Word: absurdness
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...suggest that this translates into a prejudice against conservatives--as events like a "coming out" dinner and articles like Tessler's do--is absurd. The last two presidents of the Undergraduate Council have been Republicans. As far as I know, conservatives are not shunned socially. No one is committing hate crimes against Salient staffers. In fact, the vast majority of people at Harvard couldn't care less about the political outlook of their classmates...
...been told that some women find a certain degree of delicacy highly attractive in a man. But in Hugh Grant this delicacy is taken to an almost absurd level, and it quickly becomes a defining motif of almost all of his films. Notting Hill, Grant's first feature of the summer, is no exception. As bookstore owner William Thacker, Grant revels in his characters inability to get anything in order, whether it's his business, his love life or his housing situation. Enter Julia Roberts as the hopelessly flaky and confused American superstar Anna Scott, and you have a match...
...just absurd," Ma said. "They're always doing that...
...conversation, Purdy is hardly humorless. In fact, he's downright funny, even absurd. Cherub-faced, with a bowl-shaped haircut unsullied by the professional stylist's scissors, he gives off a dual impression of utter youthfulness and uncanny erudition. He uses the word ontology as naturally as other young men say "dude," but he's quite capable of vivid straight talk. Of his idealistic upbringing he says, "There are families that eat hot dogs and families that don't. We were a family that didn't." And his complaint about a tedious party thrown by his publisher to introduce...
...time, the final clubs were the center of an undergraduate's life at the College. As we read about it now, the elaborate club system that dominated student life in those days may seem absurd: prospective members had to go through dozens of rounds of selection and rejection before reaching the elusive clubhouse of choice...