Anyone who reads into the memorandum "how he would rule as a Supreme Court justice is offering forward a fairly absurd proposition," Mr. Schmidt said.

I did not reply to their absurd proposition, of course; but I felt it a duty to go that same night, and lamp-black the whole of their palace.

But once again, this is false nostalgia, based on the absurd proposition that writing was ever a secure, easy, practical way to make a living.

Referring to the Law of Causality, Hume wrote, "I never asserted so absurd a proposition as that something could arise without a cause."

Williams' attorney called the DNA allegations an "absurd proposition" and accused Johnson of trying to grab headlines.

One is therefore obliged to consider our origins and debate the absurd proposition as to whether or not Adam was a noble.

Thus, you see, to undermine the false authority of an absurd proposition that offends reason, laughter can sometimes also be a suitable instrument.

Petitioner attempts to argue an absurd proposition, essentially that the State of Illinois is not part of the United States.

It's a fairly absurd proposition.

It's an absurd proposition to ask us to unilaterally disengage - and we are not going to do it.