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...
...Alert List itself encompasses an absurd number of fields, he added...
...less. One look at the numbers should be enough to convince careful legislators that the aid rape crisis centers provide is well worth the cost. When compared to the $3-billion spending gap, the elimination of $2.3 million from a vital public service can only be categorized as absurd panic cutting. If Romney meant his promise to stand up for the little guy, he can keep it by saving these centers and suspending the income tax rollbacks instead...
Lewis decries the “excesses” of many teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which he says include “absurd compromises of academic standards, scandalously low graduation rates and athletic participation becoming essentially a full-time...