Word: absurder
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...country's advocate rather than a witness for the prosecution." He had the temerity to criticize the Gaullists: "Because this group is taking part in the fight outside France and constitutes a normal 'foreign legion,' it claims the reward of ruling the France of tomorrow. It's absurd. The essential characteristic of sacrifice is that it claims no rights." In his politics as well as his piloting, Saint-Exupery proved an inveterate soloist...
...disappeared and was not heard from again until East German television broadcast an interview with him from the East German mission in Bonn. On the air, Meissner claimed he had been drugged by West German policemen before making the earlier statements. Bonn promptly rejected Meissner's story as "fully absurd" and refused to allow the would-be redefector to leave the country. Stay tuned...
Massachusetts' political realities currently support a one-party or perhaps a party-and-a-half system. Only the historically powerful Democratic Party seems able to carry on its business without absurd blunders that leave it more of a laughingstock than a political force...
...during the Reagan era. In many ways it reflects society's ambivalence, mixing some moderate views about the rights of individuals with some visceral moralizing about pornography and promiscuity. Says the commission: "There are undoubtedly many causes for what used to be called the 'sexual revolution,' but it is absurd to suppose that depictions or descriptions of uncommitted sexuality were not among them." At times the report hesitantly departs from an examination of pornography and discusses the need for a moral compass in society. "We all agree that some degree of individual choice is necessary in any free society...
...first place, White points out, it would be impossible to tolerate sodomy without also permitting other sexual crimes, such as incest. This analogy is absurd. There is a vast difference between protecting minors from conduct harmful to them and interfering with the decisions of consenting adults...