Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believes further that in this day and generation it is absurd to try to maintain the tradition of royal intermarriages, with all the physical as well as political disabilities likely to result from that outgrown custom. "His brother, the Duke of York, has been extremely happy and fortunate in his marriage to a lady of the people, a commoner, socalled...
...likes broad splashes of bright colors and brings out his ideas from impressions created by these. An other differing type also are the bitter satires of "The Senate" by William Gropper and of "Landscape Near Chicago" by Aaron Bohrod. Both of these works bring out the grotesque and the absurd in American life...
...believes that the rule "has been accepted because it seems less absurd than any other rule that has been suggested...
...more serious, more persistent, more active, by reason of a profound ignorance and a disclaiming of the truth by reason of the truly satanic hatred against God and against humanity. . . . Such trials have been . . . unfailingly accompanied by universal propaganda intent on subjecting the whole world to those absurd and disastrous ideologies with which they have seduced . . . the masses, aiming at nothing less than . . . throwing them madly against every form of constitution, human and divine...
When a writer's imagination is as great as moral indignation, he is likely to produce a fantasy. In an environment of pure invention, heroes are twice as heroic. villains twice as villainous and life's follies doubly absurd. Toward the petard of such celebrated masters of adult make-believe as Jonathan Swift and Samuel Butler. Thomas Stanley Matthews has hoisted himself with a nightmare called The Moon's No Fool...