Word: absurder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...then there will be a day when the light comes in on a bright, sharp slant-clarity an artist lives for. Even drunks, then, can see the mortar between the bricks-and the place appeals and no longer seems absurd. An absolutely azure sky set off by a single cloud looking as if it were shot up there from a pastry chefs icing gun, that kind of a day. And everywhere houses cling to the cliffsides like cockleburs. Jade plants, looking like so many butter beans on a stick, grow high and thick out here, form hedges, give privacy. (Back...
...Alas, there the exiles have adopted native customs with a vengeance. The women wear gold boots with green hearts and T shirts with breasts printed on them. The men buy calfskin jackets if they can afford them, checkered suits if they cannot. During their frequent alcoholic binges, they plot absurd schemes for a National Liberation Army of the Czechoslovak People that will overthrow their country's Communist tyrants...
What a tragedy if open inquiry is to become the next casualty of the Reagan-fueled nuclear arms race. Weinberger's evident dislike of military accountability, so offensive in Grenada, is nothing short of absurd when applied to evaluations like the House subcommittee's. What appears to concern Weinberger most is not the report itself, but rather the public airing of soiled Pentagon linen. This, despite the claim of Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo (D-N.Y.) that the report had been "sanitized" by Defense officials prior to its release...
...description of the incident however is a good example of what sometimes makes the book hard to stomach. His flip sense of the absurd made him a good quote but hurts him as a narrator. Selling Carbo hurt him deeply but he tells the story for laughs...
...espouse less Government, not more. Protests Neoliberal Wirth: "The fact is, we already have an industrial policy. We already spend $300 billion in subsidies to industry, but it's a crazy quilt of patchwork policies. The Republicans say get rid of it. We say that's absurd. We say don't get rid of it, rationalize...