The same torpor, as regarded the capacity for intellectual effort, accompanied me home, and weighed upon me in the chamber which I most absurdly termed my study.
Madeline had cried over the picture of one teenager's grief- stricken mother, absurdly holding up her daughter's mobile phone to the camera as a warning to readers.
The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed—the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.
And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.
For in reality, to be free from despair means that this movement of faith must be made continually on the strength of the absurd, a repetition that is almost impossible to uphold continuously.
Doubtless the country needed ornament — needed it very badly indeed — but it needed energy still more, and capital most of all, for its supply was ridiculously out of proportion to its wants.