How To Use Nonsense In A Sentence

It's all a lot of fuss and nonsense got up by some pesky civil rights activists, some of whom you can find here at Stand.
A good deal of nonsense about the obsolescence of art is written by the less responsible fuglemen of science.
Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
The captain continues the bitter commentary for a moment before calming himself down, saying he knows that Jenko wouldn't have wanted them to get angry about his death, and himself would have "rapped" to them about balance in the cosmos "and some nonsense about karma. Tomato Nation
The suggestion is sheer nonsense.

Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years. Monster of Marriage
With a penetrable fourth wall, a spot of audience participation and plenty of gleeful nonsense, this is pantomime in all but dame.
I believe this is in retaliation for all the nescient liturgical nonsense that I've been trying to ingest the past few days. Chewing on clouds
How can he be allowed to get away with such blatant, unhistorical nonsense?
Richard Kraft: Something With Birds In It | A site-specific installation composed of four elements, Something With Birds In It invokes the friction and fluidity between familiar polarities--between the sacred and profane, sense and nonsense, play and violence, reflection and action. Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011)
Don't give me that nonsense that you are saving the environment.
It is utter nonsense to say it is domestic rubbish. The Sun
But it's all kept very low key with no rock-star nonsense by surf-celebrator Malloy, whose stylish documentary elevates all of the tour's nuances Endless Summer-style, with human moments outweighing grandeur and without the bro-chatter of the latter. Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Jack Johnson, R.E.M., Train, Dolly, Carly, and More, Plus U2 Plays The Rose Bowl, and This Week's New Albums
All of which is complete and utter nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
Two outbreaks of such arrogant nonsense occurred recently.
It's a delightful piece of absurdist nonsense, a sitcom designed to offend highbrow admirers of minimalist dance.
That promise has been revealed as mendacious nonsense.
Patient Zero is a fast paced read, featuring Joe Ledger, a no-nonsense, no-hesitation fighter who is recruited for the Department of Military Science (DMS) to fight a new threat: a bio-terrorism agent that affects its victims in a way that makes them resemble zombies. Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » April
One must question the credibility of a journal that publishes such arrant nonsense.
Ida Willis is a no-nonsense, interfering housekeeper whose temperament is ill-suited to her clients.
The music includes a gusli a hammered dulcimer with spoon-shaped sticks, and the performers sing weird, nonsense-ish rhymes. Stravinsky Crashes the Party
His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
I was glad when he left them because I was a vegetarian and didn't wish to partake of any beefy, meaty nonsense.
Once again we appeal to these unsavoury people to please stop this silly nonsense.
Replacing one set of letters that are full of meaning with another set that are meaningless is clearly nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
This was his own decision with all the political toll that such a policy of dishonour and strategic nonsense will extract.
It stretches the powers of even the most experienced muckrakers and soapbox haranguers to find the least routine and boring bits of nonsense to present to us as the news.
Count Mirabeau is a most wonderful man, but he is a more than questionable character; even if you marry him, your discretion may very reasonably be called in question, but terms of intimacy, except with that view, cannot for a moment be tolerated; - to talk of friendship for such a man is nonsense, unless, like the good old duchess, you had had a tendresse for the father, which made you patronising for the son. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
And in response to the first two comments, the idea that Wheatley could ever be in the same party as Winnie Ewing is patent nonsense. In Defence of The Working Class - John Wheatley
Gavrilova returned one day from a seminar in Nizhny Novgorod and decided on no-nonsense measures.
All the credible scientists, of course, are saying that this is nonsense, it is simple minded, and absolutely have trashed it but the Japanese insist that they must go forward.
Freely on offer at 4/1 before the off Rockstown Lad made a nonsense of those odds as he winged out of trap five leaving his rivals floundering in his wake.
You are missing the fact that since intelligent cause is indistiguishable from lawlike cause, then when ID say "The best explanation is intelligent cause, rather than blind, lawlike cause …" it is nonsense. Aiguy's Computer
Kitty put her finger on it, that idea of an author distilling things for us and allowing us a moment or two of relaxedness in the face of what can be monumental nonsense. David Foster Wallace: Reflecting on the late author | EW.com
But her no-nonsense approach has won her scores of admirers. Times, Sunday Times
When that whole emphasis on arts was brought in five years ago, everyone pooh-poohed it as being, you know, arty-farty nonsense.
usually involves read-through of nonsense alleles in auxotrophic markers, e.g. ade1-14 (UAG) or ade2-1 (UAA). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
So when he makes some sounds — nonsense words, naturally — we go along with the call-and-response. Times, Sunday Times
There was to be no nonsense about balancing different tendencies. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
Whatever nonsense the papers print, some people always believe it.
