Nonsense Sentence Examples

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  • I don't want to hear any more of this nonsense about magic.

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  • Don't talk nonsense to me.

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  • I thought that was TV nonsense until a few minutes later the phone rang and damned if he hadn't done just that!

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  • If I hear this nonsense again, I'll send you outside the walls to deal with this mess personally.

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  • She couldn't help wondering if Evelyn really understood that going to his home country would mean she'd hear this kind of nonsense all the time.

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  • What nonsense! she said, hoping it was a joke.

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  • All that ruler business was just nonsense, but we are friends forever.

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  • The older men, who thought it undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile.

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  • Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must apologize.

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  • Then we started hearing all this nonsense about Byrne until it got us wondering if there might be something to it, so we did a little detecting ourselves.

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  • It will drive all the nonsense out of your head.

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  • Nonsense, you're not putting us out, but you're more than welcome to use the phone... and please call me Sarah.

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  • Nonsense. You can save Jonny.

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  • A torrent of nonsense escaped from Jade, a mix of words that made no sense.

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  • It's not nonsense, Papa.

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  • Take. Mine.  Be done with this nonsense.  Leave my mate and my hatchling alone!

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  • The Christian idea of a special providence is nonsense, an insult to the deity.

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  • In the third circle, Naryshkin was speaking of the meeting of the Austrian Council of War at which Suvorov crowed like a cock in reply to the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals.

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  • You drop this nonsense and tell the people to get ready to leave their homes and go to Moscow and to get carts ready for tomorrow morning for the princess' things.

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  • He was getting tired of all this cloak-and dagger nonsense.

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  • It is no answer to the objection that a reading in some Roman poet makes nonsense to say that its Latinity is perfect or its metre excellent.

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  • He was indignant at the idea of valuing honor above life, calling the whole notion nonsense.

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  • The grandmother put up with the pernicious nonsense.

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  • While maintaining a strict, no nonsense demeanor, Frost uses encouragement and positivity as her core techniques.

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  • Thus, once again we encounter the sheer absurdity and nonsense advanced by pro-vivisectionists.

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  • Surely there is no-one stupid enough to actually believe this nonsense?

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  • Nonsense, I tell you.

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  • If the whole activity of the leaders serves as the expression of the people's will, as some historians suppose, then all the details of the court scandals contained in the biographies of a Napoleon or a Catherine serve to express the life of the nation, which is evident nonsense; but if it is only some particular side of the activity of an historical leader which serves to express the people's life, as other so-called "philosophical" historians believe, then to determine which side of the activity of a leader expresses the nation's life, we have first of all to know in what the nation's life consists.

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  • Fort Bryan Classical Strap - Fort Bryan offers another no nonsense strap.

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  • This model is a solid, no nonsense guitar that is perfect for a beginner.

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  • The acute phase of schizophrenia is also characterized by incoherent thinking, rambling or discontinuous speech, use of nonsense words, and odd physical behavior, including grimacing, pacing, and unusual postures.

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  • Ankle boots by Guess are beautiful and edgy with a no nonsense twist.

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  • Are you buying into this nonsense?

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  • Damian straightened, at his limit with the cryptic nonsense.

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  • I know you and that's nonsense!

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  • Lydia Larkin thought the story was nonsense.

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  • I guess he was 'high profile'— king of the clan or some nonsense like that.

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  • No nonsense advice on mini wind turbines, solar panels, energy saving light bulbs and solar mobile phone & ipod chargers.

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  • Your opposition to the regime of Mugabe is the ultimate riposte to his fraudulent nonsense about fighting colonialism.

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  • Being pupils of Charcot, they endeavored to support his obviously fallacious theories, but merely succeeded in producing a mass of pseudo-scientific nonsense.

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  • It feels great and am deeply honored that the locals still stand for my nonsense.

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  • Theists ' beliefs are based on superstitious nonsense with little or no basis in reality.

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  • Adams is a no nonsense throwback boxer who is always looking to unload a knockout punch.

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  • Hell, at fifty eight, he did n't need this superstitious nonsense.

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  • Of course, all of this is tendentious nonsense.

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  • If so, you have swallowed a truckload of nonsense.

