Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...principle, Chambers is exactly right—frivolous lawsuits ought to be kept under check (who is allowed to decide what counts as frivolous is another matter entirely). But his puzzling employment of another, more frivolous lawsuit seems, in two clear ways, beyond absurd and arguably irresponsible...
...under the baton of Gil Rose, played with confounding restraint, not giving the fortissimo passages of the score their due fortitude. In the final minute of the overture, when the strings should be a band of sprinting hunters, they were instead a flock of pigeons flying languidly overhead. The absurd onstage pantomime that accompanied the music did not help matters, either.The singers, like the pit, also suffered from want of robustness and intensity. In a season-opener—and with an opera that has not been performed in the Boston area for 25 years—the performers should...
...some of the capital gains to buy a car or pay for a vacation. Of course, this violated the first law of economics - that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The assumption that house prices could continue to go up at a rapid pace looked particularly absurd in an economy in which most Americans were seeing their real incomes declining...
...smoker’s own good. Even if smoking has a detrimental effect on one’s life, it can hardly be as harmful as a jail sentence, and the notion that we are helping smokers by arresting them and sending them to prison is patently absurd. The passage of Ballot Question 2 will do much to make state laws more reasonable, but it does not go nearly far enough. While preserving some criminal penalties for possession and maintaining laws against growing and selling the drug may help the ballot measure pass, these laws are fundamentally foolish. Marijuana, which...
...student tromps back to his or her bed, desk and chair, the last thing many of us want is the sound of a near-total stranger taking up space. No matter the room number, from the River to the Quad, everyone seems to share a wall with the most absurd of characters. They scream at inhumanly high pitches, they cackle and guffaw, they blast ’90s pop into the wee hours (especially during Reading Period). Some of us respond in kind—by yelling for quiet, throwing sneakers at the wall, or just learning to grit...