He was conscious of a growing sense of absurdity.

This was a training ship and the training would continue, but there was an element of frightful absurdity here which Alexander recognized.

The impresario also taught his comedians to vary the pace of their comedy, that a hectic speed was not necessary, and used elements of absurdity that would become familiar in Chaplin gags.

Not only is the disguise so thin as to be ridiculous, but also in the TV series, Adventures of Superman, this absurdity was carried to an extreme.

The inclusion of 30 crossbenchers was " a grand absurdity " because they would have been chosen " upon the very basis that they have no strong views of principle on the way in which the country ought to be governed ".

In a defence debate in March 1970, he claimed that " the whole theory of the tactical nuclear weapon, or the tactical use of nuclear weapons, is an unmitigated absurdity " and that it was " remotely improbable " that any group of nations engaged in war would " decide upon general and mutual suicide ", and advocated enlargement of Britain's continental army.

The final chapter compares the absurdity of man's life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again.

He wrote to Freeman to the effect that to confine archaeology to classics was an absurdity.

The most decisive proof of the absurdity of the indiscriminate use of any strong manure was obtained at Bingen, a town on the Rhine, where the produce and development of vines were highly increased by manuring them with animal matters such as shavings of horn.

Nielsen was the movie's linchpin, his deadpan delivery contrasting with the continual absurdity surrounding him.

Whereas, if some form of argumentation were given, it would result in absurdity, because inference was being used disprove its own efficacy as evidence.

Ionesco replied, " I have the feeling that these writers – who are serious and important -- were talking about absurdity and death, but that they never really lived these themes, that they did not feel them within themselves in an almost irrational, visceral way, that all this was not deeply inscribed in their language.

In comparison to Sartre's concepts of the function of literature, Samuel Beckett's primary focus was on the failure of man to overcome " absurdity "; as James Knowlson says in Damned to Fame, Beckett's work focuses " on poverty, failure, exile and loss — as he put it, on man as a ' non-knower ' and as a ' non-can-er '.

The absurdity of this approach was made manifest in the two Railway Express cases.

It was said by one famous attorney in the U. S., William Livingston, in 1745 in a New York newspaper that the clerkship program was severely flawed, and that most mentors " have no manner of concern for their clerk's future welfare ... is a monstrous absurdity to suppose, that the law is to be learnt by a perpetual copying of precedents.

The first author to note this apparent absurdity was G. E.

These charges, of which the absurdity was soon shown by cross-examination, nevertheless placed the queen for some time in great danger.

At his initial stages in " Los Rayos Gamma ", Logroño created a character that seemed to lighten up the absurdity and gravity of another character, played by Morales, that was in turn based on a real-life incident.

Rather, Lam's intention was to depict a spiritual state — that which is surely inspired by Santería ; he sheds light on the absurdity that has become Afro-Cuban culture and more specifically on the way their traditions were cheapened for tourism.

One of the ways in which he made use of mathematics as a philosopher was to attempt to disprove the eternity of the world by demonstrating that actual infinity is a mathematical and logical absurdity .< ref >

In an op-ed in the Western Standard, McMurty was listed as one of Canada's " nuttiest professors " ... " whose absurdity stands head and shoulders above their colleagues.

" The distinctive feature of the fashion, it seemed to us, was that it rendered its devotees insensible of absurdity and incapable of ordinary discrimination.

He sought realism in acting, shunned self-conscious interaction with the audience, and insisted on a standard of characterisation where the characters were never aware of their own absurdity.

He deprecated self-conscious interaction with the audience and insisted on a style of portrayal in which the characters were never aware of their own absurdity but were coherent internal wholes.

After another long competition, the film ends with the pair laughing at the absurdity of the rivalry and realising that as friends they will never be able to determine who is the best.

More recently, critic Glenn Erickson discussed the editorial message of the film's producers: " The makers of The Atomic Cafe clearly have a message to get across, and to achieve that goal they use the inherent absurdity of their source material in creative ways.

Although common usage now considers " absurdity " to be synonymous with " ridiculousness ", Hobbes discussed the two concepts as different, in that absurdity is viewed as having to do with invalid reasoning, while ridiculousness has to do with laughter, superiority, and deformity.

it would be superfluous, aside from a certain absurdity in an author's speaking of his own play, for me to come here and preface with a few words this presentation of Ubu Roi, after such famous critics have cared to discuss it — among whom I must thank, and with these few all the others, M. M.

The absurdity of the questions Melendez asked were often amplified by the fact that he himself appeared to lack common pop culture knowledge and often did not even seem to know who the subjects of his interview were or what they were famous for.

This discussion, together with that of speed and the different behavior of the four different species of motion, eventually helps Aristotle answer the famous paradoxes of Zeno, which purport to show the absurdity of motion's existence.

The book follows the popular model of the erotic elegy, as made famous by figures such as Tibullus or Propertius, but is often subversive and humorous with these tropes, exaggerating common motifs and devices to the point of absurdity.

It was said by one famous attorney in the U. S., William Livingston, in 1745 in a New York newspaper that the clerkship program was severely flawed, and that most mentors “ have no manner of concern for their clerk ’ s future welfare … is a monstrous absurdity to suppose, that the law is to be learnt by a perpetual copying of precedents .” There were some few mentors that were dedicated to the service, and because of their rarity, they became so sought after that the first law schools evolved from the offices of some of these attorneys who took on many clerks and began to spend more time training than practicing law.

Such an audience would be more predisposed to accepting the farcical nature of the scene, and more likely to find humorous the absurdity of Valentine's gift.

In Enter the Matrix, Trinity appears in a scene where she faces off against Ghost in a practice spar, the two subsequently discussing their shared belief that Neo can defeat the Machines despite the absurdity of the concept.

Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful " topsy-turvy " worlds for these operas where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion — fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong.

The most successful television situation comedy also to be a black comedy is M * A * S * H, which, like the film version of M * A * S * H that had inspired it, treated the Korean War as a subject of black comedy ; it deliberately kept recorded laughter out of the operating room sequences, and many of the episodes described the absurdity of many combat situations, even in sequences where the characters were weathering hostile fire.

The fictional speech mixes political satire (" the White House, a place where American Presidents have become outlaws and murderers themselves ") with absurdity (" to all the men and women in our military ..

In his book, Counterfeit Revival, Hank Hanegraaff makes the case that the revival has done more damage than good, saying that Toronto ( the film ) was a matter of people being slaved into altered states of consciousness where they obscure reality and enshrine absurdity.

Quoting Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent ," I most definitely do not want the Internet to become like television where there's actual censorship ... however it is very difficult to actually create network neutrality laws which don't result in an absurdity like making it so that ISPs can't drop spam or stop ...

not only in small houses where economy might in some degree apologize for the absurdity,

Francis Bacon, an early promoter of empiricism and the scientific method, argued that absurdity should not always be laughed at, since it is a necessary component of scientific progress, where bold new ways of thinking and bold hypotheses often led to absurdity, " For if absurdity be the subject of laughter, doubt you but great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

Wittgenstein observes that in some unusual circumstances absurdity itself disappears in such statements, as there are cases where " It is raining but I don't believe it " can make sense, i. e., what appears to be an absurdity is not nonsense.

It is applied most frequently in a narrow sense where there is some ambiguity or absurdity in the words themselves.

The phrase was introduced in Ryle's book The Concept of Mind ( 1949 ) to highlight the perceived absurdity of dualist systems like Descartes ' where mental activity carries on in parallel to physical action, but where their means of interaction are unknown or, at best, speculative.

She reportedly liked the absurdity of a character named " Northwest " in space, where compass points are meaningless.