But the charge wouldn't stick, and when I protested, they did me, absurdly, for drunk driving. |
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The government has put the figure at 60,000 people, though industry analysts say that is absurdly low. |
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And he won't be trying to crack the whip to keep an absurdly wide coalition government together. |
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Their tails popped up reflexively, almost absurdly long and white, and wigwagged out of sight. |
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As the aircraft continues to teeter absurdly on the edge of the sky, little pain-flavoured wisps of memories will start to taunt him. |
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I have put together the most absurdly yinzer gallery of Pirates and Steelers jerseys from last week. |
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We do not allow people a second try on a second question when they have so absurdly got it right the first time round. |
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Front-pointing up endless snow slopes or carrying absurdly heavy loads can leave your calves screaming for mercy. |
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We foraged for the elusive baski, an absurdly delicious wild strawberry that tasted of cherry and blackcurrant too. |
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The holes seemed absurdly small, so I scissored them big, then slipped the two attachments seamlessly onto the taps. |
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It is run by an ex-army martinet absurdly out of touch and absent-mindedly rooting about in irrelevances. |
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Man has no hope for salvation, only a chance for dignity, gained by absurdly carrying on in the face of the yawning maw of the meaningless abyss. |
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Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic. |
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Attired in bronze tights and leotards, with absurdly bad wigs on their heads, the seven dancers seem simultaneously naked and sexless. |
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In between, there's a tough but tasty cut of hanger steak, an absurdly tender filet mignon, and a classic twelve-ounce New York strip. |
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Moving slickly between tumblers and acrobats, the action takes in an absurdly daring high-wire act. |
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The moot is tomorrow, my point of law absurdly impossible to argue, and the prospect of sleep tonight absurdly impossible to contemplate. |
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It is a typical example of the absurdly piecemeal nature of road planning in Britain since the dawn of the mass motoring area. |
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It's probably got something to do with the fact that, as a nation, we are absurdly acquiescent and uncomplaining consumers. |
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Alongside this comes uniformity, which makes a more acceptable product for the absurdly picky supermarket buyer. |
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Now he is urging further government intervention to push housing prices to still more absurdly unsustainable levels. |
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On the one hand, you have an absurdly hyped, burgeoning pop star who strikes rebel poses and affects scenester fashion and vernacular. |
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And then his bungling efforts were absurdly inadequate to deal with the tire. |
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He leaned forward, his sharp, hawkish nose looking almost absurdly dangerous. |
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It's boring, absurdly overlong and, as far as I can tell, devoid of major new information. |
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Even areas that are supposedly protected are absurdly abused, the dossier alleges. |
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These are the author's italics, brackets, inverted commas, and the author's absurdly pretentious diction. |
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He might as well claim, absurdly, that cowherds fatten their flocks for the good of the cows themselves. |
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She defended the common-sense fact that substantive adherence to the law requires the Court to avoid an absurdly formalistic approach. |
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The only sound is the purr of absurdly opulent motorised yachts cruising out of the harbour for a day messing about on the waves. |
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Darkness lingered at the edge of his vision and he was suddenly absurdly frightened that if he fell asleep he would never wake up. |
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Pudding was another matter altogether, and as someone with an absurdly sweet tooth, this was a genuine treat. |
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It also sets an absurdly high standard of perfection for market performance. |
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It has become absurdly easy to frame whatever group is supposed to take the blame for an atrocity. |
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That, too, was absurdly crowded, not least because of a rare live appearance from, yes, Lily Savage. |
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It's incoherent, absurdly argued, poorly written and precious beyond words. |
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Next, a new administration should tackle the city's absurdly high business taxes. |
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He scowled, pretending anger to make up for the insane urge to grin absurdly. |
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Great use of sound, lighting and camera angles draw you in to this absurdly eerie little shaggy-dog story. |
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And the writing is so pithy, so good at capturing the absurdly poignant with linguistic economy. |
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They tend not to be so absurdly competitive, they're more realistic and, I'd thought, more empathic. |
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This list wasn't originally intended for a quiz so some are absurdly easy and others impossibly hard. |
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I don't doubt that I'll find it more engaging, because when Chinese movies are funny, they are absurdly funny. |
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The contempt and indifference for her own child, which she continually voices, is absurdly unbelievable. |
