Sentence:  The theatricality of logic is, then, at least as effective in such speeches as are the meanderings of many an avant-garde playwright whose comic <WSD>alogisms</WSD> tend, sometime, to detract from the gravity of the situation described. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.