How to Use the absurd in a Sentence

the absurd

noun
Definition of the absurdnext
  • Again, though, the video takes this scenario to the absurd.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The grotesque and the absurd demand their place in the halls of power, too.
    — Phil Klay, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And to put out into the world the absurd notion that the brothers were lovers is the height of pure evil.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The first step, to judge by the absurd crew onstage, will be to change the storytellers.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Trump casts a long shadow and has a way of making the absurd mundane.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But it’s taken to the absurd of what a subway system could be like.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • This is amusing stuff, well served by Coogan’s knack for haughty composure in the face of the absurd.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Not everyone was a fan of the absurd stunts his raucous show was known for.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But there is also humor running through all his work, and a keen eye for the absurd.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • As such, Adams’ stories of life in the cabin swing from the terrifying to the absurd.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The questions in his class outside Chicago ranged from the absurd to the practical to the academic.
    — Dan Merica, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Marylanders are all too familiars with the absurd costs of heath care in our state.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The comic has gained notice on the long-running NBC late-night series for bizarre humor that blends gross-out jokes with a taste for the absurd.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
  • And the absurd plot to steal it and auction it off at Christie’s actually happened.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 July 2023
  • But this is Shanley’s point: Love necessitates a leap over the absurd.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That top-note of the absurd sitting alongside the deeply felt is purposeful, on both my part and, ingeniously, the show’s.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
  • Monsef suggests that maybe the absurd and uncanny can bring change.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • Given the absurd premise and campy marketing, this could be one of 9-1-1’s best disasters.
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But his relaxed commitment to the absurd is so casual and simple and profound all at the same time.
    — EW.com, 3 Nov. 2023
  • That alternation between the serious and the absurd was the series’ stock in trade.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Tesori was fine, but in that moment, the absurd and the existential collided.
    — Gordon Cox, Variety, 31 May 2023
  • The show isn't satiric so much as amused by the absurd lengths to which the Kaylas of our society will go in pursuit of self-definition.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Armed with a caricaturist’s eye for the absurd, Blackwood may not have been careful with the facts, but her work evokes a larger truth.
    — Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Life is a balance of the humorous, the absurd, the preposterous, the ridiculous, the surreal and the deeply tragic and the howlingly painful.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 15 June 2024
  • The Eagles’ run was eight-tenths of a second faster than Wyatt’s, which showcases the absurd advances in Texas high school track in recent months.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Our Southern theater is a carnival of the absurd and a savage delight.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Like Beckett’s play, there is no Godot who will come, but we are all caught in a world where the mundane, the absurd and our own desire for answers propel us forward.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The singer combines the genre’s enduring themes of heartbreak and self-destruction with camp humor and a distinctly Irish sense of the absurd.
    — Roisin Kiberd, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Even in the immediate aftermath of Agnes’ bad thing, Victor doesn’t shy away from life’s funny way of keeping up the absurd, the mundane, the ridiculous.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2025

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