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Instead of greater freedom, what results is absurdly long workdays in stressful environments. |
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Today the rockets that we use to get from earth into space are absurdly expensive. |
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Carpenter thinks the cramps were a result of dehydration on an absurdly hot October day. |
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I rock back and forth, clutching myself with my arms, feeling absurdly empty. |
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I am irritated but not surprised at how absurdly positive the portrayal of these changes has been in the mainstream media. |
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Last year was little better, with little overtaking and an absurdly low attrition rate which saw only five cars fail to finish. |
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Republican-dominated legislatures and election officials have adopted absurdly difficult registration rules. |
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In fact, he is so good that I have gotten absurdly tongue-tied both times I've met him in the last month or so. |
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I must confess, however, I'm finding the terror cycle an absurdly entertaining piece of global sport. |
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So unpopular has their botched plan become that not a single force met the absurdly short deadline. |
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His legs took a few tentative steps into the room, the sound of his boots on the soft wood absurdly loud in his ears. |
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He carried her around in a ridiculous contraption, a sling that held the baby's back to his stomach, so that she hung there in front of him, her head bobbing absurdly. |
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Those siberian winds are cold, and cold temperatures mean absurdly light powder. |
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I dropped off the prints at Mark's absurdly tidy and trendy flat. |
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First there is the map on both inside covers tracing the great man's absurdly convoluted campaigns through such intestinally named places as Bactria, Sogdiana and Ecbatana. |
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An absurdly overvalued dollar is making imports hypercompetitive. |
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They all look like plastic action figures with bulging muscles for the male characters and absurdly exaggerated upper bodies for the female characters. |
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She was drinking vodka shots and suddenly became absurdly interested in the three of us, begging introductions and giving each of us a good look-over. |
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The absurdly successful Gwyn Barry is a hilarious take on middlebrow, narcissistic celebrity authors. |
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Equally evocative was a work consisting of three white-enamel bathtubs absurdly linked with the same unfired clay to plumbing pipes passing through the gallery space. |
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To establishment Republicans and Democrats, that sounds like an absurdly narrow and implausible vision. |
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On that stupendous pile, he paid a tax rate which struck people as absurdly low. |
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The flexible, permanent set consists of a curved wall, covered with a disturbingly lurid purple wallpaper whose pattern varies in scale from normal to absurdly large. |
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Sissoko's estimate of a two-hour walk turns out to be absurdly optimistic. |
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Looking back, the designation appears and sounds absurdly portentous. |
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Marissa, played by maybe the worst actress of all time, frolics around in her absurdly short miniskirts, hiding her drinking problem and pining over her broken family. |
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The great man, with his cocked hat, his ventripotent waistcoat and spreading coat-tails, looked absurdly foreshortened and distorted, like a figure in a conjuring-glass. |
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It is an absurdly high level of fines and costs he has been landed with. |
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Erofeyev is an absurdly original writer of the utmost importance. |
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Still more, like Mustique and Palm Island, are absurdly luxurious. |
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Each day is meticulously and absurdly spent planning our tactics for the game and working out what would happen to the league table if we won and everybody above us lost. |
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Sweet, slightly hot and absurdly sticky they will fill the kitchen with that warm, Christmassy aniseed smell you so often encounter in Chinese restaurants. |
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We had, vainly and absurdly, tried to unroll the garden hose. |
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The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality. |
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On the other hand we have a list of many pipsqueaks who are absurdly honoured. |
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As Vonnegut might well have observed, this was farting around on an absurdly grand scale. |
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They are often being beaten over the head, berated into submission, absurdly dehumanized by senseless and mean corporate-style overlords, most of them barely literate. |
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The right-moving trend of the mainstream media, absurdly deemed liberal by successfully intimidating corporatists and ideological aggressors, continues year after year. |
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This meant that Monksfield, with his bright bay coat, sharp white star on the forehead and absurdly swinging foreleg at the trot and canter, had an extra perkiness about him. |
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I was absurdly pleased, like a very apprentice cocksmith praised for the length of his stream, and to cover my embarrassment I turned the talk back to her problems. |
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Those glory days of cheap hot dogs and cheap beer long ago gave way to absurdly priced concessions and dainty, yuppified treats your grandfather would have sneered at. |
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