Word: absurdity
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...then three small furnaces for smelting iron ore. He prospered. His son, Martin, went to the Mansfeld village school, later to St. George's School at Eisenach and the University of Erfurt, then Germany's most famed. To suggest that Martin Luther was ignorant would be absurd, but to deny that he was born of and raised by and among simple peasants in lowly surroundings would be as absurd as denying that Jesus was the son of a village carpenter, that Saints Peter and Andrew were fishermen in a small way. TIME implied that there was much...
...knows me knows that I am unable to operate an automobile. I never tried it in my life, and, what is more, I am never going to try it; and the statement that I was running the car myself down Broadway at fifty miles an hour is just as absurd as the other part...
...Duke of Warrington had an old flame whose husband died at just this inopportune moment. Elsie Hilary therefore compelled him to go to her rival rather than come to her in dishonor. Having so neatly forced an opportunity to show how Elsie Hilary had been trapped by the absurd codes and customs of the class in which she had been unwanted, Author Lonsdale showed instead, and very prettily, that the actress was the finest gentleman of them...
...eerily by night. Servants at H. R. H.'s bachelor quarters in York House, London, could not quite shake off uneasy qualms aroused by the dog's palpable terror and grief. Suppose, just suppose the little bitch knew, with feminine intuition, that her master would never return. Absurd-yet Master Wales had set out, last week, to journey a long way away-to South & East Africa...
When he exhibited first at the English Art Club, at about the same time as Sir William Orpen, critics snarled at him for selecting "ugly subjects." Disregarding the absurd grounds for their quarrel, the critics were probably wrong. Painter John was not disturbed at their objections. He became a teacher of art at the Liverpool University School of Art from which he soon disappeared to live among gypsies while painting pictures of them...