| The result is an airless Oedipal drama, with a persistent and inescapable note of absurdity. |
| Consumerism reaches ever-higher levels of absurdity, yet most of us are blind to it. |
| The absurdity of the plot clashes with the show's craving for social realism. |
| He's the ironist of the psyche, the one with the sense of humour who can laugh at the mind's absurdities. |
| I enjoyed your piece, Tom, I like contradictions, irony, humour and absurdities. |
| But the show does capture the various insanities and absurdities of his life, and is filled with clips of his more outrageous outfits. |
