He'd forgotten to wear gloves--refused to, actually, indulging in some absurd belief that if he didn't dress as though it were winter, it wouldn't be.

For a brief instant, one thought clogged Prell's brain: that was the absurd belief that the sound was a dynamite explosion.

A wacky, irrational, absurd belief.

So I can be humiliated by men who can't see beyond their own absurd beliefs?

Following this introduction to his style and philosophy, Colbert listed a series of absurd "beliefs that I live by", such as "I believe in America.

And with it came the absurd and groundless belief that money could buy happiness.

And yet you've told me that the Founders sent out the Hundred based upon an absurd belief in a creator, a belief motivated by a fear of communal death.

He encouraged attendees to confront believers regarding what he called their "most absurd" beliefs (e.g., transsubstantiation), stating: "Mock them, ridicule them in public.

It propels us into the absurd belief that this partitioning is natural and necessary and must overwhelm all other ways of identifying people.

Third, Labour suffered from its absurd belief that a general election could be a referendum on any single issue other than the economy or, perhaps, defence.