Anyone who buys a book on that must be awfy keen on nonsense. A Small Death in the Great Glen
In this collection are old British and American ballads, Civil War songs, blues, frolic tunes, children's games, nonsense songs, lullabies, spirituals, and more.
It's reminiscent of 1930's Germany, and we shouldn't have to deal with neo-fascist nonsense since Bush is no longer in the White House. Napolitano takes aim at Arizona immigration law
Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"—which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart," as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues. Servants To Masters
But though they blethered and and grumbled and girned at him, they forgot it all soon enough and laughed about his nonsense.
His range of no-nonsense products helps to do just that, with ethically sourced, cruelty-free, 100 per cent vegan ingredients. Times, Sunday Times
Nonsense, says Deborah Cameron in this second extract from her new book - the supposed miscommunication is a myth. Conscientious: Science: October 2007 Archives
They asked if I was going to the office, and I replied with some meaningless nonsense.
The toxic nonsense about ‘public plays’ and ‘grand themes’ arises largely from this muddy water.
The portrait of ‘patriarchal oppression’ presented by the investigative journalist is nonsense, incidentally, and he - who has the perspective and temperament of a Victorian bluestocking - was laughed off the island.
This won't stop ministers spouting nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
After that mess of a movie, followed closely by further filmed nonsense about the Revolution, Hollywood is gearing up to release another re-edit of history.
This kind of disingenuousness validates dangerous nonsense as legitimate opinion and sets the table for extremism. Ian Gurvitz: Put Hate Speech in the Crosshairs
This is nonsense, because time is a man-made convention based on the movement of the earth about its axis and orbit around the sun.
These people crumble when their arrant nonsense is confronted with simple common sense.
The Fates are aligned in the form of the title outfit, led by a no-nonsense operative named Richardson, played by John Slattery in a crafty, deadpan take. Ann Hornaday reviews 'The Adjustment Bureau,' an ambitious, impressive thriller
Day after day, our leaders feed us arrant nonsense.
Don't abuse the privilege of having my cell number by wasting my valuable time on this kind of footling nonsense.
It was nonsense for her to say no one had a motive for murdering her husband.
He said that dowsing for water is complete nonsense.
Death to the talmud, death to the torah, death to the cabbala, death to the Israeli sanhedrin, death to all hassidim, death to rabbinical mishnah nonsense, death to Judaic racism against "Goyim", death to the Palestinian Apartheid Wall of Judaism, death to all of Israel. Bill Maher's Religulous Documentary is Evidently 'Brilliant' « FirstShowing.net
She saw herself as a direct, no-nonsense modern woman.
It includes nonsense about not raking up lawn clippings, using fluorescent light bulbs and getting your old clunker of a car tuned more often.
The movements and the tune and nonsense, an ancient language that's bereft of the life that formed it. Times, Sunday Times
He was a small man, not ill-made by Nature, but reduced to unnatural tenuity by dissipation-a corporeal attribute of which he was apt to boast, as it enabled him, as he said, to put himself up at 7st 7lb without any ‘d — — nonsense of not eating and drinking’. Doctor Thorne
I thought it was really terrific how he had boiled so much nonsense away and kept a particular track through the midst of all this confusion and hoopla and blah-blah.
You can tautologically assert that it is “rational” for a person in accord to “true preferences” that are “revealed” by their action in eating cheeseburger after cheeseburger only to later be deeply ostracized by society for being fat and then later to suffer a horrible death at a young age, but this is just nonsense. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
He concludes that conspiracy theories about wills and a police attempt to frame Slater were nonsense, but the true killer may never be known.
She strikes me as a no-nonsense gal, the sort of English rose, raised on tea and hockey, who'd be calm in a crisis and know how to make splints out of ice lolly sticks.
All I have is an overweight, overbeaten housewife spouting GOP nonsense and saying that a woman can't have a career AND a kid. Sound Politics: Darcy Burnocchio
All that bull about it being the taking part that counts… nonsense.
This book is somewhat dense, but if you like big slabs of no-nonsense political history, it is a feast.
I like Rooney, I like his no no-nonsense approach to the game and his quiet demeanour off the pitch.
It is silly nonsense, but it is fun silly nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
You will take no nonsense today and this helps you sort out a tricky cash situation. The Sun
Fake Sniffit = Indiana Voter ... it's like blog t-ball ... snag someone's moniker who annoys you, put nonsense words in their mouth, then post later attacking it under a different name Moderate Dems will determine if health care bill gets to Senate
It doesn't go in for politics or injustice or any such stuff and nonsense.
