Some have held that Shakespeare, by frivolously spinning absurd tales, merely wrote it to amuse himself.

And perhaps the two men who survived were telling absurd tales about the creature that wounded them and killed their comrades.

Josh's curiosity and wide-eyed enthusiasm make him the perfect audience for Franklin's absurd tales.

Once, the robot captain concocted an absurd tale about how the great general had literally lost his mind.

Paul shook his head slightly as he listened to the sergeant's absurd tale.

"You mean, that the girl's absurd tale may be true?"

The same publication has also described the film as absurd poetic tale of five seemingly unrelated people's lives intertwining in a most interesting way.

"What absurd tale is this, Sister; what has influenced you herein?"

She could almost have believed, at that moment, that the absurd tales she had heard about him were true.

There is an evident political undertone in this absurd tale.