The notion suddenly struck him as the height of absurdity.

To get stuck trying to find the "execute" pad was the height of absurdity.

"It is the height of absurdity, the tyranny of the few.

'And to blame me for her bitterness is the height of absurdity!

Moreover, it is the height of absurdity that the white and affluent long to be historically oppressed minorities.

This answer reaches the height of absurdity.

It is the height of absurdity to allow yourself to be treated this way in order to protect an organization that tossed you aside."

Perhaps the height of absurdity is the quote about the average cost of a bar mitzvah on the Island being $35,000.

All that Sir Walter says on this subject is the height of absurdity, and does not even deserve to be seriously refuted.

But a trial for divorce in Russia of the early Eighteenth Century is the height of absurdity.

"The height of absurdity!"

Says David Solinger, "It's the height of absurdity to expand when you can't live with your budget in the old building.

A New Low for the High-Five The high-five has reached the height of absurdity.

To consider Sax a contender for a Gold Glove, baseball's award for defensive excellence, would have been the height of absurdity.

Of course it would be the height of absurdity to lay down a rule that these proportions should even approximately be aimed at in every orchestral movement.

That, thought Scarlett, was the height of absurdity, for there was little, now, which even the most cloistered women had not seen and known in the last five years.

"Your Honor, Your Honor," Hamilton Burger shouted, "this is the height of absurdity!

Mr. Weingarten described merit selection as "hogwash and the height of absurdity" and said, "You can't select a judge by an exam."

On Monday, Consumer Electronics Association boss Gary Shapiro blasted the idea as a "backroom scheme" that is "the height of absurdity."

From a certain point of view it is the height of absurdity: four classical musicians in concert attire, looking earnestly at scores on music stands and grunting like savages.

"It's the height of absurdity," said Yale Paprin, owner of Yale Realty Services, which operates office buildings and shopping centers throughout the country.

The Height of Absurdity And so the Mets today reached what was arguably the height of absurdity.

When plans for these three skyscrapers were announced in 1985 and 1986, at the peak of the real-estate boom that has now ended with a thud, they seemed like the height of absurdity.

Perhaps the heights of absurdity were reached when most of a Saturday schedule was devoted to the Beatles, Elvis Presley and a prime-time special entitled "Shake, Rattle and Roll."

Hadn't it been the height of absurdity for her to suppose that this splendid young officer had anything special to say to her, little Rilla Blythe of Glen St. Mary?