Sentence examples for considered nonsensical from inspiring English sources

Describing himself as an "old Scottish warrior," Dr. Campbell delighted in fierce ideological battles, whether with Stanford administrators whom he accused of wanting to take over Hoover or of spokesmen for liberal causes, not a few of whom he considered nonsensical.

When we then consider the nonsensical, banal content of the three questionable dialogues, by far the best explanation of Graham's observations is that they are forgeries, and lame ones at that.

Augustine, for example, in the Confessions (book XI, chapters 13 and 14), considers it nonsensical to ask what God was doing before the creation of the world; God, in creating the universe, brings time and with it, relations of before and after into existence; thus, it is no more meaningful to ask what came before the first moment of time than it is to ask what is north of the north pole.

Bentham wanted to abandon what he considered to be a nonsensical mythology of natural rights and duties — that is, moral rights and duties that people have regardless of whether anyone is prepared to enforce them.

True considers the allegations nonsensical.

This scenario is especially nonsensical considering that CS teaches problem solving like no other -- even theoretical math and physics courses.

This problem of nonsensical acts is considered by some to be the main problem with Savage's result (see, e.g., Joyce 1999: 108).

In particular, even the notion of truth was considered as suspicious or even nonsensical at the time, at least by some logical positivists (e.g., Neurath, Hempel).

However, because we considered that it would be somewhat nonsensical to measure the public familiarity for monkeys, we focused on the difference between two extremes in familiarity, i.e., personal familiarity and visual familiarity.

"Perfect Depth" is, according to Jovanovic, a "gloriously messy sonic assault", and "reflects a more considered Malkmus attempt at lyric crafting, even if they are nonsensical and almost impossible to hear".

The lunar cycle has been tied to a range of mysterious powers, from increases in violent crimes and hospital admissions to fertility and blood loss, and scientists consider most such beliefs nonsensical.