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A reasonably good start that obscures a really stupid and lame plot, as soon as it starts explaining it you think "can't be serious, can't be SOOOOO absurd!"
Sure we all have different taste in films, but to call this movie perfect is absurd in my opinion.
"Pacific Heights" is totally absurd and frustrating.
Anyway as the movie gets on the script turns completely tricky and so absurd, the plot splits into several parallel plots and there's a huge loss of intensity.
It needs to develop news media that neither channel only one position nor treat all points of view, no matter how absurd, as equally valid.
The absurd result, however, is that citizens from EU candidate countries are subject to asylum procedures, because no possibility for legal immigration to the EU exists for them.
Beauty is resistant to the hubbub of the absurd.
The forces of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych foolishly stuffed ballots and intimidated the country’s electoral commission to an absurd degree.
Apart from the unanimous nomination of Prodi, the main achievements of the Berlin summit were a dilution of the reform of farm policy, a dilution of budget reform, and maintenance of the absurd and hypocritical pretence that the first six candidates for membership can expect to be inside the EU by 2002.
But, though the Venetians’ desire to secede from the poorer South might sound familiar to other regions in Europe where taxpayers feel aggrieved at subsidizing other, allegedly feckless, regions, the politics of secession can be taken to absurd extremes.
This system-wide responsiveness depends on economic agents having perfect information about the future, which is manifestly absurd.
This restriction is absurd, and it causes unnecessary hardship.
Sapre’s answer might not have been the brightest, but if the judges had any idea of how desperate Indians are for sporting success, they would have understood that she was not expressing such an absurd priority.
In one particularly absurd case, a group of Muslim feminists who wrote a book promoting women’s rights based on Koranic exegesis had to publish their work in secret, because it included arguments for women’s reproductive rights and a small percentage of the group’s funding came from a foundation that had received money from USAID.
Laws enacted to single out and “persecute” Muslims, and statements that affirm the Islamophobia of our media, buttress the absurd notion that what we are really witnessing is a “war on Islam.”
Clearly, the idea that large corporations precisely calculate the interest rate at which they are willing to undertake investment – and that they would be willing to undertake a large number of projects if only interest rates were lowered by another 25 basis points – is absurd.
It is not utterly absurd, therefore, that voters want to like the look of their presidents, quite apart from the merit of their policies.
It is not absurd to speak of a cosmopolitan Sharia.
This absurd account neglects the fact that Li was already one of the world’s wealthiest people before he ever invested in China.
And it would be absurd to think that Russian President Vladimir Putin will refrain from interfering in Ukraine’s upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.
But what is so absurd about establishing standards by which to assess the fulfillment of Sarkozy’s campaign promises?
Indeed, the situation is even more absurd when G7 finance ministers meet: the central bank governors of France, Germany, and Italy still attend these meetings, even though their banks have been reduced to local branches of the European Central Bank, while the president of the ECB - these countries' real monetary authority - is a mere "invited guest."
Indeed, to subject people who are born into royal families, or people who marry into them, to lives in a fishbowl, where they are on constant display, like actors and actresses in a continuous soap opera, where human relations are distorted and stunted by absurd rules of protocol, is a terrible form of cruelty.
That idea of an ethical approach to the Greek crisis might sound absurd to readers of the financial press, and many politicians will undoubtedly consider it naive.
And that is what ultimately makes the China-centric blame game so absurd.
That may sound absurd.
But it is no more absurd than proposing Jacek Saryusz-Wolski’s candidacy to replace Tusk.
It is absurd that China’s voting power in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund is the same as Belgium’s.
Frédéric Lordon, a sort of younger clone of Marxist thinker Alain Badiou, offers a chic variant, maintaining that it is no more absurd to see plots everywhere than not to see them anywhere, and that there is indeed a conspiracy of “the dominant” to blind the “dominated.”
Again, Washington lobbyists have bought into the absurd claim of trade experts such as Fred Bergsten that the gain from Doha, as it stands now, is a paltry $7 billion or so annually.
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