Their gentle absurdity perfectly fits the absurdity of the situation.
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So, I thought, we have to fight absurdity with absurdity.
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The absurdity of the word "tomorrowism" might just match the absurdity of the phenomenon.
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McCracken refuses to distinguish between the absurdity of comedy and the absurdity of tragedy.
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The resistance of Islam to depictions of the divine arises from the absurdity of depiction—the absurdity is the sacrilege.
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This absurdity is acknowledged by the number of times Toby blurts "This is ridiculous" and "This is insane", but it is still absurdity.
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The initial absurdity of these combinations underlines a further absurdity: the fact that we are able to "see" these things and phenomena at all.
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It makes a certain kind of sense: Planters co-opted the absurdity of Twitter's dark jokes, but reality robbed that plan of its absurdity.
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Delightful absurdity resides at the core of sports fandom, and perhaps nowhere is that delightful absurdity better captured than on the social video platform Vine.
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On Wednesday, Parliament passed a motion saying that it didn't want a No Deal Brexit, but—in an absurdity within an absurdity—didn't legally change the deadline.
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Just wanted to chime in that I feel the absurdity of Comrade Gritty's appearance reflects, to us, the absurdity we see in a society that aggressively prioritizes profit over people.
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"You have to respect the absurdity of it," he continues.
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And Spencer grasps the absurdity in that — and everything else.
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What won't change is Mad's commitment to absurdity and satire.
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Next we will be suffering through 15 minutes of absurdity.
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For a little while I enjoyed the absurdity of it.
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But this sentence features at least two levels of absurdity.
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It's hard to overstate the pulpy absurdity of Uber's 2017.
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Some, like Tim Davis, directly reference absurdity of selfie tropes.
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The split television screens encapsulated the absurdity of it all.
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Mr. Mansky, though, persevered in the face of such absurdity.
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A series of sketches play on the absurdity of this.
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Only later did I contemplate the absurdity of this action.
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The style hints at the absurdity of Gault's personal life.
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To me, paying all that unnecessary interest was pure absurdity.
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I mean, let's just point out the absurdity of that.
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It gets to a point of absurdity where, as Rep.
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This kind of absurdity is one of Mr. Ancarani's motifs.
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His powerful score reveals the harrowing absurdity of the situation.
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"You have to respect the absurdity of it," he continued.
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There is a certain Dada absurdity to Ms. Smith's style.
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There is almost a touch of genius in the absurdity.
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Perturbed, we leave, laughing at the absurdity of the situation.
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So I enjoyed these characters having a sense of absurdity.
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The absurdity of this situation is not going to persist.
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"Now, I had a career in identifying absurdity," he added.
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Ms. Ragoo cracked up at the absurdity of the moment.
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" Another said they're indicative of the "absurdity of late capitalism.
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"Brexit has highlighted the absurdity of partition," Mr. Donnelly said.
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I've been warned about this particular absurdity by a friend.
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The results lay bare the absurdity of the league's current policy.
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It is an absurdity dictated by the need to make money.
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It's a resting expression that acknowledges the absurdity of his situation.
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They respond to the absurdity of their situation with incredulous humor.
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Up in space, gripping objects takes on a whole new absurdity.
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Relatability, romance, and absurdity is an excellent recipe for excellent memes.
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They all exist for the sheer absurdity of death by dick.
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Given the absurdity of Trump's position I expect him to lose.
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The Republican spin on this involves a twofold absurdity: Forget Russia.
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The sexual misery that results can descend into absurdity and hysteria.
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The absurdity of this is not lost on the Kurland brothers.
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But the fight game dishes out pain and absurdity without prejudice.
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But it was the absurdity of the comparison that stood out.
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This meme about Brown is an exercise in sincerity versus absurdity.
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Usually that's entirely percussion, keeping things going while the absurdity devolves.
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Most of the time, the app was known for its absurdity.
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The film's deadpan style serves this purpose, too, foregrounding its absurdity.
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Less publicized were instances of real mutual aid and outright absurdity.
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But Christmas is a time when absurdity is allowed — enjoyed, even.
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There is an absurdity to this work that never becomes explicit.
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They've supersized their absurdity with seven feature films such as DoggieWoggiez!
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You need that relief of just the absurdity of our world.
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Embracing absurdity is an art, and they are excelling at it.
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So I brought in humor and absurdity, these strong artistic views.
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People were quick to point out the absurdity of the critique.
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That is what drove her crazy, the comic absurdity of it.
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Other photos seem to point to the absurdity of life itself.
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If so, Herriman redeems it through pointed absurdity and glorious illustrations.
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Its absurdity necessitates a healthy dose of skepticism, and heavy satire.
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Since then, they have politicized it to the point of absurdity.
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Now, food shopping comes with unprecedented levels of anxiety and absurdity.
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But when compared to Canadian traditions, the potential absurdity becomes clearer.
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But the notion of an accidental attorney is a legal absurdity.
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Strzok's testimony once again reveals the utter absurdity of this system.
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But at some point, he says, absurdity and paranoia became commonplace.
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Every sport should endeavor to these heights of absurdity and whimsy.
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That means an abundance of silliness, absurdity and, of course, destruction.
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Farhadi appeared instead to relish the mild absurdity of the situation.
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The gender switch suddenly made them visible and revealed their absurdity.
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There are also some less aggressive, quite amusing squibs of absurdity.
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It's silly without being truly strange or crossing over into absurdity.
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It is always tempting to see the absurdity in theatrical gestures.
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At other times, it's built into the absurdity of the premise.
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Despite the absurdity, the XE-1 looks like an absolute blast.
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The ultimate message is clear: We're all in this absurdity together.
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A lot of good science gets attacked because of its absurdity.
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The Supreme Court should recognize the absurdity of the baker's position.
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Finding the absurdity in the Trump versus Clinton debates is easy.
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But the Great Recession exposed the absurdity of the Great Moderation.
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Of course, absurdity abounds in the media's coverage of our first lady.
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Absurdity being the true capital of poets and rock and rollers alike.
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The point to me was to illustrate the absurdity of this system.
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The humor comes from life and the reality of absurdity within life.
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The acronym stuck, perhaps because of the horrific absurdity of it all.
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And for the love of absurdity, he's not "sleeping" with the birds.
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Instead, it more of spoke to the absurdity of American health care.
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And so I think the American people will know it's an absurdity.
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It was intended to point out the absurdity of the act itself.
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But the committee's latest claim is an entirely new level of absurdity.
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Most women on this show are objectified to the point of absurdity.
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It's Japan, where pro wrestling embraces the absurdity underpinning the entire thing.
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Even as the production plays up the Beckettian verbosity, some absurdity remains.
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And to say that there shouldn't have accountability is really an absurdity.
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It 'got' the sweaty horror of high-school, its complexity and absurdity.
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The film portrays Saudi culture as incomprehensible to the point of absurdity.
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Still, she sees no sense of absurdity in her first-world problems.
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And in a show where absurdity reigns, this is a criminal offense.
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That Zlatan is totally in on his own absurdity now seems clear.
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His opening line, "Imma let you finish," was subsequently memed into absurdity.
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He also imbues them with a generous dose of absurdity and humor.
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She can spot hypocrisy, cant, self-contradiction and absurdity 10 miles away.
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But this statement, in all of its ahistorical absurdity, was particularly unsettling.
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I think people saw the absurdity of the prize money on offer.
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It's incredible, the level of absurdity that they've taken political discourse to.
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It's about the grim absurdity of old age and death as anticlimax.
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Were the artistic directors aiming to capture the absurdity of Pina Bausch?
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The trials continued over next decade and their absurdity was rarely muted.
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If you can't find some enjoyment in the absurdity, then why bother?
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He also filled them with sex, absurdity and flights of melodramatic emotion.
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Wynn uses absurdity, violence, and sex to great effect—she's drowned baby
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Two things make Trump's errors stand out: The quantity and the absurdity.
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That they keep making it easier is an absurdity and an outrage.
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But it's reached the point of absurdity, our chief fashion critic says.
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There's a lot of absurdity in this narrative, most of it intentional.
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Let's first pause for a moment on the absurdity of that explanation.
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In particular, the new trailer plays up the absurdity of the premise.
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"It really reflects our time," Ms. Andelman said, "the absurdity of everything."
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But it's an opportunity to just delight in this strangeness and absurdity.
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Yet a potent element of absurdity infused each layer of the work.
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I label this one 'breakfast with a rapist' made for TV absurdity.
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Leave it to the novelist Sam Lipsyte to revel in the absurdity.
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That's the fundamental absurdity of Cruz's proposal to "work with Muslim communities" by patrolling them — an absurdity that, taken to its logical conclusion, becomes the NYPD monitoring the very Muslim leaders it's partnering with in anti-terrorism efforts.
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The late-night talk show that began four years ago on Adult Swim matches high-stakes pranksterism with manic editing, using the absurdity of the show to throw a light on the absurdity of the rest of the world.
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It's possible I was answering hyperbolically, playing into the absurdity of the questionnaire.
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They've allowed their designers to get imaginative, to the point of near absurdity.
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That's ridiculous, and Roswell is at its best when it's Twilight-style absurdity.
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That film is significant mostly due to the absolute absurdity of its confidence.
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I can challenge them, embrace them, and learn to laugh at their absurdity.
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That's their trick: their absurdity is a goofy means to make emotions huge.
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Ms. Marchant's aim in "Cure" is to expose the absurdity of this dichotomy.
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What I am interested in is the way the video accelerates in absurdity.
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I agree completely with Secretary Powell, who said today this is an absurdity.
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But maybe that added level of absurdity is the right way to go.
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It was Napoleon who once remarked: "In politics, absurdity is not a handicap."
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But The Break's bread and butter is still the absurdity of being female.
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But even if you're not, the absurdity of his videos is universally enjoyable.
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As absurdity outpaces reality, metaphor and hyperbole become the coin of the realm.
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Ritter, too, also found a way to embrace the absurdity of it all.
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There's two reasons for its absurdity: one is logistical, the other is symbolic.
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But Lynch also knows it's ridiculous, so he keeps piling on the absurdity.
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She questions many of our received ideas about narcissism, often underlining their absurdity.
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But that more or less gets to the absurdity of the whole thing.
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Eventually, we'd share in the absurdity with our friends who'd laugh as well.
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So how did it make the leap from sweet stunt video to absurdity?
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The food scene of 220 reflected a year of ups, downs and absurdity.
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The concept of catastrophe has now been diluted to the point of absurdity.
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It's funny because of the absurdity of the situation rather than just gags.
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But for now, I find the game's straightforward Doom-style absurdity strangely compelling.
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And though some have been discontinued, the memory of their absurdity lives on.
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She addresses this separation head-on, and also tackles the absurdity of commercials.
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I offer this part in jest to underscore the absurdity of the situation.
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Instead of disavowing this absurdity outright, Republican leaders sit by in spineless silence.
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And yet, that is the very absurdity on which Cohen rests his claim.
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Words do no justice to the absurdity of my time aboard the Ship.
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And that absurdity carried over into the stuff brands attempted to sell us.
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As the world increases in absurdity, so, evidently, must MTV dating-competition shows.
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The ultimate absurdity is our values and meanings and the reality of death.
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It shows you the absurdity that becomes the exhilarating thing to write about.
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The potential absurdity of such extremity makes it an excellent target for parody.
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A spirit of joyous absurdity reigned, yet the show had a poignant undertow.
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"There's an absurdity to Gorey's work that resonates with people," one admirer said.
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So subtle, in fact, that I barely noticed the absurdity of these figures.
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And forgive me my statistical drunkenness but peak-performance Tom tilted into absurdity.