What she is spouting is rabid nonsense, and morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
We all have to go through the same nonsense, which seems crazy considering the precedent set at the first hearing.
I spared myself that nonsense on the home version but wondered afterward if that might have made for a better movie-going experience. MOVIE REVIEW: Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
The character in question is described as a no-nonsense natural leader, who despite rarely letting her guard down, is actually vulnerable and deeply caring. Mega Buzz: Bones' Sniper Returns, Bree's New Man, and Five-0's Team Shakeup
The only real connective tissue is the nonsense refrain of the title, which seems to slur through a dozen pair of wet, loose lips during this roundelay of partying.
Baffles me that these good-for-nothing jerks actually get away with all this nonsense. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Compensation Philosophy that is Coming Soon to Doctors
So there you have it: the great high priest of Darwinian Dogma has spoken; all nonsense perhaps, but atheists, please genuflect. 2010 April « Anglican Samizdat
In other words, religion is our way of making sense out of nonsense, necessary precisely because life, in and of itself, may well be meaningless.
Nonsense, you need to die in a house fire you cat p1ss reeking, farl faced, hare lipped ugly fcuking cnut. Army Rumour Service
There was no officers versus sergeants nonsense. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
You can't fool me with all that nonsense!
The interesting thing is that he wrote this nonsense in October 2001-months before New Jersey officials appointed him their Poet Laureate.
But, if the people of Washington, D.C., will stand up as citizens and exert their druthers, this nonsense would stop.
That claim will be utter, unmitigated, fully-fledged nonsense.
This so-called translation is pure nonsense.
Leslie Snow, who had an ileostomy at age nineteen and suffers from multisystem disease, thinks the notion of self-induced illness is nonsense. After the Diagnosis
Well, the Arizona hates the browns commenters above are pretty clear about folks coming over here to work (nonsense, of course-quite a few come to deal dope and gangbang). The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals
This drumfire of denialism nonsense will drown out science 10 to 1 before long. Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today
Or is this pretentious nonsense? Times, Sunday Times
All of which is complete and utter nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
The tragedy is that her worst nonsense devalued the nuggets of real value in her campaigns. Times, Sunday Times
Contradictions, or in acute Nonsense; Sometimes a scenical An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)
It is this sort of nonsense that makes the whole world get to grip with the term schadenfreude whitout really disliking the brits, England claim they invented football but it is long gone since they can dictate who or were the game is to be played. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
Pulling the covers off revealed a no-nonsense rapier and a mid-length dirk.
I have just listened to Mr Clayton Cosgrove, who I believe is a former trade union official, and who understands all about producer boards, talking arrant nonsense.
The website suggests a no-nonsense attitude towards unruly behaviour on the court.
He spouts a load of pretentious nonsense and people are stupid enough to believe him!
Forget all that nonsense about looking like an orange and think of your skin as the finest, most delicate fabric that you've got to wear for the rest of your life.
He uses nonsense to disguise the fact that he hasn't anything to say. Times, Sunday Times
Its always nice to read well meaning NONSENSE such as that posted above by “Blue Jeans Baby » Comfortable Castle – Improving your home » Blog Archive” as they perpetuate the FALSE MYTH that fiberglass is carcinogenic. RECYCLED BLUE JEAN INSULATION by Bonded Logic | Inhabitat
I’ve seen many a good title bogged down with comments like: ‘it’s not real if it’s not from Japan’ Perhaps if some authors were quick on the trigger to shoot down that nonsense, immature reviewers might dwindle away…but alas, this is asking for trouble, because even those truly critical of your work will avoiding saying so for fear Rice-Style retribution. Deliver Me From Temptation, Temptation Being Amazon « Whatever
Computer programs look like complete nonsense to me.
What was that nonsense about thinking there was a listening service? The Sun
What I love about Southern liberals, epitomized by the SRC, is that they are practical, hard-working, no-nonsense liberals and they have had to be. Lillian Smith Book Awards
He slapped old friends on the back and asked them if the stumps were coming away easily; he talked nonsense concerning labour and the inalienable rights of elephants to a long 'nooning'; and, wandering to and fro, thoroughly demoralized the garden till sundown, when he returned to his pickets for food. Life's Handicap
Based on the life and nonsense poems of Edward Lear, the show was nominated for a Total Theatre Award and widely praised by the critics.
It is utter nonsense to suggest otherwise. Times, Sunday Times
The most satisfying examples of it occur when the nonsense operates according to the rules of an anarchic universe, and obeys logic within this context.
Then he comes into this House, along with his colleagues, and talks a lot of drivel and absolute nonsense.
