The references in the book also speak against this absurd claim.

It was an absurd claim but you could understand the absurdity.

An absurd claim, given the number of people who will be able to use it at will.

Such absurd claims are all too common.

They are not being helped by absurd claims and distortions of the truth in the campaign.

Steadily, almost imperceptibly, an absurd idea has crept upon us.

Regulating dating will strike most people as an absurd idea.

Now the bishops themselves seem to have realised what an absurd idea it was.

This absurd idea wasn't presented all at once; instead there was a resemblance of logical chain of reasonings, facts and quotations from various sources.

It never ceases to amaze why the most absurd ideas should inspire the most convincing horror.

This would have been an absurd notion even a couple of months ago.

These men were guided by absurd notions such as judgment.

We can't change them, but we must try to prevent their absurd notions - lies - from entering the mainstream.

But that instantly gives you a potentially absurd situation in which after the dressage, everybody but the top half-dozen horses withdraw, because they do, indeed, have no chance of winning.

We could also have the absurd situation where a team could get promotion without winning a match - drawing all 46 games, converting their spot-kicks and thus accumulating 92 points.

It was the most absurd situation, sitting around the table.

It's a completely absurd situation to defend.

He described the new bylaw as an absurd law to counter an absurd situation.

Oh, and he had better be prepared for the hostile reaction he'd get to such an absurd statement.

What an utterly absurd statement.

This absurd statement has to be challenged.

It described the proposal as completely absurd and irresponsible.

It seems completely absurd and terrifying.

Either it picks a player who readers would find completely absurd, or it selects the same player as everyone else, making it useful as corroborating evidence but otherwise unexciting.

Is this not completely absurd?

It's a completely absurd situation to defend.

Speak of turnip lanterns, down here, and people think of parsnip lanterns, or radish lanterns, or items equally absurd.

All the alternative explanations you hear are equally absurd to me.

They would just think up some other materialist explanation, equally absurd.

This would have seemed equally absurd.

A monarchy or a republic, based upon democracy, are equally absurd and feeble.

Some of the charges against them are patently absurd.

Humanities academics are forced to justify their work in ways that are patently absurd.

Some are patently absurd or inappropriate.

Having achieved a minor miracle by being ready to stage the fixture in a totally rebuilt racecourse, the idea that the show would pass off flawlessly was patently absurd.

In several years, an entry was submitted that was so patently absurd that it required a new definition of some of the rules for the next year.

We can't deny the efficacy of his method, and so we are all rather enjoying his slightly absurd performance.

It's a slightly absurd story.

True, he had a slightly absurd snow blower (and separate leaf blower) to get the job done without breaking sweat.

His scripts always feature careful logical development from a slightly absurd premise to a farcical conclusion.

A hint of pantomime will, however, render proceedings totally absurd: and so much more so if you are a toppled dictator.

It would be totally absurd to let the euro get weaker.

I like to say the occasional thing that's totally absurd.

It's a totally absurd cliff edge.

There's a virtuosity to her malapropistic misunderstanding of everything that's totally absurd and becomes hypnotic in its incessancy.

Facing a salvaged version of the 2004 constitution, he asserted that a referendum on it would be 'completely and utterly absurd'.

It would be defamatory if it was not so utterly absurd.

The practice of gouging in pursuit of something as trivial as an advantage in a ball game seems utterly absurd when thought about calmly.

What an utterly absurd statement.

It struck me, looking back, as utterly absurd.