In a calm voice I then attempted to counter the absurd with, well, the absurd.
Now 63, Mr Havel has kept his modesty, wit and sense of the absurd.
For me, the story of Manti Te'o pushed from the surreal to the absurd last Saturday.
Pinter is often lumped together with the theater of the absurd, although that's not quite right.
The absurd self-paid bonuses in the face of utter failure simply add mockery to the malice.
The film doesn't romanticize the ordeal: It is dark, but with a healthy dose of the absurd.
Tebow appeared poised and confident unrattled by his opponent or the absurd expectations thrust upon him over two months.
For even more theater of the absurd, consider that the TSA screens pilots.
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But there is no doubt that companies, especially ones without Google's name recognition, are hamstrung by the absurd rules.
Why does Washington persist in "scoring" tax bills based on the absurd notion that there will be no positive feedback?
As the story winds down, Ascher allows the high-wire act of the absurd and the sacred to descend to earth.
"The absurd anti-vivisection agenda of abolishing life-saving medical research involving animals is being systematically shredded before our eyes, " he said.
His spirit must have been in Washington last week where Congress and Goldman Sachs performed in the Theater of the Absurd.
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The attack on Pipes for stating this obvious truth is just another symptom of the absurd political correctness surrounding Islamic radicalism.
The candidates ranged from the impressive to the absurd, but the audience listened to them all and then asked searching questions.
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The absurd rumour that the polio vaccine is a Western plot to sterilise Muslims has stopped many Nigerians from inoculating their children.
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Party oligarchs manipulate the absurd first-past-the-post electoral system, which puts governments into power with more votes cast against them than for them.
Many businesses in Senegal get around the absurd labor laws by means of contracting through companies that act something like temp agencies.
He was also capable of creating the absurd, producing, for example, a dress with conical bosoms more likely to impale than to support.
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But, as a small step in the right direction, pro-capitalists are beginning to answer the absurd leftist claim that greed caused the financial crisis.
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Douglas Fairbanks after Charlie Chaplin the most popular male star in silent cinema had a sense of the absurd that helped him triumph over the claptrap.
Amidst the sight-gags, the slapstick (often literally), the absurd moments and hilarious quips, there is a scene that is transcendently important and deeply affecting.
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Ending the absurd practice of broadcasting into Iran pro-regime propaganda via U.S. taxpayer-funded instruments like the Voice of America and Radio Farda would be another.
Few folks can afford the absurd expense of buying insurance out-of-pocket, and countless would-be entrepreneurs stay at unfulfilling jobs for this reason and this reason alone.
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However, Patrick Harvie, Green MSP for Glasgow, described the TIF scheme as a "reckless gamble" with taxpayers cash based on "the absurd prediction of everlasting retail growth".
The absurd freelance diplomacy is not the only hint of megalomania that makes a third Livingstone term look undesirable (he originally said he would seek only one).
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Hong revels in the absurd yet agonizing confusions that emerge from the deceptive comforts, routine flattery, and latent violence that he endures in the milieu of cinema.
The absurd alternative, which unfortunately was adopted by ENCODE, is to assume that no deleterious mutations can ever occur in the regions they have deemed to be functional.
No, it's not just the absurd complexity of the U.S. Tax Code that has driven more than one-half of individual taxpayers to seek professional help completing their returns.
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