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"There's an absurdity to Gorey's work that resonates with people," Ms. Rosenbloom said.
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Later that summer, Mr. Erickson seemed to acknowledge the absurdity of it all.
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Invariably, residents of both parties shake their heads at the absurdity of it.
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"I'm fully aware of the absurdity of my actions right now," she says.
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"But the biggest absurdity," the statement asserts, is that the accounting procedure Mrs.
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The Jets this week made one more deposit in the league's absurdity bank.
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Over and over, she replays this scene, sometimes emphasizing absurdity, other times pathos.
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But John is concerned that heightened absurdity threatens to render his craft redundant.
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The sweet absurdity continues when Season 2 arrives in its entirety on Thursday.
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In the retelling, Clinton's laugh became a nod to the absurdity of the moment.
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Fantasy author Erin Lindsey thinks the show suffered in comparison to real-life absurdity.
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Instead, Mr Loznitsa allows the absurdity and tragedy of life to speak for themselves.
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The film wavers between absurdity and uncomfortable prescience, and it's quite a ride throughout.
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This kind of absurdity makes Norse Mythology a fantastic, funny, and sometimes sobering read.
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What's even better is that either way you watch it, the absurdity isn't diminished.
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This music is no parody — to perform absurdity with such enthusiasm, you gotta believe.
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While obsolescence and absurdity are themes running through his work, he is never didactic.
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Bo Burnham's musical absurdity is a good palate cleanser for our dumpster-fire times.
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As the survey shows, women can be overconfident to the point of absurdity too.
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Filmed in eight of the world's most cinematic cities, the show luxuriated in absurdity.
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Their beautiful absurdity is one of my very favorite things about my life here.
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As Morrsion tells it, her family laughed at the absurdity of the landlord's cruelty.
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Generally speaking, we know the Baron Cohen schtick of going undercover to expose absurdity.
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This sort of absurdity is part of the charm of the beautifully impractical Chiron.
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Absurdity is the air we breathe now (as has been said a thousand times).
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But Claws finds a way to rise above the absurdity of its own narrative.
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"Broad City" often stretches ordinary female and urban experiences to the point of absurdity.
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It's the perfect mix of absurdity, awkwardness and weirdly catchy deep house music. 12.
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Momoa is a delight, mostly because he leans into the absurdity of his appearance.
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But a witch hunt on this scale this broadens to the point of absurdity.
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My colleague Vlad Savov was there and captured the event in all its absurdity.
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History, with its "concentrated unreality" of cruelty and absurdity, will wreck all such hopes.
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But that's the kind of absurdity that Silicon Valley culture has to grapple with.
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The Post and others described his prosecution as an absurdity and embarrassment for Iran.
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NO AIRCRAFT BETTER sums up the quaint absurdity of Airbus's origins than the Beluga.
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So we decided to poke some fun at the absurdity with an absurd game.
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Her photographs are colorful and sunny, but beneath the surface they bubble with absurdity.
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Or barring that, what patent-related absurdity can we expect in the months ahead?
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Their reasons for not doing so fall along a spectrum of absurdity, like Sen.
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NEARLY a century after America fleetingly banned alcohol, Prohibition seems like a charming absurdity.
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In mid-2007, I saw a YouTube video that floored me in its absurdity.
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Then, of course, he's topped with a dose of the deodorant brand's trademark absurdity.
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And understandably, some people were just in awe at the absurdity of it all.
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The very absurdity of this plan shows the depths of the GOP's self-delusion.
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Even hardened Trump reporters shook their heads at the absurdity of his latest stunt.
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It would have taken simple common sense to realize the absurdity of the charge.
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To add movement to a body in contrapposto is to embrace an obvious absurdity.
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The absurdity of this question exemplifies the real problem with Pai's approach to regulation.
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The best of these anything-can-happen plotlines are duets of absurdity and pathos.
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It's astounding that this balancing act between patent absurdity and lurid ultrareality still works.
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Rarely have the harshness and nagging absurdity of thwarted lives been so pungently evoked.
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Others pointed out the absurdity of this advice, should the couple take it literally.
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All of this points to the larger absurdity at the center of Amazon's rise.
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She also described to the paper "the absurdity" of representing a toddler in court.
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He also highlighted the absurdity of their approach to the act's burdens on women.
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That is Waititi's intention: to examine the absurdity of hate and bigotry through comedy.
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They're wholly dedicated to examining beloved tropes through the lens of absurdity and satire.
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But he also chuckled at the absurdity of running such a long race indoors.
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CLINTON: Now I think he was right when he said this is an absurdity.
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Other times—as in the bean quest—a character will directly address the absurdity.
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It evoked nostalgia through absurdity, the way Hot Rats or Garden of Delete did.
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So thats definitely effective in finding a creative unique way to express that absurdity.
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It's also a way to distort the truth, and add absurdity to the truth.
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Larry Sanders took this basic framework and pushed it to the heights of absurdity.
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We are encouraged to laugh along with Mr. Bennett at the absurdity of Mrs.
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And given the outer reaches of online absurdity, the list of possibilities is long.
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If you've ever had a baby, the absurdity of Trump's words should be obvious.
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His lyrics are designed to dig in and stay there, regardless of their absurdity.
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But it does reveal the absurdity of the talking points used by Republican Sens.
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The example led him to lots of chuckling about the absurdity of it all.
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A healthy democratic politics would make room for occasional reminders of this fundamental absurdity.
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The meticulous deadpan of the performances diverts attention from the absurdity of the circumstances.
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New Pope, its sometime absurdity often excused by the addition of a note of
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Left-wing protest movements will be tempted more easily toward both absurdity and violence.
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Luckily, Ms. Rosenfeld is an astute anthropologist whose satire reaches fresh levels of absurdity.
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Throughout 1917's two-hour runtime, evidence of the war's violent absurdity is abundant.
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If a little absurdity doesn't freak you out, this movie will make you smile.
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The sincere pursuit of justice was meeting the absurdity of human endeavor head-on.
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The absurdity is only amplified by the inherent weirdness of the Iowa Caucuses themselves.
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Faced with this dichotomy, we are left with the options the existential philosopher Albert Camus famously outlined for confronting absurdity: we can either abandon the industry, cling blindly to the supposed morality of our efforts, or recognize the absurdity for what it is.
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You just let it come: absurd, without that little wink absurdity likes to give you.
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" And Leon Black of Apollo Global Management called his firm's stock market valuation "an absurdity.
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Adding to the absurdity: Senate leaders had also set their sights even bigger than Obamacare.
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Gustavo described the scene at the new location as overcrowded to a point of absurdity.
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Many of us went along with the yearbooks at times to the point of absurdity.
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"We've never written a song together," Evans, 33, tells PEOPLE, chuckling at the seeming absurdity.
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She cracks a little smile here, but it's unclear if that's just from sheer absurdity.
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Creativity is hampered—stories and characters are stretched into absurdity—as is the viewing experience.
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I think the absurdity of the entire thing is what drew the masses to it.
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On the bright side, the absurdity of it all did allow for some shining moments.
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The absurdity that we haven't been able to get this passed is just mind-boggling.
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His work often mixes absurdity with body horror, and this animated anthology is no exception.
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As the nuclear threat increased in magnitude, the absurdity of civil defense amped up simultaneously.
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Does this absurdity leave you, the bank customer, wanting to bolt from the big banks?
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The scene highlights the absurdity of fretting about your child or loved one's sexual orientation.
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Many comedies are propelled by irony, wit, and self-deprecation; others run on sheer absurdity.
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"I think year after year we think we've reached the pinnacle of absurdity," she said.
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It's bombastic and gory, and it delivers on the total absurdity of that basic premise.
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Both sketches were propelled into laugh-out-loud absurdity by Short's sudden explosions of burlesque.
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I like bands that have either a sense of psychosis or absurdity, or preferably both.
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Now, you&aposre approaching the point where you say this isn&apost -- this is absurdity.
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"This is really pointing out the absurdity of it all," Booker said of the trip.
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The absurdity is breathtaking: an aide smashed some of her electronic devices with a hammer.
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This is often how jokes are structured: pair two unlikely things together, and absurdity unfolds.
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Space Jam has extra layers of absurdity, what with alien powers and next-level basketball.
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We can forgive most kinds of transgression—anger, adultery, avarice—but we cannot forgive absurdity.
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But once everyone settles into a rhythm of absurdity, Santa Clarita Diet sharpens right up.
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And it brings the "fighting the home invader" fantasy fully into absurdity with that flamethrower.
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Plus it pops because of the color, it pops because of the eyes, the absurdity.
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Every South Park episode, while laced with profanity and absurdity, resolves with a moral turn.
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The debate today over fairness in college admissions is oversimplified to the point of absurdity.
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But as in an Alan Ayckbourn farce, the play's increasing absurdity arises from natural causes.
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Bowles's lyrics veer into beautiful absurdity as quickly as they fall back into traditional laments.
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The show was about 85% absurdity, with 15% actors making sad faces to piano music.
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I'm a fan of hard tonal shifts, camp, and absurdity, so, that's not the problem.
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Kate Upton is making it clear that she fully sees the absurdity of these situations.
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The artist undermines his own provocations in these works through their absurdity and adolescent humor.
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At times, the unfiltered immediacy of her tweets extends to an almost poetic, beautiful absurdity.
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What it does is highlight the complete absurdity of wealth, the moral vacuum it creates.
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The absurdity ... there was something absurd about the heroification that happened on the way up.
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So I just understood the absurdity of the world that we live in in sports.
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The allegory was not lost on me, nor was the intentional absurdity of the plot.
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Reviewing the fabulous extremity (and occasional absurdity) of the Met Gala's fashion saints and sinners.
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"Many people in China can vaguely sense the absurdity of their life," the student said.
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At this point we descend into absurdity mixed with more than a modicum of frustration.
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The crawling pieces register well — the exertion and absurdity of the actions are made clear.
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"If we're watching cable news, we get distracted by the absurdity of Trump," he said.
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She has a poised, aristocratic manner, yet she is alert to paradox, irony, and absurdity.
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Ultimately, it only revealed the height of feminist hypocrisy and the depth of liberal absurdity.
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He really understands the absurdity of life, but he doesn't let it make him cynical.
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I relished their absurdity and the reaction from friends when I showed them his mannequins.
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Maged Zaher's poems the emphasize the absurdity of love in the time of late-capitalism.
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Yet the zany plot could be forgiven if it was aware of its own absurdity.
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"We are fighting absurdity with absurdity," said Jessica Jin, leader of the protest called "Cocks Not Glocks: Campus (Dildo) Carry," where hundreds of sex toys were given away at the rally on Wednesday that coincided with a return to classes at university's flagship campus.
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In taking the almost incomprehensible existential threat of the bomb and turning the philosophical absurdity of the government's and public's treatment of it into a formal absurdity, the film presages the modern social media trend of making each piece of horrific news into a meme.
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His art is about the American and human experience, the absurdity and weirdness of it all.
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On screen, we have a different silliness and absurdity as the heightened version of ourselves vs.
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Between the conspicuous standing and the absurdity of not standing, my coworkers simply couldn't handle it.
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As always a Japanese combat sports event provided the perfect blend of cruelty, decency, and absurdity.
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Then there's the absurdity that was Enchantress's world-ending storm of absolute nonsense in Suicide Squad.
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In many cases, their responses to Trump&aposs news conference have matched the president in absurdity.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)Wallet phone cases have always seemed like a total absurdity to me.
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But for those in Turkey the sheer absurdity of the accusations heightens the atmosphere of fear.
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Thursday's turbulence took the already manic absurdity of the last few weeks up a few notches.
