Word: absurdities
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...photo of the Pope, there will not be a call for impeachment of the papacy and the overturning of hundreds of years of Catholic teachings. Singling out one person, even if he is the leader of a major religion, as the cause for our world's problems is absurd. To think that removing the Pope from the Vatican will change matters is equally ridiculous...
...Reagan stumbled through his first debate with Walter Mondale, losing the train of his argument, mangling phrases and making absurd claims (example: he did not attend religious services because "I pose a ((security)) threat to several hundred people if I go to church"). This performance prompted fears that at 73 Reagan was too old and doddering for the office. Given the record of his second term (his fogginess on the details of < Iran-contra, Nancy Reagan's astrologer), these turned out to be legitimate concerns. But they vanished in the second debate as soon as Reagan delivered his practiced crack...
Wilde's play is a farce of the most entertaining kind which parodies the coyness, the absurd misunderstandings and the stock situations of less accomplished playwrights. It focuses, among other things, on the importance of names and naming, doing its best to refute Shakespeare's dictum that a rose by any other name smells as sweet. As a result, Wilde presents Prism, the angular and edgy governess, Merriman, the gloomy butler and Chasuble the priest...
...21st century is for women to take over the management of the world. I believe that male hegemony has squandered an opportunity of 10,000 years. We men have belittled and ridiculed feminine intuition, and on the other hand, we have historically sanctified our ideologies, almost all of them absurd or abominable. The masculine power structure has proved that it cannot impede the destruction of the environment, because it is incapable of overcoming its own interests. For women, on the other hand, preservation of the environment is a genetic vocation. The reversal of powers is a matter of life...
DARMAN: The numbers are absolutely absurd. I know no one anywhere who says you can get savings like that without draconian rationing...