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  • This last one was in direct opposition to the wishes of the Prime Minister who wanted some kind of wishy-washy compromise nonsense.

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  • As designated driver, Hannah had to listen to her drunk friends prate about nonsense until they finally fell asleep in the car.

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  • There is no reason for you to put up with that kind of stress, or to be plain, nonsense.

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  • Does it aggravate you that your loved one lies, and do you wish he/she would stop all of the nonsense?

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  • So the speculation that she will not attend the wedding because she won't be able to sit with Andrew and her daughters is complete nonsense.

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  • They might also just be random and nonsense, but nonetheless, it's good to know about some of the most common dreams.

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  • Preschoolers enjoy riding toys, building materials such as sand and blocks, dolls, drawing materials, cars, puzzles, books, appropriate television and videos, nonsense rhymes, and singing games.

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  • Her parents were not happy, as she was expected to go on to an affluent career much like her father, and her staunch religious background also did not allow much room for such creative nonsense.

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  • It's no nonsense design stays in place and leaves guards free to focus on the job at hand.

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  • As a result, some read the words of Nostradamus as nonsense while others read them as true gospel.

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  • Where there previously were simple sentences, there is now silence or inappropriate nonsense words.

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  • The science throughout, of course, was utter nonsense, but the show only became almost a self-parody in seasons two and three, when they began filming in color and reflecting the sixties rather than a putative future.

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  • We tried to tell her that's just nonsense.

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  • If its contents were like the reports she'd seen in the past, it would be full medical nonsense.

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  • Rhyn looked at Kris, puzzled by the nonsense.

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  • She was a no nonsense woman in her thirties, time-worn to a mid-forties look, at best a five-beer take-home from an otherwise empty closing-time bar.

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  • I thought she was just being paranoid, like some bad TV nonsense.

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  • He hated all this emotional nonsense, and had it been anyone but Sarah, he would have made a hasty retreat and stayed away until the waterworks passed.

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  • Nonsense. You'd find a way.

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  • He feared the palace would go down with Death, what with the nonsense she was spouting about leaving.  He took in his best friend's features, uncertain whether becoming Death was a good thing or not.  Gabe looked the same, and hopefully, he wouldn't turn into the riddle-talking sociopath that preceded him.

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  • A considerable number of birds are mentioned, and something said of almost each of them; but that something is too often nonsense according to modern ideas.

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  • The brilliant success of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, in which Wagnerian technique is applied to the diatonic style of nursery songs with a humorous accuracy undreamed of by Wagner's imitators, points a moral which would have charmed Wagner himself; but until the revival of some rudiments of musical common sense becomes widespread, there is little prospect of the influence of Wagner's harmonic style being productive of anything better than nonsense.

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  • Nonsense. You're a lovely girl, and I won't permit you to put yourself down at my table.

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  • To what extent can anything possibly good come of this nonsense which is utterly impenetrable?

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  • Some students even grew indignant at the idea of valuing honor above life, calling the whole notion nonsense.

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  • She combined a fine intellect with a straightforward, no nonsense approach that spoke directly to people.

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  • A lot of nonsense is spoken about ' citizen journalism ' .

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  • I love the way we can discuss serious issues then lighten everything up with nonsense.

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  • Here is some nonsense string manipulation to give you an example of some of the methods.

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  • The stated reason for refusing mediation that the matter was too complex for mediation is plain nonsense.

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  • No gold, just frank nonsense and myrth, mulled liquor and innocent festive merriment.

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  • The whole idea of living collectively is just utter nonsense.

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  • I have never heard more arrant nonsense in my life.

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  • Browne use of the suggestion that this is in some way a move toward Shariah Law in the UK is palpable nonsense.

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  • The institute's argument was " absolute nonsense ", he said.

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  • It's sheer nonsense to say you love him.

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  • Ian did two guided tours of Brawby, spouting unrehearsed nonsense.

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  • Who advised the NAEA that this kind of patronizing nonsense would make us like them more?

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  • Every time you open your mouth you talk nonsense.

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  • Adrenaline flows and to say that any human being is in control of themselves in such circumstances is patent nonsense.

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  • Contrary to the nonsense peddled by the Opposition, crime was falling.

