How To Use Nonsensical In A Sentence

Nowadays the word jabberwocky is used to mean nonsensical language in general. â€ "V Venkata Rao, Ahmedabad The Times of India
Your death was determined to be “sudden unexplained death in epilepsy,” a term so cruelly nonsensical it might as well have been “fickle finger of fate.” Knowing Jesse
Yet he still trailed to a nonsensical extent. Times, Sunday Times
We should nip this nonsensical argument in the bud before it's taken too far, and the federal government follows.
And in any case, we could take the second meaning of the word ‘insubstantial’ into consideration and say that dreams are meaningless and far too nonsensical.

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Of course his reconstructions might be merely a projection of Propp's thesis onto the material, in which case he was proving nothing; but he knew -- he _knew_ -- that his reconstructions were not nonsensical, and they did tend to coalesce toward the pure structure Propp had devised. Enchantment
You can read what can only be described as the completely nonsensical ravings of this chap here.
If you don’t want sarcastic commentary on the nonsensical aspects of the entertainment industry, I’d suggest ew is not the place for you. Kate Gosselin interview bingo: Get ready for another cliche-fest | EW.com
If the present economic relations are simply absurd and nonsensical, hollow at their center, something to be rejected, then what is the prospect for a different life emerging?
Not that all fantastic theories are equivalently nonsensical.
Of course he'll try to back-pedal, tacking a spectacular cop-out ending that leaves the central family intact and his final upbeat words nonsensically used as a coda.
As far as Eliot's is concerned, his older sister Dawn talks in nonsensical sentences. [UPDATED] REVIEW: 2006 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees
To us living our lives on the macroscale, the tiny world of quantum mechanics seems weird and nonsensical.
His behaviour was inexplicable, angry and aggressive, he had outbursts that were nonsensical. The Sun
The invalid interrupt vector pointed to memory containing a bunch of technically valid but nonsensical instructions followed by an invalid one.
A line could and should easily be drawn, however, when these companies resort to nonsensical double entendres involving lewdness and obscenity.
A metronomical performance is certainly tiresome and nonsensical; time and rhythm must be adapted to and identified with the melody, the harmony, the accent and the poetry ... Letters
Despite scepticism, founder Trent Huang was nonsensical and confident about his company.
Further, this conception renders purposeful art at best aimless and at worst nonsensical.
I couldn't remember all the games I came up with, some that made sense and others that were completely nonsensical.
So, you tell me if the following statement falls into the dumb-ass and nonsensical category: "Obama views not Iran, not North Korea, but America as the bad guy. Jason Salzman: Do Independent Voters Agree That Obama Thinks America Is Worse Than Iran?
Despite scepticism, founder Trent Huang was no - nonsensical and confident about his company.
After reading your nonsensical rant, I seriously doubt that anyone would "confide" in you again! Brain dead
Gone are the grimy beats, the sarcastic vocals and nonsensical lyricism, replaced by inspiring rhythms and lyrics laced with celebration and regret.
We, however, should realize that it is economically disadvantageous and nonsensical for the state to support and army that is doing no military training.
─but the hail has other reasons than serving and the wet eastern wind of evening does not dream of standing watch by my disenchanged lion sobs: no longer will I run after every passage of beauty,─beauty is defeated, never again at attention will I snuff out that fire now glimmering like an old tree trunk in which hollow swallows make nonsensical nests, child's lay, unreckoning misery, unreckoning misery of sympthy. Amelia Rosselli
It was the peculiar accent that puzzled me before; it made Alice's words sound garbled, nonsensical.
His behaviour was inexplicable, angry and aggressive, he had outbursts that were nonsensical. The Sun
Why not drop in daily for your regular dose of nonsensical blather, rambling introspection and stolen links?
The term 'oversold' (or conversely 'overbought') invests with spurious purported precision a notion that is nonsensical. Times, Sunday Times
I doubt I have ever read a novel with so many extravagantly nonsensical similes and rococo metaphors.
