We all have to go through the same nonsense, which seems crazy considering the precedent set at the first hearing. |
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Anyone willing to pay money to hear us all waffle on for sixty minutes of unbridled nonsense? |
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Further irritation comes from the increasing pretension to rationality that Alex's nonsense illustrates. |
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It was just none of them wanted to be around the parents and their nonsense gibberish. |
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When that whole emphasis on arts was brought in five years ago, everyone pooh-poohed it as being, you know, arty-farty nonsense. |
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What a load of rubbish, how can they stand there talking such nonsense in front of reporters? |
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People who run her down should be ashamed of themselves, and talk of her servants and privileged life is nonsense. |
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I find it mind-boggling that people can believe such nonsense in this day and age. |
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In the darkness, a lunatic warbled nonsense and a hungry madman babbled on about food. |
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I think this image-enhancement business is complete nonsense since not a single viewer remembers what the sage politician has uttered. |
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For example, to claim a right to free speech is to talk nonsense as nobody really has such a total right. |
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So we were tanking up, smoking, talking nonsense, enjoying the once-a-month concession to our younger selves our wives allow us. |
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The argument that giving the parliament limited tax powers would be tantamount to independence is nonsense. |
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He babbled nonsense for about fifteen minutes then had an intense allergic reaction. |
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Parents who babble nonsense to babies may be helping them learn to speak, according to new research. |
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He began to babble nonsense as they took him to the shore and then up to the main cabin where the nurse's office was. |
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I babbled some nonsense about making an authentic Indian meal, regretting my purchase as she rang it up. |
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The idea that this nonsense is seeping off the Internet to schools and other places of a professional nature alarms me in a way most alarming. |
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No nonsense, no baloney, not a lot of fanfare, and it's proceeding very quickly. |
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He said it would be a nonsense for the roof of the main property to be lower than the extension roof. |
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The collapse of communism put a stop to all that nonsense, but it does not mean that peace has returned to the region. |
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This does not, as mentioned, mean that ethics and the rest are themselves nonsense. |
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It's a nonsense verse used by everyone from boy scouts to football hooligans, including, presumably the Swansea massive. |
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The animist beliefs of so many of this Labour Government who talk about the mauri within a mountain or a river are arrant nonsense. |
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Given the tiny numbers afflicted by these rare diseases, this is surely nonsense. |
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They asked if I was going to the office, and I replied with some meaningless nonsense. |
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Of course we also feared that such thoughts were nonsense and Doug's death was a meaningless accident. |
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I was glad when he left them because I was a vegetarian and didn't wish to partake of any beefy, meaty nonsense. |
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The sad outcome of this nonsense is that the boy's morale and self-confidence will be damaged. |
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As I listened it began to be borne in on me that he was talking complete nonsense, and that I had better have a bit of a think about it. |
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She told me she wanted to say it was a load of nonsense and a waste of time and she'd be better off doing her times tables. |
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This is not hysterical nonsense nor is it tin-foil hat conspiracy mongering. |
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In other words, religion is our way of making sense out of nonsense, necessary precisely because life, in and of itself, may well be meaningless. |
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Polar mutations change a sense codon for a specific amino acid within a gene into a nonsense or translational termination codon. |
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He concludes that conspiracy theories about wills and a police attempt to frame Slater were nonsense, but the true killer may never be known. |
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She said it was nonsense for him to suggest he was responsible only titularly. |
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The rest is a bunch of Italian sexploit nonsense that takes itself awfully seriously. |
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We can understand that, but it should not expect the public of New Zealand to fall for that nonsense. |
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Again, no rational person could view such transparent nonsense as genuine apologies. |
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It's about time that if Australia believes in freedom of speech we should shirtfront these people who have made such a nonsense of it. |
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Actually, most of her on-stage communists are just silly trendies, noisy young men with heads full of nonsense. |
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The suggestion that somehow we are biting the hand that feeds us is absolute nonsense. |
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There was a great deal of blarney spoken about the chances of Irish horses, some of it nonsense and some of it all too true. |
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This fabricated nonsense is just the type of untruth that paints the image of our office as being a moralistically hostile environment. |
