| 单词 | nonsense |
| 例句 | So I swallowed all of the dark ages nonsense they fed me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z And I was carrying the ukulele, strumming nonsense. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Father cleared his throat, and I could see he was about to rattle off some nonsense. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “And I know what Doctor Neal says, that it’s some kind of last strength, some nonsense ab—” She coughs and her thin body arches over like a shell. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Then the March family turned out en masse, and Jo exerted herself to some purpose, for people not only came, but stayed, laughing at her nonsense, admiring Amy’s taste, and apparently enjoying themselves very much. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Realizing that he was up against two big, competent mice who would stand no nonsense, he became abusive and bad-mouthed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Gloria had a grip about the robot’s neck that would have asphyxiated any creature but one of metal, and was prattling nonsense in half-hysterical frenzy. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, “Men never know when things are dirty or not;” and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, “Women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us—to haunt our thoughts long after we’ve faced them. He would be delighted to know you’re still fretting over whatever nonsense he said.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “No Radio Mullah is going to tell me what to do. “This ‘mullahl ” he declared, “is nonsense and trouble.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The two gallons of pop had me squirming in my seat for the last sixty minutes of redundant nonsense, and I practically sprinted to the can when the film finally collapsed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Mr. Underwood was an old-time printer and stood for no nonsense. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She hadn’t been listening to that last speech of Count Olaf’s, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z And being away from the hardware store so much while all this nonsense was happening had put him weeks behind on his paperwork. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Paulito was only one inch tall, but he wanted to be king. Not because he was greedy or anything like that, but because his village wouldn’t stop arguing and fighting over petty nonsense.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “If I get a call from school about it being distracting, this nonsense is over,” she said, wagging a finger. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I gave him two Tylenol and a glass of water and left him, rubbing his eyes and talking nonsense, to go downstairs and call Francis. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “No; some unaccountable one. In short, I believe you have been trying to draw me out—or in; you have been talking nonsense to make me talk nonsense. It is scarcely fair, sir.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Maybe I use to be a little fra-gile, but I ain’t been afeared of nonsense nor run off screaming ’bout the littlest things for the longest time. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z But there was too much nonsense in Lily’s words, and my brain hates a mystery the way dogs hate cats, so before I can talk myself out of it I’m descending the stairs. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Up until this point I had been able to brush off the online negativity as mere Internet nonsense, but this latest threat made it all too real. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I'm not sure it's supposed to be called anything though, really. It's just my own brand of nonsense.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “You know,” Francesca said, taking Lewis from Sandy, “my father almost cut this tree down years ago. My mother wasn’t having it. Family lore or some such thing. Soft-hearted nonsense.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Sammy Valdez kept talking to the baby, while Leo’s mother, Esperanza, looked on with a pained smile—perhaps a little worried that Leo’s bisabuelo was rambling, a little sad that he was speaking nonsense. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Blackberry’s flood of apparent nonsense only seemed to draw tighter the mesh of danger and bewilderment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They had to learn to do dances waving red kerchiefs; they had to sing nonsense syllables. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Eberhardt held up the book and asked, “What does this have to do with that nonsense at the hospital?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m ticked off that he even got me thinking about such nonsense as Broadway. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This time he began to talk loudly, but the words came out nonsense, and I couldn’t make them out. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Babulya said dreams were usually nonsense, but some were God’s way of helping someone with a problem. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “I can’t deal with this now. All this nonsense, and the captain has abandoned ship and left a mess to boot.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z One look at the model was enough to convince her that it was nonsense. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Because he notices—as we do—that all this is complete and total nonsense!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Sheed was quick to call out nonsense, but quiet when he couldn’t argue. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “He kept asking if there were any deals we could do together, that kind of nonsense. And one day I told him I really preferred his condescension, and he hasn’t called me since.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We played silly games, sang nonsense rhymes—and pretended that, at least for those few hours, there was no Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Fine, Florence. I’ll just hold all this frustration and nonsense in until tomorrow morning, but don’t you go blaming me if I pop open and spray you all like a hot can of beer.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “You silly boy,” said Estella, quite composedly, “how can you talk such nonsense? Your friend Mr. Matthew, I believe, is superior to the rest of his family?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The last time I heard it, I listened to all the words, even the nonsense ones, and whoever wrote that song didn’t know anything at all about witch doctors. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I promise they are not dull, for I am not one inclined to sit through pages of nonsense and bloated speech, though perhaps you enjoy works and authors who think very highly of themselves. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Either stop all this nonsense and clean out that shed, or. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We should call the Realtor. Tell him there’s all this nonsense left behind. Tell him to take it away.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “It is not nonsense, Lancelot. They hate you. They won’t try a combat this time, not after Meliagrance. They are too cunning. They will do something to trap you. They will go behind your back.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of my eye, I catch Darius shaking his head, as if this whole scene is nonsense. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The others listened to him because he was the hero the owners were after, but they were convinced that he was talking nonsense. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But Deborah waved her hand in my face, shushing me like I was talking nonsense, then fished a videocassette from the pile and held it up for me to see. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Not this nonsense again with the marriage delusions. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Absolute nonsense. Bunkers are safer than lying in a cassava patch.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “And Mom will have her work recognized in America, without any nonsense politics,” Obiora said, nodding, agreeing with himself in case nobody else did. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She believed he had been drinking too much of Mr. Weston’s good wine, and felt sure that he would want to be talking nonsense. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “But Rome was not built in a day. Keep it in mind, comrade, that this is not your Oxford college. For you what is a nonsense for Masses it is something different.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, magic itself always felt like nonsense to the swamp monster. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Your master wants me to come with him. To help him with his nonsense. I would rather die.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He was a proud man who would take nonsense from nobody. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gally’s psycho. You can’t put too much stock in his rambling nonsense. What, you think Thomas here is a Griever in disguise?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Your message still doesn’t make sense. You can’t use nonsense words and expect us to figure them out—can he, Mr. Quisling?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “The food of white people makes you healthy, it is not like all of the nonsense that our people eat.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Talking nonsense, Wraith? Don’t die too quick. Need to get you patched up.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This was exactly the kind of nonsense he didn’t want them fretting about. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “What a lot of nonsense!” muttered the rat. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “What a piece of nonsense we have made! With practice we might do something quite clever. Do you know Truth?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Hog wash Means "nonsense," though no one knows what a "hog" is or why one would wash it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “This is nonsense. Weeks we’ve been practicing footwork. I don’t even have a sword.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t use the word nonsense” Mom calls over the electric motor of the treadmill in the den. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Why? What kind of nonsense has he been spouting?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z As we saw in Chapter 2, this is nonsense, in that we have to read history both forwards and backwards. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was nonsense of course, and I opened the door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We traded information on Mommy the way people trade baseball cards at trade shows, offering bits and pieces fraught with gossip, nonsense, wisdom, and sometimes just plain foolishness. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I turn around, cross my arms, and look him in the face, because I know this boy is about to come out the side of his neck with some nonsense. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I’m real sorry about what happened to Abigail. If she had just thrown that letter away and forgotten all that nonsense...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z My mother shook her head in disappointment whenever she heard about “that nonsense,” as she called it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Tom sang most of the time, but it was chiefly nonsense, or else perhaps a strange language unknown to the hobbits, an ancient language whose words were mainly those of wonder and delight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Never mind that nonsense,” it replied in a gruff voice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of “nonsense.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z This was not the sort of nonsense Mrs. Jacobs would brook. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He said to stay focused on my schooling, not to get caught up in nonsense. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Don’t start with me, Stu, I’m not in the mood for your nonsense.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Not like younger men who talked nonsense probably, not meaning half they said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu looked at Professor Moore to see how the word “nonsense” had been received. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “You think so? I am glad. It sounded to me a little like the nonsense.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t say I’d be fighting over you. I’m only throwing jabs if she come at me with some nonsense.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It’s not sentimental nonsense: it’s based on the story of Father’s life. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Hyenas, orangoutangs, all of you. Sit up straight, and no more nonsense.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Let me dig this nonsense out, else I’ll be searching that poor child for evil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He had no desire to hang around for the groundbreaking nonsense. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I even started a few rumors that were pure nonsense, lies so outrageous that people would repeat them despite the fact that they were obviously untrue. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She’s the only girl smart enough to stay out of Alexia’s nonsense. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Ms. Holly sings a bunch of nonsense words in a falsetto while she moves her head from side to side like a chicken. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I do not want to hear any more nonsense from you. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Why are you attracted only to Chinese nonsense? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally Dad said, “I will take them over there right now. This nonsense ends tonight.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “All this nonsense comes from the Dark Ages. We know now that most birth deformities result from the consanguinity of the parents.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We have to take things as lightly as we can, so we make the most of every opportunity, and nonsense stands stark and immediate beside horror. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he stopped dancing and took the kettle from his head and looked at Mig and said, “Do ye want a good clout to the ear for such nonsense?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z She said, “You called us here for this nonsense?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “War will be averted and countless lives saved. Our world will return to the formtr state of tranquility we enjoyed before all this nonsense.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Nonsense, so much nonsense the memory cooks up, mixing up facts, putting in a little of this and a little of that. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, nonsense. Now, what can we do for you here in Uppsala, Mr. Van Texel?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z If the letter was writ fancy, like this one was, with swirlingness and curlycues and such nonsense it only meant one thing: A friendly white person was writing to let you know somebody was dead. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, he promised to go along with this nonsense. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “I won’t have this namby-pamby, wishy-washy nonsense about not hitting people who deserve it. A good thrashing is what’s needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The captain with his single bloodshot eye; the parrot, his head bobbing in anticipation of whatever nonsense I would add to this foolishness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Where the conventional view had been that lands close to the equator must be uninhabitable, this had turned out to be nonsense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Design! nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Clouds would roll into her eyes, and she would talk nonsense for hours. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They look at it and say, ‘This is nonsense, this is not how you make decisions.’ Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Back then she mostly wrote nonsense or drew pictures of cats, but now her notes made up a reading diary of sorts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I looked him straight on, with my face all serious, and I may have even jabbed a finger in his direction, but he wasn’t having any of my nonsense, Stan being Stan and all. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z When I'd said all that nonsense about perfidy, I'd been telling a yarn, hoping that I could distract everyone from my questionable manners. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The former perhaps believed in reincarnation, while the latter thought this was nonsense. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you know what it is—early hours of the morning—everything very still—the thing had a sinister look—like a detective story. All nonsense, really.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He had Theresa by the arm, and he was bellowing some nonsense about new laws about rooting out heresy and pagan sorcery and some other fancy phrases he had just learned that week, I reckoned. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The mythical animals catalogued in the bestiaries of the world seem, at a casual glance, nothing but exotic nonsense. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “A lot of nonsense,” Mr. Patch-Withers grumbled, with a flushed face. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It is all nonsense, partially corrupted—just like the file Tremaine had sent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The same images repeated and the newscasters babbled the same nonsense. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Cain’s access to the Otherworlds, to the In-Between, to whatever all that nonsense was, had given him the ability to see into her mind, her memories, her soul. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Ophelia, you read much nonsense. What dung-covered lad can tell his ABCs, let alone rhyme a sonnet and count all its feet?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “If she had paid as much attention to chemistry as she did to this theater nonsense, she’d be a good cook,” he says. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I caught Justin out of the side of my eye, shaking his head with amazement at the nonsense that was coming out of my mouth. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Back then she mostly wrote nonsense or drew pictures of cats, but now her notes made up a reading diary of sorts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Because all this ‘genetic damage’ nonsense is ridiculous,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “When I get a message from that thing,” Theodora said, “I expect it to be about hidden treasure. None of this nonsense about sending flowers to my aunt.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Jay was cool with me going—Dad battled there, and Mr. Jimmy doesn’t tolerate any nonsense—but she wasn’t crazy about me going with Aunt Pooh. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She found herself talking to him, nonsense words and phrases, in a singsong voice. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They argued passionately with the village greenwitches, claiming that all those fairy tales were nothing but the stuff of nonsense — there were no greenies or goblins. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "And they talks a lot of nonsense. But they talks an awful lot of sense, as well. You listen to 'em at your peril, and you ignore 'em at your peril, too." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “That’s what she said. All right, it’s nonsense, but listen to it, Oliver, will you?” said Dr. Mary Malone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Utter nonsense! The man was pulling your leg. Civilizations thirty thousand years old? Ha! Where is the evidence?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If it doesn’t have Chicago plumbing, it’s nonsense. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess he pretty much figures where we stand on the whole nonsense, being beastly Negroes and all. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Stuff and nonsense,” she said, and kept on snipping the blossoms. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “I’m afraid this dreadful nonsense is the law,” Justice Strauss said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “On a certain level everything sounds like nonsense, doesn’t it?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Two days later, Singleton sat down in a windowless room in Brigham City, his immodest investigator’s surroundings, put one of the discs into the computer, and discovered what looked like nonsense. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I knew it was silly, but they flattered me and said I was a beauty, and quantities of nonsense, so I let them make a fool of me.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, but I am Scotch and crazy. But I'll stop it. It’s all nonsense.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I loved him for all sorts of reasons: He cooked without recipes; he wrote nonsense poems for his nieces; his large, warm family had accepted me as one of their own. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Virgil remembered Lola using that phrase specifically, “petty nonsense,” because he had had to ask her what it meant. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z So I always just keep cool and lay low on my block, where at least I know all the characters and how to deal with all their "interesting" nonsense. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z There was some kind of truth hidden in there, Reynie thought, but it was camouflaged with nonsense. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The poems I read are not nonsense poems. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Janae and Ainsley are being all cutesy as they walk, mostly talking about nonsense like the best campus frat parties and their white schoolmates who wear shorts and hoodies in the dead of winter. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Bapu Gandhi? The boy is getting to be on affectionate terms with Gandhi? After Daddy Gandhi, what next? Uncle Jesus? And what’s this nonsense—has he really become a Muslim?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “For heaven’s sake, let’s not go through all that nonsense again,” the Earthworm said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I thought Mr. Pignati was going to blow his top with all that nonsense going on because at first he just looked at us, and I don’t mean with a smile. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Wash’s remedy was charming nonsense, but she was willing to try anything. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not nonsense, Mr. Jankowski,” she says, going to the window and opening the blinds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z And then Celia’s giant nonsense word began to break apart into smaller, more intelligible ones. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I dip my head in my best imitation of Mom’s no- nonsense look. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all nonsense. It’s only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn’t.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I muttered a word I knew was nonsense and stood up and walked into the bedroom, making sure to close the door that led to the hallway. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “None of that nonsense. I’m a Parslow, same as Roger’s father. He’s my second cousin. I bet you didn’t know that, ’cause I bet you never asked, Miss Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Either I didn’t hear you, or you’re talking nonsense. A child from another world?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If she had been Nat she would have picked Hannah up and carried her off in the boat with no more nonsense. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t be too sure. Jenny has a mind of her own; she sees through nonsense like a flash.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But Georgie was right—whatever nonsense she spouted, her father most likely wouldn’t believe her. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Your father is talking nonsense. I’ve never heard such a story!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a family of weaver birds work together for months on a nest that became such a monstrous lump of sticks and progeny and nonsense that finally it brought their whole tree thundering down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a veritable racket of gratitude on the other end, and Dede has to smile at some of the imported nonsense of this woman’s Spanish. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, these reference works, with their careful attention to history, literature, and actual usage, are the most adamant debunkers of grammatical nonsense. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z People still waved and bowed, cheering and laughing, throwing flowers and other nonsense before their horses. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “So, is it true? Is Baltimore County really gone? Had we ever gotten an edge on the shambler plague, or was that all just some Survivalist nonsense?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z And what was all that nonsense about pine trees? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The thing to do was to keep that rabble-rousing nonsense out of black hands. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was a fairly rough voice, the kind of in-your-face tone that said I wouldn’t stand for too much nonsense either on the basketball courts or in the streets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Now stop the nonsense and eat your dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The voices are still speaking, but they haven’t slept either, so now they just grumble nonsense. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He knew, or he could imagine, the arguments which proved his own nonexistence; but they were nonsense, they were only a play on words. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “There are rumors, but they sound like nonsense to me.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It sounded like nonsense but carried so much secret purpose. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, go ahead and open them. And stop it with that nonsense.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They are the kind of nonsense faces that children make. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “What nonsense is this?” asked Gitl, her hands on her hips. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If you let your mind relax, all the words will flow into each other in an amiable sort of nonsense. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was nonsense—it was superstition—the gyptians knew nothing, or they were up to something, or they weren’t to be trusted. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “The whole thing is arrant nonsense, of course,” he said. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Ridiculous. Couldn’t the commander pick a less dramatic moment for this nonsense?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Aw, it’s all nonsense,” I said as I gathered some dry wood and piled it near the edge of the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord, and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like a cat running up and down on top of garbage cans. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right, you two, I said no nonsense and I don’t mean maybe.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t have time for any more of your nonsense. Move it now!” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Books could be awesome mysteries to her, or they could be dangerous time-wasting nonsense. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Could he hear Lyra’s voice as well, burbling her nonsense? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Mrs. Lowe made me clean the erasers for a week and apologize in front of the whole class for taking up their time with my nonsense. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Honestly. Two hours. I don’t know if I could’ve made myself go through with this if I’d known what nonsense we were letting ourselves in for.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z ‘I hope you got over that nonsense about leaving Camp Half-Blood.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There was no such nonsense in this church. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “It means nonsense. I read it in a book in the library.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She said she’d confronted him about it, and he’d gone off on some nonsense about the world needing to learn to respect him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Joseph Goebbels, the composer of blustery Nazi propaganda, had been issuing nonsense statements for years. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “You didn’t really think Mrs. Peterson was going to let him get away with all that nonsense, did you?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Standard would never write this nonsense,” Papa said, putting the paper down. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of nonsense she appreciated. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “But then what . . . ?” He began to talk a lot of incomprehensible and dangerous nonsense. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Last year was the 150th anniversary of Stokum becoming a town or some such nonsense, and Mr. Tanner, the principal at Jefferson, had gotten all jissy about it. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “You disturb my lunch with this nonsense? How can you expect to learn calculus when you didn’t understand algebra?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There was another string of nonsense words, then “Threw her body all around.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was mere drivelling nonsense that I talked out there in the shell-hole. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The great majority of what one hears said about his lordship today is, in any case, utter nonsense, based on an almost complete ignorance of the facts. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z "I ought to snap this toy across my knee here and now, and put an end to this nonsense." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “But they can’t be nonsense! Why would they have been kept in a box like that? With the strange lock?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Your message still doesn’t make sense. You can’t use nonsense words and expect us to figure them out—can he, Mr. Quisling?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She was also wrong when she thought I’d understand that nonsense about doors closing and opening all by themselves. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She didn’t believe in any nonsense about cats. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I sang nonsense to him as my terrified mind skipped around. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “So... what? You think he’s just talking nonsense?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “No nonsense, but truth. Claudius is a murderer.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Some nonsense about a bachelor party. I just want to take a sleeping pill and go to bed.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “You can let the cord go, hand, and I will handle him with the right arm alone until you stop that nonsense.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned away from her, those nonsense words still tumbling in my head. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It sounded like nonsense to me, until Dad said with the sureness of a dart, “A spotter.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Jack watched all our nonsense in his rearview mirror. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As scholars became aware of this process they began to publish books which were compilations of errors which had once been learned errors but could now be dismissed as nonsense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “No, no, nonsense, Lizzy. I desire you to stay where you are.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “Nonsense,” she returned,—“nonsense. This will pass in no time.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t need to say a lot of nonsense. I said I was sorry. We do get along.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It looked forbidding, though I knew that was nonsense. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dragons, dragons, dragons. Always that nonsense,” Uncle said impatiently. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I used to write poetry myself when I was his age. Awful nonsense, too. I never write any now.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “What nonsense!” declared the red-faced colonel, and swung away from the chaplain with dignity and annoyance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You said this nonsense would never happen again, Bitter!” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “I called you here, yes. But this is sense, Mama-ji, not nonsense. Even a child could see that.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z There had been a pack of other nonsense, just as far-fetched. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “All nonsense!” replied Capricorn, answering the unspoken question in a bored voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Wilton, whose adrenaline was flowing, said Mac was talking nonsense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the time, she ended up with nonsense. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “What sort of nonsense is this?” said one of the fathers. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z And I dismissed the Nation of Islam’s demand for a separate black economy in America, which I had also heard before, as willful, and even mischievous, nonsense. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Have you,” he said, “really spent your time in studying such nonsense?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z And Javi and I went back and forth, calling out toasts, invoking the sky, celebrating nonsense with nonsense until we had everybody cheering. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He asserted that Greenland is drifting west by about a mile a year, which is clearly nonsense. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “London is a leveler. We are now all in London and we are now all the same, what nonsense,” Bose said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z An old-timer made his hand into a cone and hollered nonsense through it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “If you try to pull that nonsense with Herrera, he’s going to eat your lunch. You know that, right?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But still, I entertain her nonsense because I have a few minutes to kill before I have to get back to the station. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z You heard me and you turned, and as soon as you realized I was spouting nonsense, you turned away and walked on, muttering to your friend, “Another nutcake.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z But I liked it best when he sang, in his deep bass voice, some of the silly nonsense songs he and Mother used to make up when they were children. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I would and more.You better stop the nonsense and go to bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z While all the other students traded gossip and nonsense in the auditorium in the morning and at lunch, Quentin always sat alone. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She had snuck back for us—when Mimi's back was turned—little nonsense presents. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “They agree with me. It’s nonsense for you to hunt with the men. You’re only causing trouble, and I forbid it.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Neither do I. It’s a silly idea. Your grandmother wasn’t one for such nonsense.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Jolene urged that they sample the pie at once—no nonsense about leaving it to cool. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not put up with nonsense, though, and she called things as she saw them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The letter was not in the post for more than an hour before I knew that my claim was nonsense. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Most possible combinations of nucleotides are nonsense: they would cause the synthesis of proteins that perform no useful function. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally my turn came and I felt foolish, tense; I wanted to yell for him to stop; I wanted to tell him that all this was so much nonsense. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignoring that nonsense, Otto tried to determine which Awesome Adventure represented the best opportunity for another Key to the City. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, nonsense,” his grandma said, giving him two playful slaps on each cheek that actually hurt quite a lot. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z She rises up slowly out of her chair and says, “I still can’t believe you talked me into this nonsense.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “There will be time for nonsense later,” Lena assured him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Those old Martians are just a lot of nonsense. It’s all too silly! We’re going to make fools of ourselves! Absolute fools!” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But he said: “You’ve heard it often enough: one of our boys can lick any ten of them, that nonsense.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As it always did, their word game dissolved into nonsense and they laughed as they carried the basket back down the hill. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was never one of those backwoods ministers who urge the taking up of copperhead snakes, baby-flinging, or the shrieking of nonsense syllables. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon’s it let me go I forgot all that nonsense ’bout mice and cats and I tried to light out for the trees. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Vincent would grow up to think most of that was nonsense. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Okay, so I knew this was all nonsense. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “It still sounds like nonsense,” Constance muttered, “and now I’m hungry.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “You better stop this nonsense, before others hear about it. That’s not how it works around here, and our whole existence depends on things working.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Even if he were to say nonsense, his mesmerized students would never know because of his unquenchable self-confidence. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Theresa said that was nonsense and to hush. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z All their antics was first-rate nonsense to me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “You will forget all about such nonsense when your child is born,” she said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a traditionally trained doctor, but he also believed in things Charles thought were nonsense, such as diagnostic clairvoyance and spiritualism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I gives him a look like I ain’t ’bout to consider no nonsense such as that. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Mam says he’s talking a lot of bloody nonsense and he says she shouldn’t say bloody in front of the children. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I had to come back. Our last words to each other were trash and we would’ve been some bad cliché, and I’m too iconic for such nonsense.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Evidently, these columns were rarely to Lord Darlington's liking, for I can recall numerous instances of his looking up from a journal and saying something like: 'Young Reggie writing such nonsense again. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Then you and I can just forget all this rally nonsense.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z At least, we hoped that was true, and not just some nonsense that Ms. Hawkins made up. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Feather beds and quarry, Indeed; a lot of childish nonsense. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself having anything to do with such nonsense,’ said Sam. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Mercy me! I don’t know anything about love and such nonsense!” cried Jo, with a funny mixture of interest and contempt. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, he’s a marvelous horseman, and brave, and doesn’t take any nonsense from anybody. He’ll lead us through the Lobsterbacks like a hot knife through butter.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The orange vendor deflects this nonsense with a yawn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought that was a lot of nonsense. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I sat there on the stoop and thought about the nonsense Chris was talking. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Papi always scowled and told her not to speak such nonsense. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I was becoming a young lady and other nonsense. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Gaily’s psycho. You can’t put too much stock in his rambling nonsense. What, you think Thomas here is a Griever in disguise?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z “You don’t actually believe this nonsense, do you?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Nazario must have made some sort of dizzy razzmatazz nonsense about the donation being an anonymous gift but I’m sure he gave the school enough information to know it was Vera. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I am slightly amused by your astonishing capacity to talk nonsense, that is all.' it is a guilty little smile you have on, Mr Stevens. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “But—” “I’m not having one in the house, Petunia! Didn’t we swear when we took him in we’d stamp out that dangerous nonsense?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Charles told his sister Caroline that Lyell said “it beat all other nonsense he has ever read on the subject.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “And no nonsense from you,” she added as she wagged her finger at Eliza. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thursday,” Archie said, a command in his voice, no nonsense, final, irrevocable. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you know how I feel about nonsense.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z It served him right to die like that, feverish and so weak at the end that he was croaking nonsense. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “You may think you’re very smart. You may think your perfect grades earn you some sort of special treatment. You may even think you have fans at this school, what with all this nonsense.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “The swineherd said everyone knows there’s something dangerous in these woods. They probably just assumed it was a demon or some nonsense like that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The latest bit of nonsense is a Committee to Detect Conspiracies. They’ve sent the hounds after us, old friend.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Chess Life, indignant at the disrespect shown Bobby, came to his defense, calling such articles “Fischer-baiting” and proclaiming them “utter nonsense.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Celaena curtsied, restraining the urge to keep walking; if she had to deal with too much courtly nonsense, she might be better off back in Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We sang nonsense songs together when we churned butter. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “But remember, Thlayli, you yourself can stop this nonsense whenever you wish.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cross it? Who’s going to cross it? What do you want to cross it for? I never heard such nonsense.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In Harlem that power was expressed in muscle, in being someone who wouldn’t take any nonsense or who was good at athletics. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “No, it is not agreed. Never heard such nonsense in me life. Besides, she don't make a noise like that She makes a noise like this.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As a child, Turner had once tried to persuade himself that preventing his mother’s sudden death by avoiding the pavement cracks outside his school playground was a nonsense. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Local newspapers panned his lecture as rambling nonsense, and he couldn't attract audiences. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Those men only murmured sweet nonsense to me, trying in vain to flatter me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is nonsense. Even if I were a Gemini, which I’m not, we don’t know for sure that’s what the message means.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z This is how I find out that Miss McDaniels has yet another pet peeve besides lateness, wasting valuable time, and utter nonsense. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z No doubt there had been sorties and skirmishes at the start of the siege, and arrows flying back and forth; half a year into it, everyone was too tired for such nonsense. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘You speak nonsense. A column of fire is about to destroy you and your precious Greek statue. No ally can help you. Your mother has abandoned you as you abandoned your legion.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Annabeth wasn’t allowed to call her father and bother him with this nonsense. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “You heard the man, get on outta here. Don’t no one want to be hearing none of the mess you talking. We ain’t ’bout to brook your nonsense. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Mrs. Dodson was a tall, brown-skinned woman with an intelligent, pleasant face anchored by a resolute lower lip that signaled that she would put up with no nonsense whatsoever. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I must be delirious; he is speaking nonsense. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z You could let your hair grow, he said, and you didn’t have to polish your boots or snap off salutes or put up with the usual rear-echelon nonsense. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “For pity’s sake, Amelia. Where did you ever hear such pompous nonsense?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “A huge chunk of good news to take all that swastika nonsense off the front pages!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Why are you staring at ash and at sticks and scraps of wood when we could be chasing Loki? Kvasir! As you ponder and talk your nonsense he is getting away from us!” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “You two get back in there. Dorothy, I don’t want to hear another word of this nonsense, you understand?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I read through a pile of magazines, look up nonsense on my phone, and a few hours later Francis pulls away and the buzzing stops. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “This is the painter’s house, Mr. Peale. You know, the one who gave all those strange names to his poor children: Rubens, Raphaelle, Rembrandt, and I don’t know what other nonsense.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose it helps! Keeps me going! I know it’s nonsense!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I whispered quiet nonsense to get the bonobos attention. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I stand in the pirogue, calling his name over and over, talking nonsense to keep him near. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Plus, Faizah had recently confided in me that some people back home were giving my parents a hard time because of my traveling schedule, so they had to deal with that nonsense as well. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Garzoni is not very interested in garlic and magnets; but his tract begins by stating that there is much nonsense written about magnets, and that reliable knowledge has to be based on experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At first sight, Pascal’s claim that progress has been continuous seems nonsense: we would accumulate experience from generation to generation only if we had a reliable way of recording and transmitting it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Working for another Ph.D. was nonsense, but only by using this dodge would I have the possibility of college rooms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “It’s not running away, it’s being realistic. By the time we get into university, the good professors will be fed up with all this nonsense and they will go abroad.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Georgiana would chatter nonsense to her canary bird by the hour, and take no notice of me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The following afternoon, the Champions stood gathered around Brullo, who lectured them on different weapons and other nonsense she’d learned years ago and didn’t need to hear again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z This phenomenon leads to nonsense when people attribute the regression to the mean to some particular scientific law, rather than to the natural behavior of any random quantity. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He need be ’shamed of hisselfj scaring young folk with them nonsense stories.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “If John doesn’t know anything about this nonsense, don’t tell him, and make Jo and Laurie hold their tongues. I won’t be deceived and plagued and made a fool of. It’s a shame!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the countless others she’d tried, it was just page after page of scribbled nonsense. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Sad little nonsense letters about minor troubles, her husband’s job and who the children favored. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, ‘What nonsense!'” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But how would this suit? It ain’t what I call proper poetry, if you understand me: just a bit of nonsense. But these old images here brought it to my mind.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “They’ll be scratching their heads and saying nonsense such as, ‘Is it OK to take seven shots at him or is the limit six?’ The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z This does seem a very plausible explanation the more I think about it; for it is true, nothing vexes me more these days than to hear this sort of nonsense being repeated. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Without the prompting the culprit was used to, his confession was nonsense. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Days passed but the king refused to believe it was nonsense. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I explained to Nelson that his voodoo was absolutely nonsense. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After decades of falling for such nonsense, the American people will decide they've had enough pointless anxiety. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “What nonsense is this about fair minds and pretty faces? And who is this lady, Diana?” she asked, as if we had spoken of someone at Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Mr. Banner signed my slip and handed me a book with no nonsense about introductions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A couple of the others laughed with him, marveling that anyone could believe such nonsense. