Sentence examples for nonsensical on from inspiring English sources

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For example, YouTube users left an impenetrable 728 comments, many of them trivial or nonsensical, on the dancing-kitten video.

"A lot of the debate about welfare over the years was pretty nonsensical, on both sides, with a lot of stereotyping," he said.

Currently, only same-sex couples can enter into a civil partnership, but MPs from across Parliament, including Stephen Twigg, Caroline Lucas, and Andy Slaughter, agree that the law as it stands is nonsensical on this point.

While there was silliness in Skyfall (Javier Bardem's Joker-lite villain's plan becomes more nonsensical on second viewing), it succeeded largely because of a grounded tone that separated it from many previous instalments.

"There is no doubt that there are organisations and individuals who will choose to characterise the science as being nonsensical on the basis of what are not reasonable criticisms," he said.

Another of the songs she says now embarrass her, the album's title track, might well read as fairly nonsensical on the page – "To treasure gold is fun/ Brother, drop your bag at once/ From the air to the people/ A mass to take you on" – but it sounds deeply profound the way she sings it.

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Deciding to wear something simply because it is – to use the current if grammatically nonsensical lingo – "on trend" has done no one a bit of good, ever.

On the one hand, inviting us was a tokenistic and nonsensical gesture; on the other, it was the first time that a diversity of input was considered.

He told the BBC: "Peddling nonsensical stories on asylum has had an impact on people's views.

First, the notion of a cap on net migration levels – that is, the balance between arrivals and departures – is nonsensical, focusing on an arbitrary annual figure rather than on what the Government is trying to achieve (which remains unclear).

The widow of grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, Love has gained a reputation on the microblogging service Twitter, posting occasionally profane and sometimes nonsensical messages on a variety of topics.

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