Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Obviously he whole procedure is absurd. The atchaic phrascology of the Bible has never checked its reading to those who are interested, nor has if obscured to any extent the meaning. Nothing is more fitting than that a book, as widely read as the Bible should be a literary masterpiece. There can be no justification for doing worse that which has already been done with the touch of supreme artistry...
American prejudices against the "Bally English" in conflict with English misconceptions of "boorish Americans" furnish the central Tenma. With a strange mixture of sympathetic concern and amusement the author views those absurd ideas that Americans have of England and the equally warped opinions that the English hold of America and its "natives". It is the old idea of the folly of prejudices. Perhaps this is why the author employs a conventional plot and technique and stock characters...
...business for Spain." The "King business" is a favorite expression of The World. Because the Prince of Wales is "entirely composed of prestige"-a statement far from the truth-the "King business" ought to be wound up. Because Ibanez is seen as "the greatest of all Spaniards"-an absurd contention-the "King business" in Spain ought to be wound up. A critic said: "Such childish logic disguises Liberalism with bigoted reaction. Republicanism may fit new countries ; but, for those with hundreds of years of tradition behind them, it is utter folly. Compare Germany, Austria, Russia, Hungary. Think of the suffering...
...High brow," the definition implied by Newspaperdom, is a loose, archaic slang-word, absurd in its application to the normal, intelligent people for whom TIME is written...
...University's absurd publication owns a small triangle of the sidewalk in front of the building, and has concluded that the bricks there should be replaced by a tree...