Roy and Kristin encounter each other as Roy carries out Sam's absurd request to sneak a monstrously expensive coffee machine into the hospital.

It was not an absurd request.

Lestat, I'm going to make an absurd request of you.

It's an absurd request.

Lester Sloan's refusal of her absurd request to quit the operation and go on vacation had also been appropriate.

Have you heard of this absurd request for his extradition?

This was by no means an absurd request.

We must stop squeezing them with taxes, red tape and absurd requests.

The King and court were said to have laughed at the absurd request, but the King granted Stanisław the three days.