Next to the wonderful sense of order I derived from music, I learned to value nonsense – not just the poetic territory discovered by Edward Lear but the nonsensical part of reality.
Scottish artist Katie Paterson has turned what sounds like a nonsensical question into a reality.
Files," "Psychic Witness"), and the film's willingness to make all of its characters look bad and do nonsensical things is redolent of reality TV.
Absurd because it is obviously true that aging, as opposed to skin color or gender, does have a deleterious effect on one's physical and mental functioning, and to deny this evident biological reality is as nonsensical as denying evolution itself.
It is a chilling fact that most of the world's leaders believe in nonsensical fairytales about the nature of reality.
Looped media on the Internet is generally associated with jocularity: nonsensical memes, weird cats, funny reality-television quotes, movie scenes with Ryan Gosling; even when GIFs are used to illustrate serious news, it's in a reductive way, transforming the event into an easily digestible meme.
"Pirating" an action figure or a dress might have sounded nonsensical five years ago, but it's the reality for the future.
The problem, however, is that the "debt-limit" resolution purports to be something that it clearly is not -- a tool for shaping and redefining the nation's fiscal policy -- and, in reality, plays a totally nonsensical role.
Bond films, even at their most nonsensical, tend to graze against political realities.
But saying that a vibrating string explains how music is composed, or that knot theory explains the reality of the rug, is nonsensical.
In reality, of course, it would be nonsensical to tell so-called normal-weight people to try to become heavier to lower their mortality risk.
