Word: absurdly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fast in April and again in May to protest prison conditions. Peltier ended his hunger strike, but graphic Soviet newspaper accounts have continued to describe "an emaciated man, starved to exhaustion" and imprisoned on "charges trumped up by U.S. security services." The Reagan Administration points out that whatever absurd parallels Moscow may draw between the two cases, one difference remains: Sakharov has never been convicted of murder...
...extreme closeup, as in Argentine Publisher Jacobo Timerman's chilling book Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, blood is blood and terror is terror. Withdraw to the appropriate distance, however, and the spectacle of a society obstinately destroying itself becomes a depersonalized, absurd comedy. The author, an Argentine now living in Mexico, withdraws all the way to Olympus. There Athena and Aphrodite, no less, concern themselves with protecting the hapless members of an apolitical poetry group that meets each week in Buenos Aires. They have been denounced to the police, and a surveillance has been mounted...
...States some women are compelled to undergo sterilization against their wishes or when they do not comprehend the consequences. Although there is a strong case for restraint in effecting mass sterilization, the claim that all peoples east of Europe want all or most of the children they bear is absurd. And to claim that Western governments are intruding when they try to make contraception available is equally wrongheaded. Greer suggests that we focuses less on how many people are born each minute than on the origins of poverty and how to stop it. The problem with this argument is that...
...seem absurd (logically, not dramatically) for the cast suddenly to burst into a Broadway show tune in the moments before Moritz commits suicide, but, in another corner of the stage, Melchior sits, horrified, eyes riveted on his friend, seemingly oblivious to the joyous, life-affirming music. Here, Melchior seems to be neither actor nor spectator; he appears merely human and helpless...
James Agee spent the rest of his life trying to understand his father's absurd end, spinning his own wheels as he hurtled to an early death. But what Laurence Bergreen's solid, unassuming biography makes clear is how much Agee managed to accomplish during that ride. While he was drinking himself to the edge of alcoholism, while he was compulsively womanizing, while he was further wasting himself by lamenting this waste in allnight soliloquies, Agee was also producing...