Critic Ken Johnson called his collages "formally captivating, dreamily strange and comically absurd."

But even she, after a comically absurd imbroglio, will subside back into the humbler world of real names.

'Rubbish' presents a comically absurd account of what happened to the central characters in Brief Encounter after the movie story is over.

The notion that our common cultural heritage is locked up in musty old classics that people praise but rarely read is almost comically absurd.

The plot's dramatic excesses, which can be comically absurd, take on a brief reality as she dances.

The collages are formally captivating, dreamily strange and comically absurd (Johnson).

His pidgin letter is comically absurd, but they can't pass up such a splendid opportunity for outrage.

The sheer scale of it is comically absurd.

Mr. Frears, who has a keen eye for the comically absurd, never underlines unnecessarily.