In someone else's hands, this could be a riotous call to action, but Kumar is a more pipe-and-slippers scholar, playing around with philosophical concepts and exposing nonsense logic.
It is more delightful to see early Bond archetypical situations like laser-shark interrogation rendered in bit art than to solve a nonsense logic puzzle or survive one of the few embarrassing arcade sequences, such as Surf Bond vs. Rocks.
Perhaps I'd feel differently if I actually lived through such terror, but I agree that there is something perversely appealing about the no-nonsense logic of flashcards and drills.
In cups one blow can make nonsense of logic.
Lewis Carroll's nonsense mocked logic by declaring that "no hedgehog takes in the Times", and the nurse in The Pirates of Penzance marshalled "quips and quibbles heard in flocks" and made the hero's fate depend on "a most ingenious paradox", which is in fact a pun on "pirate" and "pilot".
Her proposal to set up Town Teams – cross-sector groups designed to promote strategic operational management for high streets – is based exactly on this kind of no-nonsense business logic.
Lewis Carroll, master of logic, nonsense, and prophesy.
Shooting it point blank with the foam fire extinguisher seemed like a great idea at the time but after ten minutes of foamy screaming it was clear that this was nonsense and so logic would have to prevail.
At an uncertain time in America — with a significant debt burden, a polarized Congress and a host of challenges facing the international community — we are confident Senator Hagel will be able to provide a vibrant, no-nonsense voice of logic and leadership to the United States.
By the end, Leiber has introduced a second planet, papered over holes in his logic with nonsense about hyperdrives, and forced an alien cat without genitals to have sex with a human.
I watched in horrified fascination from another hemisphere as the collective might of America's greatest newspapers turned their guns on the nativist king, not with random take-downs, or savage hit jobs, but just with forensic journalism: countering Trump's inflammatory nonsense with facts, and logic, and careful interrogation all with no visible impact on Trump's approval ratings.
