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.
Rather, Buck, having grown up in China, was better equipped to recognize some of the absurdities of her parent's profession, as is evident in her portrayal of Western missionaries in The Good Earth.
For a terrifying moment, Roquentin has peered into what Sartre calls the 'absurdity of the world.' Such a moment goes to the heart of Sartre's philosophy.
Richard Twining bubbled over with quaint absurdities, and George Road, conscious that he need not exhibit a brilliancy which was almost a by-word, opened his mouth only to put food into it.
He understood not the first thing of arithmetic, he filled his compositions with absurdities, he never succeeded in retaining a phrase in his mind; and now he solves problems, writes correctly, and sings his lessons like a song.
" He is said to have taken the virginity of 23 young girls, all in compliance with holy law, " writes Mr Aswany, whose dry tone accentuates the absurdity.
Witty statements are usually in response to someone's unhelpful remarks or behaviors, and the intent is to untangle and clarify the issue by emphasizing its absurdities.
That, thought Scarlett, was the height of absurdity, for there was little, now, which even the most cloistered women had not seen and known in the last five years.
Instead of the paradise we've built in our minds, we encounter wastelands of cold, harsh, life-as-it-is: of randomness, of meaninglessness, of absurdity.