Word: absurdities
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Harvard students are notoriously clean, well groomed, and virtuous. First-years at the College are known particularly for their chaste habits and healthy lifestyles. Failing to do laundry every week? Unheard of. Irregular bathing schedules? Absurd. Engaging in sexual contact with another resident of your dormitory, especially in Pennypacker? Surely you jest! But alas, while we all slept innocently in our narrow beds, thinking of nothing but course packs and profound questions to ask during section, scabies crept into our lives (for some quite literally—the mite Sarcoptes scabiei tunnels into the skin of humans). Two Saturdays...
...long, razor-sharp fangs and even longer, yellowing nails. They attack humans at the throat and suck their blood until they die, and as a result they are always sporting beards of dried blood on their mouths and chins. They howl at the moon in unison and speak an absurd imaginary language comprised primarily of guttural shrieks and raspy hiccups. And, naturally, they can’t stand the sunlight...
...starved prisoners or holocausts at Abu Ghraib. There are not millions dying in Iraq. Poniewozik is not subject to rationing or saving tin cans, and the females in his family can get all the pantyhose they want. The U.S. has not even instituted a military draft. By making this absurd comparison, he trivializes the sacrifices and accomplishments of those who lived through or died in WW II. We probably are in WW III right now, but we are not yet fighting it that way. When we get to that point, Poniewozik can make his comparison more realistically. Michael Danek, Laingsburg...
...media, an uninformed person (or a foreigner like me) might believe it to be so. While I look around for a pillow in my bare Harvard dorm, let me try to add a pinch of fact to the current debate about the institutions of higher learning and their allegedly absurd amenities...
...technology experts who might have buttressed her assertion that she was innocent of the RIAA’s accusations. Of course the association’s lawyers have every right to prosecute on copyright law, but their insistence on heavy-handed punishment of Ms. Thomas verges on the absurd; it seems entirely disproportionate to the purported crime. But even as the darkness of court cases looms in the minds of college students across the country, day may be breaking overseas, as the British band called Radiohead offers an innovative solution to the musical conundrum: listeners can buy a digital copy...