ubuesque

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1. Alternative letter-case form of Ubuesque.

   This is what has been pointed up by Le Pen, who, in his very ubuesque emergence, embodies that impossibility.

   2007, Exiles from Dialogue, Polity, translation of original by Jean Baudrillard and Enrique Valiente Noailles, →ISBN, page 80

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   Energy and Ecology Minister Ségolène Royal described it as an "unbelievable mistake" while Junior Transport Minister Frédéric Cuvillier said it was "ubuesque" (nonsensical), an allusion to absurdist theatre.

   2014 May 21, Tu Thanh Ha, “New train cars in France too wide for hundreds of stations”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 21 May 2014

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1. uncommonReminiscent of Ubu Roi, an early absurdist play; absurdly grotesque.

   The Ubuesque elements in Tout va bien are yet another anti-Hollywood narrative device. The factory manager is portrayed as a contemporary version of Ubu, the hero of Alfred Jarry's trilogy.

   1995, Yosefa Loshitzky, The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 35