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One recent government decision is a typical example of ideological nonsense. |
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It is blithering nonsense to suggest that customers are being ripped off by thousands of pounds a minute. |
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It is not the sort of nonsense that can arise even in the best system of law out of the need to draw nice distinctions between borderline cases. |
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Highly inventive, artful, weird, beautiful even, but nonsense, categorically, undeniably. |
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The clear distinction between right and wrong has been lost in sociological mumbo-jumbo and politically correct nonsense. |
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Tired of forking out your student loan on cultural nonsense instead of senseless drinking and slap-up meals? |
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Monk and Gonzalez, sitting at the kitchen table, converse musically in rhythmic nonsense syllables. |
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An inveterate avant-gardiste, he rightly had no sense of loyalty to the nonsense of his youth, but it was still nice to feel unforgotten. |
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How can he be allowed to get away with such blatant, unhistorical nonsense? |
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None of this namby-pamby nonsense about love, happiness or respect from our Dear Leader. |
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It beats name tags hands down and ends all that nonsense of staring at each other's lapels or bosoms. |
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Same variety of superstitious nonsense, unproven, and when tested, shown to not work. |
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I hope that people who know me will dismiss it as nonsense, but people have a tendency to think there's no smoke without fire. |
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I have rarely heard such nonsense delivered with such a smug air of authority. |
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Important factual aspects to the plot are meted out in small nuggets of narrative mashed between massive marathons of nauseating nonsense. |
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If anyone can shine a light on these mysterious snippets of nonsense I would be very happy to hear about it. |
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However now they are faced with a load of bureaucratic nonsense denying them their right to relax and unwind with their children. |
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In the film that crashed to shore this summer, none of this soft-headed nonsense about fate and sorcery is permitted. |
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So is there any genuinely interesting news in all this vacuous Hollywood house-hunting nonsense? |
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Heath Ledger stars in a medieval chunk of nonsense soundtracked by Robbie Williams singing Queen songs. |
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If that were so, it would be tempting to dismiss these poems as mere word-play, verging toward nonsense. |
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Her stories, told in nonsense verse, are fast-paced with a rhythm that carries through its pages. |
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Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories of light and delight. |
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Facing the altar but not saying the words of the Creed as, after all, they were all nonsense, I stared at the window. |
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Sense is inevitably degenerating into nonsense, like a pileup of random mutations in an endangered species gasping its last breaths. |
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Certainly there is as much bunk out there that needs to be unmasked as nonsense or lies. |
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Successful nonsense verse must respect the structure and syntax of a language. |
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But what possesses them to write such nonsense with a straight face is beyond me. |
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Then he comes into this House, along with his colleagues, and talks a lot of drivel and absolute nonsense. |
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The interesting thing is that he wrote this nonsense in October 2001-months before New Jersey officials appointed him their Poet Laureate. |
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People get very frustrated because they're trying to make sense out of nonsense. |
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Like I said earlier, it's absolute nonsense but nonsense which has been crafted with care and boundless enthusiasm. |
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His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written. |
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And perhaps the one or two readers who told me I was writing nonsense will remember as well? |
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But I did produce much nonsense and some actual words on stacks of punch cards. |
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My wife thinks he's some kind of demi-god and I'm just the bloke in the study writing nonsense, you know. |
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I try to write, and manage 60 words of unsatisfactory nonsense before I give up. |
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It made sense at that moment, you know, to roar incoherent nonsense while standing on stage with one of my musical icons. |
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I got a text message on my cell phone today with nonsense poetry from an unknown source. |
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Vocal tracks fare better, presenting skittish pop with goofy arrangements and nonsense lyrics. |
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But there are also disadvantages, including the nonsense sentences made from just these six letters. |
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But before you get it all wrong, it's the world of nonsense poetry that the people at Akshara are talking about. |
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Ackroyd then traces the development of comic writing through the wit of John Donne to the nonsense books of Lewis Carroll. |
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The Dada-influenced Suite for Chamber Orchestra, composed two years before the concerto, begins with a short nonsense poem, in true Dada style. |