If anyone can shine a light on these mysterious snippets of nonsense I would be very happy to hear about it.
It should have been called nonsense and poppycock, but it was tempting to believe it as prices just kept rocketing.
The outstanding leave entitlement is absolutely crippling that organisation, and because of this nonsense its contingent liability has just gone through the roof.
Hmmmm, still not sure what people see in watching half-naked musclehead pseudo-cowboys pose and spout nonsense. Think Progress » Laura Bush demanded the truth
This was patent nonsense.
I babbled some nonsense about making an authentic Indian meal, regretting my purchase as she rang it up.
They made sure o 'their conquest, an' then built their wall, sae that the popular theory that the vallum was a protection against the south is a 'stuff an' nonsense. ' Border Ghost Stories
While all this nonsense is designed to gin up the GOP's growing full-mooner base, it has also scared more than a few Democrats in Congress. GOP to America: Be Afraid... Please.
The nonsense syllables of the parent have no dictionary definitions. Christianity Today
They were fragments, broken pieces of some nonsense puzzle, adding to nothing.
Attempts to force drivers to adopt one fuel or the other are nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
But her deep, throaty tones aside, this is nonsense. The Sun
I was a Minister for 9 years, and what the Hon Trevor Mallard has said is absolute arrant nonsense.
The idea is an economic nonsense.
She arrived armed with her family history and determined not to stand for any nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
We won't be happy until we've got 400 cable or satellite or digital stations and we can watch the most ridiculous, amateurish, shoddy bits of nonsense.
Her wit, house-proud manner and no-nonsense attitude really capture the audience's attention.
We heard arrant nonsense from him, who wanders around the country in a daze, blinded by his own incompetence.
Surely it is an economic nonsense to deplete the world of natural resources.
The children mimic her arm movements as they belt out a deafening do-re-mi song of nonsense syllables. Soap Operas, Frozen Food And Convertibles
His fond daydream shows that he is perfectly capable of the woollyheaded nonsense he decries in others.
In these videos, the pieces all come together into a remarkable coherence: all the nonsense somehow, delightfully, makes sense.
Other important elements include the kind of no-nonsense flat boots that you can wear all day, oversized knits and chunky beanie hats. Times, Sunday Times
Like I said earlier, it's absolute nonsense but nonsense which has been crafted with care and boundless enthusiasm.
In other words, it is about genealogy of ideas, rather than suggesting that so and so was a Hindutva votary or any such nonsense. There are aspects of Sri Aurobindo's thought that forms the genealogy and patrimony of political Hindutva
I think it's absolute nonsense.
Replacing one set of letters that are full of meaning with another set that are meaningless is clearly nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
February 15th, 2008 5: 40pm well said Ravi - the scarlet pimpernel AKA field will probably migrate to another page now to continue with his nonsense On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
It is utter nonsense of course and completely reprehensible morally. Times, Sunday Times
And we need something a little better than this accursed nonsense about the survival of the fittest. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Looking back at my early writing, it really is some dreary, self-indulgent nonsense. Taking stock « Write Anything
Whoever first "confesses" that he or she has been in long-term (preferably, psycho-dynamic) therapy, is able to openly talk about what he/she had worked on in therapy, and is able to articulate a no-nonsense meditation practice (not just prayer), is likely to be more emotionally self-regulated and better self-aware. Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychology of Presidential Ambition?
I canceled my membership in 2006 when I realized that someone was named AGU fellow who has published a lot of scientific nonsense all papers were peer-reviewed in the field of micrometeorology during the last five years. Archive 2008-02-01
I'll never, ever again be able to grin and bear lousy rping, ooc nonsense, and half-assed worldbuilding in Second Life. Howard Hughes vs. the Expectations of the 21st Century
Her shirtwaist was a soft, feminine shade of lavender, trimmed with lace, but her skirt was no-nonsense black. Surrender A Dream
Once you understand that Socialist are a bit unhinged to begin with, and the more they gather and plot...the unhingement becomes more and more manic until arrogance and nonsense is all they have to draw from. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Stuff and nonsense! You don't know what you're talking about.
As a boy of 11, I loved the nonsense verse of Façade, which I used to read whilst listening to Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield's recorded version.
Oh, I know her music is mostly schmaltzy nonsense but it's fun.
This so-called translation is pure nonsense.
Corporate social responsibility, Friedman assures him, is a nonsense - not just illegal, but immoral.
Kids only enjoy this nonsense because adults don't understand it and any parent who pretends to have it sussed deserves the weeks of sulks, slammed doors and interminable sighing that will inevitably follow.
Just stop this nonsense of refusing to talk to anybody.
