Sentence examples for to be nonsensical from inspiring English sources

But the statistics show this argument to be nonsensical: those who carry firearms, even for protection, are much more likely to be shot and increase the risk of death for those around them.

And the best parts of the movie are details and atmospherics, which add up to a sense that in small ways, filmmakers come close to getting the story right even if the story itself turns out to be nonsensical.

Moreover, the logical positivists also had only contempt and ridicule for the ideas of the German existentialist Martin Heidegger, whose investigations of such questions as "Why is there anything at all?" and "Why is what there is, the way it is?" and whose pronouncements about Nothingness (e.g., "the Nothing nots") seemed to them to be not only sterile but so confused as to be nonsensical.

(CP, 5.525) Again, "… in half a dozen ways the Ding an sich has been proved to be nonsensical".

The agent is not required to have preferences over artificially constructed acts or propositions that turn out to be nonsensical, given the interpretation of particular states and outcomes.

According to Kuhn, he discovered incommensurability as a graduate student in the mid to late 1940s while struggling with what appeared to be nonsensical passages in Aristotelian physics (Kuhn 2000 [1989], 59 60).

Now, you might think that making a product that isn't terrible should be so obvious to every company on the planet as to almost be 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.

And given the nature of the companies, to compare it to Facebook's would be nonsensical.

Former First Sea Lord Admiral Lord West, who served as security minister in Gordon Brown's administration, said that it would be "nonsensical" to scrap the Harriers before the Joint Strike Fighters were ready to replace them on board the Navy's aircraft carriers.

Otherwise, it would be nonsensical to hire expensive, well-qualified health cadres without adequately using their skills.