They were unaware of their utter freakishness, unaware that the world found them absurd, as they toiled in the tunnels below the Famous Directors and the Masters of Horror, like clueless C.
On the face of things, such a stringent world view would sound absurd in the chaotic diversity of modern Britain.
The idea that any of these things is somehow a threat to the world financial order is absurd on its face.
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To any rational outsider, such politicking must seem an absurd way to pick the head of the world's leading international financial institution.
Respect MP George Galloway has criticised the "tidal wave of guff" over Lady Thatcher's death, saying comparisons to Sir Winston Churchill, who led the country during World War II, were "absurd".
Foster seems to be suggesting that it's the absurd degree to which the media and the world no longer value privacy that has forced her to hold on to her own so tightly.
In 2000, when I said I was going to change the world and make leadership storytelling a central part of every leadership program, every leadership course in every university in the world, people said that this was absurd.
The determination and passion of this group helped change the world: leadership storytelling went from being an absurd idea to being obvious.
Absurd as this might seem, the new one-world mega-bureaucracy that would be required to facilitate, monitor and regulate such a regime could prove an enormous impediment to American national security as well as a grievous infringement on U.S. sovereignty.
Vonn, who recently announced she will divorce her husband and longtime coach, Thomas Vonn, skied as though she had not a care in the world, winning her downhill races by an absurd 1.95 seconds Friday and 1.68 seconds Saturday the equivalent of about 40-50 meters.
Partisan paranoia: Finally, a new poll found that absurd conspiracy theories are sadly alive and well in the USA. These range from the self-evidently absurd (an alien race of lizard people secretly run the world) to old chestnuts like the moon landing was faked.
For those experiencing some Web whiplash, it might be tempting to compare the Harlem Shake to the last dance craze to go viral around the world: "Gangnam Style, " which stemmed from an absurd and addictive music video starring the South Korean singer Psy.
The Maya are well-known for their complex calendar system, which some say predicts the end of the world in December 2012 (an interpretation that experts on the civilization call absurd).
Based on such an absurd prediction, they want us to trust them to reshape our society and govern the world economy.
That the world's largest carbon emitters, China and America, are not bound by the protocol makes it absurd.
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