Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...both matches ballooned to basketball proportions. By the final whistle, Wilfred had racked up a 55-1 win, while Curtorim had triumphed 61-1. "It's unbelievable, it's disgraceful," fumed Savio Messias, secretary of the Goa Football Association. "This is a case of intense village rivalry taken to absurd levels." All four teams have been suspended from playing for a year, and India's National Football Association is mulling a life ban for everybody involved. Curtorim's general secretary Arnold D'Costa quit. But his Wilfred counterpart Diniz Sardinha stayed put, insisting that his side was being unfairly targeted...
...feeling that Buttigieg is yearning for reasons—any reason at all—to make us believe that Democrats are good and Republicans are bad. In a very absurd argument, Buttigieg says that since sex is self-evidently good, the fuss over Democrats such as Clinton is overblown. Republicans are bad because they participate in violence. And violence is bad. Why (according to Buttigieg)? Because “we can all agree.” Of course, this answer depends on a false assumption of a broad consensus...
Initial Reaction: This guy has an absurd amount of music on his computer. It looks like he just ripped all of his albums, which I guess is good for the people he’s sharing with. He’s even got some stuff ripped twice...
...Kawakubo arrived in Paris in 1981 to show her Comme des Garcons ready-to-wear collection to the Western press for the first time, critics branded her mannish coats, inky palette and distressed fabrics "post-atomic" and "Hiroshima chic." They dismissed her unfinished seams and asymmetrical cuts as absurd...
...blood pouring out of him. Even the transparent, plastic splints around both legs had assumed a red tint. I felt weak. My stomach began to twist and sweat poured all over me. I sat down on the floor because I thought I was going to be sick ... It seemed absurd--a man dying alone in his own country. I wanted to cry but I thought that I couldn't let myself and so tears just welled up in my eyelids. Now I wonder why I didn't and I'm sorry...