Sentence examples for making nonsense from inspiring English sources

Everywhere he is eminently sensible, especially when he is making nonsense of our illusory certainties.

In the future, said one man who has campaigned for greater shareholder power but felt Calpers overstepped this year, "they will not be making nonsense challenges like this".

Everyone else in the part, in the play or the opera, runs around letting us know he's a villain, making nonsense of the plot".

He has long insisted that oil is not only plentiful, but also that it is a "fungible, global commodity" that will find its way to markets regardless of politics, making nonsense of all the talk about energy security and independence.

Other ideas run counter to the text, as when gods gather up youth-providing golden apples in anticipation of Freia's absence, thereby making nonsense of the moment when, deprived of them, they grow old.

The puzzle-piece ingredients of Al Souza's "Topsy-Turvy" are a familiar form of image fragmentation, but his jigsawed views are reorganized abstractly, making nonsense of the impulse to sort out the jumbled visual information.

They made nonsense noises and funny faces.

She's made nonsense of it.

But the Koreans made nonsense of this rating.

Either problem, by itself, makes nonsense of the whole claim.

In cups one blow can make nonsense of logic.