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The movie trades in Fifth Element's utter absurdity and replaces it with over-the-top seriousness.
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He manages to recreate those redemption vibes despite the absurdity, and as always he comes through.
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But for all his love of whimsy and absurdity, he doesn't play games with human psychology.
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Also, I think the absurdity of the situation, exchanging a woman with a man, is clear.
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The high school murder mystery series combines a Hunger Games-style premise with sheer anime absurdity.
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In Santa Clarita, he attacks the family sitcom with the same stylized absurdity and mock naïveté.
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Comedy, absurdity, and the rough edges of reality are becoming the new 'look' of social media.
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Mr Moussa's programme, called "Ala mas'uliyati" ("My Responsibility"), epitomises the absurdity of Egypt's popular talk shows.
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Other Twitter users recognize the absurdity of relating a 2017 single to a relationship from 2012.
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Zoolander 2 takes the absurdity of the original and heightens it, but often to unamusing effect.
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Eventually, however, the two get talking after Dawson is honest about the absurdity of the moment.
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The first step to conquering self-defeating inner dialogue is to acknowledge their existence and absurdity.
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He whined about media bias, ignoring the absurdity of believing the press can rig an election.
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As the sole woman, Larson's character often makes subtle quips about the absurdity of male egos.
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In the waxing scene specifically, I wanted to show the absurdity of the fact we wax.
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But don't let the absurdity of what the system has become paralyze you into doing nothing.
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For that matter, it's not as if silence in the face of political absurdity is unprecedented.
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The brash leader took to social media Thursday to rail against the "absurdity" of the case.
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The absurdity of it all made us giggle furtively like kids at the back of class.
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I needed to feel small and connected before I could appreciate the absurdity of self-involvement.
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"That has classic anachronistic absurdity," Folds writes on the assignment page of the National Geographic website.
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And they are more likely to see the absurdity in the rants of xenophobes and racists.
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He managed to combine a sense of absurdity with a sense of significance, a genuine feat.
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Four and a half years later, the fashion sneaker phenomenon has reached the point of absurdity.
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The man awaiting execution in Nebraska is a prime example of the absurdity of capital punishment.
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But Chytilová's knack for absurdity is greater than Holland's or Tarr's, as is her comedic streak.
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What happened next underscores some of the absurdity and complexity of turning an agency inside out.
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Created in 2000, the epic veers into contradiction and absurdity and changes from night to night.
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Leaning into the absurdity of that proposition let BBH deliver its message with a fat wink.
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It's a lot like BoJack Horseman, but with more absurdity, less controversy, and even deeper feeling.
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In "Santa Clarita," he attacks the family sitcom with the same stylized absurdity and mock naïveté.
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"Even the most anodyne interaction teeters on the edge of absurdity," Amanda Hess wrote in Watching.
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Nigeria was not on the list, but the cruelty and absurdity of the policy was vivid.
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Kudos to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for highlighting the absurdity of Trump's reaction with a pop quiz.
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Put another way, in keeping with the traditional textualist view, absurdity overcomes plain meaning very rarely.
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But Mr. Adès captures both the tension and absurdity of the crisis in a complex ensemble.
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Through these seemingly dry details, however, Sedaris skillfully calls attention to the absurdity in daily life.
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Not so my wife, who insisted that her offhand solutions reaffirmed the absurdity of all puzzles.
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This is pure absurdity, and the atrocity it leads to is a code of public deadliness.
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The vocals trade off between Carlotta Cosials's intentional absurdity and Ana García Perrote's straight(ish) delivery.
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I remember the strangeness of that day, the absurdity that seems to accompany all violent beginnings.
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Next time just embrace the absurdity of your life and add more oomph to that tambourine.
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I've always been fascinated with Stanley Kubrick, who had this very dark view of humanity, and I think he had something of Lincoln's sense of the absurdity of life; the absurdity of every human endeavor, and how they're prone to be self-defeating in some ways.
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But it took Hollywood's exaggeration to accurately evoke the absurdity of our lives in Kabul — the Kabubble.
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The paintings are poised on the cusp between the absurdity of reality and reverence for the ordinary.
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We reached out to Gore to pierce the veil of absurdity around her new body of work.
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Stephen Colbert was always at his best when pointing out the absurdity and hypocrisy in American government.
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As Vallée reminded me, the apparent absurdity of the claims does not mean they are not true.
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To grasp the full absurdity of this ambition, it is worth visiting the Humboldt University in Berlin.
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"When making these videos I try to emphasise the absurdity of the situation in Turkmenistan," Tuhbatullin said.
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What good does it do to just point out the surface-level absurdity of rent-a-foreigners?
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Johnny's dry humor, David's exasperation, and Alexis's whines make the Roses teeter on the edge of absurdity.
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It was a place to relax and be entertained with endless comedy, art, absurdity, and micro-storytelling.
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And yet he somehow grounded his over-the-top absurdity in a way that gave it heft.
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Both camps are guilty, apparently—equals in the face of death and the absurdity of our existence.
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"I didn't really like the movie at the time," Rex says, contextualizing the absurdity of this situation.
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It's the absurdity of a white woman passing herself off as a minority to an academic community.
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They paid it back, and kept all frustrations about the absurdity of the situation within the family.
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Kimmy Schmidt's first season clicked because its characters had plenty to offer beyond their surface-level absurdity.
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I'm gonna highlight the absurdity of it in a really playful way and turn it into art.
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But the term has also been repurposed as a meme that mocks the absurdity of modern capitalism.
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It just adds a little tragic absurdity to the show's "sad man moves back home" plot synopsis.
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"I had a career in identifying absurdity, and I know it when I see it," he said.
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Maybe we've become numb to the absurdity and have been stunned to the point of being stupefied.
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Its absurdity caught the fancy of millions, and gave him a cult following and countless YouTube views.
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Suddenly, the absurdity of aerobics, with its emphasis on attaining one's pert, perfect form, becomes the punchline.
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But nearly each segment features some howler or absurdity, usually out of the film-maker's own mouth.
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Every spectacular heist or shootout was a lesson for the public in the law's impotence and absurdity.
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It is easy to understand why when every yarn manages to combine wisdom, humour and gentle absurdity.
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Probably the best way to experience "Warcraft," a generally amusing and sometimes visually arresting absurdity, is stoned.
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To appreciate the absurdity of this view, consider Viagra, which was originally developed as a heart medication.
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Moments of theatrical absurdity are rare on the streets of China, where public performances are tightly regulated.
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"Santaland Diaries" tells the tale of Sedaris' absurdity-filled time as an elf at Macy's Santa display.
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David Lynch is amazing at creating abstract moments with absurdity and otherworldliness that people connect to emotionally.
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The painting's title, however, suggests the absurdity and hollowness of empowerment through consumer choice and material consumption.
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The level of absurdity that the government used to cover up the scandal and corruption is astounding.
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Newell: We're able to push the logic of these bills further, which helps to highlight their absurdity.
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Don't get me wrong, I think the human world is accurately represented by that level of absurdity.
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And the greatest absurdity of all is that everyone who has ever lived has gone through it.
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Indeed, everyone around him is painfully frank about both his potential and the absurdity of the goal.
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Camus describes it as an absurdity, which at any moment can strike any person in the face.
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Another project that combined absurdity with physical exercise was Liat Berdugo and Margaret McCarthy's Anti-Trump Aerobics.
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The captions that accompany Yuri and Svetlana's page are also very intimate, to a point of absurdity.
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Both deftly unpack the absurdity of a white culture that simultaneously fetishizes, and is repulsed by, blackness.
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Old photos are old photos, while old chat transcripts, or a collection of "likes," verge on absurdity.
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Our first class created a provocative campaign to draw attention to the absurdity of normalized gun violence.
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The absurdity of this argument is that the Justice lawyers seemed to be stuck in the 1980s.
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The absurdity cracked my anxiety, and I sang another song and then another before I grew tired.
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Texas Southern is not alone, unfortunately, in serving as an example of the absurdity of the system.
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From its inception, "Bat Out of Hell" has swerved all over the boundary between sincerity and absurdity.
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The absurdity of memes like the one shared widely on Sunday evening gives cover to their creators.
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His narrator is at least intermittently aware of his precarious place and the absurdity of his quest.
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He got a laugh with a line about the absurdity of building houses with basements in Norfolk.
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The film doesn't call much attention to the absurdity of these encounters, which just makes them funnier.
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By now Libyans must crave some stability, the bickering in Tripoli having reached a point of absurdity.
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We passed Kate's Law in the House to address this absurdity, and the Senate needs to act.
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The humor in this book is subtle yet potent, always followed by a lifelike echo of absurdity.
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It also involves exaggerating the physical features and movements of black people to the point of absurdity.
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If you're accustomed to finding amusement in novelty, absurdity, and cultural detritus, the function of We Beefin?
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Such absurdity makes Sheeran often feel like a walking meme, a go-to source for viral content.
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"To pretend that this is satire or dark humor seems to me an absurdity," Mr. Fernández Díaz said.
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This cover story, which they had two and a half weeks to prepare, is brazen in its absurdity.
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Pushing the absurdity of the performance to its paroxysmal heights, she has somehow managed to falsify the falsification.
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Their relationship is a hothouse in which the absurdity of modern life can be both exposed and forgiven.
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Nothing captures the absurdity of summer life in America's largest city like the descent into disgusting subway sweat.
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Adding to the absurdity, the president hasn't yet nominated a permanent replacement to take over at the Pentagon.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Isn't it great when clever humor reveals the absurdity of gender norms?
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Meridian, part of Pittsburgh-based JM Design Studio, had wanted to make a statement about the wall's absurdity.
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Tonally, Umbrella Academy lands somewhere between Legion and The Tick in its mix of drama, action, and absurdity.
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America's religion of anti-racism has reached peak absurdity, with anti-racist gestures now themselves defined as discrimination.
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Like so many urban myths that circulate online, there's a strange kind of truth lurking beneath the absurdity.
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And when it does veer into absurdity, DeHaan and Isaacs are so committed that they make it work.
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Precisely how Uber went to war with police is where this story veers into the realm of absurdity.
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And unlike the absurdity that comes out of most product competitions, this one will be a surefire win.
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Was the brunch fruit able to rise gracefully above all the absurdity and have its moment of glory?
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The series is beloved and, for all its absurdity, predicted several bits of modern technology with spooky prescience.
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The sculptural absurdity of 2017's look bears no resemblance to a human body, and Rihanna knew it.
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But that's nothing compared to the absurdity of some of those essential benefits when put under a microscope.
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Still, it's weird that the primary means through which we've resuscitated this music is through irony and absurdity.
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DJ Tasha Blank even lamented the absurdity of people trying to trademark the concept of deep house yoga.
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A simple exchange on Twitter highlights how easily facts expose Trump hatred for the rank absurdity it is.
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Always fond of absurdity, he told GQ six years ago that he was working on a new act.
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The incident might sound like just another Sunshine State absurdity, but the shooter was no ordinary Florida man.
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But it still has his distinctive voice, a mixture of straight-faced absurdity and broad, outsized self-delusion.
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In fact, it's a surprisingly good encapsulation of the anxiety and absurdity that was the 2016 election season.
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Some point out what they see as the absurdity in shutting down services to save the government energy.
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"Getting" the joke is a surrender to winsome absurdity, groupthink with no real think at all, only 🤡.
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Gwynne Shotwell, the president and COO of SpaceX, might raise an eyebrow at the absurdity of that paragraph.
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It is the absurdity of having those people who are supposed to be regulat[ed] doing the regulating.
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Let's end the absurdity of Americans paying by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
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In other words, lies and absurdity are inextricable from Jones, they are the very essence of his worldview.
