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Absurdly in sentence

57 examples of Absurdly in a sentence

Judges have sentenced too many killers to absurdly lenient prison terms, diminishing any deterrent effect that the tribunal might generate.
Negotiations to “de-alert” the 2,000 nuclear weapons that remain at absurdly dangerous, Cold War-era launch readiness have never really started.
Rather, it was the absurdly low bar for exit, requiring only a simple majority.
2.Avoid vulnerability - Good macroeconomic management does not try to get the maximum out of an economy: it avoids using the real exchange rate to achieve disinflation, avoids getting foreign capital on absurdly short maturity, avoids drawing lines in the sand over exchange rates.
Meanwhile, analogues to common goods and services that we now consume would have been absurdly expensive in the Agrarian Age.
The government has, among other things, raised gas tariffs by 450% (from absurdly low levels).
But these aid figures are absurdly low from a historical perspective.
Absurdly generous compensation in the financial sector induced some of our best minds to go into banking.
Korean real rates are absurdly high.
But the study he quoted absurdly assumes that American emissions reductions would be unmatched by action in other countries.
Prolonged controversies over the terms and conditions of assistance and the absurdly high interest rate initially set on official loans exacted a heavy toll on countries already under stress.
The long-term nominal and real Treasury rates continue to be absurdly low, so much so that I rub my eyes whenever I see them.
It is true that Ukrainian households need to be weaned off absurdly large energy subsidies, which amounted to 7.5% of GDP in 2012.
They also pay an absurdly high price for their children’s college education, which no longer guarantees prosperity in life.
And, absurdly, some commentators argue that it is their country’s turn to win.
Alas, Israel’s fractious political scene and absurdly proportional electoral system hardly ever produce clear-cut results.
Polarizing campaigns about climate change have created an absurdly distorted view of the future, leading policymakers to make poor decisions.
For weeks, while much of the world got to work fighting the pandemic, Trump saw it as an opportunity to reinforce his anti-immigration policies, even claiming – absurdly – that his infamous wall on the Mexican border would keep the virus out.
Absurdly, many governments are cutting social expenditures, but increasing military spending and supporting large corporations with public funds and limited regulation.
'It would be hard to find two brothers-in-law more unlike,' he went on with his subtle smile; 'the one always on the move, living always in Society like a fish in water; the other, our Constantine here, lively, quick, sensitive to everything, but as soon as he appears in Society either shutting up altogether or floundering about absurdly like a fish on dry land!''Yes, he is very thoughtless,' said the Princess to Koznyshev.
One makes these extravagant offers in moments of excitement, but, of course, when one comes to think of it, one sees how absurdly out of proportion they are with the value of the required article.
It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can get nothing to go upon.
Yet when I spoke to her of the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause."
Fogg's project was absurdly foolish.
But now one was at first tempted to pity him for having failed in life, then to reproach him for absurdly acting the romantic young hero, as I saw that he persisted in doing . . .
Only think what pains he is at to tell one things that all the world knows; and how he labors an argument that is hardly worth the slightest consideration! how absurdly he makes use of other people's wit! how miserably he mangles what he has pilfered from them!
Can I think you have any esteem for a writer who has spoiled Tasso's Hell and the Devil; who transforms Lucifer sometimes into a toad, and at others into a pygmy; who makes him say the same thing over again a hundred times; who metamorphoses him into a school-divine; and who, by an absurdly serious imitation of Ariosto's comic invention of firearms, represents the devils and angels cannonading each other in Heaven?
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