A situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless.
1 Yet in the relations between nations the absurd thing often does happen.
2 Habit has dulled our perception of the absurd anti-climax involved in it.
3 Graciela smiled at the absurd suggestion, and Father Killen's heart nearly stopped.
4 Her humorous take on the absurd is as good as a tonic.
5 It was more than culpable, in that it verged on the absurd .
6 Evidently Judith had been educated in the absurd proceedings before they came.
7 Something about the guidebook entry had piqued my sense of the absurd .
8 And the absurd cuckoo clock uttered its foolish sound to greet them.
9 Moreover, it presents the absurd view of God working often against himself.
10 I take a step back and swallow the absurd guilt that surfaces.
11 At any rate he had removed the absurd towels from his boots.
12 How much further beyond the theatre of the absurd can this go?
13 There was a real dignity about the absurd action which melted David.
14 Again, dismiss from your mind the absurd thought that I hate you.
15 This, perhaps, accounts also for some of the absurd stories of atrocities.
16 Vietnam, it seems to me, has become a theater of the absurd .
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