To imagine this New Deal cabinet waiting to be activated by an 11-year-old girl singing a cheerleading song is the ultimate absurdity.

His own son, in an act of ultimate absurdity, sent his father such a postcard.

Taking pace and projection to the ultimate absurdity, last year the Baltimore Orioles lost their first 21 games.

Through insistent reiteration it evokes the ultimate absurdity of buzzwords like "management team" and "emerging markets."

It was the ultimate absurdity.

For a marginal, well-worn social column of a story, this is taking Deep Throatism to its ultimate absurdity.

Here, in her view, was affirmative action taken to its ultimate absurdity.

Milosevic has called the genocide indictment "the ultimate absurdity."

He pauses, and then comes the ultimate, existential absurdity: "We're popular in Queens, you know."

The ultimate absurdity, the false freedom to choose their destiny, held men by the throats more tightly than any threat.