Word: absurdities
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...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...
...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 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...
...substantial period of time outside the uterus,” Romney said in the Boston Globe. “To say that it is not life at one month or two months or four months or full term, just because it had never been in an uterus, would be absurd...
...amphibious creatures have acquired enough limbs to drag themselves from the ocean, they find one another on land and decide to mate--and a sexy, smooth jazz riff starts playing in the background. Millions of game years after that, you will find their descendants zipping across interstellar space in absurd 1950s-style UFOs...
...military recruiters on campus. This is, however, sheer coercion due to the dependence of private universities on federal funding. Some schools receive upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars from the government, and asking them to forego this money as a cost for implementing non-discriminatory codes is absurd. It is simply not logistically feasible for Harvard to turn down federal funding and continue its cutting-edge research and education...