reduction to absurdity
Duncan laughed at the absurdity of the situation.
The absurdity of the situation made everyone laugh.
an absurdity carried to its ultimate
It was only later that she could see the absurdity of the situation.
Augustine (On Jn. tr. 34, 8f).A convenient, festive messianism, without strength and responsibility is an absurdity, it is even satanism (Mt 16, 23).
Shameless hilarity in restaurants, malls, on the sidewalk -- a private world of absurdity and delight, in love with the ridiculousness of the world and each other.
She said her lawyer had highlighted the absurdity of her judicial harassment.
So each week beheld some fresh absurdity.
Oh, the absurdity of it all.
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors.
In its smutty absurdity the situation was irresistibly comical.
And for many people, the feeling of absurdity is unbearable.
Seeing the absurdity in such squabbles has proven to be crucial.
Instead, Mr Loznitsa allows the absurdity and tragedy of life to speak for themselves.
It is sheer absurdity to think yourself " guilty" for rendering such a service.
On the other, faced with this absurdity, we have millions of poor people in France.”
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