Not the persuasive force of the argument, but the affective energy of intuition brings the foolish animal to realize the absurdity of its desires.
We can put the extreme cases aside by focusing on the large common-sense range where absurdities do not arise.
The sheer success of such an approach in many cases makes it an absurdity to argue that this approach is always mistaken.
Merciless to small absurdities, he was often oblique and diffident on the big issues.
It is an absurdity that she can't prescribe antibiotics.
At the heart of the early modern response to the learned woman was the sense of the denatured, variously expressed as absurdity, revulsion, or wonder.
The property-based approach avoids the absurdity of the body-part model, since it recognises the foetus and the pregnant woman as two distinct entities.
Some of them even resisted it when the "critique" went to the extreme of absurdity and malapropism.