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The nonsense lyrics are either the ramblings of a burnt out fool or transcendent works of genius. |
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There were innumerable short parodies of Shakespeare's work, and Carroll's nonsense verse is often parodic. |
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It is not addressed to anyone, is not in the Knave's handwriting, and is actually a set of nonsense verses. |
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Based on the life and nonsense poems of Edward Lear, the show was nominated for a Total Theatre Award and widely praised by the critics. |
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We appeal to those offenders to please stop this silly nonsense, as this is not a nice thing to do. |
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Once again we appeal to these unsavoury people to please stop this silly nonsense. |
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Ok, so American justice isn't always perfect, but this nonsense sure doesn't help. |
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Referee Peter McCarthy refused to stand for any nonsense and brandished a succession of cards. |
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My vote of no confidence is also aimed at each and every councillor who is not man enough to stand up and stop this nonsense. |
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But, if the people of Washington, D.C., will stand up as citizens and exert their druthers, this nonsense would stop. |
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I believed that his romanticisms were foolish nonsense and were to be looked down upon. |
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To have those rights overridden by such ridiculous nonsense and sheer arrogance is unacceptable. |
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Finally, it is time to stop this fantastic nonsense and get down to real hard work. |
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She bristles at Government's attitudes to the unemployed, arguing her daily experiences make a nonsense of claims the outlook is brightening. |
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No doubt Brenner wishes that the 1990s had never happened, since the economic optimism in that decade seems to make a nonsense of his thesis. |
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The proximity of the nonsense mutation to the start codon indicates that these mutations are null alleles. |
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Although nonsense words lose their novelty very quickly, when first presented they often provoke interest, curiosity, and even some amusement. |
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However, she did not recognize any of the titles, because the titles were all nonsense words, a random combination of letters and numbers. |
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Surely if it was random, you'd just get a string of nonsense words or something? |
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To ensure that the kids didn't already know the new words, Horohov and Oetting replaced 16 of the words in the stories with nonsense words. |
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He gingerly wiped away the spit with his bib and rolled over, mumbling a few nonsense words. |
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Expressions of humor through silliness, nonsense words, or rhymes particularly enthrall preschoolers. |
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Gyre and gimble are nonsense words, made up by Lewis Carroll, and which do not have conventionalized meanings in the language. |
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No name tickled all our fancies, but we agreed that a nonsense word was the way to go. |
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He spoke gently to the little kitty, soft nonsense words, and put it back down besides its mamma. |
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Colleen looked disbelievingly at his back, then she looked at Elliot and Ellen, sputtering nonsense words and pointing at him. |
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He had spent days at a time learning lists of nonsense words, testing himself to see precisely how many he could remember. |
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On two continents, they incontinently spout platitudes, nonsense, tall tales, or pseudopoetic fantasies. |
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Chester sat up in bed painfully, and sputtered some nonsense about suing the hospital. |
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Each sudden burst of noise is followed by a series of nonsense squawks and yells from the band members. |
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And to celebrate, all kinds of nostalgic nonsense is being pumped out of the country's TV sets. |
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All this talk that one shouldn't change a single note in a score is nonsense. |
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It's full-blown nutso nonsense to request that people should read the piece and decide for themselves. |
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In his writing and in conversation, he talks the same silly and absurd nonsense and often rather obscenely. |
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My theory is that her obscurantism is a revenge for the drooling nonsense recited about her by men, male directors especially. |
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More plausible is the proposition that the popular rationale for regulation is statist nonsense. |
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Ruth would have felt the need to cap the comment in some way, or qualify it, or even dismiss it out of hand as arrant nonsense. |
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His eldest daughter has a head for business, a will of her own and won't take any nonsense. |
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In the midst of all this pathetic, empty-headed and incredibly dull nonsense, I offer you some photos I took late on Christmas Eve. |
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As the Hellenic sun sinks, it is tempting to cite our cold climate, but this is nonsense. |
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Presumably all the nonsense must be produced by some part of our brain, so which part? |
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So what are the general public and patients to make of this stuff and nonsense? |
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The problem is, however, that to get to the point where we can afford all this stuff and nonsense, we have to work ridiculously long hours. |
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This is nonsense, because time is a man-made convention based on the movement of the earth about its axis and orbit around the sun. |
