Yet to somehow prove to the world that Japan is serious about integrating into a global culture, its leaders have come up with an admirable-sounding but absurd recommendation.
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The Manneken Pis, a tiny, working statue of a urinating little boy, is famous, but intrinsically absurd.
To dismiss the world body out of hand, as some (read, American) critics do, is not just unfair, he argues, but also absurd.
That was certainly weird, but not absurd.
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Similarly, Psy is absurd, but there is lots of absurd stuff on YouTube.
It seems absurd but, over time, I swear she could read my intentions, or perhaps my emotions.
Mr. Flanders confirmed that he underwent the sensitivity training but labeled "absurd" the allegation that he was hitting on Playmates.
She was hurt, she was confused, and most of all she was angry at herself for feeling an absurd but overwhelming sensation of abandonment.
To state this was the first income tax is not only absurd but ludicrous, unless the author contends that employers who deduct from their employees pay items required as a term of employment such as meals, uniforms etc. is somehow a form of income tax levied by the government to compensate the employer for such expenses.
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"It's absurd, but that was the level of greed at the table, " Pavlo says.
The question may sound absurd, but there are plenty of lottery winners who have done just that.
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But it seems equally absurd to argue that communicating through the most modern channels will somehow erase those activism-driving traits.
The candidates ranged from the impressive to the absurd, but the audience listened to them all and then asked searching questions.
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An explanation involving radiation poisoning is not quite as absurd, but almost.
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It sounds absurd, but the adoption of electronic health records and Health Information Exchanges, could enable this level of access in the future.
My idea does sound a bit absurd, but it is just an extreme and very direct attempt at a solution, because this really is a huge crisis and something drastic does need to be done.
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Maybe the central problem with the Obama attacks isn't that they're negative but that they're absurd lies.
But to understand just how absurd, you need to read about the criteria Google News uses to determine which news stories get the most prominent placement on its pages.
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The Brooklyn Democrat initially tried to dismiss complaints about his costume as "political correctness to the absurd, " but reversed himself by Monday afternoon in the face of mounting criticism.
In the event that there is a proper banking union in the eurozone, and that the eurozone's crisis subsides - which may seem an absurd idea, but stranger things have happened - international investors would at that point note that the eurozone's banks were in effect insured or guaranteed by the collective resources of all eurozone countries, including mighty Germany.
But some say that it is absurd to depict the law lords' judgment as a bolt from the blue.
But the Times notes some faintly absurd moments during her captivity, relayed by Mme Aubenas in a press conference yesterday.
Some would say we need to have a presence to ensure a constant flow of oil into the global markets, but such an assertion is plainly absurd.
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The film doesn't romanticize the ordeal: It is dark, but with a healthy dose of the absurd.
But all can agree that it becomes absurd to hand out scarce taxpayer dollars once an individual has reached a certain income level.
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To let it rise from zero this year to 55 percent next year seems absurd on fairness grounds, but it would also have severe supply-side effects.
But these self-serving claims are absurd on their face.
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He is also vengeful, manipulative and cleverer by far than almost anyone else he encounters, including and especially the high-born aristocrats who surround Henry and who despise Cromwell on the grounds - absurd to modern eyes, but the universally accepted wisdom in the early 16th Century - that he is an upstart of humble birth, and that only they are fit to govern.
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