Now the absurdities of a dogma are just the mark and sign of what is allegorical and mythical in it.

The absurdities of anthropomorphism have never been the subject of more brilliant jesting than in Lucian’s satires.

the absurdity of a sentence consigning persons to death, and at the same time to perpetual slavery, did not sufficiently laugh in its own face, it would be small self-denial, in a case so tempting, to make up the deficiency by a general contribution.

It is no wonder that the absurdity of the old lady's proposal was the cause of poorly suppressed merriment.

And as all religions are in a greater or less degree of this nature, we must recognize the fact that mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity, that absurdity is an element in its existence, and illusion indispensable; as indeed other aspects of life testify.

But nature occasionally is exceedingly unreasonable, and Professor Tyndall has proved that this particular absurdity may nevertheless be a reality.

And this latter absurdity is even a better rule for all infinitives, than the former for all predicated nominatives.

The absurdities of the style were patent, and did not escape uncomplimentary notice from the writers of the day, for both Cervantes and Lope de Vega, in spite of their own excursions into this kind, pilloried the fashion in their more serious and enduring works.

No candid examination of the views current about finance and financiers can shirk the fact that the common prejudice against Jews is at the back of them; and the absurdity of this prejudice is a very fair measure of the validity of other current notions on the subject of financiers.

But the absurdity is that such a man as you should talk about the end of anything.