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It is incumbent upon me, as leader, to stamp out this sort of morale-sapping, chicken-hearted nonsense. |
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But the idea that the Hollywood honchos tried to engineer his fall by tampering with his pictures is sweet nonsense. |
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This of course is palpable nonsense, and raises fundamental problems about the whole enterprise. |
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It's impressive how the continual repetition of palpable nonsense can create widespread illusions. |
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However, the idea that there could be a casino in every high street is palpable nonsense. |
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It is important to make a distinction between formal parapsychology and the psychic nonsense and superstition that often operates in its name. |
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The plot is a baffling array of gangster parody nonsense, sexist claptrap and kidnap chaos. |
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We are not looking, then, at aspirational youngsters being given a leg-up to study Classics, or any such romantic nonsense. |
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And the wife in this two-headed hydra of nonsense claims to have a degree in biology. |
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Are the pay-offs and bribes more important than these boys or putting an end to such nonsense? |
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I'm glad our wedding photographer didn't make us peek out coyly from behind a tree or some such nonsense. |
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With a penetrable fourth wall, a spot of audience participation and plenty of gleeful nonsense, this is pantomime in all but dame. |
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The music, meanwhile, is especially good, with jaunty a cappella tunes featuring nonsense singing and vocal percussion. |
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The sudden spark of outrage at the sell off is one of those typically British pieces of illogical nonsense. |
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He continues to spew illogical nonsense without first thinking about what he is saying. |
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I can't summon the necessary faith to believe in magic if I suspect it's inconsistent nonsense, or a mess of superstitions based on fallacies. |
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Vocal tracks fare better, presenting skittish avant pop with goofy arrangements and nonsense lyrics. |
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The report is a nonsense, based on findings known to be inaccurate, and is full of such inconsistencies. |
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This farrago of nonsense requires a very high standard of stylised comedy acting, which is not in vogue in the 21st Century. |
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It may, for all I know, be a farrago of nonsense from beginning to end, but the authors appear to believe that they are dealing in fact. |
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Word Attack requires students to pronounce nonsense words using phonic and structural analysis skills. |
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The Word Attack subtest measures one's ability to pronounce phonically regular nonsense words using knowledge of the alphabetic principle. |
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Cross species transmission of disease is not at all new and it is nonsense to suggest that this has been concealed from the public. |
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Wow, what a bunch of unsubstantiated concern trolling and political nonsense on display! |
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It represents nothing more than banality, platitudes, and outrageous nonsense clumsily conveyed by insipid prose. |
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She could sit down and analyse her instincts and intuitions and decide it is all nonsense. |
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This abomination is an insult to taxpayers' intelligence, and why we have put up with this nonsense is mystifying. |
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The planchette moved, spun on its little wheels, painted nonsense curlicues over the paper. |
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Let's have a bit of intelligent dialogue on this, not this finger wagging, contract making nonsense. |
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Then they learned to read by pronouncing nonsense syllables formed by combining consonants with vowels, such as ba-he-bi. |
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And finding what you want in a text-based cacophony of spam, flame wars and off-topic nonsense can be maddening. |
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Another analyst with a keen interest in the budget for over a decade said flatly the budget statement is nonsense. |
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So much for the duller secularism's nonsense about irrationalism and whimsy. |
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Marco, I consider most things in this country labeled as politically incorrect to be utter nonsense. |
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Duncan never fell for this nonsense, but after moving to Scotland he lost contact with the isolated Socialist Review Group. |
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No more biblish, no more tiresome polysyllabic nonsense, no more mundane middle-class mutterings. |
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It should have been called nonsense and poppycock, but it was tempting to believe it as prices just kept rocketing. |
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This bill is nothing but touchy, fluffy, feel-good nonsense, and it is doing nothing more than promoting and legislating lying. |
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I was about to pass over this piece of nonsense as just another example of the feel-good, fluffy, new age rubbish the book is stuffed with. |
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Don't abuse the privilege of having my cell number by wasting my valuable time on this kind of footling nonsense. |
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She did this by presenting the children with nonsense words and setting up situations which would elicit derived forms of the words. |
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Actually, this whole nonsense reminded me of the day The Girl and I brought home a frozen apple crumble thing the other week. |
