Example sentences for: absurdity

How can you use “absurdity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Multistate suits add another layer of absurdity: the states reinventing the wheel of federalism by attempting to act in unison.

  • Even people who follow the literature on Hitler may be taken aback at the mass of absurdity patiently evaluated here.

  • If the definition of media unfairness is the press behaving as prosecutor, judge, and jury, then the definition of media absurdity is the way the press is now acting as prosecutor, judge, and defendant.

  • Although Catch-22 received mixed reviews when first published, it eventually sold more than 10 million copies in the United States and "enriched the American lexicon with its title slogan and its new definition of absurdity" (Elaine Woo, the Los Angeles Times ). Heller's seventh novel, Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man , was completed just before his death and will be published next year.

  • I remember seeing a piece by Michael Kinsley some years back on the absurdity of punditry.


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