(1) Consumerism reaches ever-higher levels of absurdity , yet most of us are blind to it.(2) His deft touch and ability to extract humour and absurdity from the ordinary extends beyond directing movies.(3) They hobble out of their limousines, bowing in all their pristine, extravagant absurdity .(4) At times the explanatory zeal of the commentators impels them into excess and absurdity .(5) It also tells us about his wonderful talent for reducing all the most serious moments of life to a kind of cheerful absurdity .(6) So the occasional Leftist claim that my work was sympathetic to Nazism is the height of absurdity .(7) The sheer absurdity of the situation he recounts would be very amusing were it not so utterly pathetic.(8) For Camus, the recognition of absurdity cannot be shrugged off with an ironic smile.(9) Tautology and absurdity are never far apart in Harry's spiels, but this one takes some beating.(10) They have made us think about ourselves by making us laugh at our own absurdity .(11) As the family gather round to see her off in 1988, Lily reflects on both her past and the sheer absurdity of life.(12) The result is an airless Oedipal drama, with a persistent and inescapable note of absurdity .(13) And this sense of our own absurdity is vital; it is what pulls me out of self-absorption.(14) Whether he is fit for the job is, of course, irrelevant to the continuing absurdity of the job itself.(15) Being married is so normal until I think about it, and then it is a maze of surreal absurdity .(16) Duncan laughed at the absurdity of the situation
