Word: absurder
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...situation above is clearly absurd. Yet we tolerate a similar state of affairs when we support public schools as the only way of making education affordable to everyone...
Your December 12 article about the study on house diversity reveals the absurd and self-contradictory lengths the search for an artificial numerical diversity can reach...
Although Diamond dismisses many musicians' complaints as "absurd," new conflicts continue to arise...
...stiff formality" between professors and students and uses the fact that the enlisted men of the Israeli Defense Forces are on a first-name basis with their superiors as an example of the advantages of the "egalitarian spirit." The comparison, while somewhat funny, is inherently absurd and indeed inappropriate. The Israeli Defense Forces are a military organization. They probably want to build a sense of comaraderie in their ranks because they just might all die together in the defense of their nation. However, death by a sniper's bullet isn't something that I have on my mind when...
Tory M.P. John Bowis spoke for many when he said, "It would be absurd to think of two royal processions coming from different directions to the Abbey for a coronation. If it is not possible to have a happy monarch and family, I think we should skip a generation and wait for William." The succession issue lies at the heart of the monarchy; for the institution to survive, it must be stable. If the Waleses pursue other romantic interests, as is likely, the Windsors may reel into even thornier problems than they faced...