How to Use absurdist in a Sentence
absurdist
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Some body parts, like eyes, butts, and bellies, were exaggerated into absurdist forms.
— Shirley Nwangwa, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2024 -
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 -
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 | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 1 May 2023 -
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 -
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
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