theatre of the absurd
Britishnoun
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He denied the charges and the United States called his trial a "theatre of the absurd".
From Reuters ● Dec. 6, 2021
He denies the charges and the United States called his trial a "theatre of the absurd".
From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2021
Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi is a piece of anarchic juvenilia but its Paris premiere in 1896 is accepted as the starting point of the theatre of the absurd.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2018
Even by the exacting standards of the 2016 campaign, which has turned into a theatre of the absurd and the disturbing, the past twenty-four hours have been bizarre.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2016
This is the great theatre of the absurd called the Balkans.
From Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin
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