Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is one curious side of de Valera's threat: any Irishman should have known that it was manifestly absurd to deprive the nation of their traditional joy on St. Patrick's Day, no matter what might be the political or economic exigencies. Again, when framing the "order," de Valera must have known that he could not possibly enforce it. The cause of this bravado seems somehow lost in its effect...
...wife, the little lady develops one unfortunate propensity. She insists on being his leading lady. In rehearsal she seems all right. On the opening night she thinks she is all right. So that when her husband conscientiously explains to her that she not only was not good, but was absurd, her pride suffers a fall. Her comeback, however, is immediate. She gives him a devil and deep-sea to choose between. Either she continues to act or she leaves...
...illustration of the danger of too much conservatism in expressing opinions. What the writer of "Political Sentimentalists" says about Mr. Boyden in Europe is hardly open to attack--it is an ingenuously clear statement of fact. But what he says about college thinkers is dangerous, if not a little absurd. He objects, rightly enough, to sentimental reasoning and arguments not based on facts; but he goes farther and demands that a man should either have a thorough opinion reasoned from complete knowledge, or no opinion at all. If he is to utter a view on the World Court, for example...
...Flora will wave to him until his retinue is out of sight. Beguiled by Avito, she leaves the battlements too soon; the blind father strangles her, the husband returns, and the two wooers die (as opera demands) by kissing the poisoned lips of the corpse. It is all very Absurd, very passionate, and perfectly plausible in its musical setting...
...action is covered by a carefully ambiguous phrase: it has been "deemed expedient". A few newspapers characterize the act as cowardice. That, at least, is absurd: whatever may be said of it as a matter of theory, it is in perfect consistency with our present foreign policy, and until that is amended, we should ask nothing else...