The illegality of it paled in comparison to its sheer absurdity.

For starters, there is the sheer absurdity of its existence.

Farm programs, unrivaled for their sheer economic absurdity, are fertile ground for serious spending reductions this year.

The game is packed with humor, both from its cryptically obtuse dialog and the sheer absurdity of some of the situations.

Neither his distress nor yet the sheer absurdity of it was able to disarm me.

"You've given away Ambal Isle for sheer absurdity."

Thieving was not a sheer absurdity.

Rebelling against the sheer absurdity of distinctions based on birth and breeding, however, Americans have largely cleaned up the status game.

The sheer absurdity of the situation began to amuse Jude.

Sooner or later the sheer absurdity of it had to sink them, and it did.