How to Use absurdist in a Sentence

absurdist

adjective

• In the early weeks of the war, Ukrainians found salve in dark absurdist humor.
  — Nicola Fegg, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• With its weighty themes and absurdist humor, the cartoon appealed to adults and kids alike.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• The book also shares with Park’s films a pitch-dark, absurdist humor.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• The trademark Peaks-ian absurdist humor, the feeling of being trapped in the misty wilds with a gaggle of weirdos, is back.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 10 July 2017
• At least as regards the absurdist side of Monk’s life, the side that is wrestling with perceptions of race and identity and all of that.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The absurdist pieces have been a hit among the fashion crowd for a couple of seasons now and seem to be catching on with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, too.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 7 June 2018
• So instead, here is a spotlight on five zines that range from literary pieces to absurdist takes on a colonoscopy.
  — Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 17 June 2017
• The saga that ensued involved absurdist twists and turns that can be described only as Kafkaesque.
  — Martine Powers, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
• Male street-style subjects—those brave souls fighting for our freedom on the absurdist front lines of menswear—are starting to embrace the trend.
  — Max Berlinger, GQ, 21 June 2017
• Which brings us to the absurdist creation called the performance crossover.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Tim Robinson returns for a third season of some of the best absurdist comedy in decades.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 1 May 2023
• Given that an absurdist threat runs through the comedy of your partners and Tim Platt, will your label offer a lot of that?
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
• The absurdist parable set is in a dystopian alternate timeline and world that look and feel very much like ours, but slightly off.
  — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 12 July 2018
• The sleeping brain runs its absurdist-movie loop all night long, always taking care to conceal what’s behind it.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 May 2017
• The entire script is packed with line-after-line of absurdist comedy.
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
• And watching Rowan Atkinson be pursued through a cathedral by a giraffe is absurdist in the extreme.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 7 Jan. 2024
• This is absurdist theater partly because Godot never shows up and thus the men cannot fulfill their purpose in life.
  — Norman B. Gildin, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• The roboticist didn't expect that the AI would start producing strange and ominous messages, many of them tinged with absurdist humor.
  — Peter Holley, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• The result is an absurdist tear-jerker that is the seventh highest grossing film of all time in Taiwan theaters.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• At the time, he was obsessed with absurdist writers and figured that in children’s literature, that style of writing was par for the course.
  — Angela Haupt, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
• But the magic that was once there, that sense of gleeful, liberating, absurdist challenge? That still hasn’t come back.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• Most of the sketches are short, even by contemporary standards — 2-3 minutes long — and are absurdist in a way that feels rather dated.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
• There are dozens of engraved plates and an absurdist painting of the Last Supper with animal heads instead of human ones.
  — Jess Eng, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The absurdist sketch comedy series was out of step with prime time network TV but the anarchic humor stands the test of time … mostly.
  — Sean Axmaker, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• On the contrary, Elaine’s argument is, though staunchly pro-choice, still goofy and slightly absurdist.
  — Farah Joan Fard, Marie Claire, 2 July 2019
• Seemingly on a quest to make a film in each genre, though always through the lens of black comedy, The Lobster was his stab at dystopian, absurdist… romance?
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2024
• Tonally, too, Barry‘s fourth season has veered further and further away from the absurdist showbiz satire of its early episodes.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023
• Hadid was first seen flaunting a copy of the absurdist French novel, with its famous black and white graphic cover, en route to the Fendi show in Milan last month.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2019
• Known for his absurdist, one-liner style delivery, Hedberg was beloved by fans and fellow comics alike.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024
• Each space told its own absurdist story of Soviet life.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 7 June 2023

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024