How To Use Non sequitur In A Sentence
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And yet there's the childlike irreverence at times, the giggles, the non sequiturs, the references to such inane activities as shopping.
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I gotta show Pseud, the bluffer, what a non sequitur is, by demonstrating what it is not: I noted that, as a rule, it is very rare for a candidate to lose many votes because they voted against something that passed.
Matthew Yglesias » The Repealers
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He even appreciates the aesthetics of the game, wherein lies a kind of abstract expressionism - the non sequiturs, the shapes of words themselves, the improbable consonance of consonants.
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She gave him a slightly scornful glance, and he racked his brains to see if he could find the reason for the non sequitur.
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But you said you were coming by train," said Gwen, in what seemed a complete non sequitur.
LOST CHILDREN
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The rabbit was a non sequitur.
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We can scale up an oxymoron such as "He froze, turning his head slowly to look," into the more complex sort of narrative non sequiturs we get in absurdist or surrealist fiction, the discontinuities that give these works their oneiric quality, the discombobulation engendered where the sentences don't build up into a sensible sequence.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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Non sequiturs, tautologies, obiter dicta, wild generalizations, malapropisms and clichés abound.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The indignant theorist casts aspersions on their methods, inserts a non sequitur regarding its effects and explains how this is frightfully unfair for the "little guy".
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And with that non sequitur, he began to head up Molly's walk.
BAD MEDICINE
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Cold plasma's I assume you mean the equally non sequitur*, nonthermal plasma are just an unsophisticated joke!
Hot Crescent Rolls… A Bubble? | Universe Today
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The accent on non sequiturs and non-linear thinking echoes the Ono sensibility and much else in determinedly avant-garde circles.
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The narrative, prompted by AP's inauguration of another website, and intended as a teasing commentary on this and 'the new creation' theology, as well as non-trinitarian alternatives to Christian orthodoxy and other developments on the (OST) site, might seem to have divagated itself into a non sequitur.
Open source theology - Comments
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Had she missed something, or was this just a non sequitur ?
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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I am disappointed to see that negativity upheld by Non Sequitur, but I have to admit that jab is well deserved by the slobs who use the anonymity and remoteness of the field to conduct themselves poorly.
See Us in the Funny Pages
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The non sequitur is to assume that the new service will be a revenue-generating business in its own right.
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Second, linking logging of mature trees to clearing of underbrush is a policy non sequitur.
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Wanna see what a real non sequitur looks like, pseud?
Matthew Yglesias » The Repealers
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The narrative of the book is also disconnected, with plenty of non sequiturs between chapters.
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The setting is uncannily deserted but for these two and the conversation rich with non sequiturs, but the real quirk comes when the flick-knife is laid down on a seat behind them only to have disappeared when they next turn to look for it.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Saying that Buxtehude is more harmonically adventurous than Bach is a bit of a non sequitur; like saying what the -?
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change
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The doctor often produced such self-referential non sequiturs when at a loss.
THE LAST PLACE
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This is the only way one can reasonably explain the numerous grammatical and spelling errors, logical non sequiturs, inaccuracies, misquotes, opaque prose, and prolific use of jargon that clutter almost every page.
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It's a parade of theatrical non sequiturs set to some of the world's catchiest tunes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It hardly takes a brilliant operatic dramaturge to see through this brainless travesty, loaded with irrelevant inventions and non sequiturs.
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Adding insult to injury, the spokesman's comments drip with sophistry, doublethink and non sequiturs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The playwright is clearly striving for Dennis Potter style moments of rapture; sadly he achieves only a bizarre and unintentional effect of Pinteresque non sequitur.
Critique From HereNow
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The patent claim, riddled with typos and non sequiturs, has already been widely reviled, but if successful could blow a chill through the hand-held industry.
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She has turned it into an increasingly ludicrous set of insinuations, non sequiturs and delusions.
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It's a first-person blurt, a perspectival non sequitur given what follows.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This wouldn't be much of a play, so Donaghy tells it in stammers and dithers, fragmented verbiage and non sequiturs, inchoate bits and overlapping dialogue, aposiopesis and time lags (a question is answered three or four lines later).