1 It was absurd to be frightened.
2 Her gestures became absurdly artificial.
3 It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
4 It's absurd to talk of the ignorance of youth.
5 One often imagines things that are quite absurd.
6 Sibyl Vane seemed to him to be absurdly melodramatic.
7 Of course, the scenery was dreadful and the Orlando absurd.
8 About half-past eight I passed by an absurd little theatre, with great flaring gas-jets and gaudy play-bills.
9 But, really, it seems rather absurd that I shouldn't see my own work, especially as I am going to exhibit it in Paris in the autumn.
10 I have to call for my husband at the club, to take him to some absurd meeting at Willis's Rooms, where he is going to be in the chair.
11 When we meet--we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's--we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
12 I fancy that the true explanation is this: It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.