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To understand the full absurdity of this, first it is necessary to understand how the system currently works.
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His writing style has got this sense of humor and sense of absurdity, kind of like Leonard Cohen.
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His powerful score reveals the harrowing absurdity of the situation, as the guests become hungry, dirty and hostile.
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While on a panel for the show at SXSW, the two laughed over the absurdity of the scene.
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Clinton's campaign was animated in February at the absurdity of the debate over the size of Trump's hands.
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Throughout the film, characters speak in a breathless, manic syntax, punctuated with gems of Ryan Trecartin-esque absurdity.
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There was a whole season that worked—that found the right balance among absurdity and mysticism and sadness.
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And they've done so, presumably, all as a joke, in order to heighten the absurdity of his persona.
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Vagrich Bakhchanyan: Accidental Absurdity continues at the Zimmerli Museum (71 Hamilton, New Brunswick, New Jersey) through March 6.
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I'm not malicious or sadistic, I'm just pranking someone for the comedy and the absurdity of it all.
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Writing about Bannon tends to be studiously impartial, analytical, even as his worldview is dismissed as an absurdity.
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You spin into a place of arbitrariness and absurdity, and a failure to follow the rule of law.
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The scene's pathos underlines the absurdity of having to debate anyone's right to a life free from discrimination.
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In 2014, serious policy -- the Syrian conflict featuring ISIS -- was usurped by the absurdity of a suit's color.
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It's hard for our show to compete with the screeching absurdity of what's happening in our actual office.
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This magical totem of a book bursts with beauty, absurdity, generosity and the surprise of the natural world.
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I realize the absurdity of leaving everything behind for a woman I've never seen, but I love her.
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It began with a malfunctioning electrical heating blanket and mostly kept to that signature feeling of absurdity throughout.
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The camera and the performers capture unstated nuances of feeling, while registering the wonderful absurdity of the situation.
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They have been a national absurdity for two decades: every relay ends with the equivalent of the buttfumble.
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Baldessari was a brilliant Californian who saw the absurdity in almost everything, including the conceptual strategies he championed.
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Onstage, the key seems to be her choice to explore as utter naturalism the absurdity of Beckett's premise.
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Some embraced the site as a primary source of visitors; some pursued this strategy into absurdity and exploitation.
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And so you have to give them points for creativity in selling this absurdity as an impeachable offense.
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The absurdity of playing a professional tennis match at such an hour was not lost on the participants.
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Since then, the national debate about e-cigarettes has increasingly reflected the absurdity of America's current political moment.
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The distinctive Chast-mosphere—of wistfully rundown circumstances with an undertow of Dada-inflected absurdity—pervades the room.
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"I like the absurdity, that we build this mountain and then it has to be destroyed," Gallaccio says.
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I found joy in the absurdity of placing such a huge idea on a relatively simple mobile game.
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While "Lady Bird" honors the gravity of Christine's struggle, it hardly neglects the everyday absurdity of her plight.
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She unearths what's wise in absurdity and shows how something that might appear banal can suddenly become luminous.
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But it's connected to the absurdity of trying to make sense of existing while black, coping with it.
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During Wednesday's episode of Desus & Mero, the VICELAND hosts let loose on the absurdity of the odd spot.
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But when you start to look at what it's really saying, its absurdity -- and offensiveness -- becomes obvious 5.
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Without being preachy-preachy or beating you over the head with it, it exposes the absurdity of prejudice.
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It's a pretty standard human response to find the absurdity in anything and also find the macro perspective.
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His policies as Governor of Indiana have been flagrantly homophobic and anti-choice, often to the point of absurdity.
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"We are reducing to absurdity the absurd reality we are living, and the lies they tell us," Vives said.
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A pillar of the POV genre is the massive selection of videos that rely on humor and sometimes absurdity.
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The commercials are messed up on so many levels, but to truly grasp their absurdity, a parody is necessary.
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Just the absurdity that this war is still really, according to the lack of a peace treaty, in effect.
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"I have to be honest and say that I became really addicted to the absurdity of it," Attie said.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Absurdity and loneliness embrace each other in David Beck's diminutive, meticulously detailed dioramas.
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This is Riverdale at its best, when it never met a pinnacle of absurdity that it couldn't immediately top.
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I love the fact that it sort of illuminates the absurdity of going on TV to fall in love.
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I survived the barrage of unwelcome words by trying to find some humor in the absurdity of the situation.
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By then, the game was skating by on novelty, absurdity, and how much South Park references made you laugh.
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Engrossingly voyeuristic, the loungers made the onlookers participate in the absurdity, as half their figure disappears into the player.
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Memes soon flooded the Twitterverse, many pointing out the absurdity of the concept by using famous civil rights images.
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So past this point, the resplendent absurdity of Serenity will be on naked display in all its terrible glory.
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She's promoted the absurdity that is Gavin Williamson to one of the most senior jobs in government, defence secretary.
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Despite its absurdity, Kardashian went on to give Ellen and their audience more details about the grocery store fantasy.
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I hope other female victims and men for that matter, will help and join me in ending this absurdity.
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Pereg's deft overlapping of moments serves both to amplify their absurdity and to demonstrate how quickly we normalize violence.
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When a Trump press conference is in itself an act of post-modern absurdity, what more can fiction offer?
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In the face of violence and absurdity, fiction can remind us of who we are and what we value.
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The absurdity of it was plain to us all even then, but there wasn't much to do about it.
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Could he have swung from his elbow a few more times, just to emphasize the absurdity of his gifts?
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" In the response, Motta remarks the ad "plays on the irony, lightness and absurdity of the characters and situations.
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Some trans men have tweeted selfies trying to highlight the absurdity of being forced to use the women's restroom.
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Porn, as I've often been told, is full of cut-ups who thrive on the absurdity of it all.
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In six minutes, the director made something that was beautiful, funny, political, and upended the absurdity of this policy.
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The contrast lands Venom firmly at the intersection of absurdity and brilliance—and the strangest thing is, it works.
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" Absurdity—specifically a kind of surly noise-geek strain of neo-Dadaism—runs through all of Auris's "anti-releases.
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This is somewhat surprising, as the otherkin community has a reputation for being accepting to the point of absurdity.
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And there's a point where it also points out the absurdity in some of these people on TikTok. Right.
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Louis CK is the reigning king of absurd pathos, but his FX series never uses absurdity as an aesthetic.
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From the standpoint of classical logic and mathematics, what's bad about a contradiction is that it leads to absurdity.
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For many Europeans, the prospect of Brexit remains such a patent absurdity that they think it may not happen.
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Your aesthetic is very particular, a mix of absurdity and heartfelt storytelling, tell us a bit about your process.
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"We wanted to expose the absurdity of the terms and conditions of when you download an app," he said.
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Instead, the play is really about the various philosophical contemplations the two share over the absurdity of their situation.
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The absurdity of their lives, the wall of Champagne in Edina's house, it's just heaven to get back there.
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I think the American people will know it's an absurdity, and I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever.
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"It would make crystal clear the absurdity of Citigroup stock trading at three-fourths of tangible book," Mayo said.
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The absurdity of Silicon Valley necessitates a healthy dose of skepticism, and easily makes it a target of satire.
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The opponents of a wealth tax cackle at the absurdity, but it is not what the Founding Fathers intended.
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There are misunderstandings with shepherds, awkward negotiations with village elders and an overall atmosphere of suspicion tinged with absurdity.
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Robert tried his best to glean the brass knob's innate absurdity so that he might understand his wife better.
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The immediate subject matter itself wasn't funny—rather it was the absurdity of continued injustice, time and time again.
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It's as difficult to describe this exercise in absurdity as it is to understand why anyone would undertake it.
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Secondly, this M6 is better because it's the one time Muse have acknowledged their own absurdity within a song.
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It's an absurd situation only heightened by the larger absurdity that the fundamentals of Trump-era America are good.
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"It's all right to laugh," a rep said from the stage, acknowledging the sheer absurdity of the whole thing.
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Please bathe in the sheer absurdity of that sentence, let it rush over you like the Hells Canyon rapids.
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But it's also possible that Scarlatti wanted a yet greater range of tone (absurdity, humor) than Lafayette gave us.
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The absurdity of Mr. Bouteflika's candidacy and the cacophony around it stems from the very nature of the state.
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"The proposed data collection goes beyond absurdity when they mention the desire to collect FitBit data," Annas told Gizmodo.
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The doomed mall lapses into bleak absurdity, like a government office in the end stages of a failing regime.
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Mr. Palmer hoped to use Dogecoin to show the absurdity of wagering huge sums of money on unstable ventures.
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The result is a finely tuned drama that finds humor in the everyday absurdity of belonging to a family.
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My comment was as much about the absurdity of the whole situation as it was about the prisoner's innocence.
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"The first issue is the inherent absurdity and impracticality of the rules," said an employee of the aid group.
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Then satirical news, like "The Daily Show" and "Full Frontal," which aims at the absurdity of news and newsmakers.
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The biggest winner, Mayor Pete, loses the most from the debacle, while a big loser, Biden, welcomed the absurdity.
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It's less that Mr. Cedar blends realism with absurdity than that he refuses to acknowledge any distinction between them.
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The 2001 AUMF is horribly outdated, inadequate for today's War on Terror, and stretched to the point of absurdity.
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For Trump, getting bogged down in the minutia and absurdity of Warren's various plans would be a fool's errand.
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In the title role, Florian Anderer anxiously tries to maintain his composure in the face of ever-mounting absurdity.
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In "The Walk Home," one of many poems about doctors and hospitals, Tate's usual carapace of absurdity falls away.
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The individuals he chose are a testament either to the paucity of contrarianism or the absurdity of contrarian arguments.
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To be fair, Tom does acknowledge the absurdity of "talking to a bit of stone," as he puts it.
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It's hard to explain the absurdity of this situation to people who are unfamiliar with religious reality in Israel.
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It's a character tic, but it's nice to think that Jackson is signaling that he's hip to the absurdity.
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It sounds like typical Sundance fare, but Perry's fine-tuned eye for human absurdity could make it stand out.
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The wholesome imagery all illustrates the absurdity of the fact that recent California legislation deems the nuns' activities illegal.
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Rather than songs to sing along with, these sounds take us into the labyrinth of machine absurdity and fallibility.
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"I think I've met Mr. Hudson's absurdity with my own absurdity," Ostrom added, saying trial by combat had never been legally banned in the U.S. In response, Judge Craig Dreismeier granted Bridgette Ostrom's requests for both an evaluation order and for her ex-husband's visitation rights to be suspended, according to the newspaper.
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None of the inventions seem real; or, rather, they feel hyper-real, truthful precisely because of their distinctly human absurdity.
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It's easy to laugh at the absurdity of the views expressed by female privilege believers, but we should be alarmed.
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I also adored the illustrations, which captured both the absurdity and precise methodology that goes into this sort of thing.
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OWENS: And his fine print was hotdog water in its absurdity hopes to encourage critical thinking related to product marketing.
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I'm pretending to be a source to illustrate the absurdity of the system, which I then revealed in an article.
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It is hard not to burst out laughing at the absurdity, yet she delivers it with an impeccable straight face.
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Not despite but because of its absurdity, believing it together is a strong signal of tribal solidarity on the right.
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"In the Times op-ed, Jay-Z calls probation "a trap" and highlights "the absurdity of the criminal justice system.
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The movie revels in that fundamental absurdity, never feeling the need to "ground" itself for fear of alienating its audience.
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The nuclear notion of the earth put him nowhere — beyond the range of reason even — lost in absurdity and war.
