But, contrasting the hilarity and absurdity of Festivus, there is some logic to be gleaned from Takanakuy.
During the proceedings, the absurdity of the regulations showed them clearly to be unconstitutional.
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This whole enterprise is an absurdity that other governments should and will find offensive.
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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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The official results attained Soviet-style absurdity: turnout in the near-deserted and bombed-out capital, Grozny, was 98%.
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 good news is that the absurdity of this idea has begun to penetrate even official Washington.
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.
It's a stretch, but not an absurdity, to think they might be shamed or forced into ceding the power.
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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Put aside the absurdity that savings from Medicare the country's largest unfunded liability can be used to finance a new entitlement.
"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.
Afterwards, many commentators pointed out the absurdity of penalizing honest money to strengthen the facade of manipulated money.
Has this absurdity made its way that comfortably to the main stream?
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