In a roaring but strangely squeakily toned mumble of utter nonsensical gibberish, the round manchild asked me something I can only assume was about how my shopping went, to which I could think of no other reply except, "Fine, and you," before I loaded the conveyor belt with my few items that were to be sent frightfully into this employee's clumsily oversized hands. One Cent Baby
Please excuse any misspellings or nonsensical happenings… I have my moments.
No parking all day is totally out of order, ludicrous, and nonsensical.
Since timing is so crucial to punching power, and timing is eroded by age and wear and tear, that declaration is nonsensical. Times, Sunday Times
Repeated attempts to contact the Sol System have been met only with static and nonsensical garbles.
In sensory or receptive aphasia, there is a problem with comprehension, and affected people produce speech that sounds fluent but is actually nonsensical or full of meaningless jargon.
However, he said, he believes continuing to "stigmatize" SNCF more than 60 years after the atrocities were committed is "nonsensical. Holocaust group faults VRE contract
Nonsensical garbage to confuse kids under the guise of "whimsey" and "delightful logic puzzles. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Their methods of assessment produce nonsensical results.
A clip was shown of the most nonsensical scene of the movie in which his previously dumb-as-rocks character suddenly becomes smart and calculating.
No doubt Charcot determines very well the phases of the attack, notes the nonsensical and passional attitudes, the contortionistic movements; he discovers hysterogenic zones and can, by skilfully manipulating the ovaries, arrest or accelerate the crises, but as for foreseeing them and learning the sources and the motives and curing them, that's another thing. Là-bas
Adam Robert's makes excellent points: why literature screams pretention to some while genre cries folksy is borderline nonsensical. MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa)
However, words tend to fail when it comes to making sense of Herriman's often nonsensical tales.
After all, the DNA molecule is one continuous chain of bases, and without punctuation, the code would be nonsensical.
His tweed-clad, mainly male cast of characters roam the countryside and become embroiled in bizarre, nonsensical occurrences.
Jockeys should never get off scot-free when they make mistakes, but the recent calls for jockeys to be banned for months for dropping their hands is quite nonsensical.
And the plot is as nonsensical as it is shallow. Times, Sunday Times
Different languages have cultural references that seem nonsensical to outsiders. Times, Sunday Times
Zen masters often use nonsensical or unsolvable riddles, or koans, to bring about enlightenment.
Instead, many critics have focused on a fairly nonsensical argument.
It seems nonsensical to ask, yet house builders are being told to solve the sort of equation that any naturalist would reject. Times, Sunday Times
I believe it is nonsensical, and that God gave us the brains to know right from wrong.
It's nonsensical to blame all the world's troubles on one man.
It stays true to its roots of biting satire and dry wit and avoids becoming nonsensical.
Dunno about the legalities of it all, but I rather like the phrase, “exceptionally nonsensical bounteousness.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Um, Talk About Trackbacks!
There have been some charges of plagiarism on account of this reference which to my mind are spurious and nonsensical.
So it's a weird, nonsensical cartoon, the kind of dada-ist, surreal stuff that abounded in the mid-'90s before networks realized that advertisers didn't want to buy time on "kids" shows that weren't actually comprehensible to kids. Archive 2008-02-01
He said Jared Loughner had not displayed in the neighborhood the kind of argumentative, nonsensical behavior that raised concerns about his mental health at Pima Community College, where he was suspended last fall and directed to get a mental evaluation before returning. Investigators look over bag suspect may have carried
And with a dozen or so companies already exploring for uranium, worth potentially billions of dollars, he says the Territory's stance was nonsensical.
My plan, in short, was to nod a lot and agree with whatever anyone said, however idiotic or nonsensical.
He is a master of platitudinous nonsensical mutterings meted out in a muttonheaded masterly display of the obvious.
The characters are often equally nonsensical. Times, Sunday Times
It was deucedly unpleasant, he decided, this being peppered at; and nonsensical as it really was, it was none the less deadly serious. Chapter 27
Why don't they pay what it's worth rather than stick with a classification system which is completely nonsensical? Times, Sunday Times
Keep up the tea parties and the nonsensical complaints about the health care reform plans, it will get us nowhere. landshark Cheney undergoes back surgery
Ferrell plays Dr. Rick Marshall, a paleontologist disgraced by what others call his nonsensical theories about space-time vortexes. This American Life® Group
For a show that has the labyrinthine, seemingly nonsensical plots of a soap opera, that's a real accomplishment.
