Word: absurdly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...into the guerilla stage accurate coverage becomes impossible, and correspondents settled down for a long siege of guessing. They were certain that 1,000,000 rifles had not just been passed out among the Chinese peasantry, an impossible fantasy which Chinese newsorgans gravely reported as a fact. Another wildly absurd claim which appeared in the Chinese press was that a 2,500-mile railroad between China and Soviet Russia would be completed within three months...
...Stein and Cummings appear to go too far in the bypath of experimental writing, Saroyan and Schwartz advance exactly far enough. Granted that the fight against the decay of language must be positive and militant, the leaders of semantics should realize that their experimental writing cannot be absurd or incomprehensible to that sector of society against whom their offensive must be strongest: to the mass...
...takes a job without some reservations, some risk, but to think that any job at all will answer the perplexing question of what life work is best for him is absurd; he might better spend the time reading novels. This is not on idle suggestion, and if he were to sandwich in a few biographies he might learn much more about the world of work, enough at least to stimulate him to further investigation...
...conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, now also conducting and acting for films (Big Broadcast of 1937, 100 Men and a Girl); by Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski, daughter of the late Robert W. Johnson, surgical equipment manufacturer. Conductor Stokowski called rumors of a romance with Actress Greta Garbo "untrue and absurd...
Prall, the subtle theorist of esthetic problems, is evidently irritated beyond endurance by Sorokin's treatment. "In fact," Prall cries out, "Professor Sorokin rejects all art; the term means to him only 'subject matter' ". According to Prall, it would be absurd to accept Professor Sorokin's terms, and "as a guide to the fluctuations (of art) through the centuries a blind man is no help...