Word: absurdity
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...abdicated Tashi Lama, has been deserted and desecrated. Lamas, teachers of the people, tell fortunes for alms, by the haunches of mutton, or dice; they beg and cheat; to mystify the ignorant, they mutter squeaky conjurations or play with human bones. The forest-dwelling Buddhists revere arrows and absurd amulets. Conscious reverence for Buddha is held by very...
...nominee upon whom the party had decided was everywhere known to favor modification. To pledge the party against modification would have created an absurd impasse...
...will welcome an opportunity to reorganize and make more efficient the agencies of Government, to the end that the burden of taxation may be lightened. Our platform lays at rest the absurd claim insidiously put out by Republican propaganda that the Republican Party has a monopoly on the mechanics of prosperity...
...Curtis who last week observed his 78th birthday, his 53rd year as a publisher, could not content himself with sharp, angry answer. He fought back. What about this man Siegfried, anyway? "He is said to be a professor. The title is very likely a misnomer." He groped for epithets. "Absurd," he cried . . . "Ridiculous . . . Ignorant...
...brave, beautiful woman who rushes in with passionate intellectual curiosity where goody-goodies fear to tread. With the highly respectable necessity of supporting her two children she turns sculptress and newspaper correspondent, following the scantest lead to new quarry. Mussolini's large feet she found grotesquely absurd, his shuffling step that of a defiant child rather than a decisive man. She made his first sitting the last because his conduct was "bestial," "unwritable...