Sentence examples for nonsense figure from inspiring English sources

Throughout all experimental sessions (both training and test), subjects performed in a task where nonsense figure stimuli were to be conveniently selected and ignored.

In the first condition (noncollinear), some lines were oriented differently from the background, forming a nonsense figure that could be segregated from the background lines (Fig. 1).

"Paired association with related and unrelated pairs of nonsense figures".

Daniels cuts a trim, no-nonsense figure, like Clint Eastwood with a crew cut.

McFarlane was billed as the type of no-nonsense figure who might take an axe to the underperforming investment bank, and thereby be decisive where Jenkins had dithered.

A seasoned technocrat, educated in both the US and UK, Ms Georghadji has a fierce reputation as another no-nonsense figure on the island as the head of an anti-corruption watchdog who regularly reports on misuse of public funds.

And after 9/11, the no-nonsense figure of Rudy Giuliani came to represent the city and the country at its time of need.

Because of constantly having to rewing this nonsense, to figure out what this lady is saying.

But personal relationships mean everything to Pike, a no-nonsense action figure who brilliantly ­wages his own clandestine war on the hit men who killed one of his former operatives and the man's entire family, including the nanny, during a home invasion.

A number of Bond scholars have noted the Lee's interpretation of the character was in line with the original literary representation; Cork and Stutz observed that Lee was "very close to Fleming's version of the character", whilst Rubin commented on the serious, efficient, no-nonsense authority figure.

The mouse-movement initiative was "a nonsense", a senior figure inside Ladbrokes at the time admitted.