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The brothers Josh and Benny Safdie directed with their customary flair for grungy New York color and tense, escalating absurdity.
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News like this is so bizarre and unbelievable, I'm actually happy to take in the sheer absurdity of it all.
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The Sopranos is a mob drama, but it's really about family and, more importantly, the absurdity of the human condition.
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If this were a season of Veep, it would be panned for its absurdity and its crude caricature of Washington.
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Together, they make a striking pair, and their convincing attraction to each other softens the absurdity of their obsessive codependency.
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He also argued that he was trying to be absurd, and blamed that absurdity in part on the yearbook's editors.
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The absurdity really stands out when you consider how MyLiFi gets internet in the first place: via an ethernet connection.
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Not every week on this show needs to be trying to top the previous week with its absurdity and outrageousness.
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Still, Jenner is clearly able to laugh off the absurdity of the decidedly not low-key look like a champ.
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There are moments that are ridiculous, and they're funny, and it's impossible not to laugh at the absurdity of it.
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It's easier to digest this world if you embrace the absurdity, molding the gritty tale into your personal comic book.
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The new trailer starts off real serious but quickly takes a left turn into Deadpool's trademark fourth wall-shattering absurdity.
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Drawing inspiration from the absurdity she sees in societal norms, much of her work centers around issues of female identity.
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However, what happened at this year's men's world handball championship in Qatar stretched this notion to the point of absurdity.
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And with her very first efforts, she proved why the paucity of women directors in Hollywood is a cruel absurdity.
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It brought him up against the absurdity of bargaining with God, jockeying for his favor—indeed, paying for his favor.
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It's time to acknowledge the absurdity of pursuing drug policies that don't work but impose extraordinary financial and societal burdens.
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John Croker, a conservative member of Parliament, called "Frankenstein" a "tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity"—radical, unhinged, and immoral.
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The more boomers (real or figurative) rage, the more younger generations sublimate their anger beneath layers of irony and absurdity.
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So I think when you approach it the simplest way possible, with seriousness, much more of the absurdity is revealed.
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Working with Mel Brooks, he provided the perfect expression of Brooks' directing style, which reveled in over-the-top absurdity.
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The lack of a name for the Arab could be seen as simply underscoring the meaningless absurdity of his death.
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Delmar has intelligently tapped into the absurdity of a coffee-making device that functions primarily as a symbol of status.
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"I started this weird account because I love the absurdity of [the] internet, I love the cats," he told Insider.
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The Supreme Court responded to the absurdity of apportionment by holding that the carriage tax was not a direct tax.
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"We're going to fight for a wealth tax, and we're going to demand that we end the absurdity," Sanders said.
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Many of the influencer's fans praised her for shedding light on the absurdity of beauty ideals perpetuated by social media.
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She hadn't sinned, not really, because she hadn't wanted to do anything with that penis except laugh at its absurdity.
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The true beauty of "Foundations" is how Nash takes these microaggressions and zeroes in on the total absurdity of them.
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Distorting reality and finding humor in commonplace things under the lens of absurdity is Ambera Wellmann's bag, without a doubt.
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In the case of Troom Troom, it seems like the creators embrace the absurdity, even if it isn't intentionally ironic.
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After I wrote my book on evolutionary psychology, I was more aware than ever of the absurdity of being human.
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The original absurdity has flattened into the familiarity of the over-humped meme—something that exists primarily to be recognized.
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Can we see a better narrative, as opposed to just absurdity, that there's redemption as we build this great city?
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Finally, a Halloween hat tip to Edward Gorey, the illustrator of meticulously crosshatched grim, anachronistic absurdity, who died in 2000.
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It's not a slow burn but a potboiler, and it sometimes lurches into "24"-esque absurdity and James Bond sudsiness.
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It's been called "TV's dumbest news show": a toxic mix of internet conspiracy theories, right-wing propaganda, and general absurdity.
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The case of Kenneth Reams, a man on death row in Arkansas, encapsulates the cruelty and absurdity of this system.
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Perhaps he didn't know what would happen, but knew that the absurdity of the status quo had to be challenged.
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The film's primary shared attribute with "Atlanta" is its cockeyed, eccentric worldview, a matter-of-fact acceptance of everyday absurdity.
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I've always used laughter to conceal my emotions; here, to distance and detach myself from the absurdity of this ordeal.
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Both the menu and glassware (each glass paired to a specific cocktail) were elaborate almost to the point of absurdity.
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" There's a casual absurdity in the opening sentence of the essay "Jesus Raves" in Jordan Kisner's debut collection, "Thin Places.
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But I believe this highlights what has now become the absurdity of The bulk of the charges against our client.
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She marries spectacle with heart, absurdity with relatability, all wrapped up in turquoise hair, orange eyeshadow, and a neck scarf.
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They gave themselves over mentally, especially during assignment meetings, to mischief and absurdity and boredom-breaking and corrosive antireligious sentiment.
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But I believe this highlights what has now become the absurdity of the bulk of the charges against our client.
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Mr. Moon, frequently referred to as the "newsroom ham," is known for his knack for bringing absurdity to the mundane.
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Just as memorable is John Cage's accompaniment: a spoken collage of anecdotes that makes hilarious absurdity inseparable from Zen philosophy.
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Steve Israel: The absurdity of Trump picking the Democratic nominee Brad Bannon: Impeachment will drown out the policy-driven campaign.
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Some commentators are even speaking to the absurdity of such a superficial fix for the challenges facing our constitutional democracy.
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In what once was a call to the #MAGA-minded, lefties now saw an absurdity just begging to be weaponized.
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" In 2016, when he was running for president, Carson said that trans people are "abnormal" and "the height of absurdity.
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Mr. Holmes, host of the podcast "You Made It Weird," is a bubbly performer with a sense for silly absurdity.
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It's a small but effective gag, managing to nail the absurdity of the modern enemy without denying the threat. ♦
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These art pieces seem to me like a young, female body coming to understand itself on the basis of absurdity.
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Absurdity makes for good humor, and the screwed-up world in which these characters live is nothing if not absurd.
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As a writer, I understand the absurdity of trying to place restrictions on what can and can't be written about.
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In your films and TV work, you see that kind of bureaucratic absurdity, and you see that it happens everywhere.
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Something like the end result of puberty-plus-PCP, "Shoes" wins you over with absurdity, empowerment, and its anthemic electroclash.
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And like any scientific survey, albeit one steeped in absurdity, it keeps you curious about what else is out there.
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The meme-ification of Donald Trump is a growing phenomenon that speaks loudly to the absurdity of the 45th president.
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Hundreds of anti-midi groups sprung up across the U.S., with funny acronyms that showed the absurdity of the situation.
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Or narrative absurdity may just be a clumsy self-protective denial of the inevitable earnestness that is the heartland's gift.
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Hobbs goes for humor, she says, because it points out the absurdity that can result from thoughts and irrational behavior.
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Your Canadian friend who is doing the driving remarks on the absurdity of the chaos wreaked by a light dusting.
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And so, even though SEX initially made me uncomfortable with its flagrant absurdity, it challenged me to take my time.
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When you have a fetus quoting Michel Foucault, you are moving beyond absurdity and treading dangerously close to plain old pretentiousness.
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At the same time, there was part of me that couldn't stop thinking about the absurdity and surrealness of it all.
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The app itself offered a compelling mix of the intimacy of pre-Generation X Facebook and the shouty absurdity of Twitter.
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I'm tired of people writing celebs into their films as a doofus ex machina to goose the story with random absurdity.
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Moments that would show this idea that I had in my head by then about the sense of absurdity in war.
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Malmstrom said reliance on Chinese production of critical materials was a "very complicated issue," that illustrated the absurdity of trade wars.
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As Lysakowski says, "The farcical nature of the manipulated structures creates a surreal world of absurdity in an otherwise mundane landscape."
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Whenever Taylor Swift is in a commercial, you can bet there will be some absurdity (remember her Apple treadmill face-flop?).
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But there's something about the absurdity and utter pettiness of the lie — its uselessness — that broadcasts the impulse even more clearly.
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The absurdity of privileging knots by putting them up high on litters and parading them around was really funny to me.
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Online, they have a new life — a viral power enabled by the absurdity they take on when they're stripped of context.
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In 2018, we may not need reminders that absurdity and horror are perfectly capable of coexisting without canceling each other out.
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Every shot feels deliberate and meticulously staged to showcase the Vatican's opulence, but also to expose the absurdity propping it up.
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The comment about ammunition wasn't even the only time Trump's propensity for absurdity was on display during the Monday media availability.
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Fisher's work humanizes a popular culture obsessed with celebrity, and helps readers laugh at the absurdity of contemporary society and relationships.
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This video, in which a neighbor puts candy in Maya's head-hole, is exactly the sort of absurdity I needed today.
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Like about half the stories on this list, "Exhibit Piece" is about a world-weary everyman whose life spirals into absurdity.
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Perhaps a look at what the actual revenue growth numbers look like will help everyone realize the magnitude of this absurdity.
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The result is a finely tuned drama that finds humor in the everyday absurdity that comes from belonging to a family.
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For The Magicians, showrunner Sera Gamble used the JUUL to illustrate the absurdity of one of her characters: Penny (Arjun Gupta).
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Given the absurdity of backward time-travel, Wheeler's experiment became an argument for anti-realism at the level of the quantum.
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Nothing screams video game absurdity like telling players they can ride living, breathing animals into a battlefield against advanced industrial weaponry.
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Putting aside the absurdity of his tantrum's substance, and it's clear he's really going to regret some word choices in here.
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Farrell gives a master class in deadpan comedy, while the inherent absurdity of the set-up provides constant fodder for amusement.
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Which leads to the absurdity Cook described later in his interview with Cramer: If you sell globally, you earn money globally.
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The episode reached peak absurdity when Comello appeared to flash a QAnon symbol in court, fueling conspiracy theories about his motives.
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And it's not just goats; animals inserted into various workout classes is a fad that keeps reaching new heights of absurdity.
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The acrostic sign is one of the most overused fan tropes out there, so it's delightful to see some minor absurdity.
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The absurdity that she saw in her personal life found three-dimensional form in her increasingly playful, alien, and unwieldy sculptures.
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In making my work, I take the law and the rules of a system literally, sometimes to the point of absurdity.
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Not coincidently, the philosophy of existentialism, with its injunction to accept the absurdity of life, achieved mass popularity during those years.
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The absurdity of the phenomenon was made unavoidably apparent in May, when a start-up unveiled a "smart tampon," called my.Flow.
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Some may call this a "double-Brexit", but the graveness of the first contrasts with the risible absurdity of the second.
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My respect for Rachel's powers of storytelling is only redoubled by my sense of the absurdity of attempting to imitate her.
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But for me at least, a crazy jaunt in the outdoors is the perfect antidote to the absurdity of modern life.
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So many have had the audacity to complain, in fact, that BBC issued a statement Wednesday in response to the absurdity.
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" Another National Review commentator made the argument that "the Trump administration peeled back a new layer of absurdity with its brief.
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"Of course, absurdity abounds in the media's coverage of our first lady," Grisham wrote in her own CNN piece late Saturday.
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However, it would be an absurdity if millions of such people could sue in U.S. courts in reliance upon constitutional provisions.
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Despite the absurdity of the prank, Lt. Matt Pecka said that the department doesn't plan on investigating the incident any further.
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Aja: Give me the bleak and tragic story of Lady Jane Grey in all its no-holds-barred ruthless political absurdity.
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Clymer told the outlet that she was happy with how her campaign has started conversation about the "absurdity" of Trump's wall.
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Some folks are all too eager to employ universally recognized historical human struggles, careening recklessly down a political path toward absurdity.
