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And that James Holt job was so absurdly overpaid that, of course, she jumped at it.

With that gloomy assumption in mind, most of the five-minute speeches sounded absurdly beside the point.

then , having eaten the dust before him , having wept and humiliated herself , she would be for a week absurdly happy.

Then there is the absurdly vexed question of what sort of benefits a donor can receive after making a gift.

The iPad 2 is almost absurdly thin, as if designed to be slipped into an already-stuffed bag that nothing else will fit into.

"I find it absurdly funny, " he said. "I was not promoting drugs. . . . I assumed most people would take it as a joke. "

The entrepreneur and team work absurdly long hours, pay themselves virtually nothing and yet offer superior products and services.

Some firms say the rule would be absurdly costly to obey, especially if it includes workers abroad, part-timers or contractors.

We've found that the best way to deal with the fact that market sentiment can change so quickly is to try to own absurdly cheap things.

First, the Internet has made it absurdly easy to apply for jobs.

He observed that tickets to see the top basketball games at Duke University are absurdly scarce.

Unfortunately, it is absurdly easy to count the ways.

Some of the teams' hotels, particularly in a northern city, Tamale, were shoddy, and all were absurdly expensive.

Three yellow-billed blue magpies throw themselves into the air with startled chortles, fluttering their absurdly long tail feathers.

Now of course I had known all along that the humour of the story emanated from its very exaggeration, its absurdly illogical smoothness.

Hopes us, the heart is very strong, the courage is very big, the love, indulges absurdly well, finally found loves really.

Full disclosure: My parents have had separate rooms for the entirety of their absurdly happy 35-year marriage.

The other realm, Hungary, was nominally a monarchy but run by a regent (who, absurdly in a land-locked country, was styled admiral).

Jesus promised his disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble. F. R.

But spelling is ancillary to a language's real complexity; English is a relatively simple language, absurdly spelled.

Because hospitals and medical practices in many areas face too little competition, they charge absurdly too much even for simple procedures.

The tax code is absurdly complex, and most people with complicated lives hand over their numbers to accountants and hope for the best.

It amused them immensely to sit in the old coffee-room and be waited on by a black waiter, who extolled absurdly the various dishes.

and absurdly wandering the streets in the hope of a chance encounter.

The US should speak plainly to China, but casting its policies as an unprovoked assault on the US economy is absurdly one-sided.

They're absurdly unqualified to be considered experts.

Fourth, the speculation on yuan appreciation results in an absurdly high trade surplus.

The disciplinary definitions of positive psychology in Chinese literature are absurdly confusing.

The subquery in this statement is absurdly simple, and completely unnecessary, but it does serve to illustrate a point.

It still seems like an absurdly extreme overreaction, but deciding what to eat and feed your family in China is no laughing matter.

The absurdly heroic boasts on Chuck Norris Facts may be affectionate, but will anyone take him seriously again?

India needs to reform its absurdly restrictive labour laws which hold back the expansion of manufacturing particularly.

The scene is ineffably, absurdly touching, the sweetest expression of family love seen in recent films.

But it is not a bold reform; more a tweak than a transformation of America's absurdly complex tax code.

Any hint at incompetence would be seized on, however absurdly, as racism.

And when, at length, we made an absurdly smooth start, without any semblance of adventure, I felt woefully disappointed.

The kids are screaming, the bills are due and there's a pile of work on your desk that's growing at an absurdly swift pace.

Absurdly , the two "unlucky" robbers robbed counterfeit jeans, a Thailand police said.

Executives testified to how conservative (read absurdly pessimistic) the tests were and share prices reacted euphorically.

The rating agencies that gave CDOs such absurdly high ratings, though not named in the ABACUS case, should also worry.

American parents must also square the circle of ultra-short holidays for grown-ups and absurdly long ones for kids.

The Mouse Trap is from a series of political statements regarding absurdly expensive implements of mass destruction.

Denver airport seemed absurdly far from the city when it opened in 1995.

Like Frozen Bubble, the premise seems absurdly easy: race down a hill collecting herring.

I have been hard on the absurdly difficult writing system for Chinese , but Masha Bell is right: English spelling, too, has its costs.

She looked at the clock a dozen times and started absurdly when it struck the hour.

Parker's secretary says he 'finds the prices for the top 25 or so wines 'absurdly high. ''

Torching cars, by placing a firelighter under a tyre, is absurdly easy, and hard to prevent.

Even more absurdly, it is still talking of holding a vote on May 24th in the cyclone-hit areas.

I'm always unhappily surprised when I see a musically gifted group whose stage garb is absurdly disparate.

this is a blatant attempt to force an absurdly liberal agenda on women when they are at their most vulnerable.

Holidays are often absurdly generous, but the real issue is pensions.

I make this absurd statement to illustrate how absurdly easy and simple the game is.

This summer, is filling the entire world absurdly. If that has the loneliness which resembles does not have.

England's state schools have an absurdly complex rule book for how they may and may not choose their pupils.

The two bodies had more than $5, 000bn in mortgages to back but maintained an absurdly slender capital cushion.

In order to keep them in prison, the government has absurdly charged them with stealing all the company's oil.

Sooner or later the Japanese will realise that a country growing old so rapidly cannot live so absurdly beyond its means.

But papers are absurdly cheap thanks to incessant price wars.

The paintings were sold for absurdly high prices.

At its present level of 8. 75%, the benchmark rate would be absurdly high in most big economies.

If you invest when shares are very expensive -- such as when everyone else is absurdly bullish -- you will probably do badly.

Why is housing so absurdly expensive?

Never go to a check ground floor, particularly be light to suddenly and absurdly put out later.

That worked fine for small XML documents, but for around 50k-100k files it started to become absurdly slow.

SUPERIOR MOTHER, your baby is silly! She is so absurdly childish!

Unless you are absurdly patient, you should open them more quickly than you might think.

On that basis corporate debt is almost absurdly cheap -- and so a lot of investors are pumping money into the market.

Absurdly I held it and weighed it in my hand, to give myself courage.

A friend of mine is absurdly late whenever we arrange to meet. I find it infuriatingly rude. Can you suggest a cure?

certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of him self, as the lover doth of the person loved;

nearly all of us agreed that the prosecution's case had failed to meet this very heavy -- absurdly heavy? -- burden of proof

One who damages company belongings or applies material absurdly to cause a waste of resources;

With these caveats in mind, I ve defined an absurdly simple class with one method in Listing 5