter from Tokyo» (see the April 2010 Rail), the absurdity of traveling so far to end up focusing on a Gerhard Richter exhibition was not lost on me.

I could instead write a comment describing the absurdity of demanding people provide a right answer before criticizing a wrong one.

You've written about the absurdity of worrying about cattle farts.

«This is the first book written to make you laugh at the absurdity of man - made global warming — that is, until it makes you cry.

«In effect they are claiming that you can't heat a pot of water by turning the burner to maximum and leaving it there, that you have to keep turning the flame up to get continued warming, an un-scientific absurdity that I have been writing about for several years»

The writing and characters grow more interesting as the campaign progresses, breaking the fourth wall and directly addressing the absurdity of people using Tetris blocks and Puyos to alter reality.