| Both contemporary satirists have really borrowed the idea from the high avatar of absurdism Samuel Beckett. |
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| The Imponderables' humour is based around familiar, Pythonesque themes of deadpan absurdism. |
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| There is an inherent pitfall in such movements as surrealism, Dadaism, and absurdism. |
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| The satire seems a bit vanilla but it's a family film so I'm not expecting total absurdism. |
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| Some people just don't get this film and believe that the Coens are trotting out weak absurdism to disguise and buttress a genre storyline. |
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| Adams' innovation was to adapt the absurdism of Monty Python to the venue that best suited it. |
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| The early '90s series was a glorious slice of absurdism that featured sketches about people eating Muppets and delivering tacos instead of mail. |
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| But in spite of some of the absurdism of this screenplay, it's really an intimate, fairly direct examination of self-awareness. |
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| However, the serious subject matter is often played for laughs rather than the absurdism it requires. |
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| Under the influence of European absurdism, the climate of contemporary American theater has shifted. |
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| Mud, River, Stone makes light of reality without transporting us to realms of poetry, philosophy, or absurdism where this would no longer matter. |
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| The detective story is superficially part of the hard-boiled tradition, but a vein of absurdism, a hint of Kafka, distorts the naturalism. |
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| Dada is as extinct as the dodo, and absurdism gave Surrealism a different spin. |
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| Early in his career, Pinter denied that he wrote symbolically, partly because critics tried to associate him with absurdism. |
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| As the work proceeds, it begins to transcend its own absurdism. |
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| He uses various comic conventions such as satire, farce, absurdism, and irony to attack widely divergent cultural philosophies, politics, and ethics. |
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| Trading in a unique mix of absurdism and knowingly ancient music hall puns, slapstick, and gentle songs, the Gang was an essentially theatrical phenomenon. |
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| The second is a series of solos for four women that push vaudeville eccentric dance and silent-movie comedy toward the absurdism of Dada. |
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| Guare takes up its minor characters, treating them with his gentle absurdism. |
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| She uses humour to try and tackle deep emotions: being versus absurdism, tenderness versus coarseness, and aesthetics versus daily life. |
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| They are characterised by a certain degree of intimacy, as well as by a slight absurdism. |
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| I first encountered Wright when I was a nerdy teenager, and thought his unique style of clever deadpan absurdism was just about the coolest thing ever. |
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| It is tarted up with shopworn absurdism, as when a moronic computer programmer jumps off that roof only to reappear without explanation to continue being moronic. |
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| Albee is known primarily as a writer of brutal intra-familial wars or detached absurdism, but he has also created plays that are wonderfully moving, and characters who love each other. |
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| Taking his cues from favorite authors like Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut, Dunphy chases after absurdism. |
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| Lethem works in an interesting literary space between realism and absurdism, modernism and postmodernism, satire and a particular brand of DeLillo-inspired darkness. |
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| From musical gyrations to deconstructed nursery rhymes, Python-esque absurdism to pyrotechnics, dream sequences and live, interactive film, expect the hilariously unexpected. |
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| And his so-called antiwesterns, with their existential minimalism, lack of motivation and plotting, and Kafkaesque absurdism, enjoy high esteem among German cineastes. |
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| Usually, dance excursions into Dadaism or Absurdism are deliberately, even daringly fanciful, with an emphasis on highly colorful costuming and decor. |
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