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Перевод: absurdity

[существительное]
абсурдность ; вздор ; нелепость ; глупость ; нелепое утверждение; смехотворность

Тезаурус:

1. The conceptual hotch-potch of the traditional curriculum, based on subjects which are a random assortment of content-based, concept-based, skill-based and moral-based collections of ideas (whose confusing absurdity is in part exemplified by the NCC's cross-curricular skills which are exactly the same as the curricular subjects) has never been designed from first principles to do the basic job of a curriculum, which is to help achieve aims in the most effective and efficient way.
2. As he waxed into an eloquent period, he would realize the absurdity of his situation or the humbug of his pleading and be overcome with internal laughter, a laughter so vast that on occasion it left him too weak to go on with the speech.
3. The development of Defence policy since the Second World War has been dominated as much by efforts to find ways off the "Military Road to Absurdity" as by the struggle for resources in the Whitehall market-place.
4. Richard Dyer remarks, in relation to Babuscio, that the gay sensibility "holds together qualities that are elsewhere felt as antithetical: theatricality and authenticity intensity and irony, a fierce assertion of extreme feeling with a deprecating sense of its absurdity" ( Heavenly Bodies , 154).
5. I realised that that was an absurdity after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system, I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions - that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe - gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position.
6. All the indications are that man's efforts successfully to modify and refine the product of the evolutionary process by the introduction of civilisation, have been almost destroyed by the tangled mass of religious absurdity and rubbish which he has allowed to enter into it, and reduce it to but a tragic travesty of what it should be .
7. The whole idea of leys was an unprecedented absurdity - "damned nonsense" as one archaeologist put it.
8. Nuclear law "absurdity"
9. But Miss Blagden, whom I met by chance yesterday, is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them.
10. There are times when one feels sorry for her as one catastrophe follows another in an endless orgy of absurdity.
11. The dying Pitt, rejoicing in the House of Lords that the grave had not closed over him before he could protest against "the dismemberment of this noble empire", was a tragic figure; but the tragedy was in the absurdity of the protest.
12. Canon Atkinson regarded the word as indisputedly Old Danish, and the idea that "horn" was something to be blown as another absurdity; "horn" meant horned stock and "garth" meant fence, so we have "horned-stock fence" - but for keeping animals out rather than in.
13. Like it or not, high-tech communications have arrived in the Soviet Union, and the King Canutes of the interior ministry have become an absurdity.