(n.) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
(n.) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Steven Brounstein, a lawyer for one of the officers, said: 'For the DA to be equating this case to a drive-by shooting is absurd.
(2) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(3) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
(4) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(5) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
(6) It might seem absurd, but she also fretted about the horrendous poll tax bills received by people she knew, people she knew couldn't pay.
(7) He would have seen the absurdity in a chancellor admitting that his sums are so badly out that Britain will borrow more than double this year than the £37bn he originally promised – and claiming that as a triumph.
(8) The idea that opposition to the renewal of Trident is an extreme policy confined to the British left is absurd.
(9) SC, Manchester Spark Energy, one of Britain's smaller electricity suppliers, failed to notice that your bill was absurd.
(10) British officials said it was absurd that at one point Merkel seemed to want to remove most references to the eurozone crisis from the communique.
(11) Harry Kane, reminding everyone how absurd it was to think his confidence might be broken, may just have to accept this will not be a night that is remembered for his goal.
(12) Karl Habsburg-Lothringen supported his cousin's action: "The Habsburg law is absurd, there's nothing else to be said about it.
(13) In fact, the body of evidence about how much it matters is mushrooming, so that it seems almost absurd to anyone who knows anything about children's development that we still think that a baby's physical health at the birth is all that matters.
(14) Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling breached all those, absurdly calling objectors 'job snobs'.
(15) Last month, along with Slovenia, Croatia and non-EU members Serbia and Macedonia, Austria – which has rejected Brussels’ criticism of its policy as “absurd” – imposed strict new restrictions, including a daily cap on the number of asylum seekers and migrants they would allow to enter their territory.
(16) Absurdly, the shops lack local staples – sugar, milk, flour – but are well stocked with subsidised imports such as single-malt whisky and Italian panettone.
(17) The idea that human breastmilk may not be good enough for human babies is clearly absurd.
(18) The woman snaps out of bed and opens her eyes, absurdly conscious and alive, wonderfully lucid.
(19) We are talking here about the absurd.” Ah, the absurd.
(20) Each sentence seems more absurd than the last until you are finally and irredeemably overwhelmed by its relentless meaningful meaninglessness.
Empathy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, the number of distressful childhood experiences reported was generally unrelated to empathy scores.
(2) Many have been driven to a suicidal despair that only those devoid of human empathy can fail to understand.
(3) This paper examines empathy as a practice component that is particularly significant in its relationship to self-determination in the discharge process in acute hospital settings.
(4) This finding does not support the contention that a history of drinking and rehabilitation enhances the perception of counselor empathy among alcoholics.
(5) Responses indicated that physicians are more concerned with management than diagnosis and revealed considerable evidence of empathy and concern.
(6) Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
(7) A therapist's expertness, trustworthiness, empathy, and attractiveness were evaluated by 300 subjects after viewing a 5-min.
(8) The parts of the brain connected to learning and empathy don’t develop properly.
(9) It’s about incentivising a new balance between risk management and relational support by enabling social workers to do what they do at their best: to see and build on people’s strengths, head off problems before they become crises, show empathy, and offer creative and flexible support, focused on the long term.
(10) Although the simple A-B interaction effect was not found, significant second-order interactions were found for both accurate empathy and positive reactions which indicated that the predicted interaction effect tends to be upheld for inexperienced therapists but attenuated or reversed for experienced therapists.
(11) Empathy is a general or superordinate term for many more specific aspects of the sensitive interpersonal interactions in the intimacy of relationships like the psychoanalytic one.
(12) Implications for referral include ensuring that the interview with the patient includes a communication, empathy, and mutual influence.
(13) It always, for me, comes down to empathy and how much you are able to understand how other people with less privileged backgrounds get on,” she says.
(14) The students were administered the Hogan Empathy Scale, and scores were correlated with peer and faculty empathy ratings.
(15) They emphasize that mental health professionals can help families of schizophrenics by providing practical, realistic advice on how to deal with the illness, by offering empathy and support rather than placing blame, and by working to ensure that there are adequate treatment and rehabilitation services available.
(16) The recognition of two distinct types--basic empathy, a human developmental trait, and trained empathy, a clinical skill state--is set forth as a possible solution to methodological problems.
(17) Republicans will also be minimizing the chance of someone making an unfortunate, Todd Akin-like statement that might display a lack of empathy with Newtown's victims.
(18) Click here to view Into the Woods trailer The composer said he had some empathy with Disney's position, which has also led to a key song from the original show, Any Moment, being cut.
(19) Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together … If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate – as it should – let’s make sure it’s worthy of those we have lost.
(20) These include good information and communication from professionals, involvement in decisions yet respect for preferences, emotional support and empathy, and continuity and co-ordination of care.