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The delegates didn't have time for their fringy nonsense, the press didn't care, and the protesters were not serious. |
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Enough, we've all had enough of this nonsense and it's time for a strong cuppa. |
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It's February and we should be used to all this nonsense, but funnily the mainstream media seems more gullible than ever. |
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It's all a lot of fuss and nonsense got up by some pesky civil rights activists, some of whom you can find here at Stand. |
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Murmuring soft words of comfort and nonsense, she eased herself carefully along the wall, bringing her hand along the side of the horse. |
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It often seems to be about performance, parliamentary games and all that type of nonsense. |
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I don't want it to be diluted by prattling around with this kind of nonsense! |
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He was being falsely modest afterward, prattling on about how there was an element of good fortune to it, but that's a nonsense. |
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I appeal to all concern to stop this silly nonsense before someone is seriously hurt. |
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Instead, we must listen to protestations of innocence and some nonsense suggesting that his sample had been sabotaged, and they know who did it. |
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Didn't help himself with his gobby nonsense at Trent Bridge and is learning that Test cricket is a tough school. |
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It is fiscal nonsense not to reap the benefits for the good of their own members. |
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With a no nonsense attitude, the Captain pinned his ears and steadily pulled away to win by three. |
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They purveyed all sorts of nonsense to US and UK newspapers, who swallowed it hook line and sinker. |
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Those of them who master its lessons will be inoculated against all manner of ideological nonsense purveyed by their leftist professors. |
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One can only urge purveyors of such nonsense to stop embarrassing themselves. |
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Worse than this dippy nonsense is the smug hippie sanctimony Glastonbury attracts. |
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There was a time when the nonsense that passes for news could be passed off as the ravings of the gutter press. |
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The same journalists endlessly regurgitate the same empty nonsense about climate change. |
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Opposants put out enough nonsense without supporters adding their own lies and dishonesties. |
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This was his own decision with all the political toll that such a policy of dishonour and strategic nonsense will extract. |
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Establishment figures with titles can talk nonsense and we'll still believe them. |
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The songs do have some vocal basslines, nonsense syllables, and a cappella passages, but the harmonies rarely evoke '50s or early '60s doo-wop. |
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In view of above-mentioned I feel the recount was pure nonsense and downright contempt of our democracy. |
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I'd hand-write sheets and sheets of inane drivel and daily nonsense to all and sundry. |
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Imagine that this all points to the coming of the frabjous day when we will put all that nonsense behind us and a new day of reason will dawn. |
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He began to tell me about whirling electrons and orthicon-tubes and other nonsense, but I cut him short with an abrupt wave. |
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That is the sort of absurd nonsense that has been driving the other side of the debate. |
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This was the sort of absurd nonsense that I had painstakingly ignored all the years of my life, and it had finally come back to haunt me. |
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It's a delightful piece of absurdist nonsense, a sitcom designed to offend highbrow admirers of minimalist dance. |
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Worries that such a new building would be a desecration of a war memorial are nonsense, Mr Roberts insists. |
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They have too much of the water of life, although what they say is not nonsense. |
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One feels quite sorry for our politicians and their wives that they have to suffer all this nonsense in their busy lives. |
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It's a stumbling block, and most of the lyrics are just kind of nonsense, jibber-jabber. |
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It includes nonsense about not raking up lawn clippings, using fluorescent light bulbs and getting your old clunker of a car tuned more often. |
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However the first movie was adolescent nonsense, lacking in both characterisation and narrative. |
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The puzzling question has been why there would be long stretches of junk or nonsense DNA in the genome. |
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Those who brand the Butler report a whitewash are talking nonsense to further their own political ends. |
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She stroked the surface of the shell, crooning nonsense words to the tiny baby inside, encouraging it to come into the world. |
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So he was a highly, very widely read guy and he had a very sound philosophy behind all the nonsense that was going on. |
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Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense. |
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But it's nonsense to suggest that they tarnish the lustre of the work that they're following. |
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The curriculum was geared to nonsense subjects while PE and sport were hardly recognised. |
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She lowered the volume of the CB before he could respond with some nonsense wisecrack. |