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  • All the nonsense referred to in the above commentaries can be traced back to the modern failure to teach physics.

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  • Lincoln recently had a bit of a nonsense over 4 or 5 scotch pines.

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  • Hence steel in various forms, is used for standing rigging - any other metal would be a nonsense.

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  • Twain transplants an " aw shucks ", no nonsense American smack dab in the middle of The Dark Ages.

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  • His no nonsense, high impact approach to Magic leaves any spectator speechless.

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  • His papers still spout right wing nonsense whoever they back.

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  • All the other strangeness of the medley reads like nonsense.

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  • The third - about Wall Street's ability to reach the stratosphere - is nonsense on stilts... .

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  • It also allowed him to integrate nonsense syllables which had a purely rhythmic value into his singing.

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  • Get your point across with this straight talking, no nonsense stamp.

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  • Low budget nonsense that becomes too tedious to even be unintentionally funny.

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  • Fighting for God and the Queen is nonsense, as every weary British trooper soon discovers.

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  • We offer unbiased no nonsense approach to our customers needs, based upon our years of practical experience.

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  • The first book of nonsense verse was The History of Sixteen Wonderful Women, published in 1829.

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  • The bourgeois revolutionists of France had all been philosophes, but their philosophy had at least paid lip-service to " reason "; the Russian revolutionists who formed the majority of the first and second Dumas, as though inspired by the exalted nonsense preached by Tolstoi, 1 subordinated reason to sentiment, until - their impracticable temper having been advertised to all the world - it became easy for the government to treat them as a mere excrescence on the national life, a malignant growth to be removed by a necessary operation.

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  • Wagner's orthodox contemporaries regarded such mixtures of key as sheer nonsense; and it would seem that the rank and file of his imitators agree with that view, since they either plagiarize Wagner's actual progressions or else produce such mixtures with no vividness of key-colour and little attempt to follow those melodic trains of thought by which Wagner makes sense of them.

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  • To the other powers it seemed, at best " verbiage " and " exalted nonsense," at worst an effort of the tsar to establish the hegemony of Russia on the goodwill of the smaller signatory powers.

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  • That is all nonsense.

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  • Fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!

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  • But that's all nonsense.

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  • But that's nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing I was thinking of.

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  • Oh, that's nonsense, he thought.

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  • It was evident that the thought could never occur to him which to Prince Andrew seemed so natural, namely, that it is after all impossible to express all one thinks; and that he had never felt the doubt, "Is not all I think and believe nonsense?"

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  • Nicholas, you are talking nonsense!

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  • Don't talk nonsense, just listen! said Natasha, with momentary vexation.

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  • Even to Natasha herself it was pleasant to see that so many sacrifices were being made for her sake, and to know that she had to take medicine at certain hours, though she declared that no medicine would cure her and that it was all nonsense.

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  • That'll do, that'll do--nonsense....

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  • Princess Mary talked some nonsense.

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  • A sixth group was talking absolute nonsense.

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  • I expect it's nonsense....

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  • How can you talk such nonsense?

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  • Mary, don't talk nonsense.

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  • For someone who rejects word worship, you 're awfully quick off the mark to purvey nonsense by definition.

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  • The stigma that our forebears had to make do with rancid meat is nonsense.

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  • Of course, despite the nonsense talked about the reshuffle, Blair is indeed rewriting the constitution from above.

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  • The boys scorn a man so drunk that he spouts nonsense and attracts a crowd around him.

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  • To speak of an orange as a kind of self-existent entity wholly given by what you see on the table is nonsense.

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  • I 'm getting dangerously sidetracked here, I 'm not supposed to like The Two Doctors, however the plot is an absolute nonsense.

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  • Strapless Heart Rate Monitor Sigma Sport PC 3FT (finger touch) No nonsense, easy to use, strapless heart rate monitor.

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  • Writing about it seems nonsense really, as the vision is sublime in all ways.

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  • The above section of the Survey is unmitigated nonsense.

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  • You may think it's nonsense, but this house feels full of bad karma.

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  • One is the No Nonsense Great Shapes Ultimate Shaper High Waist Cincher.

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  • Mercury himself said the song was self explanatory, with some "nonsense" thrown into the middle.