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The miracle is the same in both cases; at least Battlefield 1 had the honesty to acknowledge the absurdity of it.
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"I hope that laughing at the absurdity of something painful like anxiety helps make it easier to handle," Crayon told us.
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On the level of language, even the choice of the slightly disturbing-sounding "steakfish" creates a sense of uneasiness and absurdity.
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One of the country's two major political coalitions is devoted to justifying and defending those lies to the point of absurdity.
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Doris Salcedo is interested in replicating the indefinite, affective qualities of mourning — its weight, intangibility, absurdity, and reliance on personal associations.
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Most are rooted either in expressing anger, mocking Trump, or collectively coping with the absurdity and even trauma of his presidency.
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Senator Bob Corker, the retiring Republican from Tennessee, couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of the theatrics of it all.
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Because the thing about this therapy — perhaps like the play — is that it works not despite but because of its absurdity.
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The absurdity the trio trying to render the song a rock performance washed over the Grammy's audience like a lukewarm coffee.
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" Speaking for Mr. Weinstein, Mr. Brafman told the court the emails were a sarcastic exchange on "the absurdity of the allegations.
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" He spoke with our reporter about everything from using humor as a coping strategy to the "absurdity" of "existing while black.
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Refusal, she writes, was exemplified by the Greek philosopher Diogenes, whose life's work was to point out the absurdity of conformity.
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It takes the serious stories we tell ourselves about the arc of human history and lends them an air of absurdity.
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With his creative team, director Yorgos Lanthimos created a visual style that's highly specific, a sophisticated mix of restraint and absurdity.
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This capacity for negative capability accounts for what might seem a peculiar tonal mix in the exhibition of lyricism and absurdity.
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"I think the American people will know it's an absurdity, and I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever," said Clinton.
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It has added to the air of surrealism, fuelled by endless distraction and absurdity, from which Mr Trump draws his impunity.
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The sense of absurdity is helped by how Wally's framed, with his parents Lucy and Andy beaming proudly by his side.
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Of course, criminalizing relapse isn't the only absurdity that exists at the intersection of drug addiction, criminal justice and public health.
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But questions about Trump and his election have taken on a whole new level of vitriol and absurdity for three reasons.
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In just a minute, the absurdity of each scene demonstrates how so-called logical justifications for sexual assault make zero sense.
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Editorial There are varying degrees of absurdity in the fallacies President Trump peddled during his first week in the Oval Office.
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The result is a finely tuned drama that finds humor in the everyday absurdity that comes from belonging to a family.
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The supernatural-by-way-of-the-mundane setting is also fertile ground for exploring the absurdity of our current political climate.
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There's a sense of finality that starts to creep into the last episodes, but still a spirit of absurdity and experimentation.
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In the past, the deadline came a few days after the game, a sequence which helped create its share of absurdity.
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"Imagine the absurdity of this: House Democrats want to set a limit on how many criminal aliens our government can detain."
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Adding to the absurdity was that the Mets had two pitchers named Bob Miller — Righty Bob Miller and Lefty Bob Miller.
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The absurdity of this request cannot be overstated, especially given that, for example, Trump openly mocked a reporter with a disability.
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The piece is quintessentially French; characters mull over Cartesian philosophy, existential identity, and French New Age music, mixing absurdity and insight.
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By employing satire, visual puns, farce, absurdity, kitsch, and the bizarre, the artists included in the exhibition upend social and aesthetic conventions.
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In it, Rick demonstrates the inherent absurdity of ascribed monetary value by destroying the entire Galactic Federation with a single button press.
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The beauty and purpose of Vine was the creation of tiny, six second videos; self-contained moments of interest and, often, absurdity.
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Love, heartbreak, longing, and absurdity all coexist inside not just our private joys and pains, but the ones we share with others.
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" As the pressure has grown on Trump, Gingrich has taken a different tack, dismissing the idea of impeachment as "absurdity" and "hopeless.
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And I didn't just read these stories, each revealing at once the absolute absurdity and magnificence of being alive; I savored them.
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Through the lens of Louis's renewed purpose, Miller draws out those moments of warmth, mundanity, and absurdity that make up daily life.
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Clif Wilmer, who came in from DC just to attend this marathon, echoes my thoughts on the entire experience: it's sheer absurdity.
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The writing and acting do well to combine the humanity of the characters with the absurdity of the situations unfolding around them.
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Seeing the well-worn knit cap atop her head, I felt ripples of contempt and hopelessness and absurdity knock on my throat.
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I think there is always an interesting fine line between genius and absurdity, which I think he is always kind of walking.
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Glover has always had a knack for the oddball and off-the-wall, for moments that underline the absurdity of modern life.
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But in this case the input/output is also distorted through the layer of Google Translate which obviously adds to the absurdity.
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His comments come a day after Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini had defined the EU sanctions a "social, cultural and economic absurdity".
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But no federal agency should have to pay the price for this absurdity with a budget cut—except maybe the Pentagon itself.
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"Sometimes when you're a foreigner going to a foreign place, you just make an absurdity of yourself," she told Shelley and Parsons.
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Any funnier and it would tip over into slapstick absurdity (which seems to be why Lord and Miller were shown the door).
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Midsommar is about nothing more and nothing less that the absurdity of life's natural cycles We all know death necessarily follows life.
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" Franken then ended on a self-deprecating joke pointing to his own comedic past: "Now, I had a career in identifying absurdity.
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There were pictures and hugs and a lot of yelling, owing mostly to alcohol, noise, and the patent absurdity of the evening.
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What was less obvious, given the allegation's unique synthesis of gravity and absurdity, was how to treat it as a news event.
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It's a dark comedy that doesn't hide away from the brutality and absurdity in the life of the first convicts of Australia.
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By fusing three distinct timelines in Bamford's life together, Dynamite brings the same level of absurdity into both her depression and recovery.
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The uneven acting is in keeping with the rest of the film, which oscillates wildly between occasional bouts of lucidity and absurdity.
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They say that their followers love the absurdity and the drama, and extreme age gaps are usually reliable posts for the account.
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And the inherent absurdity of a hurricane-ravaged area having to beg for a reprieve from a law that hampers rebuilding efforts.
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If we'd had documentary evidence of sexual harassment, the absurdity of his old contract still would have prevented us from terminating him.
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Yet as Cardozo pointed out, Netscape's dual standard did little beside highlight the absurdity of the US government's attempt to regulate encryption.
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And in a gesture that highlights the absurdity of Trump's demand that the Mexican president pay for the wall he envisions, t.
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Jon Ronson has made a career out of following absurdity to its natural limits, resulting in a kind of gonzo investigative journalism.
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Just as an example, consider the horrifying absurdity of the Orlando shooter posting to Facebook in the midst of his brutal attack.
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His diction, and use of the English language as a tool for chaos is perfect and completely intellectually satisfying in its absurdity.
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And it was exciting to see my dad revel in his love of absurdity -- a trait he definitely passed down to me.
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I'm sorry this is a slight piece; Mr. Neenan has the talent to turn even an exercise in absurdity into something substantial.
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I raised this as a patent absurdity and was told, don't worry, it's not discrimination, men have to get the same insurance.
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Throughout the short, mostly prose poems in Charles Simic's "The World Doesn't End" — winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 — absurdity reigns.
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"I think of this place as a testimony to the absurdity of the notion that everything has to be embellished," she says.
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Doris Salcedo is more interested in replicating the indefinite, affective qualities of mourning — its weight, intangibility, absurdity, and reliance on personal associations.
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Then she adds an element of absurdity to break up that imagery with monstrous animal depictions, like a hat made of chickens.
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His carefully crafted persona is part trickster, part radical, presenting an array of stereotypes in order to poke fun at their absurdity.
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Senator Mike Lee of Utah on Wednesday gave a speech on the Senate floor that was sarcastic to the point of absurdity.
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As he heard himself explaining how it worked, Steve Jobs couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of what he was saying.
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Like "Romantic Comedies," the central piece, "21 Extremely Bad Breakups," pushes its conceit to the point of absurdity, and then far beyond.
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Martial arts cinema has a tradition of light-hearted absurdity, from Jackie Chan's adorably corny clowning to Stephen Chow's hyperbolic camp masterpieces.
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He asserts a theory of personal property over the memos he wrote that the IG easily swats aside in its shallow absurdity.
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He wanted to find a way to depict the absurdity of the state broadcaster never reporting the monumental event on the square.
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Wang thought the situation, with its mix of pathos and absurdity, would make a fine film, but she couldn't find any takers.
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"Kobe transcends reality — he transcends dimensions, all realms of life, past and present," Hibbert said, laughing at the absurdity of it all.
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In 1977 in the Book Review, Al Young assessed the second volume, "My Life of Absurdity," which covered Himes's years in Europe.
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"That 50 individual states or one individual state should have a foreign policy is absurdity too gross to be entertained," he wrote.
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But the tonal slipperiness of Mr. Monkman's art, with its compound of anger and absurdity, social realism and serious camp, comes through.
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Such swings between absurdity and horror turned "Twin Peaks" into an instant hit for ABC in an otherwise milquetoast prime-time landscape.
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That flop would be very beneficial for another reason — it would highlight the absurdity of all cryptocurrencies, hopefully leading to their demise.
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The absurdity of looking at history and redefining it to meet the social needs of the present can produce some perverse results.
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To the Editor: The absurdity of prosecuting a frightened, often grieving mother for disposing of her fetal remains incorrectly seems patently absurd.
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But feverishly speculating on the special counsel's next move when young children are separated from their parents has a ring of absurdity.
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In telling this story, Popstar exhibits an intimate familiarity with the absurdity and cluelessness behind much pop music marketing and image crafting.
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Though the absurdity of banning books is the basis of the novel, some of the government's restriction on information are apparent today.
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But the theme that characterizes this particular meme trend seems to be the equating of conservative outrage with complete and utter absurdity.
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In your work, you're making comedy out of the absurdity out of the banality of everything, though here it goes very dark.
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We start with banality and absurdity, and the only rational response to it is comedy because the alternative is to go mad.
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In artist Amy Douglas's hands, however, Staffordshire figures become fantastical tchotchkes that trade their usual decorum for absurdity, vulgarity, and outlandish fun.
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At the same time, the coexistence of realism and symbolism emphasizes the fantasy and the absurdity of these characters and their stories.
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Samsung ruling, which was recently upheld in May after Samsung sought to overturn the ruling on the basis of its evident absurdity.
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Wittes went on to say that he finds Putin's displays to be more than just outbursts of personal insecurity and aesthetic absurdity.
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That can be a fun world to explore, and the show can highlight the absurdity of what's presented as normal in this world.
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The bad guys aren't given backstories that explain why they do what they do — they're just mean (sometimes to the point of absurdity).
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Now, I had a career in identifying absurdity, and I know it when I see it and it makes me question your judgment.
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Since it was founded in 2008, Goop has grown wider in its following and dug deeper into the trenches of its own absurdity.
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By looking at these and other subjects again and again, he has been able to calm himself while acknowledging the absurdity of existence.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads SHANGHAI — For Yu Hong, the absurdity of life dictates that there should be babies sleeping in hell.
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His gaming stunts were primarily about personal accomplishment and group amusement, but on Twitch, absurdity wasn't just rewarded—you could get paid, too.
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The absurdity of just now teaching a 59-year-old Virginian about anti-blackness in America is laughable to the point of pain.
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" While he laughed along with the audience at the absurdity of the memory, Obama went on: "I was alone most of that time.
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Oliver even founded his own church to highlight the absurdity of these churches getting tax-exempt status while their pastors rake in fortunes.