I laughed, delighted with the nonsensical argument.
About the best he managed was that it was "duplicative," which was about as nonsensical a position as could be imagined. How Joe Lieberman helped the Democrats lose the election
The article itself is the usual nonsensical blather about creating housing projects along ideological lines.
Much of the rest of the e-mail is rambling, incoherent, badly written, nonsensical, fanciful, and downright unbelievable.
It has been condemned as irrational and nonsensical; on the other hand, it has been considered the supreme expression of the human spirit.
However the Palin haters of the Democrat party will just spew their nonsensical hate towards her when they read this article with the typical democrat name calling. Cafferty: Are you interested in Palin's views on health care reform?
Why don't they pay what it's worth rather than stick with a classification system which is completely nonsensical? Times, Sunday Times
Of course he'll try to back-pedal, tacking a spectacular cop-out ending that leaves the central family intact and his final upbeat words nonsensically used as a coda.
It's a no-brainer with some lush locales [Mauritius, South Africa], striking babes [three beauty queens] and a nonsensical script.
Thou runnest on with thy cursed nonsensical reformado rote, of dying, dying, dying! and, having once got the word by the end, canst not help foisting it in at every period! Clarissa Harlowe
Vodlepussy waxed nonsensically nostalgic for fallen Tyson: "Not only a great competitor, but also somebody that kind of bridged the gap. Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: Robbed!
But here's the philosophical conundrum: how can one exercise common sense when the rules themselves are nonsensical?
You can wind up wasting a lot of your time addressing their nonsensical points which spread farther and farther afield from the discussion. Matthew Yglesias » Fair and Balanced
Their methods of assessment produce nonsensical results.
His vile temper is aimed at the baroque plots and nonsensical script. Times, Sunday Times
So my mother babbled some more nonsensical apologies, paid the bill, tipped the waiter, gave me a quick hug, and went dashing off.
It believe it is nonsensical and that God gave us the brains to know right from wrong.
As the wall is not finished, this is a nonsensical argument.
It's not a completely original approach - many songs have nonsensical lyrics or scat effects - but strong melodies like these deserve thoughtful lyrics.
There were committee members making wild - and occasionally nonsensical - charges.
It was a nonsensical argument and one got the impression that Kerr did not believe it himself.
He would teach Charles, the eldest of the three, to master chess, a nonsensical game his prating pater really could not stand.
Of course, this means that usually they get away with it, and then spend 15 minutes in nonsensical Mad Hatter Tea Party discussion of a misformulation. Matthew Yglesias » The Five Percent Solution
It is a chilling fact that most of the world's leaders believe in nonsensical fairytales about the nature of reality. German Longsword: How to punish bad technique
His vile temper is aimed at the baroque plots and nonsensical script. Times, Sunday Times
They deliver nonsensical presentations to self-important dim-witted businessmen to hilarious results.
This is just like the nonsensical foolishness from the left stating that health care reform should be single payer, all or nothing (when no country that has single payer achieved it with one step, but rather did so over a long period with incremental steps towards a goal). Think Progress » ‘Grassroots’ Opposition To Clean Energy Reform Bankrolled By Foreign Oil, Petro-Governments (Updated)
He slurred words, intentionally sang out of tune, bleated like a sheep, laughed at himself and made up nonsensical lines.
I believe most readers would be able to understand that this is the use of the word chauvinism that I had in mind in my comment, even though you believe this use to be an “original albeit nonsensical” one. Lean Left » Blog Archive » Reading Soldier of Fortune in Tehran: Another War of Choice on an Islamic Nation for Non-Existent WMDs
In sensory or receptive aphasia, there is a problem with comprehension, and affected people produce speech that sounds fluent but is actually nonsensical or full of meaningless jargon.
