Sentence examples for though nonsensical from inspiring English sources

It is fair to assume that neither sentence (1) [Colorless green ideas sleep furiously] nor (2) [Furiously sleep ideas green colorless]... has ever occurred.... Hence, in any [computed] statistical model... these sentences will be ruled out on identical grounds as equally "remote" from English.5 Yet (1), though nonsensical, is grammatical, while (2) is not.

While Tofu often spits out vaguely philosophical, though nonsensical aphorisms — "it may be a cage" — Toscano is not devising a work of art in the mold of @Horse_ebooks, the account that had originally been built as a bot but was transferred to human hands, to the consternation of its thousands of admiring followers.

She also mentioned the idea of "an urban surfer not a Californian surfer" for her prints, which is an idea that, though slightly nonsensical, has a certain appeal.

The lead-up to this World Cup, though, is particularly nonsensical.

The essential problem with the October 2011 rules was not that the fixed stroke count was too low – although it was – or that there was a one-stroke difference in the limit for a five-furlong Flat race and a 3½-mile chase, though that was nonsensical too.

'Shall be's' must ultimately imply 'shall's with direct implications for action, even if they are highly conditioned on other circumstances. is ruled out as nonsensical, though, of course, one can describe oneself as lacking the intention to do A. A description of an intention, however, is different from an expression of it.

She asserted that "Say Say Say" was a better song, and had a better "though slightly more nonsensical" music video, adding that the song had no "heavy-handed social content".

But will.i.am has been fun – even though he specialises in nonsensical advice, he offers it with the air of a man who makes chart-topping songs with Britney Spears and Justin Bieber and could do the same for someone auditioning in front of him.

Ezekiel on the other hand offers up a nonsensical prediction, as though he's some psychic, that nobody will die.

One of Chomsky's examples is that the sentence "colourless green ideas sleep furiously" makes grammatical sense in English, even though the words themselves are nonsensical.

Though the comments themselves appeared nonsensical and spammy, they represented a more covert method of laying an activation code without attracting the attention of internal security systems.