absurdity

Kudos to Dylan Hernández for his column “Dodgers are no longer agents of change,” noting the absurdity of a Dodger team going to the White House to meet Donald Trump.

Their mourning has made them vessels who exist in service of their sadness, called to sheer absurdity as a means of dealing with the injustice of death.

Nowadays, Thewlis’ return to something approximating our old-fashioned picture of Holmes reminds us of sensibility’s valiance in a world given to absurdity and madness.

The essayist’s power lies in his willingness to satirize the inherent absurdity of life without ever downplaying what it means to be human.

Beatty’s cascading, relentless prose conjures a world in which the ridiculousness of race as a social construct leads to high absurdity.