The strain on one's system of two consecutive days of heavy drinking caused by rhetorical and nonsensical talking points from those who could care less about things like consumers, competition, lower prices and innovation would make the drinking seem ill-considered. Art Brodsky: The Coming GOP War On the Open Internet -- Not a Drinking Game
I'm particularly irked by this one woman in my vicinity who fills her cubicle with nonsensical items like plaques that contain lame poetry about soulmates and puppies and such.
Kerry called the idea mistimed and nonsensical.
Unfortunately, it leaves the public in the position of trying to discern legitimate science from nonsensical technobabble.
Here, too, serious reflection is interrupted by nonsensical asides.
If the writer's argument is nonsensical, readers are quick to say so.
Since timing is so crucial to punching power, and timing is eroded by age and wear and tear, that declaration is nonsensical. Times, Sunday Times
I use the word motley in the sense of incongruous or nonsensical, as evidenced by the protest signs they were carrying. The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
This past decade may have even been the worst of all with the surge of mass produced McMansions along with their ridiculous selection of fake architecture in styles such as Tudorbethan, French Chateau, or some nonsensical variety of Mediterranean Revival. Will the suburbs go contemporary?
If the rules are nonsensical (or worse, impossible to understand), then the mind jumps away from the game and the sense of immersion disappears.
I at once announced my return to Cornelius by sending him a small Venetian gondola, which I had bought for him in Venice, and to which I added a canzona written with nonsensical Italian words. My Life — Volume 2
You gotta love a person releasing nonsensical theories out of their diseased butt-cheeks without a shred of evidence. Obama Called Hillary After Speech -- Honors Her For "Valiant And Historic Campaign"
Yet he still trailed to a nonsensical extent. Times, Sunday Times
Because say what you will about the apolitical nature of swing voters, they still look for ideas that aren't dumb-ass stupid and nonsensical. Jason Salzman: Do Independent Voters Agree That Obama Thinks America Is Worse Than Iran?
The plot is totally nonsensical but is played at such a thrilling pace that it barely matters. The Sun
It's become so unravelled in the course of his revisionism that it's completely unrecognizable and nonsensical now.
This sad, pitiful person abounds in nonsensical, uniformed diatribes. Palin pokes fun at William Shatner
While we might take solace in our own anthropic prejudice, dismissing the nonsensical communiqués of such chatbots as nothing more than computerized gobbledygook, we might unwittingly miss a chance to study firsthand the babytalk of an embryonic sentience, struggling abortively to awaken from its own phylum of oblivion. Poetic Machines 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Part 2 of this bill is the part that deals with the nonsensical, silly approach that has been applied by this Government.
A line could and should easily be drawn, however, when these companies resort to nonsensical double entendres involving lewdness and obscenity.
As their argument sinks, the nonsensical numbers of the Lancet Study are all that is left to cling to.
And while the choreography is not oblivious to these cultural influences, make no mistake that this is still clearly the work of Bausch as they flow back and forth between performers as one leaves off and another picks up a chain of convoluted and nonsensical narrative whimsy. Archive 2008-12-01
There's no one who can touch Noble for flights of nonsensical fancy.
I'd say it's just the kind of nonsensical hyperbolae I may choose to write abiout in my blog. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
His vile temper is aimed at the baroque plots and nonsensical script. Times, Sunday Times
Because the bees do not speak in plain language, but in cryptic phrases that appear nonsensical to those untrained in the apian way. The light that draws the flower
As the movie's plot gets more embroiled, it becomes less coherent and amusing, climaxing as it does with a massive train derailment, a hostage situation, and a final bit of flimflammery that's truly just nonsensical.
In this installment, Noel and Julian share insights into the role music plays in their TV show and live stage performances, and we also learn about "crimping" -- the nonsensical, nerdy, embarassingly British dork-raps you'll see often in their hit BBC program. Boing Boing
Moe Tkacik's latest piece for her Das Krapital blog at the Washington City Paper fingers Charles Lane for most of the Washington Post's obsequious coverage of the post-crash economy -- from their overarching devotion to Timothy Geithner, to their fussbudgety and nonsensical concern-trolling over Elizabeth Warren to what Tkacik describes as an overall "neglect" of "the economy's more conspicuous challenges -- such as the foreclosure thing, about which they have yet to issue an official proclamation. The Washington Post's TARP Mythmaking, A Recent History
It seemed to me that Sir Robert's arguments were nonsensical.
