"Catch-22" descriptor

Usage examples of absurdist.

Not because of the absurdist mutations, although it is impossible for me to reconcile something as right and just when we ourselves resent and hate it having been done to us.

As a result the protest movements seized on and adopted two Second World War novels as their own, novels that expressed the absurdist tenor of the modern revulsion.

Fucking right-wing absurdist theater with its black-robed critic perched up high on the bench.

The idea had an outlaw charm that appealed to the absurdist witness who seemed to be sharing the experience with him.

Then again, maybe the clip embodies an absurdist view of life that he kept hidden from his peers, most of whom perceived him to have the famished appetites and clouded sensibility of a creature in a shooter game.

But it was Runyon as revised by an absurdist writer in collaboration with a bleak existentialist.

I remember what the German absurdist poet Kurt Tucholsky said about his countrymen and counters: they all grovel in front of them, and aspire to sit behind them.

In the dark executive suit and white winged collar, he looked like a sketch by one of the Millsport absurdist school.

A prophecy of the coming End Times, or simply an absurdist novel bent on pissing people off and making them think?

But it is striking in how high degree the authors have created their own universes, with highly specific natural laws, and how this has been done as a sort of intellectual game: creating worlds as frameworks to the narrative and molding them into shape with complete disregard for commonly accepted logic, much in the same way as the absurdists, Ionesco and Alfred Jarry and others, later did.