It is utter nonsense and completely reprehensible morally. Times, Sunday Times
Vocal tracks fare better, presenting skittish avant pop with goofy arrangements and nonsense lyrics.
For many months, racing has been the subject of wild rumours and unsubstantiated allegations, much of them nonsense and most thoroughly offensive.
The best seasonal food served up in a straightforward, no-nonsense way. Times, Sunday Times
His response was full of pretentious nonsense.
Mr Speaker, this really does make a nonsense of Standing Order 301.
At the same time they either played meaningful background noise such as conversation or nonsense background noise, involving sounds at the same frequency as speech. Times, Sunday Times
Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories.
This does not, as mentioned, mean that ethics and the rest are themselves nonsense.
But no one will be laughing if they end up sitting in the House of Commons spouting their nonsense. The Sun
But her direct, no-nonsense leadership has since won fans. Times, Sunday Times
There is no room for petty insularity and sectarian nonsense - the Scots must see themselves as nimble enough to change and take on the world's best.
An 'ye claver sic' nonsense when ye're daft, what would ye say when ye're sane? Lords of the North
He observes that the stanza "may be read as a nonsense-verse replacing some traditional bawdry which is represented by the rest of the song in the [Burns] MS. and MMC; but goose, hen and magpie are all low terms for a woman, and from the Nicht Owre
Thankfully, I no longer go to this abhorrent nonsense replete with its jazz band and rock presentations and prebyters who suffer from systemic logorrhoea with three sermons per session and the uncontrollable urge to try to explain, even if poorly, everything they are doing. More inculturation and liturgical "updating", courtesy of the Asian bishops
His repeated lack of promotion makes nonsense of the theory that if you work hard you'll be successful.
But others don't care if it's scientific nonsense because, hey, it's just a conceit, and there's a lot of thematic intricacy to be wrought in mirroring the protagonist through a non-supernatural analogue of the fantasy/horror doppelganger: switch critical faculties to "metaphor", roll up the sleeves, and get stuck into interpreting the text. Narrative Grammars
If you ask me, these modern teaching methods are a load of nonsense .
And the wife in this two-headed hydra of nonsense claims to have a degree in biology.
So is there any genuinely interesting news in all this vacuous Hollywood house-hunting nonsense?
All this talk that one shouldn't change a single note in a score is nonsense.
Or is this pretentious nonsense? Times, Sunday Times
However, to Jiang Yi-hao (江一豪), a worker and social activist, all these so-called solutions are nonsense. Global Voices in English » Taiwan: If You Lost Your Job…
The notion that the official machine will grind to a halt in these conditions is abject nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
Stephane Dion was so good at it as intergovernmental affairs minister, he could put the lie to all manner of nonsense arguments coming from the pequiste ranks. Yeah trudeau!
I made for the door, blethering nonsense, and had to stop myself running down the drive, straight home. A Small Death in the Great Glen
It's possible to throw the computer program out of joint by typing in nonsense.
Marian's mind was made up, and she withstood all the persuasions of Gerald and Agnes that it was nothing -- nonsense -- only Clara's dismality -- they would laugh at her for coming for nothing. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World
With exceptional skill, in this and many other numbers, Calloway managed to play both sides of the street: Using the jive talk popular among African Americans, especially those in the big cities, he was able to communicate on a hip, insider level while delighting non-initiates (most of whom probably were white) with the joyfulness and apparent nonsense of his lyrics as well as giving them the pleasure of participating in call-and-response scat choruses. Review of "Hi-De-Ho," Alyn Shipton's biography of Cab Calloway
However Ken conspicuously failed to mention that the other teams researching in the area have dismissed the Vinnikov and Grody paper as arrant nonsense.
It's full of truisms, generalisations and nonsense.
The nonsense syllables of the parent have no dictionary definitions. Christianity Today
Murmuring soft words of comfort and nonsense, she eased herself carefully along the wall, bringing her hand along the side of the horse.
A transition of the C 643 to T resulting in a nonsense mutation changing Gln PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
I don't want it to be diluted by prattling around with this kind of nonsense!
That wonderful pattern-matching ability I've mentioned elsewhere comes into being and forces us to turn garble into sense, any sense, even if it's nonsense.
ZDNet's technical editor in Europe, Rupert Goodwins, is a genuine, no-nonsense radio expert; radio ham licence, several hardware designs to his credit.
‘Guys can you stop all this nonsense for just few minutes,’ Kaoru said and stood in-between them.
In the darkness, a lunatic warbled nonsense and a hungry madman babbled on about food.
I assure you they talk nonsense.
Finally, I am getting heartily sick of this ice bucket challenge nonsense. The Sun

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