Thus this season Premiership fans have been treated to the nonsensical award of bookings for players who ‘overcelebrate’ a goal.
In this installment, Noel and Julian share insights into the role music plays in their TV show and live performances, and we also learn about "crimping" -- the nonsensical, nerdy, embarassingly British dork-raps you'll see often in their hit BBC comedy show. Boing Boing
Literary references to wine drinking are legion, presumably because it encouraged conversation, civilized, bawdy, or sometimes nonsensical.
So I think you guys SHOULD bicker about nonsensical horseshit. Matthew Yglesias » Olivier Blanchard on the Case for Higher Inflation
Why don't they pay what it's worth rather than stick with a classification system which is completely nonsensical? Times, Sunday Times
One minute you're learning that Sir Issac Newton chuckled only once in his life (scoffing at Euclidean geometry) and that the term for such people who don't laugh is 'agelast'; the next that the apparently nonsensical elephant jokes that were popular in the Sixties are believed to be racist in origin; the next how Bertrand Russell put down a heckler during one of his lectures on logic. Chortle News RSS
Consequently, his lawyers are talking to Martel's lawyers, who are the only people likely to profit from this nonsensical argument.
Her experience is not only painful; it seems meaningless and nonsensical.
It looked nonsensical and meaningless but held its own importance.
Van Bebber and Taylor pointed out the same errors in Ross's earlier book, and it's tiresome to see Ross repeating discredited nonsensical arguments time after time.
The nonsensical claim I am rebutting is that the solution to global warming is entirely a matter of government action and that consumer choices don’t matter. Matthew Yglesias » Vancouver Suffering From Snow Shortage
One was called despair, and made no sense to me whatsoever (and me being completely unlogical should be able to understand nonsensical things) and the other was titled wind, and started off with it whipping beggar's faces or something, and ended with it playing happily ... Blu94anjel Diary Entry
So we must try to make sense of what seems on the surface to be nonsensical.
This argument is as nonsensical as it is cruel and an extra billion is not enough.
Lest this distinction be thought nonsensical, we need to reemphasize the imperfect correlation in America between believing and belonging. American Grace
As a result, he develops more arguments against rationalism, and finds them more and more nonsensical and therefore less worthwhile reading.
He burst into hysterical tears of confusion, speaking a line of nonsensical gibberish.
Viewers see all sorts of nonsensical things on screen that defy meaning or explanation. Christianity Today
GRTU compensation claim for Valletta works is 'nonsensical' - ministry Timesofmalta.com
The folks meeting there must have been ankle deep in nonsensical dribble. CPAC Warmongering Etc. « Antiwar.com Blog
Then a super-weird exchange -- fraught but nonsensical -- between Cat, Michaele and Jen (who at the winery stepped out of obscurity to tell Cat she was being "bitchy," and suddenly the cameras focused on her like she'd just descended from heaven -- well played, Jen!). Mean girls: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#5, Sept. 9)
Yeah, maybe he should constantly (and lyingly) proclaim himself victorious, lie about his profession and write useless nonsensical drivel to prove himself “worthy”, jerkoff Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery.
ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer
In essence, this new intense sport is windsurfing without those nasty, nonsensical items like safety or sanity.
Seriously, it has to be mind-bendingly frustrating to have to defend some of this nonsensical hooey. Bob Cesca: When in Doubt, They Beat Up Women
Stupid acronyms contribute to stupid governance, and this particular example is flagrantly ugly, charmlessly kludgy, insipidly, nonsensically, grotesquely stupid. Dustbury.com » Initial reaction
With nonsensical answerless riddles, and preposterous double-speak as the daily party line. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bush as the 'Mad Hatter'
For this is what Bad Blood is - an unashamed melodrama, complete with villains, misunderstood heroes and convoluted, nonsensical plots.