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  • Family members are usually apprehensive about the changes - especially the children - and the protests become more and more aggressive as the children realize Jo isn't going to accept any nonsense.

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  • Personality clashes are quite common with Sgt Walden as he takes no nonsense from the stars.

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  • After three years in that position, she was asked to come work directly for the company that owned the training center, where her no nonsense, no excuses approach would eventually attract the attention of Channel 4 TV cameras.

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  • Nonsense! cried the count, suddenly reddening with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do.

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  • What nonsense! said Natasha in the tone of one being deprived of her property.

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  • But they spew out so much nonsense, it saddens me that people give them so much attention.

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  • I went along with your silly nonsense and kicked Fitzgerald out.

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  • At the same time Philo did not invent all the nonsense which he has handed down; he drew upon various sources, Greek and Egyptian, some of them ultimately of Babylonian origin, and incidentally he mentions matters of interest which, when tested by other evidence, are fairly well supported.

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  • It's all nonsense, all rubbish--those discussions which lead to nothing and all those idiotic societies!

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  • I told him that was nonsense and he had no business drinking at his age.

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  • There is much uncertainty as to the meaning of the name, and as to the time when it became attached to a particular species of nonsense verses.

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  • Old women's nonsense--old women's nonsense! he repeated, but still he patted Pierre affectionately on the shoulder, and then went up to the table where Prince Andrew, evidently not wishing to join in the conversation, was looking over the papers his father had brought from town.

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  • I guess he was 'high profile'— king of the clan or some nonsense like that.

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  • It was total nonsense to even con­sider the million-to-one-shot coincidence that Byrne was some­how involved with the missing money but his mind wouldn't leave it alone.

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  • That's all nonsense, there's nothing of the kind.

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  • I knew I had only bought time for Molly and I and our captor would soon learn of the nonsense I'd fed him and be done with me.

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  • Getting someone to buy all this nonsense is going to take some campaigning!

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  • Pierre laughed and said it was nonsense for he had just come from the Rostovs'.

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  • And I will knock the nonsense out of anybody"-- but probably realizing that he was shouting at Bezukhov who so far was not guilty of anything, he added, taking Pierre's hand in a friendly manner, "We are on the eve of a public disaster and I haven't time to be polite to everybody who has business with me.

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  • Oh, they should let that fine fellow Bonaparte loose--he'd knock all this nonsense out of them!

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  • What does all that nonsense have to do with vodka or Billy Langstrom?

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  • In September of the same year his physical malady reached a crisis, from which he emerged a helpless wreck, with faculties paralysed rather than destroyed - "He never talked nonsense or said a foolish thing."

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  • In answer to Rostov's renewed questions, Denisov said, laughing, that he thought he remembered that some other fellow had got mixed up in it, but that it was all nonsense and rubbish, and he did not in the least fear any kind of trial, and that if those scoundrels dared attack him he would give them an answer that they would not easily forget.

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  • He didn't even prattle on about some alleged personal experiences in a diamond mine in Africa, a search for gold or other such nonsense he was expected to resurrect or invent.

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  • Pfuel only snorted contemptuously and turned away, to show that he would never demean himself by replying to such nonsense as he was now hearing.

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  • I think aught will come of their rantings as the miners swear they'll flee the area for a more obliging locale if such nonsense were to happen.

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  • Nonsense. I pay to board him now.

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  • During three years he was a member of the Nonsense Club with his two schoolfellows from Westminster, Churchill and Lloyd, and he wrote sundry verses in magazines and translated two books of Voltaire's Henriade.

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  • He sought refuge from inferior society often in nonsense, occasionally in obscenity.

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  • The royal pupils spent their lesson hours, as Nicholas afterwards confessed, " partly in dreaming, partly in drawing all sorts of nonsense," in the end " cramming " just enough to scrape through their examinations without discredit.

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  • All this misery, and money, and Dolokhov, and anger, and honor--it's all nonsense... but this is real....

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  • His warning, "No nonsense, gentlemen" (Point de reveries, Messieurs), was taken in very ill part, and it was perhaps naturally, but beyond question most unhappily, the truth that the tsar's concessions only served to encourage the Poles to revolt, and to produce a strong Russian reaction against his liberal policy.

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