Sentence examples for nonsensical narrative from inspiring English sources

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In other departments, this Grease-meets-High Grease-meets-High Grease-meets-High School Musical­ion (just kidding about the last) certainly has a cheeky knowingness about its influences and  pop-culture references but this is not deployed wittily enough to turn the nonsensical narrative and its attendant cliches and anachronisms into giddy camp gold.

In corralling all of our preposterous critical fetishes into a single, nonsensical narrative, Lurie is, of course, writing a kind of meta-commentary on the ways in which we assess and value so-called outsider art — that Pontiac's characteristics (all of which point, in one way or another, to misshapen yet pervasive ideas of authenticity) are so precise and absurd is also what makes them funny.

On the novelty cover songs, Johansen impersonates different characters, including a high-stepper in "Showdown" and Charlie Chan in "Bad Detective", whose nonsensical narrative is set in China.

It was a narrative that exculpated Trump of any Russian shenanigans and vilified Hillary Clinton's team, making it a tidy, if nonsensical, narrative.

As the eulogies begin and the crowd replaces "Amen" with "ramen" it becomes apparent that, rather than following in the tradition of historical reenactments, the event owes more to the Theater of the Absurd a tradition dating back to the 1950s in which comedy and tragedy coincided with nonsensical narrative and dialogue.

As the eulogies begin and the crowd replace "Amen" with "ramen" it becomes apparent that, rather than following in the tradition of historical reenactments, the event owes more to the Theatre of the Absurd – a tradition dating back to the 1950s in which comedy and tragedy coincided with nonsensical narrative and dialogue.

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A creative virus, resulting from a lack of originality and infecting both the music and theatrical industries, which causes band back-catalogues to be repurposed as nonsensical stage narratives Social networking: Match the tweet to the star Jonathan Ross, Jessie J, Paul Daniels, Judd Apatow 1. Andy Scott Lee!! Perfect.

But Trump subsequently claimed Comey "totally protected" Clinton and also said he fired Comey over the "Russia thing," turning the narrative nonsensical.

Perhaps Steinman's narrative is purposefully nonsensical, an homage to the ways in which we gabble and rant when deeply wounded.

Anyone who's watched Friends knows this is classic Chandler, even if the narrative is… nonsensical, to say the least.

In this sense, it is a mistake to claim the novel as only of feminism's second wave (such clear-cut chronological narratives often seem nonsensical anyway), for it attempts to take "the personal is political" to a more inclusive place than, say, Betty Friedan's conceptualisation of the "problem that has no name".

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