"nonsense around" is a valid phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe someone's behavior or actions as silly, foolish, or meaningless. Example: "Stop nonsensing around and get to work!".
There's too much nonsense around not to be.
They will take a bullet for their boss; they will not take any nonsense around him.
Of the actors on "the shortlist who can get movies greenlit," he said, "I probably have to deal with the least amount of nonsense around celebrity".
And, while the law in the US should be strengthened to guarantee paid parental leave, there is also an awful lot of puritanical nonsense around when it's considered decent for mothers to return to work.
He is also a decent performer who has been in mostly terrible films, but whose gravelly voice and dried-shammy features always lend much needed gravitas to the nonsense around him.
Ford alone took the measure of the nonsense around him, and saw instinctively how it might flourish; his lazy sprawl, and his grumbling asides, encouraged the audience to step back and inspect the striving of other life forms, and other civilizations, from a laconic angle.
There's plenty of that kind of nonsense going around".
(b) That it was me in those videotapes, but so overloaded with caffeine from endless cups of Java that I was cuckoo gaga, motormouthing a lot of nonsense, throwing around dollar amounts and making wild promises?
There are even a number of ex-army, no-nonsense pragmatists around, for whom sustainability and self-sufficiency are more to do with survivalism.
Whatever happened to the no-nonsense, socks-around-the-ankles (as opposed to over the knees) approach?
_What is this nonsense?" I looked around at people's expressions.
