Word: absurder
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...many grades that are given rely on one exam, where there are no TFs. It's absurd to ask one professor to grade 140 exams," he says...
...difficult to undo the remote past by particular programs rewarding the descendants of people who suffered," Thernstrom said. "One might as well begin by asking the African government to provide compensation because it is they who captured the slaves and sold them. It seems to me that would be absurd...
...hardly endeared himself to feminists with lines like "I like to marry women whom I can beat once in a while, and who fight back." Married six times with mistresses on the side, he was still able to develop a friendship with Gloria Steinem. Mailer's comments seem absurd, and seem less a result of male chauvinism and more a tool with which Mailer attempted to get more popular attention...
...even as he loses his sense of right and wrong, Seth never loses his respect and loyalty to his father. Even in this most corrupt of businesses, Seth never waivers in his love for his father, and this is perhaps the crux of the movie. Past the absurd money swindling, the corrupted dealings and the painful betrayals, Seth stands as a figure on the brink of manhood, having to decide between truth and deception, honor and cowardice, loyalty and self-vindication...
...sucks. You know it, I know it and I assume that by this time, even the Coop knows it. I'm not suggesting that I want to drive the Coop out of business, although I know plenty of people who wouldn't weep at its demise. The prices are absurd, the books you need are never there and, if you're anything like me, there's always a busload of tourists in line in front of you, each individually buying strange items with foreign money. The Coop sucks and it always has. Take this opportunity to let them know that...