Word: absurdly
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Petty Game. Dutch opinion, though in less perfervid language, essentially agreed that the princess was letting herself be used by the Carlists for their own purpose, however absurd, of gaining the Spanish throne. To a lot of people outside Holland, this petty political game-and the government's anxious insistence that the Dutch monarchy must stay out of it-did not seem reason enough for Irene's own parents to boycott the wedding. But under the Dutch constitution the government is held responsible for the monarch's actions. Besides, Holland maintains a sometimes precarious balance between...
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Howe called such an interpretation "absurd," adding that the decision has "very, very little significance...
Baby Want a Kiss is a sort of ventriloquiz, a chance to guess whose playwriting voice is being thrown onstage. Dramatist James Costigan can mimic the voices of Edward Albee, lonesco and the Theater of the Absurd, Pirandello and even James Thurber, but except for a few sallies of wit and whimsy, he cannot speak for himself...
...sense, it is absurd to find Communists today fighting each other-and the rest of the world-over a tomb, with a mass of dated polemics used both as sacred writ and a manual of strategy. But unlike monarchists, Reds cannot find legitimacy in a family tree or by divine right. Unlike democrats, they do not draw their mandate from the people they rule. Communist legitimacy, such as it is, derives from the writings of Karl Marx and from the words and deeds of Lenin, the first man to apply Marxism to a living nation...