Sentence examples for upon nothing from inspiring English sources

"Mr. Liotti's comments are irresponsible and based upon nothing more than rank speculation on his part".

Did Vladimir Harkonnen mean Upon Nothing instead?" says Justin Horton, adjusting his monocle.

Seldom has an opinion of this Court rested so obviously upon nothing but the personal views of its members.

His abrasive energy is at times reminiscent of Donne, as in the great exercise in paradox, "Upon Nothing".

Even though I was fixated upon nothing but my body, my brain was somehow totally disengaged, save intellectually, from its singular concern.

Late Heian times were the "latter days" (mappō) of Buddhist calculation, in which one could rely upon nothing but faith in some Buddhist deity or doctrine for salvation.

"Something's changing and it'll change back again," asserted Donald Trump on "60 Minutes," based upon, well, nothing.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

Life is at stake, clayey death presses upon it; nothing less than our physical and spiritual natures is the topic, as they are of Tennyson's great, graveside poem.

They noticed that document fees were $150, she said, and bargained those down to $50. "We walked out at the price we agreed upon and nothing more," she said, at $26,577.

The incongruity of the contention will be manifest when it is observed that not only did the cases relied upon contain nothing expressly purporting to overrule the previous cases, but on the contrary in explicit terms declared that they did not conflict with them and that they proceeded upon conditions peculiar to the particular cases.