Usage of "the absurd"

português

A situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless.

Sinônimos

Examples for "absurd"

Examples for "absurd"

Looked at from our point of view the problems were quite absurd. 
 The End of Man? 

This approach and the list of functions was of course completely absurd. 
 The Guardian 

The position of Germany, the euro zone's main lender, is increasingly absurd. 
 Reuters 

Of course Martin had been broken; it was absurd to think otherwise. 
 Deep black 

Perhaps the situation was just too absurd for him to take seriously. 
 A Winter Haunting 

Uso de the absurd em inglês

Yet in the relations between nations the absurd thing often does happen. 
 Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service; or, With Dan Dalzell on Eu... 

Habit has dulled our perception of the absurd anti-climax involved in it. 
 By the Christmas Fire 

Graciela smiled at the absurd suggestion, and Father Killen's heart nearly stopped. 
 I'll never get out of this world alive 

Her humorous take on the absurd is as good as a tonic. 
 The Irish Times 

It was more than culpable, in that it verged on the absurd. 
 The Wild Olive: A Novel 

Evidently Judith had been educated in the absurd proceedings before they came. 
 Jane Allen, Junior 

Something about the guidebook entry had piqued my sense of the absurd. 
 The Hyperion Cantos 

And the absurd cuckoo clock uttered its foolish sound to greet them. 
 Bella Donna: A Novel 

Moreover, it presents the absurd view of God working often against himself. 
 Modern French Philosophy: a Study of the Development Since Comte 

I take a step back and swallow the absurd guilt that surfaces. 
 Angelfall 

At any rate he had removed the absurd towels from his boots. 
 The Pretty Lady 

How much further beyond the theatre of the absurd can this go? 
 The Irish Times 

There was a real dignity about the absurd action which melted David. 
 The History of David Grieve 

Again, dismiss from your mind the absurd thought that I hate you. 
 "My Novel" — Volume 08 

This, perhaps, accounts also for some of the absurd stories of atrocities. 
 A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State 

Vietnam, it seems to me, has become a theater of the absurd. 
 The zinn reader 

Translations for the absurd

português

Significados de the absurd em inglês