If all women worked, the number of children would be negative, and at a participation rate of about 60%, still absurdly high, there would be no children.
These figures are absurdly inflated.
For since indefinite uncontrolled natural increase is absurdly impossible (as we have just seen), in the long run mankind must choose between low birth rates and high death rates.
Levels of deception that would normally be dismissed as absurdly improbable therefore become troublingly convincing.
The speaker often employs hyperbole and is given to the constant utterance of absurdly emphatic exclamations, employing idiomatic and proverbial expressions, which are often allusive.
The aims of this article then may sound either absurdly reductivist or potentially pretentious, while its methodology invites accusations of naivety or confusion.
Serious political issues are positioned next to absurdly deadpan comedy without any clear signals as to how we are intended to read them.
This is an absurdly ambitious set of goals.