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While it is easy to focus on the surface-level absurdity of the phenomenon, the economic realities underneath the spectacle remain enormously complicated.
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Ecoterrorism loses the aura of absurdity when every month brings a new estimate of the coming death toll from our melting ice caps.
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Instead, cultural appropriation seemed to expand in definition to the point of absurdity; in turn, these instances became platforms that exacerbated racial tensions.
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"I think [the fact] that it's an American university highlighted the absurdity of this legislation," a former Trump administration official told BuzzFeed News.
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But that's what I loved about it — it hung around long enough and achieved enough cultural saturation to have entire cycles of absurdity.
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Here are some of the more noteworthy past (and present) plans to send humans to Mars, ranked by descending levels of absurdity.7.
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The absurdity of Citizen Kane's loss became clearer as time went on, and the film was deemed the best movie of all time.
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Between an older narrative of heroism and a more recent one of pointless slaughter lies an ocean of ambiguity, mingling grandeur with absurdity.
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It makes the feeling a little less isolating and is a nice way of connecting with other folks through our mutual human absurdity.
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Absent political absurdity, the regionalization of grids — eventually linking them nationally and even internationally — is the cheapest way to integrate more renewable energy.
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Red Star, however, renders the absurdity of this visible, whereas many advertisers, filmmakers, and consumers struggle to recognize this in their daily lives.
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Fracking experts retort that the real absurdity is the regulatory straitjacket that Britain has imposed in response to public fears incited by NGOs.
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The record pushes nationalism past the limits of coherence, using humor and absurdity to highlight the fallibility of patriotism in the modern age.
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But Cramer argued that the absurdity of it all is that it's happening while a number of individual companies are reporting strong trajectories.
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Conversely, the show could keep Danny exactly as dumb as he is, and really just lean into the absurdity of his whole situation.
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Still, "House of Cards" has always operated on the fringes of absurdity, where murder and blackmail are among the Underwoods' tools of persuasion.
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And now Silicon Valley season 4 is about to premiere on Sunday, April 23, to remind us of the tech industry's sheer absurdity.
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John C. Reilly co-stars as a particularly hopeless case who befriends David, a few shades of absurdity short of Dr. Steve Brule.
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Commission Impossible: How and why the FCC created net neutrality Only Anna Eshoo (D-CA) seemed to perceive the absurdity of this argument.
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The idea that Bobos need their own party is perhaps the most ridiculous suggestion of an election that has been rich in absurdity.
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But when you think about it, if it's a record about men and their absurdity, then what's the most absurd of male objects?
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Often, the word "surreal" is used interchangeably with "trippy" when discussing the show's central qualities—its absurdity, its fantastical elements, its apparent randomness.
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Steinem realized very quickly the absurdity of her remarks and apologized for demeaning women who do not plan to vote for Hillary Clinton.
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His response, first via poetry and then visual arts, was to highlight the brutal absurdity of the times through a breakdown in language.
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The project challenges stereotypes about Islamic culture by upending them with a kind of absurdity, and Bennani's humor embodies a sense of generosity.
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It wasn't so much the absurdity of the idea that attracted people as the fact that this thing was actually pretty damn good.
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Related: These Paintings are Colorful Human Tessellations Colorful Paintings Capture the Absurdity of Human Behavior Painting Colorful Geometric Images that Mimic the Digital
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"Kurt Andersen is personally one of my heroes — both as a critical thinker in America and a voice of unique absurdity," DeCourcy said.
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To believe that any of today's generation of politicians is likely to uphold such impartial standards is naïve to the point of absurdity.
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The audience members started to laugh, too, and as the absurdity of what they were doing dawned on them the laughs became real.
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As soon as everyone laughs at the absurdity of huge dildo appearing out of nowhere on a beach in Mexico, Brandi moves on.
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In 2012, these forces came together with symbolic absurdity in a nasty and protracted lawsuit between neighbors in the House on the Embankment.
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Over the next year, we became another local story about the quiddities of fate, the heartless absurdity of life in the big city.
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A trio of pale, nerdy guys, they intuitively understand the universal appeal, and also the implicit absurdity, of hip-hop-inspired sexual swagger.
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But as David Goldblatt tells us, little has changed in what is often a story of Olympic absurdity and its disconnect from reality.
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The absurdity of the question struck a chord with the general public, and people inundated Twitter with jokes and memes at McNabb's expense.
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By favoring a national ethos of raw emotion and determined anti-reason, he continually forces American political and social life toward triumphant absurdity.
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Even in the darkest recesses of the internet, few artists capture Cool 3D World's unique cocktail of randomness, absurdity, and 3D animating finesse.
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It is the place where all absurdity is forgiven in the name of fashion, and the ridiculous can become the really cool overnight.
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There were moments of absurdity, including "hawking boxers on Portobello Road in West London" — one of the largest antique markets in the world.
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Is there a piece of media that hits the sweet spot of absurdity for you—or misses the mark, by a wide margin?
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But during a speech on Tuesday evening, he took the flawed arguments he's been making against wind energy to new levels of absurdity.
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I had a vague idea, but there aren't really storylines, they don't really do anything, and it's all just sheer absurdity and stupidity.
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A person with whom I had laughed at the absurdity of the media and their spicy claims about my role in their family.
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You can sense this nearness to death (the absurdity of having escaped death) in Beckett's postwar work, beginning with his stories of 1946.
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He applies the same incisiveness and absurdity to other topics like fire safety signs, meteorology headlines, and parents who won't vaccinate their children.
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Yes, the show wants to poke fun at the Young Pope's handsome charisma and shed amusing light on some of the church's absurdity.
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And it's been Ellis's life's work to make us confront the absurdity of that world in all its grimness, comedy and plastic beauty.
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Tucker's impromptu performance of the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" is a high point of sweetness and absurdity, and Mr. Hawke gets it just right.
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The absurdity and the egregiousness of the Turkish president's crackdown is starkly illustrated by the case of Ahmet Sik, a leftist investigative journalist.
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The Vatican called assisted suicide "an absurdity" after Brittany Maynard chose to end her own life rather than succumb painfully to brain cancer.
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Its best parts come from recognizing the escalating absurdity of the plot, and how this affected the way characters travel around the world.
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The Far Cry series outright embraced absurdity long ago: their worlds are now jam-packed with rules, scenarios, AI behaviors, enemies, and animals.
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We may sometimes think that the absurdity of Trump's endless stream of contradictions and lies ends at the nation's borders, but it doesn't.
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Set to three dance-filled scores by Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-94), it moves from comic absurdity, via coolly ceremonious romance, to dazzling ebullience.
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" He'd written the musical, he said, "to contextualize the record in its comedy and absurdity, and to drive home how personal it is.
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Maybe. In recent months, people in Silicon Valley have begun to redraw the boundaries—or at least acknowledge the absurdity of the norm.
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I jest, but not about the air of absurdity surrounding this previously staid process of selecting someone to be the nation's top diplomat.
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Was the making of toasters—or other wry statements on the absurdity of modern life—a good use of his time on earth?
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And some professors were submitting their own names to the website as a way to emphasize the absurdity of the list, he added.
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His corrosive images and scenes of absurdity never soften to concede the presence of a lament, but it is there all the same.
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But more broadly, the message of this video — beyond the absurdity of its tone — is an odd fit for the current drug crisis.
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In our hyper-emotive current moment — where each day sees new heights of absurdity and despair — emotions once reserved for extreme circumstances happen daily.
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Locher's careful construction of each picture also gives these allegedly law-breaking acts an air of surreality, highlighting the sheer absurdity of these regulations.
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In his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus," Albert Camus uses the story to illustrate the absurdity of lives that toil away at meaningless jobs.
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With a dose of playful absurdity, the Family Room Collective channels the feedback loops and information overload that characterize our frenzied contemporary media landscape.
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Seeing as hundreds of people have complied with the strange request over the years, maybe we shouldn't be so quick to judge its absurdity.
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"It has started the conversation about the absurdity of regulating women's bodies and right to choice and instead focused on men and their rights."
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Speaking to Wilson and Miller, though, JAY-Z said that the track as a whole blows stereotypes up in order to demonstrate their absurdity.
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In his invented world, meanwhile, Mr Saunders's spectres judge each other by skin tone despite not having bodies, highlighting the absurdity of such bigotry.
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Gold and others said the protest was meant to be a fun way to show what they called the absurdity around campaign finance laws.
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The deconstruction physically manifested in her drawings, collages, and installations contribute to both their absurdity and the unraveling of the frameworks they originated from.
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The process drags on for weeks, during which Giacometti and Lord reflect on the frustration that comes with creativity and the absurdity of life.
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Obviously this effort devolves into absurdity, with the characters stripping off everything they're wearing because it might somehow be morally repugnant to keep on.
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That was one reason (beyond the offensive absurdity of many of his statements) why Donald Trump was unpopular even amongst right-leaning policy shops.
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"(It was) often mentioned by ancient philosophers as an example of absurdity because it is made up of opposed and irreconcilable characters," he said.
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The near-comical absurdity of white nationalist principles isn't lost on me, and it wasn't lost on Lee, either, when he made the film.
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By pointing out the absurdity of common expressions, Johnson deflates the ego of white America, demonstrating that anything can seem ridiculous when it's foreign.
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The series satirizes the absurdity of a world where underqualified judges, proudly bigoted politicians, and "the pee tape" are part of the daily discourse.
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"Taking the piss" is a term British people came up with that means putting a pin in the balloon of pompousness with of absurdity.
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The tulip craze served as a convenient analogy for stories of our desire to monetize the natural world and our tendency towards speculative absurdity.
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Actually, considering the absurdity of this year — I'll reiterate, he ejaculated onto a potted plant — fantasizing about a graceful piscine humanoid is downright sensible.
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It was such an incredible display of jaw-dropping absurdity, we almost missed the fact Kanye that shared his iPhone passcode with the world.
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The absurdity of Pacino's pessimistic view becomes especially sharp almost five decades later, when he's sharing the anecdote from a Tribeca Film Festival stage.
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Veep might have a difficult time outpacing the current election in terms of absurdity, but it does have one advantage over reality: it's fake.
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"He was commenting on the absurdity of the allegations," Weinstein's former lawyer Benjamin Brafman told Burke, referring to Weinstein and the alleged email evidence.
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That George Orwell novel, which is a best seller again these days, highlights the absurdity of government bodies whose names belie their actual purposes.
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Priestdaddy proves over and over that Christianity isn't as dull as you've been led to believe, and that religion isn't our age's only absurdity.
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He highlights the absurdity of a criminal justice system that sentences people to death and then refuses to let them die, often for decades.
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DeRuiter explained to MUNCHIES that her main intent in writing the piece at all was to simply highlight the innate absurdity of Batali's statement.
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The film also includes interviews with former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and it's in that moment, early on, that the absurdity kicks in.
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Imagine the absurdity of getting into a fight after watching Shrek Forever After, which ends up leading to the worst breakup of your life.
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The absurdity of this and other examples makes it clear that the only purpose of California's action is to punish those who conscientiously object.
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It's a real sentiment that takes on a level of absurdity as he repeats it, which in turn makes you think about it more.
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One last point: The supercharged economy points to the absurdity of the Democrats primary policy goal, which is to repeal the Trump tax cut.
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It is time for public policy makers to recognize the absurdity of ignoring the most critical social determinant for good health outcomes: safe housing.
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"Say that again," Coats said, doing a double take and laughing in disbelief at the absurdity of the latest episode in the Russia saga.
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Even fiction, Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America," about a fascist-lite president during World War II, does not have this level of absurdity.
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It seemed to me the zenith of a carnival of absurdity, as the candidates descended into what appeared to be a penis measuring contest.
