Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Looking at this text practically and logically it seems absurd, for it violates the very first principle of logic. But when we come to spiritual facts, we cannot measure them by physical laws. The law of the Conservation of Energy does not apply with regard to honor and fidelity and patriotism. Neither does anything that lives or grows obey this inflexible law. The physiologist's first principle is that the body dies in decaying partially at every instant. At every stage of its growth every organism not only is, but is passing away from what is. Moreover, nothing can exist...
...piece, "The Veteran's Last Fight," painted expressly for Outing. It would be hard to imagine a tamer fight. It is a picture of a wild hog with two dogs on him and three or four more looking on with a sleepy kind of interest. The effect is almost absurd. The illustrations of "A Comedy of Counterplots" are the worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand in hand in a most unnatural position. It would be far pleasanter to have appearances left to the reader's imagination than to have all pleasant ideas...
...present; we need lecture halls with better accommodations for such large courses. Doubtless there are other and more important demands to be answered - the new library and reading room, even better accommodations for the officers of the University, and, above all, more dormitories, - for it is a little absurd to offer students increased facilities for work till we have more places to house them in, - but there is a great need here for a new laboratory building...
...friend, Mr. Hefty Burke - of masquerade ball fame - but although the story is undeniably interesting and entertaining, it is not to be compared with Mr. Davis's best work. It is an impossible tale and after finishing it, one gets back and says "It's good but it's absurd...
...only criticism we have to offer is on the music in the Turkish scene. It is wholly inconsistent and contrary to the spirit of the production. The ceremony is already farcical enough without deliberately making absurd horse-play out of it. The directors would have done well to omit the music altogether rather than to drag in songs which cheapen the scene...