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His fond daydream shows that he is perfectly capable of the woollyheaded nonsense he decries in others. |
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What kind of a person even gives that sort of nonsense the time of day, let alone writes six-hundred-odd words about it? |
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This sounds astonishingly like it might be sound logic, making nonsense of what the kura leaders are saying. |
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There is surely more nonsense written about language than about any other topic. |
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All talk of the war being over was nonsense, and here were the trucks to take them on the first lap of their journey to death. |
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However, after nearly a week of their nonsense, Madelyn concluded that she'd had enough and the two were coerced into amends. |
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And we dread to think how much money was paid to consultants to dream up this nonsense. |
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I have to confess that I always get a good belly laugh out of such nonsense. |
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He dismissed as nonsense her claim that the march would be dominated by anti-government left wing political parties. |
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Then, in typical left-wing fashion, the Government, having legislated one piece of nonsense, has to legislate another to fix it. |
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It says it is nonsense to talk of revitalizing the construction industry, because that would fuel real estate speculation. |
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To suggest that there is a Lib Dem pact with Labour on the council is nonsense. |
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Being anti-racist is admirable, but if one is not equally anti-sexist, then it makes a nonsense of the argument. |
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It's true not only across languages, where a literal translation of idiom may result in nonsense, but also across art forms. |
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How did such nonsense ever come to be published in such a decent right-of-centre newspaper? |
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I won't comment on the theology of this position, but as linguistics, it's nonsense. |
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A movie like this tends to attract an awful lot of abstract nonsense going on around it. |
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I was a Minister for 9 years, and what the Hon Trevor Mallard has said is absolute arrant nonsense. |
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One must question the credibility of a journal that publishes such arrant nonsense. |
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These people crumble when their arrant nonsense is confronted with simple common sense. |
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Leiter makes sweeping and imprecise generalizations that turn out to be arrant nonsense, however you interpret them. |
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Sometime last week this arrant nonsense appeared in one of the local newspapers. |
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We heard arrant nonsense from this hopeless Minister of Police, who wanders around the country in a daze, blinded by his own incompetence. |
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To pretend or believe that any or all of this could be done without explicit state and military sanction is the most arrant nonsense. |
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This is arrant nonsense, and further proof that the history of pop music is not taught properly in schools these days. |
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It doesn't go in for politics or injustice or any such stuff and nonsense. |
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Forget all that nonsense about looking like an orange and think of your skin as the finest, most delicate fabric that you've got to wear for the rest of your life. |
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Her soothing voice flows over me in nonsense words I do not comprehend. |
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No matter what nonsense the little devils got themselves into, Miss Crabtree was always tolerant, patient, and ready with sweets. |
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The African American constituency isn't going to fall for this nonsense. |
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The outstanding leave entitlement is absolutely crippling that organisation, and because of this nonsense its contingent liability has just gone through the roof. |
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The pap and nonsense of a sentimental pulpitry, art, and literature. |
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If I had that famous penny for every time the Motley Fool's written about the nonsense of broker recommendations, then I'd be able to stop punting on tech shares. |
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I thought it was really terrific how he had boiled so much nonsense away and kept a particular track through the midst of all this confusion and hoopla and blah-blah. |
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That, of course, is nonsense provided the car's alternator is in good order in which case it will keep the battery charged while the engine is running. |
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For many months, racing has been the subject of wild rumours and unsubstantiated allegations, much of them nonsense and most thoroughly offensive. |
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Overtired and overfed politicians negotiate stupendous sums of other people's money into the night, finally agreeing to any nonsense so as to get home for Christmas. |
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Funniest of all, though, is the opening squeal of computer noise nonsense that momentarily almost passes for a new Radiohead composition in itself. |
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But the idea that tax reform will jump-start an economy suffering from the after-effects of a cyclical downturn is nonsense. |
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We went through his rap sheet in an attempt to find the line between revelatory civil disobedience and complete nonsense. |
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Anyhow, we're sure all this nonsense will blow over soon enough. |
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I will hound that poor excuse of a human being until he yells uncle or stops posting vapid, unproven horse nonsense that all of you seem to believe. |
