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 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.
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.
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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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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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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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".
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.
In what looks like the theatre of the absurd, prosecutors have for weeks been senselessly reading out pages from their multi-volume case, often confusing pages and repeating passages twice.
Also lost in this desperate attempt to tamp down the tantrums is the absurd premise that legal culpability for a bad act can be shifted to a third party.
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One of the major themes of Earth Week this year was lighting, as green lighting innovations ranging from the useful to the absurd made it onto Inhabitat's radar screen.
The Brooklyn Democrat initially tried to dismiss complaints about his costume as "political correctness to the absurd, " but reversed himself by Monday afternoon in the face of mounting criticism.
This taste for the absurd carried into his recent live show with the set for the "Glitter and Doom" tour decked in a bizarre array of old speaker cones.
She found herself in the absurd position of reining in the raunch for cast members Laurie Elizabeth Gardner, Matthew Brian Bagley, Tina Jensen, Alex Gonzalez and their numerous, roving roles.
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.
Consider William Faulkner's tale "A Rose for Emily, " which hinges on the absurd, macabre discovery that an elderly woman, who in the distant past murdered her lover, has continued to sleep beside his decomposed corpse.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
After these teaching students in Massachusetts scored so poorly on their certification test, one would-be teacher made the absurd comment that there must obviously be something wrong with the test -- not with those taking it.
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