Word: absurdness
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...unabashed celebration of corporate sponsorship, Nielsen ratings, and hollow jingoism. With painted plastic cows marching, hula-hooped acrobats flying, human playing-cards dancing, and even a dragon-shaped harp fire-blowing during opening and closing ceremonies, it is no wonder some have called the Games a comedy of the absurd, more akin to a third-rate circus than a gathering of the nations of the world to achieve a higher purpose. Today, instead of Coubertin’s exchange of ideas and culture, athletes backstab mercilessly in the hopes of creating sufficient controversy and getting enough media exposure to merit...
...bothered by some of the habits that have crept into Ponting's teams. Sport soars, however, when the participants show qualities incidental to the goal of winning - like respect for opponents and fans. The exuberance with which Australian batsmen are celebrating on reaching their centuries has become absurd. Much fuss was made over Michael Slater's reaction to making a hundred at Lord's in 1993. But that display, which included kissing the Australian crest on his helmet, was subdued compared to the fits of self-congratulation in which players, including Ponting, now routinely engage...
...boss for these well-publicized thought crimes and for a cornucopia of unenumerated slights against one too many egos.It is also a realm where that besieged leader, a man thought to be unabashed, suddenly refuses to defend himself. Just as his supporters are itching for a fight where his absurd critics would be made to look, well, absurd, he inexplicably backs down. Everywhere he goes, he utters mealy-mouthed platitudes and apologizes for holding beliefs that elsewhere would not even ripple the waters.Even this incessant groveling is to no avail. The promulgator of platitudes is brought down...
...song bears an uncanny resemblance to Tony Christie’s “The Way to Amarillo.” The two songs are in the same key, the chord progressions are nearly identical, and the melodies echo one another very nearly. These similarities only add to the absurd hilarity of a song that includes lines like “I poked her first on Sunday / Then she messaged me on Monday / So we slept together / It seemed like the right thing to do.” Cambridge University’s own student newspaper, “Varsity...
...Dean Kidd’s statement was out of line,” he said. “That she’d think any Harvard student would be dangerous is absurd...