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In fact, several of my favourite nonsense poems are by Lewis Carroll. |
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We won't be happy until we've got 400 cable or satellite or digital stations and we can watch the most ridiculous, amateurish, shoddy bits of nonsense. |
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A country that is serious about health reform would not take a limited, valued resource and waste it on nonsense like this. |
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As Carroll used it, there was something sinister, hidden and destructive in the nonsense word from the beginning. |
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Gentle reader, let me assure you that this is fatuous nonsense. |
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Staff leaving straight after a training programme, nonsense faxes and cold calls from energy companies are the top three annoyances for small business in Bolton. |
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But there's a daunting heap of whimsical fairy-land nonsense and idiotic eastern-flavoured piffle to struggle through before you get to the bits you're likely to remember. |
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Stop this nonsense at once, or you'll go to bed with no supper. |
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I think what the reverend is talking about is patent nonsense. |
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One member in particular, Colonel Leicester Stanhope, exasperated Byron by wasting money on nonsense. |
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I have had it up to here with your silly nonsense and gossip. |
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Default, unearned respect for culture breeds a decadent cultural licentiousness in which any amount of pretentious nonsense is encouraged and propagated. |
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That claim will be utter, unmitigated, fully-fledged nonsense. |
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His reasoning on wages, even without the nonsense about education and swearing, is less sound, riddled as it is with dubious comparative references to other people's earnings. |
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This is defeatist nonsense, not to mention entirely disingenuous, anyway. |
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Now when Greta occasionally forgets her manners, the owner can stop this nonsense by standing in her kitchen doorway with the can in her hands so that Greta can see it. |
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Prudie is so tired of all the nonsense propagated by the PC nudniks. |
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So then I launched into some singsong nonsense that was kinda like a newborn with Tourettes and something in its throat trying to yodel in Haitian. |
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I have just listened to Mr Clayton Cosgrove, who I believe is a former trade union official, and who understands all about producer boards, talking arrant nonsense. |
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Let us hope that the good people of Virginia put a stop to this nonsense. |
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It is time somebody called a halt to this nonsense or even shouted stop. |
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Well-known for their included breakfast at yummy Terra Bistro, this lodge is all the good stuff sans the excess nonsense. |
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The western world is fed so much arrant nonsense about people who follow differing forms of religious observance and, sadly, it is usually of a highly derogatory nature. |
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Many of the most popular child-rearing books are full of such nonsense. |
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The notion that justice is a zero-sum game, that any gains won by one group come at the expense of another, is nonsense. |
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However Ken conspicuously failed to mention that the other teams researching in the area have dismissed the Vinnikov and Grody paper as arrant nonsense. |
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The most satisfying examples of it occur when the nonsense operates according to the rules of an anarchic universe, and obeys logic within this context. |
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The only real connective tissue is the nonsense refrain of the title, which seems to slur through a dozen pair of wet, loose lips during this roundelay of partying. |
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The World Cup opening stages tend to make a nonsense of received wisdom. |
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If you're sick of all this break-dancing nonsense and are looking for a more traditional way to cut a rug, tap dancing with Pierre is what you need. |
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However, all of his blind, asinine nonsense was going to be put to an end. |
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And as for calls for international investigations, they represent the usual hypocritical nonsense that will go nowhere. |
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The rest of the night was filled with small talk and other utter nonsense. |
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In this collection are old British and American ballads, Civil War songs, blues, frolic tunes, children's games, nonsense songs, lullabies, spirituals, and more. |
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To those on the right who argue that that is a return to compulsory unionism or a replica of the closed shop system in America, I say that that is total nonsense. |
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The test required subjects to determine the identity of nonsense syllables presented in a tachistoscope when, unknown to the subjects, no syllables were present. |
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I suppose that I might have been tempted otherwise if the argument had been such palpable nonsense that it was instantly obvious that it could not possibly be right. |
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Most stereotypes have a very slight basis in reality, but by overwhelming them with an avalanche of complete nonsense any meaning they have will be lost. |
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You can either consume this plasticky PR nonsense and keep watching, or you can walk away. |
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Both Royds and Wibsey wards will be bisected by busy main roads which ought to be boundaries, and to extend Wibsey into Marshfields is a nonsense. |
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