Word: absurder
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...read with great interest Joel Stein's absurd comment that I publish "sleazy" books [PEOPLE, Feb. 2] and yearned to understand the root of his sentiments. Taking a leaf from TIME's book, I called Stein...
...examined Monica's computer hard drive and found that her brother and mother had used it, so they made it all sound sinister, like we gave them the wrong computer. They took her clothes because of a report by Matt Drudge about a semen-stained dress. Next was the absurd leak that Betty Currie, the President's trusted secretary, implicated him in obstruction of justice or witness tampering. This leak was a transparent attempt to create an unfair environment for President Clinton and my client...
GERMANY "What kind of country is it that daily drags its President through the mud because of basically absurd rubbish?" --Editorial, Aachener Nachrichten...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effects. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludcrous...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...