Precautionary Absurdity

Charlie Todd The shared experience of absurdity

But then it encountered a new absurdity.

But one has to appreciate the historical absurdity.

Now think of the absurdity of this situation.

This isn't playing. This is undoing an absurdity.

Is the world really willing to accept such an absurdity?

Much of his work focuses on war and its absurdity.

Decisions of the Committee exemplify the absurdity of sanctions as a whole.

Let this Council see through that diversion and the very absurdity it represents.

Debt collection from poor nations is an absurdity, now and into the distant future.

In short, it is an absurdity the price of which even the wealthiest cannot afford.

Some reactions were sarcastic, some were eye opening, and some explaining the absurdity of this call.

Palestinian American journalist Sara Yasin pointed to the absurdity of certain media claims with this tweet

Hold that thought, for absurdity is an understatement in regard to how our financial system really operates.

Well, I'm attempting to indicate, sir, the utter absurdity... of the line of questioning used by the prosecutor.

Erin Kang pointed out the absurdity of the government action at the eve of the World Conservation Congress in Jeju

This is a crazy metaphor, which could serve as a snapshot of the absurdity of this place at the moment.

The clearest evidence against such absurdity can be found in the international news media of the time, as well as in the relevant reports of the Secretary General.

Orwell s witnessing of the horrors of imperial rule, the murderous absurdity that it entails, the level of human raw feelings of injustice that invariably transform into hatred, still holds to this day.

But let s be reasonable the absurdity of Italy s presence in the G 8, together with the lack of official membership for countries such as China, India, and Brazil, is no longer acceptable or tenable.

But let s be reasonable the absurdity of Italy s presence in the G 8, together with the lack of official membership for countries such as China, India, and Brazil, is no longer acceptable or tenable.

But nowadays even dice sized apartments can be packaged for the luxury market, as people have become desensitized to the absurdity and have resigned themselves to even more cramped living spaces at unaffordable prices.

Romania is often called the Land of Dada, not because one of its sons, Tristan Tzara, was a founder of Surrealism, but because of the absurdity and paradoxes of its daily life, particularly in its politics.

Any linkage or subordination of humanitarian personnel to any given military force in the field was an absurdity which not only violated the established principles of humanitarian assistance but also jeopardized the safety of the providers of such assistance.

To judge by Tsipras s belligerence, he firmly believes that Europe needs Greece as desperately as Greece needs Europe. This is the true absurdity in the present negotiations, and Tsipras misapprehension of his bargaining power now risks catastrophe for his country, humiliation for his Syriza party, or both.

Let us hope that these tragic losses will again expose the absurdity of the civil conflict and war, and will serve to further promote national and international efforts to halt the violence and bring peace and national reconciliation to the people of Burundi and Rwanda, who are suffering so much.

Algeria's proposal, to partition the disputed territory was a political absurdity because it irrevocably separated individuals, families and tribes and divided a Territory that was an integral whole the aim was not to confer rights on the people involved but rather to satisfy those who wanted an independent republic separate from Morocco.

One of the reasons for such obligations is the anachronism and economic absurdity of assigning the Republic of Belarus to group (b) for the apportionment of the costs of peace keeping operations, i.e., to the group that includes, apart from Belarus and Ukraine, only the most economically developed Members of the United Nations.

And I realized that, you know, Italy is a place where they can accept these different ideologies and deal with diversity and not have the problem, or they can choose to ignore them, but these you don't have warring factions, and I think that maybe the tolerance of the absurdity which has made Italy so innovative and so tolerant.

And I realized that, you know, Italy is a place where they can accept these different ideologies and deal with diversity and not have the problem, or they can choose to ignore them, but these you don't have warring factions, and I think that maybe the tolerance of the absurdity which has made Italy so innovative and so tolerant.

Of course, people who really want to be unkind will point out the absurdity of Russia s membership in a club that includes the giant economies of US, Germany, Japan, England, France, Italy, and (less so) Canada. Why wasn t Chinese president Hu Jintao, whose country s economy is the world s second largest (when measured at world prices), given a seat at the table instead of Putin?