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The absurdity of it all is reinforced by more workaday essentials — automobile dashboards, a wood pallet, a wheelbarrow tray — also rendered useless by tile.
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Berger's eye for absurdity, coupled with his disorienting editing techniques, coax out the uncomfortable ugliness beneath the surface of a host of smiling creeps.
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As the band struck their final notes, cannons shot Miku-branded streamers into the crowd, only adding to the giddy absurdity of the moment.
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Photo via Angel Olsen on Instagram The Labor Day weekend affords us all one extra day to catch the hell up on August's absurdity.
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While Miracle Mile may not be a masterpiece of the cinema, it does perfectly capture the utter of absurdity and horror of nuclear warfare.
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In all of the internet's capacity for creativity and absurdity, Grumpy Cat's online life has remained directly in line with what its owner sold.
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I particularly enjoyed Chip Kelly pointing out the absurdity of a member of the media complaining about distractions that he is complicit in creating.
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When looking at a wrap sheet as extensive (and serious) as King's, the true absurdity of making role models out of footballers becomes apparent.
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That anyone could be so funny and write so well about the human condition in all its weirdness, absurdity and vulgarity was a revelation.
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Each is, in its own way, a deeply moral work that explores the absurdity of environments in which taking lives is no big deal.
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They then did a walk-through with City Council members, who, recognizing the absurdity of many of the regulations, later worked to change them.
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"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face," wrote Albert Camus of the strangeness of being alive.
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The weakest parts of the book are when she tries to wring meaning from absurdity, painting her generation or her country with wide strokes.
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But that only underscores another kind of charming absurdity: One of the least-watched, lowest-paid teams is also one of the best. Again.
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Beyond Philadelphia, Gritty landed in a sweet spot of absurdity: He was perfect for the internet without feeling too focus-group-designed for it.
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On some days, shrapnel pops out of his chest, and he will send a photo of it to Dr. Schroeder to mark the absurdity.
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But it points out the absurdity of some rules, and how they need to be changed, or else these camps need to be eliminated.
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And to add to the absurdity, the chemistry inside of that lithium-ion battery hasn't really changed since Sony introduced it commercially in 237.
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They didn't get a chance to laugh at the absurdity of it all, which has always been the transcendent hallmark of Mr. Browne's work.
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As it happens, "Two Ladies" needs as many real-life parallels as it can muster once the plot has derailed into absurdity and melodrama.
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The absurdity of this story would be laughable if it hadn't led a man to bring a rifle to a restaurant filled with families.
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ContraPoints nailing the absurdity of being trans from TransQualityGifs Each of these subreddits has a slightly different tone and their own rules for moderation.
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Many different people have pointed out the absurdity of the president's latest beef with Latino immigrants and his obsession with voter fraud in general.
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Instead, the images are intensely personal — revealing a playfulness, an absurdity, and a bit of bourgeois indulgence rarely seen in photos from the time.
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The Sirius XM host said that when she found out the news, all she could do was laugh at the absurdity of the situation.
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John Kennedy (R-LA) perhaps best illustrate the absurdity of the GOP's position that a fair trial can be conducted without all the evidence.
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His quips are just the sort of tongue-in-cheek attitude that help ground the absurdity of the competition in some much-needed reality.
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The news of the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's banana — which sold for six figures — had come to represent the absurdity of the art world.
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But what if no one notices the difference between the fact and the fiction, much less cares to recognize the absurdity of the details?
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These generic platitudes remind us of the pensive thoughts that surround death but also its absurdity, reading simultaneously like memento mori and roadside billboards.
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Roving absurdity trainers will be offering 60-second lessons throughout the neighborhood all weekend — and classes each day at 1pm at 24 Seigel Street.
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Raphayet, Zaida and their two children move into a grand stucco villa that comes to symbolize both their worldly success and its grotesque absurdity.
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It embraces the simultaneous absurdity and grossness of old-world traditions (feeding a pubic hair to an unsuspecting victim comes from actual folk tales).
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I expected my laptop to spontaneously combust under the effort, but what happened instead was an exercise that highlighted the absurdity of chat rooms.
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As "Water" demonstrates, Zhang often critiqued these systems with a subtle but powerful sense of absurdity, introduced through exhausting repetition and fine-tuned editing.
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Sure, the absurdity all makes for good television and an array of interesting characters — this is why White Famous' predecessor Californication — was such a success.
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A big reason he became a teacher was that he liked kids, and he could delight in the absurdity of a roomful of seventh graders.
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Kelly abandons the PR talk of many astronauts, who rarely complain about their work, and speaks his mind about the absurdity of some NASA policies.
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Westworld reminds him of Battlestar Galactica and Lost, two shows that also began with promising science fictional premises but ultimately descended into mysticism and absurdity.
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But it must take care not to forfeit esoteric absurdity that's made it a vacation from the overwhelming news and envy spiraling of other feeds.
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Once the party gets rolling back on Earth and Blair really rolls up her acting sleeves, Another Life reaches new levels of perfectly satisfying absurdity.
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The mood of absurdity in all of these seems appropriate to the postwar period, with its ruins, trash and outmoded materials and its disgraced militarism.
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The timing and absurdity of these false claims speaks volumes and the publicity tour that has begun only further confirms the political motives behind them.
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In each, character-driven sketches are set to flash points of absurdity, with uncoupled dialogue between individuals interrupted by bursts of visual effects and animation.
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Kack, a field organizer for the grassroots organization Peoples Defense Initiative, told Mashable he couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of the whole situation.
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His comment, a classic of the expectations setting genre, might also have been a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment of the absurdity of pre-debate spin.
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We find true happiness in connections with others — and sometimes it's as simple as a shared, fleeting laugh at the absurdity of the human condition.
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Still, questions that take the form of "if only they would've" or "why didn't they," which coach-questioning tends to do, steer into inherent absurdity.
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It captures a bunch of extremely 2017 feelings, including dystopia, fear of job automation, and the general mood of absurdity that's going around a lot.
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While Prey is about a rapacious corporation that performs inhumane experiments on unwilling volunteers, Arkane also has a keen eye for innocent low-key absurdity.
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Throughout her films Kraus emphasizes the emotional and intellectual complexity of power exchange and its inherently theatrical nature, sometimes to the point of comedic absurdity.
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Gingrich, a close ally of Trump, tweeted that the ABC News/Washington Post poll is an "absurdity" because of the huge fluctuation in recent days.
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Related: Colorful Paintings Capture the Absurdity of Human Behavior Painting Colorful Geometric Images that Mimic the Digital Shannon Finley's Mixed Media Paintings are Geometric Beauties
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The Trump/GOP suicide pact reached a new level of absurdity yesterday with the release of incendiary comments made by the Republican nominee in 2005.
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Both do it with an enormous helping of absurdity: in the case of Zlatan, knowingly so; in the case of the Premier League, completely earnestly.
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Does the royals' international feel-good factor justify the sheer absurdity of a system that grants privilege and power based on simple accident of birth?
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The humor here swerves between royal pomp and farcical absurdity, with the exhibition's emphasis geared slightly more to the latter — at least in my eyes.
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"It requires a level of absurdity to think the Solar Movie operator would create a server that offers that same material inside Australia," Lancaster said.
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Donald Trump is leading the way in this absurdity, repealing an Obama-era executive order requiring that federal infrastructure projects take flood maps into account.
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For all its absurdity, the fight over Hulk Hogan's sex tape became a fun-house mirror reflection of the issues that affect all of us.
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CreditCreditMichael Regan/Getty Images For casual soccer fans, it may be difficult to fully understand the absurdity of Leicester City winning England's Premier League title.
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West's tweets in support of Trump this week inspired artists to weigh in, showing their support or poking fun at the absurdity of it all.
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After 17 works of fiction, Smith delivers a memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.
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"This country is finally freeing itself from the great absurdity, scorned by most international observers, that is the 'sun tax'," Ribera told a news conference.
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To give you a sense of the absurdity of these efforts, imagine Bell Communication publishing a report suggesting cell phones are less convenient than landlines.
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A Lamborghini SUV seemed an absurdity, yet the Italian automaker, renowned for never compromising on intestine-twisting performance, succeeded in making the apparent oxymoron work.
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In an amusing touch, he's portrayed by a human actor, Zach Kononov, not a puppet, adding a layer of absurdity to this already absurd conceit.
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It never regains the campy absurdity of that climactic scene, nor does it sustain subtle tension and unease in service of a well-earned twist.
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Vox's Dara Lind worried while watching Monday's debate that even though Trump's sexism and absurdity seemed obvious, it might not read that way to everyone.
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It's a forgivable sin but an awkward contortion nonetheless -- ridiculous even by the standard of a graphic-novel-derived movie that revels in its absurdity.
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Like Badminton, Indoor Track Cycling is most memorable as an exercise in tactical and traditional absurdity smushed up against the thrill of white knuckle speed.
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While the tour itself is a near-total charade, the cancelled 'Manchester derby' in Beijing is a reminder of the true absurdity of modern football.
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If we judge a camera purely on aesthetic absurdity, K. K. Konishoruko's World War II-era Type 89 Rokuoh-Sha 35mm Machinegun Camera probably wins.
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It was a strategy that led to more than a few moments of absurdity and raised eyebrows (including from the witnesses) as lawmakers like Rep.
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In the time we've been debunking Paltrow, the stories and books pointing out the absurdity and potential harms of Goop's claims have been widely read.
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Eventually she's run out of the house and picked up in an SUV, riding off into the sunset with the bear, onto the next absurdity.
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In Pinochet's Chile, the question wasn't a laughing matter, but in Ruiz's world, matters of life and death are never without a dimension of absurdity.
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Chips, a podcast on VICE Sports, brings an American and Brit together to marvel at all the brilliance, absurdity, and hilarity in the soccer world.
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He would just sit there uncomfortably and ask if I liked Los Angeles, and I would walk away laughing at the absurdity of it all.
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British artist David Shrigley is known for his black-and-white pen drawings, bursting with absurdity, dark humor, and often a witty line of text.
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Hurston, charmed by a trusted friend yet fully attentive to the absurdity of the moment, is, for once, at some sort of calm with herself.
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They betray this by the absurdity of the accusations they make against their critics, as if trying to conceal the real intent of their persecution.
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The idea was meant as a simple provocation: to show the absurdity of rebuilding the spire as it was in the 19th century, he said.
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There is nothing specific in the Constitution that supports this absurdity, which if taken literally means he can pardon himself from any crime he committed.
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Reasonable people can disagree on the death penalty, but everyone should recognize the dark absurdity of an execution timetable set by a drug's expiration date.
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The anecdotes, some of which are funny, some horrifying, are edged with a bleak sense of absurdity and shadowed by the rapid onset of oblivion.
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"Sunny's tweet was tongue in cheek to point out the absurdity of Tesla's video, nothing more," a Ford spokesperson said in an email to TechCrunch.
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The absurdity and the adorability are perfectly fused in the latest addition to the Trockadero repertory, the pas de six from August Bournonville's "Napoli" (1842).
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The strange, wry compositions were love songs, as conceived by a singer fully aware of the absurdity of falling in love and falling out again.
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But a source emphasized the absurdity of Trump departing on a strange tangent in the middle of serious G7 discussions to wax lyrical about Kim.
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Everyone would have looked past the excesses in its filing, the voraciousness of the founder's side dealings and the absurdity of all the flowery language.
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"It is time for this absurdity to end and for humanitarian funds to be directed towards their intended purpose -- the welfare of refugees," Danon said.
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I refer to seven- or 14-day antibiotic courses as "1 or 2 Constantine units" to underscore the absurdity of the basis for these durations.
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