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- noun Plural form of
absurdist .
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Examples
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But he was—and is—a rationalist in a realm of absurdists.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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But he was—and is—a rationalist in a realm of absurdists.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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For me, more than ever, the writers who best catch the peculiarly American, corn-fed surrealism that pours out from our TV screens are the great absurdists like Terry Southern, Joseph Heller and Bruce Jay Friedman, who've nailed greed and shame as well as anyone.
John Eskow: What's the Role of Fiction In a World Gone Completely Berserk? 2009
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The former Yugoslavia spawned the ground-breaking filmmaker Dusan Makavajev; the Czechs gave us authors Jaroslav Hasek, Karl Capek, Gogol, and Kafka; Poland offered Lem and Mrozek; Russia, the great absurdists, as well as Nabokov and Bulgakov; Ionesco was a gift from Rumania.
Jeff Dorchen: Borat and the Critic From Scheisskopfistan 2008
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The absurdists were right. by xochi y. on Tuesday, Dec 2, 2008 at 7: 28: 41 AM
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bush to receive first-ever International Medal of Peace 2008
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While it might be a worthy subject for the Stanley Kubrick of "Dr. Strangelove," privatized war is too important to be left to the amateur absurdists at work here.
Perfect Waves, 2008
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People who dance with skeletons and skulls, have a Day of the Locos, endure an abysmal government with scornful laughter, are dark absurdists.
On Mexican Time: A New Life In San Miguel by Tony Cohan 2004
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People who dance with skeletons and skulls, have a Day of the Locos, endure an abysmal government with scornful laughter, are dark absurdists.
On Mexican Time: A New Life In San Miguel by Tony Cohan 2004
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In using the idea of contingency and the unstructuredness of actual experience, I'm not pointing out anything the existentialists and absurdists didn't point out sixty years ago.
Is There Someone at the End of This Rope? A Long Day's Struggle With M. John Harrison Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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Even though the surrealists and absurdists and symbolists have long since shown us that anything is possible onstage, most playwrights and directors prefer to hew to the laws of time, gravity and thermodynamics.
NYT > Home Page By ALEXIS SOLOSKI 2011
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