As Kulick would have it, Leontes collapses prone downstage left, and an attendant nonsensically tosses a bearskin over him.
a nonsensical jumble of words
Even if you want to defend yourself, you should have used other ways to defend yourself and not by all these nonsensical stupid actions that you chosed. Anonymous commentors, read this!
A nonsensical, roundly-panned “Bunker In The Sky” that was little more than a government-subsidized fuck-pad and a bastardly, macho exhibitionism at the expense of family and personal reputation, just to name a couple of them. Archive 2008-01-01
Bascially it would require a 10% swing to the Tories today from Labour to give them a chance of government which from what I know of the voting proportions is such a ludicrous number as to make it nonsensical.
Furthermore, reports suggest that she dared to retaliate to such insults, and allegedly lashed out at the prophet and his faith, in a country that is 97 percent Muslim and where freedom of speech is a phrase often as nonsensical as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Havovi Cooper: Asia Bibi And Pakistan's Selective Persecution
Am I the only one who finds these titles ludicrously nonsensical? MODIFYING CAREERS WITH “WOMAN” » Sociological Images
But since the fourth century B.C., the region has undergone such complete ethnic and cultural changes to render the name nonsensical, Greece argues - not to mention that Greece has its own province called Macedonia. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
Since timing is so crucial to punching power, and timing is eroded by age and wear and tear, that declaration is nonsensical. Times, Sunday Times
‘The media is not a mirror of the culture,’ she fumed, nonsensically and ungrammatically, when asked about the popularity of shows like Queer Eye.
It's just with 24 hours to fill for the cable channels, and all those news magazine shows on the networks, there is also an awful lot of repetition, padding, filler, nonsense, bloviation, and nonsensical chatter - just like the Internet.
It is nonsensical to claim that it is not the Government's role to intervene to protect people from harmful exposure to tobacco smoke.
For those of us who think deconstructionism is nonsensical, it's actually a reason to doubt that our beliefs are formed this way. Darwin's God
The chair of the committee at that time, Janet Mackey, who is one of the most sensible members in the Labour caucus, recognised that it was nonsensical and foolish legislation.
Mullen's poems, which often incorporate word games like anagrams, acrostics, and puns, can border on the nonsensical (or, as she says, ‘skirt the edges of meaning’).
Then, having apparently resolved their nonsensical argument, the sorcerer said a phrase in a language Isobel did not understand.
And today one local firm of merchants launched a blistering attack on the decision, branding it ‘nonsensical’.
When no words came, I began typing a nonsensical string of letter and numbers before backspacing the entire last sentence.
The movie does not stand up to any kind of thoughtful inspection and the muddled finale is nonsensical.
He recycles the nonsensical propaganda that used to mascarade as history in nonsensical history books that where shown to be complete fabrications (Joan Peters!) as fact. Matthew Yglesias » The End of Palestine
That is one of the great nonsensical, ahistorical misconceptions.
Must be a slow news day, to hear him yatter on in his nonsensical, poorly researched diatribe. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
You must cease this nonsensical life of yours, slaving away as if you were a servant!
Not less nonsensical is the vision of rich lovers at her feet. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Had to tell one or two porkies here to avoid being mis-categorised in this nonsensical quiz from a born again Christian, UKIP-er, chessman and lifelong Sheffield Resident Jonathan with an eh?' Archive 2007-01-07
“Wonderful,” muttered Daeman and went in search of another drink while Hannah and her friends — even the insufferable Harman — droned on, using nonsensical terms such as “coke bed,” “wind belt,” “tuyere” (which Hannah was explaining meant some little air entrance on their clay-lined furnace, near which the young woman named Emme kept working the wheezing bellows) and “melting zone” and “molding sand” and “taphole” and “slag hole.” Ilium
Meanwhile, the rush to spend or misspend money on every conceivable defense initiative is threatening to produce many of the usual nonsensical results.
It wasn't just the overheated, nonsensical "lyricism," which vito_excalibur mentions here. SeeLight:
But the notion that unscrupulous individuals are cashing in on the fears of silly rich women is nonsensical. Times, Sunday Times

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