How to Use the absurd in a Sentence

the absurd

noun
Definition of the absurdnext
  • Again, though, the video takes this scenario to the absurd.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The grotesque and the absurd demand their place in the halls of power, too.
    — Phil Klay, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The first step, to judge by the absurd crew onstage, will be to change the storytellers.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But it’s taken to the absurd of what a subway system could be like.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • This is amusing stuff, well served by Coogan’s knack for haughty composure in the face of the absurd.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Not everyone was a fan of the absurd stunts his raucous show was known for.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But there is also humor running through all his work, and a keen eye for the absurd.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The questions in his class outside Chicago ranged from the absurd to the practical to the academic.
    — Dan Merica, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Marylanders are all too familiars with the absurd costs of heath care in our state.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The comic has gained notice on the long-running NBC late-night series for bizarre humor that blends gross-out jokes with a taste for the absurd.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
  • And the absurd plot to steal it and auction it off at Christie’s actually happened.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 July 2023
  • But this is Shanley’s point: Love necessitates a leap over the absurd.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That top-note of the absurd sitting alongside the deeply felt is purposeful, on both my part and, ingeniously, the show’s.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
  • Monsef suggests that maybe the absurd and uncanny can bring change.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • But to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But his relaxed commitment to the absurd is so casual and simple and profound all at the same time.
    — EW.com, 3 Nov. 2023
  • That alternation between the serious and the absurd was the series’ stock in trade.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Tesori was fine, but in that moment, the absurd and the existential collided.
    — Gordon Cox, Variety, 31 May 2023
  • Life is a balance of the humorous, the absurd, the preposterous, the ridiculous, the surreal and the deeply tragic and the howlingly painful.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 15 June 2024
  • The Eagles’ run was eight-tenths of a second faster than Wyatt’s, which showcases the absurd advances in Texas high school track in recent months.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Our Southern theater is a carnival of the absurd and a savage delight.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Like Beckett’s play, there is no Godot who will come, but we are all caught in a world where the mundane, the absurd and our own desire for answers propel us forward.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The singer combines the genre’s enduring themes of heartbreak and self-destruction with camp humor and a distinctly Irish sense of the absurd.
    — Roisin Kiberd, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • For those dreaming of space tourism, the reality is far from ideal due to the limited state of the technology and the absurd costs.
    — George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • To this day, Nigerian judges and lawyers wear the absurd white wigs of their British predecessors; city streets still bear the names of colonial officials.
    — Uzodinma Iweala, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
  • Chelsea, in other words, has a relatively high tolerance for the unusual and even, at times, the absurd.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The outfits range from the exquisite to the amusing to the absurd, tracing San Francisco fashion from after the 1906 earthquake to the new century.
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • This eclectic mix formed the picture of post-modernism, with an emphasis on playfulness that bordered on the absurd.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • None of this invalidates casting a jaundiced eye toward the absurd aspects of award shows, or the idea of trying to get music, pop or TV stars to laugh at themselves.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • If the absurd layers of this film aren't enough to pique interest, any film that includes Pitt slicing flying, flaming vampires with a massive scythe is worth a watch.
    — Derek Scancarelli, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2023

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