The remainder of the constitution is riddled with absurdities and inconsistencies. |
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If it contains improbabilities or absurdities, they are not of his creation. |
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But the show does capture the various insanities and absurdities of his life, and is filled with clips of his more outrageous outfits. |
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That, in my view, is the best defense against the slanders, lies, and outrageous absurdities of critics like Cornwell and Goldhagen. |
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The generalised irreverence of his earlier films has hardened into a focused attack on the equal absurdities of war and the British class system. |
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I enjoyed your piece, Tom, I like contradictions, irony, humour and absurdities. |
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He's the ironist of the psyche, the one with the sense of humour who can laugh at the mind's absurdities. |
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Thus it wasn't long before we began to hear dubitable dons mouth palpable absurdities. |
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Through her eyes we observe the absurdities of co-ed dorms and toilets, drunken frat bacchanals, and violent tailgate parties. |
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Prepared either by Russian anti-Communist exiles or by the British security services, the letter was larded with palpable absurdities. |
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They loved its absurdities and wouldn't have wanted anyone to fix all that was wrong. |
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He says his intention is to highlight the absurdities and deceptions in consumer culture by following its rules to the letter. |
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His son seemed happy and laughed joyfully at not only himself, but also the absurdities of life. |
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The dozen books of Rumpole short stories endure as a gorgeous chronicle of English class battiness and the absurdities of the law. |
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Reports last week suggested that there is now a faint hope of an end to these absurdities. |
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I would suggest that it is up to parliament to get the courts out of some of their own logical absurdities. |
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Calvin tried to work with a concept of mystical real presence that avoided the empirical absurdities of transubstantiation with regard to the Eucharist. |
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It is an admission of powerlessness within an ocean of Europeanist absurdities churned out by the ultraliberal, globalist thought police. |
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But the unsupportable absurdities of the current arrangement are becoming evident. |
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There is little to laugh at in a group whose methods include burning sleeping schoolchildren, but absurdities abound. |
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The broadcasters talk about some other absurdities, as they call them, in the bill. |
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If we continue to put up with these absurdities, we are heading for disaster. |
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We have frequently been accused of social dumping, of lowering the standards for safety in the workplace and other similar absurdities. |
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This must be merged, including practically, so that such absurdities never occur again. |
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In fact this is not the first time that a report with a social component has contained such absurdities. |
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He uses humor to denounce the absurdities and injustices that he observes around him. |
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Bill C-420 is supposed to rationalize things and remove the absurdities of the new NHP regulations. |
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After all, the absurdities of the comic strips in past years are today's commonplace gadgets. |
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The new requirements have been drafted with certain de minimis provisions to avoid absurdities or over-regulation. |
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But really it told a rich history, recast and simplified into a series of icons and absurdities. |
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He was also the observant one, casting a sardonic eye on the absurdities of pop stardom, the Swinging Sixties and the aftermath of that crazy decade. |
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His is the humour of merciless exposure to our own absurdities. |
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These are only a few of the absurdities of the theory of antisymbolism, but they are sufficient, one should think, to confute it. |
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Gainsbourg signed most of the lyrics, which reflected the cutting, poetic sense of humour and a taste for linguistic absurdities shared by the two artists. |
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We get absurdities if we try to take them as unrestrictedly true. |
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We must not end up with absurdities like we have in the case of ice breaking fees, where the industry says it is quite prepared to pay the cost, but perhaps things ought to be cleaned up a bit first. |
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But many verbal absurdities and alogisms are scattered throughout the book. |
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Second, during times of rapid change, innovations designed for static situations can turn into absurdities, creating dilemmas, mismatches or clashing values. |
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The absurdities, contradictions, and nonsensicalities in Magdy's oeuvre should be read as part and parcel of an essentially parodic approach. |
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I want to put such absurdities to rest once and for all and give you a categorical assurance that, if Londoners voted for me to be their first elected mayor, I would work with your Government, not against it. |
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As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences. |
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One of Monaco's many absurdities is that these sleek craft are hydrodynamically designed to sail the seven seas, yet spend much of their time moored in the equivalent of a car park. |
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One of the many absurdities of Tory education policy is a school commissioning system that militates against cohesion, while demanding a unified sense of British values. |
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A unique individual, Otto Joachim is the personification of the Promethean artist: cosmopolitan, openminded, curious and marked by human absurdities. |
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This inauspicious debut was partly a result of the outrage felt by the audience at Ubu's speech, which was purposely deformed and vulgar, riddled with malapropisms and derisive absurdities. |
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The insistence on deprecating the efficacy of socialization leads Pinker into absurdities that he handles with a blitheness that would be charming if his self-assurance were not so overdeveloped. |
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Thus it is not without wonder, how those learned Arabicks so tamely delivered up their belief unto the absurdities of the Alcoran. |
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Her posturing nationalism and xenophobic fear of English speaking culture Canada shares with the U. S., Britain, Australia and a quarter of the world are philistine absurdities and a national embarrassment. |
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She might have added, a sharp eye for everyday absurdities. |
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He wishes to share some of his knowledge and even to let loose the anger he got from so many absurdities he have heard from weak coaches, from some students and chess books. |
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The absurdities of the plot might have come across with more Shavian wit had he not composed such an overwrought score, however admirably swift-paced. |
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These tactics are designed to involve opponents in alleged self-contradictions or other absurdities. |
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While EAPN acknowledges that poverty can be most effectively tackled at local level, leaving it to local authorities to run those efforts alone without the support of a broader strategy can result in absurdities. |
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Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. |
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