Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A philosophy, often translated into art forms, holding that humans exist in a meaningless, irrational universe and that any search for order by them will bring them into direct conflict with this universe: "True absurdism is not less but more real than reality” ( John Simon).
- n. An act or instance of the ridiculous: "This strained conceit never quite locates screen equivalents for the stage absurdisms” ( Village Voice).
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- n. Absurdity, something that is absurd
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Examples
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New York Times calls him "... an expert at ferreting out hypocrisy and absurdism from the more solemn crannies of American culture."
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Karlovic's commentary ranges from self-deprecation to self-defense to heckling of other tennis Tweeters to absurdism.
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Specifically, his views contributed to the rise of the more current philosophy known as absurdism.
intertribal: burn the streets, burn the cars, pa-pa-power, pa-pa-power
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They include Mr. Shakhnazarov's perestroika-era "Zero City" 1988, a surreal allegory laced with absurdism, which screened in a series on Russian fantastic cinema.
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A tale of wandering, bickering exorcists who cleanse the secrets lurking in people's closets, the movie combines an ambitious sense of playful fantastical absurdism with an underlying heartbeat of melancholic mourning.
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The absurdism and surrealism extends also to one character with Asperger's syndrome, who is himself something of a metaphor for the Soviet system.
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The distance – inflected with nostalgia and absurdism – is essential, because one of the things Stezaker is engaged in is a daring rescue of images from the memory dump of the recent past.
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Each abuse deftly combines esoteric absurdism and audacious vulgarity to provide an instantly quotable collection of derision.
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It's romantic absurdism with fangs, and I suspect it's the sort of thing you either love or hate.
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"Ataxia, the Wooden Continent" continues the absurdism, but does so with entries from an encyclopedia of a floating continent full of sentient wood.
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