But, contrasting the hilarity and absurdity of Festivus, there is some logic to be gleaned from Takanakuy.
Hence the absurdity of money being funnelled into quasi-partisan groups like the Swift Boat Veterans.
The third is the absurdity of trying to solve the problem in only three hours.
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Walton's sentencing rationale will be read by future law students as a study in absurdity.
The solution to this sort of absurdity could not be more obvious: no anti-blasphemy laws.
In fact, there is no need to imagine our ancestors reacting with such absurdity.
But behind all the insanity and absurdity, there's been a method to Mel's madness.
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Of course the above reality speaks to the absurdity of leaving the euro at all.
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The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face.
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Even I, inexperienced and baffled and horrified as I was, could sense the absurdity of this.
You never laugh at the sickness and the people but you laugh at the absurdity of life.
As a general rule, the absurdity surrounding Black Friday grows every year, but the benefits have not.
The girl's father described the situation as "the pinnacle of absurdity" when speaking to website Torrentfreak.
All together, Qualcomm provided us a circus of absurdity the likes of which cannot be created in fiction.
Taken alone, a single Vine video usually plays as a six second snapshot of absurdity looping in repetition.
Given the absurdity of their claims, the idealists were never able to garner mass support for their positions.
Earlier, the head of a Senate committee panel had accused Apple of "exploiting an absurdity" in its tax payments.
The head of a Senate committee panel had earlier accused Apple of exploiting an absurdity in its tax payments.
We can conjure up odd cases of palpable absurdity and internal contradiction to which this approach may not apply.
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"Apple is exploiting an absurdity, " Levin said at the start of the hearing.
His protagonist's self-pity becomes hopelessly intertwined with funny absurdity, but then the wrenching consequences of his words become clear.
Mr. Johnson is a wonderfully flexible writer who can pivot in a matter of lines from absurdity to atrocity.
Has this absurdity made its way that comfortably to the main stream?
On the other hand, he's not oblivious to the absurdity of the situation.
So kudos to Quinn for the clever illustration of the absurdity of DRM.
The absurdity of that kind of reasoning should be apparent enough: or should we begin screening Norwegian tourists visiting America?
The absurdity of how fast we can trade is eclipsed only by how low we can hold down interest rates.
The absurdity of their situation is only clear when you know what the family have been told about the economics.
When I join the adults in the rat race, will I still be able to resist this feeling of absurdity?
Mr. MELOY: What I wanted to illustrate was kind of the absurdity of the whole procession and the whole affair.
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