Word: absurdity
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...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...
...said that the departures of Joseph Weiler and Anne-Marie Slaughter had created certain gaps in our curriculum, which we would make it a priority to fill. I did not say or suggest, because it would be absurd to say or suggest, that the international program was “languishing” (to use The Crimson’s word). Harvard’s international and comparative law faculty is the strongest in the nation; the range of courses and activities we offer relating to these fields has no equal in legal education; and Bill Alford, our Associate Dean...
DIVINE INTERVENTION. Palestinian director-writer Elia Suleiman addresses the strife between his homeland and Israel in this deliberately composed, frequently absurd comedy. Suleiman also plays the film’s quiet protagonist, unimaginatively named E.S. This is not to say that Suleiman does not let his imagination run wild elsewhere in the work; one much-dicussed dream sequence depicts a woman who suddenly rebels against the soldiers using her for target practice, taking the offensive in a blaze of martial arts fury. The film won two awards at last year’s Cannes...