Sentence examples for seeming nonsense from inspiring English sources

And every child can giggle at Mr. Lester's funny woodcutlike pictures of the seeming nonsense.

In his review of Brian Boyd's "Nabokov's Pale Fire" (March 5), Daniel Zalewski talks about trying to make sense of the seeming nonsense syllables received from the spirit world, "pada ata lane pad not ogo old wart alan ther tale feur far rant lant tal told".

And he's forced the abject chroniclers of the petty pacings of the election cycle to question what they are observing, and to wail at the seeming nonsense of a man, twice defeated, courting a third defeat amid conditions that will be even more difficult to surmount than they were the last time.

Frankly, that seems nonsense to me.

With repetition, the day names begin to seem nonsense, absurd in their purpose of ordering time's torrent.

For good or ill, it will do yet more.It may seem nonsense to think of the (probably sceptical) intelligence with which you interpret these words as something on a par with plate tectonics or photosynthesis.

The assumptions which the Pentagon foisted on the Anglo-American alliance about Iraqi reactions to an invasion and occupation seemed nonsense at the time to anyone with a sense of reality and a smattering of history.

"We seem to have to provide the same services for less money all the time - it seems nonsense".

The idea of a gardener who is not just invisible but who also cannot be detected by any sensory faculty seemed nonsense.

Lord Prescott said it seemed nonsense that it took a judicial review to get the Met Police to apologise for not carrying out a proper inquiry into phone hacking.

It can be extremely hard for words to come and we validate all words and sounds that are uttered - words and expressions that seem nonsense can in fact be directly metaphoric, or just need to be said.