Word: absurdities
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...their discomfort with phrases like, “Wow, that’s random!” or, “Oh, you—you’re so quirky.” Or, if they’re drunk, maybe they’ll play along. Those absurd and whimsical games which, growing up, were products of impulse alone, now seem like calculated ways of getting attention. How does this happen without our noticing? Perhaps the imagination, like baby teeth, just falls out in pieces and is replaced with something more permanent. Maybe the mélange...
...Valet parking for bikes may seem like just another absurd Californian self-indulgence, but Bikestation advocates say the creature comforts help them promote cycling as an attractive alternative to driving. "In order to elevate the status of biking, we have to accomplish a cultural shift," says Andrea White, executive director of Bikestation, the non-profit group that helps cities set up the sites. "Facilities that are aesthetically pleasing with conveniences make people feel that they're part of something cool...
That Harvard undergraduates would voluntarily forsake food for a week justly appears, to the unaccustomed observer, extreme. That they would do so when they should be completing term papers and studying for finals seems positively absurd...
...Middle East, bombing Iraq--offered Giuliani a historic slam dunk. "That's an extraordinary statement," he jumped in when Paul finished, "... that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don't think I've ever heard that before, and I've heard some pretty absurd explanations for Sept. 11." There was explosive applause from the audience...
...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...