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Even if he was being honest, I never heard such a lot of nonsense in all my life.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Not long ago Mrs. van D. was entertaining us with some bit of nonsense or another. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “If anyone around here is talking nonsense it’s you. Get those children to the door!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z That it was the Owenses who had got involved in this nonsense, rather than some flibbertigibbet johnny-come-latelies, counted for a lot, for the Owenses were respectable and respected. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z My years spoke for my attention with aching shoulders but I was aimed at the Connecticut River and I ignored the weariness, and this was utter nonsense. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your language is thick with nonsense. I wonder how any of you understand each other. How is everything going? Going where?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Those aren’t nonsense words,” she said, realizing she could read James’s message even though nobody else in the class could, and she smiled at what it said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Burns tells them to “turn off that nonsense,” and I’m on such a high that I bite my tongue. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the impression they both gave of no nonsense. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’ve had it up to my horns with this nonsense. As if the wild god would speak to ... to him!’ The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z "What is this nonsense? Look at how rough this is! One tile is broken! This is even worse than the old tiles! How can you be happy with this useless work?" she asked the man. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z To my surprise, Gum Baby didn’t jump up and start shouting nonsense. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was all nonsense, as they both knew. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I don’t believe they’ve turned a Life Guard. Those men are the finest we have. This is nonsense and I’m going back to bed.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d rather get beat with a broom than go back out in that nonsense. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Child,” Lillian answered, “you are the healthiest human being on this earth. Don’t you go talking nonsense.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Of old the Hellenic race was marked off from the barbarian as more keen-witted and more free from nonsense. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I internally say that her wig is the only nonsense in this room. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I have heard nearly as much nonsense about zoos as I have about God and religion. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The guardians always insisted these stories were nonsense. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “To tell the truth, I think I’m beyond help. My brain simply won’t absorb that nonsense, no matter how hard I try.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, nonsense! The weather’s changed. It’ll be spring before we know it. Thank the good Lord, all that rain’s over and done with.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Don’t talk such nonsense,” Mami said, but she gave me a fearful look. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Those aren’t nonsense words,” she said, realizing she could read James’s message even though nobody else in the class could, and she smiled at what it said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Any bit of nonsense can be computerized—astrology, biorhythms, the I Ching—but that doesn’t make the nonsense any more valid. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm confused as to why I allow this crazy nonsense. Perspective | Ask Amy: Four-year obsession with politics gives wife negative outlook 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Darling Buds Of May suggests that the best band of all time in the world ever seems to involve championing nonsense lyrics about birthdays and sirens and the idea that competing guitar solos are pleasant. This week's new singles 2011-02-26T00:07:48Z But the left is just as subject to nonsense and magical thinking as the right. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The argument that opera when staged is only about the voice is nonsense. Glyndebourne's 'Rosenkavalier,' hit by catty reviews, set for webcast 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Of course, Ingraham’s statement was utter nonsense when she said it and remains so this day. “Shut Up and Dribble” hits its shot: A powerful rebuttal to Laura Ingraham — and so much more 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z He would understand the rough scuffling about, and the urgencies underlying what seems like nonsense. Theater Review: ‘Ich, Kürbisgeist’ by Sibyl Kempson at Chocolate Factory 2012-11-06T22:50:28Z Asked about the Times report, Browne said he did not know about alcohol and acknowledged that stress was a factor, but he dismissed the domestic issue as "nonsense." Afghan massacre suspect upset at 4th tour 2012-03-16T11:35:00Z So the translation does turn some of the book into nonsense. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z There was no nonsense about her Wonder Woman; she was the kind of straightforward, unflappable hero that was all the rage at the time. My possible superhero 2011-03-28T20:30:01Z She shouts out random items of gossip about Marlon Brando; she yells “I hate exercise!”; at one point, she starts making up nonsense songs about how doing crunches is lousy. Watching Shelley Winters Go Rogue in Debbie Reynolds’s 1983 Exercise Video, “Do It Debbie’s Way” 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z For instance, after Mr. Kaine asserted that Mr. Trump wanted to use a “deportation force” to eject all undocumented immigrants, Mr. Pence said, “That’s nonsense.” Vice Presidential Debate: How Do You Fact-Check a Headshake? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z “If you think about ‘Jaws’ for more than 45 seconds you will recognize it as nonsense,” Vincent Canby wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘In a World …’ and ‘The Workers Cup’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z That laugh stands out because it adds the nonsense of real life to the mix. In ‘M3gan,’ a Detective’s Guilty Laugh Speaks Volumes About Him (and Us) 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z If “Designated” goes the “Quantico” route of turning into baffling nonsense, I will be very sad. What You Should Watch Now That Fall TV Has Arrived 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z His jokes are logic puzzles, full of reversed laws of physics and clever nonsense. Comedy gold: A Steven Wright Special 2013-03-14T15:49:19Z He says he no longer reads “any of that creative nonsense.” Books of The Times: The Prodigy Burned Out. Why Not Blame Mom? 2011-08-23T20:39:20Z Such sentiments are far more Indian than nonsense from irate BJP activists. Arundhati Roy: The debater of big things 2010-10-27T23:01:00Z It sounds like nonsense but a study by Brown et al found that physically symmetrical men were rated better dancers by women. Peter Lovatt: 'Dancing can change the way you think' 2011-07-30T23:05:56Z “I’m furious. What is this nonsense, ‘radical artist.’ A Swiss Dada Pioneer Finally Gets Her Spotlight 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z And then Green starts singing beautiful curlicues of nonverbal nonsense, as if what he’s trying to say is beyond words or beyond his patience to find them. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone And what is coming of age if not the realisation that everything you thought mattered six months ago is actually nonsense? Fetch happens: why Mean Girls is the perfect teen movie 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z But then there are the others, the reality TV stars who sweat under the lights and are often at a loss for words but cobble together some semi-aggressive nonsense out of desperation. "Real Housewives of NYC" finale: Goodbye, wackadoos! 2010-06-04T13:30:00Z Wouldn’t that show something about the nature of why people are grasping onto things, especially if I’m going to be saying that what I’m teaching is not real and it’s kind of nonsense?” Snapshot: Vikram Gandhi’s Documentary ‘Kumaré’ 2012-06-02T14:54:55Z "All their specie are around and about … I desire to talk nonsense to you and help you to construct that baby which I think is a very very good idea indeed." Army museum displays letters from soldiers' wives and sweethearts 2011-02-09T16:33:58Z I consider this pseudoscience, or just plain nonsense. Perspective | Ask Amy: Worker wonders how to respond to slur 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z The rest of the action is taken up with predictable, hammily acted nonsense. Film review: The Blind Side 2010-03-25T22:20:00Z What she’s not a fan of: the lazy, drippy, delusional Christmas mythmaking nonsense of Northern Europe, the United Kingdom and, most notably, the United States. Weird Christmas 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z It's nonsense, of course, and never more apparently so than when one listens to Schumann's Heine settings, the greatest of which – arguably – is the Dichterliebe cycle. Mark Padmore/Andrew West – review 2013-06-14T17:22:01Z The image of rebellion is nonsense and Wenner believes to this day he rebels while acting like the worst of conforming heartless capitalists. The Licentious Life and Times of Jann Wenner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z "Sydney felt that in dying he made up for all his previous nonsense" surely trumps all that "far, far better" talk, doesn't it? Making great books a little bit simpler 2011-07-11T11:10:45Z We really do have teachers and parents preaching QAnon conspiratorial nonsense to kids, or attempting to pass off the big lie about November's election results as fact. The "South ParQ Vaccination Special" fails to be funny – but maybe that's the point 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Thereafter, he claimed he would meticulously prepare the bathroom for the purging session, getting it all just how she liked it, along with other grotesque nonsense that I do hope he took money for. Meghan has given birth to a raft of royal experts 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z In other words, Luther is another piece of highly stylised nonsense, pitched somewhere in that territory between fantasy and cliche that commissioning editors find so irresistible. Luther, Chris Ryan's Strike Back and Jamie Does? Venice 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Yet you got your first cartoon, showing the imaginary objects described by nonsense words, accepted on the first try. Roz Chast in Full View (Body Scan Included) 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The sample sounds like a child trilling nonsense from inside a tornado: quavering, vertiginous. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z As the nonsense world of the song is prised open to ask such questions as "Who is Michael?" and "How did he die?" The Place Prize - review 2011-04-08T17:56:26Z This was by no means a rude crowd — almost the opposite, in fact — but it practices a highly evolved disdain for nonsense. Critic’s Notebook: Essence Music Festival With Mary J. Blige, in New Orleans 2012-07-09T22:42:42Z That was the showman side of Stokowski: the lights on his silvery hair, all that nonsense. Gunther Schuller: Conducting? He wrote the book 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z It looks fantastically dangerous a lot of the time, and there is no nonsense with helmets or goggles. Cannes film festival review ? Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow 2010-05-16T17:14:00Z Even if you have a high tolerance for nonsense, your kids deserve some stability. Perspective | Ask Amy: Not-quite-divorced couple enjoys ‘meeting up’ 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z This creates a buzz when students come in since the first thing they notice are the nonsense words. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z They mock celebrities “in a $2,000 dress talking about socialism on the red carpet” and film reviewers who are clueless, throwing around academic nonsense to cover their lack of knowledge. ‘Malcolm & Marie’ director reveals origins of buzzy film 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Either way, it’s a comforting reminder that, whenever anyone lifts a rock to expose those darker, damper corners of fandom Davies warned about, chances are what emerges will be a load of nonsense as well. The diehards of doom! Why Doctor Who is the show fans love to hate 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z This postmodern approach to modernism leads to some self-conscious nonsense. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z She wasn’t consulted for Ridley’s film, which she calls “absolute nonsense”. That never happened: the biopic conundrum 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z We should be objecting to our children being injected with that white nonsense for 12 years in the public system. "Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Conan O’Brien referred to her speech as “rambling,” “strange” and “nonsense.” Sarah Palin’s American lobotomy: The Republicans keep making us dumber, and not even Stephen Colbert can save us 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Also not creativity: any of this Jared Leto nonsense. Hollywood's "list of excuses is endless": Enabling bad behavior, from Bill Murray to Jeff Garlin 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z He added: “Using the voice means employing simultaneously two forces, words and music. Singing without words is nonsense, like making a car without wheels.” An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z “Fountain” was rejected, but Alfred Stieglitz photographed it for this short-lived Dada magazine, which mixed nonsense verse with editorials that asked, “Where Art is concerned is New York satisfied to be like a provincial town?” The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Those are precisely the sort of stone-cold imbeciles who would rather believe the most far-fetched nonsense about our history than study and learn the truth of it. Bro, say can you see? "America: The Motion Picture" shows we're not just dumb, we're drawn that way 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Briefly allegorising, Pope goes on to contrast cautious "sense" and impetuous "nonsense", again evoking the rowdy traffic of 18th-century London with the onomatopoeic "rattling". Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z His deadpan reactions to Coogan’s spurtling nonsense are the best moments in the film—he’s cutting without saying a word, and he still manages to make it all funny. Review: 'The Trip to Spain' Is More of the Same, and That's OK 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z And, after much nonsense preamble, Murray asks us questions. Al Murray 2010-08-22T14:57:00Z Some nonsense has been written about this, a bit of which Mr. Beevor quotes without comment. Review: In ‘Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge,’ Antony Beevor Is on Familiar Ground 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z “I trapped her for an hour on a little rowing boat, so she had to listen to all my nonsense,” Tom says. How we met: ‘I’m a staunch Brexit critic – but it did lead to us falling in love’ 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z There my girls go singing nonsense songs off YouTube, chattering away about who has a crush on whom and, perhaps most irksome of all, eagerly retelling me the plots of their favorite television shows. Mommy has anger issues! My daughters are pre-adolescent, I’m pre-menopausal 2014-05-10T23:00:00Z "What deluded tosh," headlined a column in The Guardian, using slang for rubbish, or nonsense. Paltrow's 'conscious uncoupling' confounds many 2014-03-26T21:53:41Z “You were drunk mate, she was probably just agreeing with everything you said even though it was nonsense.” Best man loses friends and girlfriend after drunkenly proposing mid-reception 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z But after his grandmother died, the only rice that appeared on the table was “this Uncle Ben’s nonsense,” he said — bland and mushy. JJ Johnson’s Journeys Bring Him Home 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Rick Pieto piles lines of text atop one another to render “glitch poems” that recall dada and futurism experiments in nonsense. Review | In the galleries: ‘Misprints’ exhibition takes a purposeful approach 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z In many respects, the Twitter nonsense exceeded any entertainment value the live experience could have served. "Love Is Blind" promised a live reunion, only to stand us up. So, what did we learn? 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z And what I love about the book, one of the many things I love about the book, is you set us up, you are a no nonsense ... this is a no nonsense beginning. BonAp food boss Carla Lalli-Music: Not only is MSG okay, it is a core staple in the pantry 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z There was blood on the floor, nonsense, romance and really fabulous fashion. Blockbusters at Balenciaga and Margiela 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z This, then, is a cunning bit of dark humor: Dylan purports to explain the magic behind his music, but he’s really just revealing how susceptible devoted fans are to this kind of florid nonsense. Bob Dylan, Fanboy 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s the uninspired dialogue, which invests heavily in cryptic nonsense. ‘Marco Polo,’ Fur-and-Armor Drama From Netflix 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Still, when a doctor in “The Railway Children” explains that girls are “poor, soft, weak, frightened things like rabbits,” Nesbit quickly dispels this nonsense with one of the most thrilling scenes in children’s literature. Review | A favorite of J.K. Rowling, Edith Nesbit was a pioneer of children’s books and so much more 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z And, in that same vein, are the states that are chockablock with these nattering nabobs of nonsense more successful at winning it? Which U.S. State Performs Best in the New Yorker Caption Contest? 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z I remember arguing and saying that was nonsense, and I don't think she really believed it. Maeve Binchy, we'll miss you 2012-07-31T17:00:04Z Fibber In The Heat sees him indulge two of his passions: elaborately crafted gags and talking nonsense about cricket. This week's new comedy 2011-02-12T00:05:45Z Politically correct immature nonsense just gets dumber and dumber. The Many Meanings of Black Panther’s Mask 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Wrestlers and promoters maintained a code of silence called “kayfabe,” a nonsense word with roots in pro wrestling’s carnival origins. Inside the secret world of pro-wrestling: The media’s complicated relationship to a controversial sport 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z “Everyone talked to me in English, and I just answered with nonsense,” she reports. While other countries turn Syrian refugees away, Canadians are taking them home 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z With low-key charisma, she drew you toward her, so that your attention and hopes fell on her instead of the nonsense surrounding her. Review: ‘Fifty Shades Darker,’ and Only Half as Watchable 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Melena Ryzik, a k a the Carpetbagger, has spent three months following the news and nonsense of Hollywood’s awards season. The Carpetbagger?s 2012 Oscar Predictions 2012-02-24T00:38:40Z There was no nonsense about making sure we didn't get dehydrated, or giving us water bottles etc. My prize-winning European tour with 50 other post-A-level teenagers 2010-08-17T19:30:00Z “So far, so good. But the second ingredient is modified food starch, and the third is food starch — that’s nonsense. That’s just like corn syrup.” Breakfast was the most important meal of the day — until America ruined it 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The violins were replaced by women from the New York Choral Artists, who sang in wobbly microtonal quivers and chattered nonsense syllables to hallucinatory effect. Music Review: Three Master Composers and a Lingering Mystery 2011-03-25T22:44:44Z So my goal is, every time Trump is spouting distracting culture war nonsense, to start looking for whatever, usually more serious, story he’s trying to distract the public from. My shortlist of political New Year’s resolutions: A guide to staying sane in 2017 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z “The Chadian mind-set is very proud, very effective and no nonsense,” Mr. Lamprecht said. In Chad, the Elephants (So Many Elephants) Are Back 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z That nonsense exchange just led us to Halloween costumes. Bobby Moynihan opens up about David S. Pumpkins, Kate McKinnon’s “Hallelujah” and “SNL” after the election: “I think it’s both a scary and empowering time” 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z The buzzword becomes a nagging drone, and related themes are repeated until they begin to sound like nonsense. “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” Reviewed: The Organizational Consultant as Freelance Exorcist 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “It was all nonsense, but people loved it.” Ottessa Moshfegh’s Painful, Funny Novel of a Young Woman’s Chemical Hibernation 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z One character, during the Truman presidency, addresses this nonsense in his own way: “You can’t work in a haberdashery in the sticks without knowing what a fairy is.” Review: ‘The American People, Volume 1’ by Larry Kramer Retells History With Passion 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z All of this is marketing nonsense, of course, but why should wine be immune to it? Should Wine Be Among Your Health Resolutions? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z His surrealist streak is now in service of something more dramatic like gibberish rap, in which he puts together a hip-hop song by mixing clichés and nonsense over a beat. Hannibal Buress Evolves From Cult Star to Showman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The news reports of bombs sent to the most frequent objects of President Trump’s sustained criticism brought a torrent of nonsense. Perspective | The connection between hateful rhetoric and terrorizing acts is glaringly obvious, but some refuse to see it 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Phenomena that Western culture classifies as chicanery or nonsense, like magic arts, voodoo, and sorcery, are considered normal in other cultures. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z The internet can be the same: it often tells us what we think we know, spreading misinformation and nonsense while it's at it. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z The nonsense lyrics were replaced with nursery rhymes and the rhythms were shifted to make the song less stereotypical and more authentically Native American. Ugg-A-Wha? Updating Stereotypes in 'Peter Pan' 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Reviewers who saw it described it less charitably as fan fiction and harmless nonsense. The Catcher in the Rye 'sequel' to be published 2011-01-12T20:57:14Z "For the record, and I need you to know this, everyone I know from that community has been loving and supportive, so I don't know what this nonsense is about," he tells the audience. Dave Chappelle is willing to speak to trans Netflix employees “with some conditions” 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The only way that people would put up with the horror-show nonsense of royal scrutiny is if they believed in the vital importance of the monarchy. The Charms of Toronto for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “It’s very difficult to just think up things that are total nonsense,” he says. Buck 65's "Super Pretty Naughty" Is Oddly Poignant 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z “Her husband, on the other hand, is a class at t--t. I can’t believe she puts up with his nonsense,” she allegedly wrote, according to The Telegraph. Mommy blogger admits to creating fake account to trash fellow influencers, husband 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z With this blip of nonsense still fresh, I was skeptical when I read the news that another breakfast chain, Dunkin’ Donuts, also would be changing its name, cutting itself down merely to Dunkin’. The Slight Profundity of Dunkin’ Dropping the “Donuts” 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z There was no modern, "We're strong women in our own right, with careers"; none of that nonsense. Come Dine With Me: Wags Special 2010-06-10T07:01:00Z Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images I suppose more nonsense has been written and talked about Greta Garbo than about any other actress on the screen. From the Observer archive, 6 October 1935: Greta Garbo in her element as Anna Karenina 2012-09-29T23:05:46Z If the person you were conversing with persisted in talking nonsense, you were then meant to say, “Now I know you must be high.” 'I've been good and bad, caring but useless': Tim Dowling on two decades of fatherhood 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Who would help us make sense of Trump’s nonsense? 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Not everyone is down with male nurses, of course, so Erik and his allies face down nonsense gender essentialism and a polio outbreak. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z He is reported to have later said that 95% of people thought his work was nonsense. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 2014-03-31T23:04:52Z As Jordan spewed a bunch of nonsense, Tapper interrupted him. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z People talk a lot of nonsense," she once said, "about becoming a star. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z The former sounds ripped from Al TV, and the latter is another great execution of his rambling nonsense tales. REVIEW: The Fun in "Weird Al" Yankovic's New Album, Mandatory Fun 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z He recognizes its absurdity, but writes that, “You can be a perfectly good satellite engineer while believing total nonsense about the origins of life.” Why creationists can’t be scientists 2014-02-20T20:16:00Z When I began the book, I braced myself for disappointment: I would point out all the ridiculous mistakes, nonsense subplots and sloppy law. What John Grisham gets right about lawyers and the law in his latest novel 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Beyond that, to argue that denying women comprehensive health coverage – that they pay for – is somehow empowering to women is, of course, complete nonsense. Mike Huckabee: Republicans are fighting a war for women! 2014-01-23T20:28:00Z He whistled at the Western nonsense I was spouting after living 25 years in the United States. 2010-01-22T16:52:00Z The whole Balanchine motto of “See the music, hear the dance” is nonsense anyway. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Fortunately, there are encouraging signs that this damaging nonsense is being challenged. Stop telling gay people to stop being gay 2014-01-06T20:54:00Z These questions might not be deal breakers but when science fiction withholds such basic information we get to the end and find it's all been a robot's dream or somesuch nonsense. Outcasts: season one, episode two 2011-02-08T22:00:03Z Children waste so much class room time hearing nonsense. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Ross strongly disputed this article’s negative characterizations of his demeanor and tenure, describing them in a written response as “baseless,” “nonsense,” “silly” and “ridiculous.” Don’t sleep on Wilbur Ross 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Internet loses its mind over video of babies talking nonsense to each other: Oh my god, they're just like little people and everything! Pop Torn: 10 pieces of culture we're feeling iffy about 2011-04-02T12:02:00Z Festival In The Sky, Edinburgh At first, the idea of eating your lunch suspended 100 feet above Edinburgh on a 22-seat platform-cum-dining-table sounds like nonsense. Food picks of the week 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z For our advisers – we had real Army Rangers on set – watching rockets fly through the air on a line is absolute nonsense. The best battle scenes ever shot from Apocalypse Now to Hacksaw Ridge 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z After an intriguing start, "The Killing" has spiraled into flabby nonsense, becoming nearly as ridiculous as "Damages" and the groundbreaking "Murder One," but a lot more solemn, affected and full of itself. "The Killing" settles on an obvious suspect 2011-06-13T11:14:00Z The dialogue is a volley of sweet nothings that verge on nonsense as passion renders the characters a bit insane. Jonas Kaufmann: Wagner’s ‘Tristan’ Is ‘Like a Drug’ 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z But there’s never any silly stereotype nonsense, it’s just people coming together and trying to win some money. Jay Leno bets on reboot of Groucho Marx 1950s game show 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z But — surprise — the fifth “Transformers” movie, “The Last Knight,” is far from the worst in this continuing experiment in noisy nonsense based on Hasbro toys. Review: Transformers Get Arthurian in ‘The Last Knight’ 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The only completely apolitical sketch on this list was one of the rare times when SNL went for weird nonsense and totally nailed it. Saturday Night Live: 2016's best skits 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Single Girl, Married Girl" is taken up for several scenes, replaced by the nonsense refrain, "Make it make it don't take it! The most hated man in art-house cinema 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z It takes time to turn all that nonsense inside out. The lie detector test that saved my marriage 2013-01-02T22:01:00Z The book made use of innovative colors and typefaces, as well as funny-sounding nonsense words that appealed to young readers. B.J. Novak is writing another book with no pictures 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Even Robert Pattinson found the time to do that elephant nonsense. Abduction ? Taylor Lautner gets shirty 2011-08-17T08:46:55Z The puzzle about Scruton has always been the way in which humane, often elegant argument – recognisable as such whether one agrees with him or not – co-exists with outbreaks of cranky, ungrounded nonsense. Roger Scruton: A pessimist's guide to life 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z People will gleefully spew hateful nonsense at one another in the comments section of a recipe. New York Has Its ‘Jerry Springer’ Moment, With Arias and Dancing 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z “They have better access and they don’t have to deal with all the politics, all that nonsense.” Mr Robot: 'Edward Snowden is a huge fan of our show' 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA So in that title, characteristically of Shane Black, we have doppelganger references, a plot line, a sales pitch and an admission that this is all fun and nonsense at its core. Lethal weapons: Shane Black's pulp fiction is still the best action around 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Thinking you can cut up your body functions is such nonsense. | Bruce Weber and Kathleen Turner on Becoming Mentors 2013-05-20T23:11:48Z But this six-episode series, “Deep Dive,” is pure joy as O’Brien and the “Saturday Night Live” alumnus Dana Carvey riff, trade impersonations and nonsense words, and, as promised, go deep. A Podcast Playlist of the Summer’s Hottest 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z “Japanese prefer nonsense songs to message songs,” said Rankin’ Taxi. Music: Japan's New Wave of Protest Songs 2011-06-30T11:22:09Z The topic was supposed to be foreign meddling on social media, but important matters of state were, as usual, swarmed by strangeness and nonsense and sincere fretting over the direction of the country. Summer’s over, and things are back to bonkers. Here’s the view from Crazytown, D.C. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z He admits, alas, no, but does confess that there is something of the cult, something a bit zen sensible shot through with shifty new age nonsense, surrounding the reality, myth and memory of Sun Ra. Paul Morley talks to ex-Specials singer Jerry Dammers 2010-03-26T11:44:00Z “It definitely doesn’t help that so often what Trump says is complete nonsense,” said Oliver. John Oliver on Trump: 'An iPhone would be a more coherent president' 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z What Fleiner takes for a parody may be just one more application of the greatest nonsense syllabary in the annals of rock. ‘The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon’ — but a worldwide influence 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Surely, this sort of patronizing, fashion-industry nonsense must upset you, as a feminist. Gene Weingarten: A waist is a terrible thing to mind Forget the flotilla, the Queen's hat and all that other Jubilee nonsense. Critics' Picks: Grace Jones' hula-hoop performance, five reissued Wodehouse tales and 'Shakespeare in Kabul' 2012-06-13T20:56:04Z There was more nonsense where that came from. Can "Glee" be saved? 2011-02-14T16:30:00Z They’ll assign readings in philosophy, poetry, structural anthropology, nonsense or an early American novel about a murderous ventriloquist. Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z This irresistible volume showcases all the ways we have imagined and re-imagined “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its characters since that nonsense classic was first published almost 150 years ago. Michael Dirda’s picks for holiday gift books 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The persistence of sentimental nonsense that has tainted the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema series since its inception more than two decades ago is gone; in its place are hardheaded films on difficult subjects. Big Issues (and, Yes, Amour) Hit Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Way to put a stop to that nonsense, Mrs. Hughes. Downton Abbey Watch: Endings 2013-02-18T13:00:34Z “Now she has no time for nonsense or false emotion,’’ the 62-year-old actress says of her character. Christine Baranski on Diane Lockhart’s emerging presence in ‘The Good Wife’ Yes, the upfronts, beneath all the red-carpet nonsense and noisy video collages, are sublime performance art, as rich in pathos as they are in dazzle. Critic’s Notebook: TV Networks’ Upfronts Showcase Shows and Desperation 2013-05-17T22:43:10Z Look for the intersection between Ms. Lee’s canny deconstructions of identity politics and Sibyl Kempson’s rapturous nonsense. Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The logic in your statement makes about as much sense as Nancy Pelosi's you have to pass the bill to see what's in the bill nonsense. Long Wharf Theater Leader Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z But every bride and groom I know tells me that, despite the fuss, the nonsense and the stress, it is, in fact, worth it. When weddings attack: adventures of a modern bride 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Think of Lewis Carroll’s forensic interest in nonsense, Gertrude Stein’s or Beckett’s experimentation with repetition and baby talk. Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Donald Trump represents men at our worst with all that macho posturing and other nonsense. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z That may go down well on the doorsteps in the coming weeks but it is economic nonsense. Alistair Darling turns hard man but Vince Cable gets all the laughs 2010-03-29T21:22:00Z But ultimately, Little Richard’s hypersexual nonsense lyrics show us how lust defies language, how our most intense desires can become wild abstractions. Perspective | Life is a scream: Remembering Little Richard, the self-described king, queen and architect of rock-and-roll 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z Rationally, I knew that was nonsense, but everything I learned in church told me that if I embraced my queer identity, I would face some kind of punishment. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z "It is heavily influenced by the nonsense tradition of English literature." John Lennon manuscripts, drawings to be sold at auction 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The singing — often brash, again in folk style — incorporates all manner of vocalization, often using nonsense syllables. Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Includes ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Revival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Her main character is Denise, an artist who is gushed over by assorted highbrows and spouts artsy nonsense that’s barely distinguishable from what you might hear at an actual gallery opening. Sketch Comedy’s New Faces on TV 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z That simplicity also belied the deeper necessity: we need goofballs like Dave in our lives to make the real nonsense bearable. Video: Your Favorite David Letterman Memories 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z We loved Sam Simmons, whose cavalcade of random nonsense, Meanwhile, amounts to a frenetic defence against distress. Edinburgh festival 2011: The highs and lows 2011-08-28T21:19:00Z Stenberg wasn't much older when trolls dropped the worst imaginable nonsense about her online. Racist attacks on a Black girl earning a supposedly "white" role isn't about canon but excellence 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The fight scenes are cleverly and continually sabotaged by all sorts of comic nonsense and the youngsters at this kid-friendly show clearly loved them for their sheer cartoonishness. Nanda's 'Jacket': comic martial-arts mayhem 2011-10-10T15:59:53Z Through it all, she’s held her ground and stayed on message, dispelling the nonsense while redirecting the cultural conversation back to the work she’s done. How to stage a Hollywood comeback 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “I never really had much time for that nonsense. I was trying to get things done, not polish the apple.” Sucking up has always been part of Washington culture. In the Trump era, it’s a sport. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z I ran this little poetry program in my head again and again, turning out dozens of nonsense limericks, complete with the requisite little-kid scatology. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z I probably need to stipulate, for the record, that I really like teaching; I like being with kids and talking about math and life and other nonsense. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z I offer my congratulations, and he says the whole thing is nonsense. Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z Until then, she will continue to split sides and make bank, including in disposable, enjoyable nonsense like “The Boss.” Review: Melissa McCarthy Takes Charge in ‘The Boss’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z If you find yourself weakened by nonsense, there are beds everywhere. You had me at 'vagina rejuvenation': my weird day out at an anti-ageing exhibition 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z As a fan of the form, I say: nonsense. Oscars 2013: I'd like to thank my agent, the Academy, and Harvey Weinstein 2013-02-19T16:00:45Z It has nothing to do with whether you have five Oscars under your belt; it transcends any of the nonsense. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z We just tried to stay out of the nonsense, the talking points, the focus groups, the clicks, the ratings. Q&A: Leonardo DiCaprio and Adam McKay dare you to look up 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Now let's see one titled "Working While White" about the nonsense whites have to put up with to accommodate imagined offenses. Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Go completely B-movie bonkers with the nonsense of some of the actor's, well, less notable efforts -- his island escape from reality in “Club Paradise” or his questionable med school techniques in “Patch Adams.” A Robin Williams retrospective for your weekend DVD consideration 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z His father, leafed through it and promptly pronounced the poems “nonsense.” Assi Dayan, Israeli Actor and Filmmaker, Dies at 68 2014-05-03T02:18:39Z If you’re attracted to someone through all the nonsense of a reality TV show, you are probably really attracted to them. Sleep with the hot one! 2012-07-10T16:30:00Z He opened it a few blocks from Trotter's, and Trotter, interviewed by The New York Times, called Achatz's brash, intricate culinary pyrotechnics "nonsense upon stilts." Grant Achatz: The making of Chicago's top chef ... and what's Next 2011-02-15T06:00:00Z I accuse her of inventing nonsense terminology to distract attention from a disagreeable truth, like that guy inventing “vorstein” on “Seinfeld.” Perspective | Does this rare coffee taste like poop to you? 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The delectable nonsense of “Paquita” contains much of the quintessence of classical ballet. Mariinsky Ballet Performs at the Kennedy Center Opera House 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The situation provides opportunities for him to spout articulate nonsense, lose his pants and endanger nearly everyone else. Movie Review: ‘Alan Partridge,’ Starring Steve Coogan 2014-04-03T22:44:42Z Blasting through all this nonsense, Strauss's music, vigorous and unexpectedly lean, ensures the work's status as a masterpiece. Lohengrin; Ariadne auf Naxos; La Donna del Lago – review 2013-05-25T23:05:56Z Even at the time of its release, Gone With the Wind was recognised as racist nonsense that glorified slavery and stereotyped African Americans. Trump's Oscars rant? He just wants Hollywood to see he's a star 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z This is textbook nonsense that makes it seem as if temperature is the only consideration in choosing a wine. 20 Wines Under $20: Reds for Winter Moods and Foods 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Mitchell also remarked that books about her are full of “assumptions” and “nonsense.” Joni Mitchell Says She Put the Brakes on Biopic Starring Taylor Swift 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Instead, nonsense words tumbled out of my mouth and I went into a blind panic. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Well, I can write about nonsense for another eight to fifteen thousand words, or you can tell me what's missing. Author Sloan Crosley 2010-07-14T08:00:00Z It was alleged in June that its design was based on an presented to organisers in 2007, a claim Heatherwick dismissed as "spurious nonsense". Heatherwick receives critics' honour 2013-12-04T10:57:21Z It is nonsense to suggest the composition of this House must mirror exactly the compostion of the United Kingdom. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z Serious film historians regard it as pernicious nonsense and have been trying to correct its claims ever since. ‘Babylon’: A Guide to the Characters and Their Real-Life Counterparts 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Be the bigger person and let this one go, freeing your stepdaughter to freak out about bridesmaid dresses and other nonsense. Social Q’s: Sweet and Sour 2013-08-08T22:01:22Z Some songs used phrases picked out of English dictionaries or nonsense syllables yelped as background vocals, but others confronted violence and anger with taunting confidence. Marlene Marder, Guitarist for Liliput, Dies at 61 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z That this last idea is a nonsense was proved by Portishead on the same stage on Friday night, with their mesmeric set. The xx at Glastonbury – review 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z When they first meet, she is “tailored and crisp, focused on her career and doing things the way they’re supposed to be done, with no time for nonsense.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z On the other hand, I don’t want to thank her for her condescending email and encourage further nonsense. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Momsplainer kills the buzz of adopting a much-wanted dog 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z At first she does small parts in undistinguished celluloid nonsense, but eventually she gains some traction and finds herself a promising actress running with the West Coast party set. Woody Allen Reviews a Graphic Tale of a Scandalous Starlet 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Theroux let out a long exhale, aware that anything he says on the topic will get sliced and diced into nonsense on social media. Justin Theroux Is on the Prowl 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Further down is a motto, “Tradition Is Not Inherited, It Is Conquered,” which seems like the sort of nonsense a pro wrestler would scream: “Can you smell what Faustino I is cooking?” Rioja Gran Reserva, a Wine Beginning to Be Shaped by Time 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z As these meanings took hold, trumpery was also being used as it is today: for nonsense, malarkey, and bunk. Trump really does stand for B.S.: “Trumpery,” an old-fashioned word that’s proving useful today 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Where his incisive 2015 debut “Summertime ’06” pinpoints loss of innocence, its follow-up is heavy with Staples’s lack of patience for nonsense and the illusion of celebrity. Review | Tyler, the Creator and Vince Staples show how fame doesn’t always lead to happiness 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z You would think she might have escaped this nonsense. When weddings attack: adventures of a modern bride 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z It's heartening that this actor will stand for as little nonsense as his Doctor, but you sort of suspect that whatever "tension" he's referring to may be a little overstated. No flirting on the Tardis? Good – Doctor Who was never about romance 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z But in a statement on his official website on Tuesday, Iommi said he was just speculating and described the report as "absolute nonsense." Tony Iommi denies report of Black Sabbath reunion 2011-08-16T22:01:24Z They’re from a Nigerian culture that has no interest in spaceships and all that nonsense. In New ‘Star Wars,’ Daisy Ridley and John Boyega Brace for Galactic Fame 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z In “The Thick of It,” co-workers, because of their suffocating daily proximity, batter each other like members of a dysfunctional family might, cursing in a shared language of political acronyms and nonsense. Jesse Armstrong’s Savage Comedy in “Succession” Season 1 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Something a lot of their projects have in common is that, if you tried to explain them, they sound like nonsense and borderline not very good. Daniel Radcliffe on Swiss Army Man: 'People fixate on the farting' 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “You become aware of the toxic nonsense that you’ve internalized,” she said. Meet Marvel's New All-Female Superhero Team 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Gingrich called it a "nonsense question," and the crowd roared in approval. This time, Gingrich's media critique falls flat 2012-01-27T02:41:00Z Ephron had a great nose for nonsense, but was enough a citizen of Hollywood to fall, and fall hard, for a happy ending. Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z Once the executives of state make nonsense of language, they can make nonsense of morality, and then anything goes. Review | A fierce masterpiece by Albania’s most eminent novelist, Ismail Kadare 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z I don’t argue about the existence of God or any of that nonsense. Bipolar drugs suck 2012-08-09T00:00:00Z So is the Murdoch empire stuffing our children's heads with dangerous nonsense while pretending to edify them? Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z “So yeah, this BS, zero self-awareness nonsense is happening… again…” the moderator of the account wrote in a caption, adding that the video was submitted by professional wakeboarder Dylan Miller. Airline passenger filmed drying wet shoe with overhead vent: 'If I catch someone doing this I’m punching' 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Its famously off-kilter exchange of pleasantries is a mockery of logic, appearing like small talk but then veering off course into random nonsense. Theater Review: Ionesco?s ?Bald Soprano? at City Center - Review 2011-09-27T21:06:39Z “Going green and protecting the environment did not hurt the economy, it’s a bunch of nonsense.” Arnold Schwarzenegger tells Australia cutting emissions is good economics 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z David says it’s just “nonsense” to think she will starve, to which Varvara replies: ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z There are living tree-people with root-like appendages, and a dance that teeters on the edge of "I am a tree" new age nonsense but also casts itself as a morality play. Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet? 2012-10-01T13:08:55Z An illusion of continuity is produced that can turn nonsense into sense, even as the medium’s compression and fracturing of time can have the opposite effect. | 'Kaboom': End of the World? Maybe. First, Sex. 2011-01-27T23:23:13Z My headline said: “Smart people + big report = dreamy nonsense.” Jay Mathews: Correcting my college-prep mistakes How many people have to put up with this kind of nonsense? Perspective | Miss Manners: How to handle inane, nosy questions 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z "Whoever is doing what I assume to be some viral marketing nonsense, stop it!" he wrote. Clown seen outside schools sparks fear, leads education company to apologize 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z On most of the songs, Tweedy indulges in lyrics that blur the line between nonsense and poetry, revelation and obfuscation. Album review: Wilco, 'The Whole Love' 2011-09-22T04:29:00Z And Bunk McNulty of Northampton, Mass., whom I must commend for his “Wire” combo handle, simply quoted a friend: “California chardonnay without the nonsense.” Godello, a Case Study in the Character of Wine 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z I like both coffee and butter, but this Bulletproof Coffee is more food faddist nonsense. The Cult of the Bulletproof Coffee Diet 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Commissioned by Oxford University Press, we placed the set-pieces alongside extracts from diaries and letters that provided context and displayed Lear's taste for nonsense, even in formal correspondence. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z Anna may describe herself as “a leading lady without a stage,” but that’s nonsense. Blythe Danner Stars in ‘The Country House’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, Love Story is suave and soulful, Everett's dance moving from strobe-lit club to moonlit terrace, while the chugging, irresistible bassline of When I Want Someone It's You brooks no nonsense whatsoever. Peven Everett: King of Hearts – review 2013-07-11T21:29:00Z The online harassment hadn’t impacted her professionally, Ms. Abramovic said, since “the people who really have common sense in this business see this as nonsense.” Marina Abramovic Just Wants Conspiracy Theorists to Let Her Be 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z He gives a performance of such awe-inspiring badness that it can never be forgotten, mumbling and growling through nonsense dialogue from behind a chicken cutlet’s worth of facial prosthetics. The Sopranos at 20: how the hit show changed the gangster genre 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z As for Meryl, you know that she doesn’t care about this nonsense, yet you believe her performance. An Oscar-Fashion Report Card 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z "This time, we could go away and play guitars and synths, drum loop machines and all this kind of nonsense, and kind of do whatever we want." For Mumford & Sons, dropping banjos for synths on next album is a natural move 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z So for the benefit of those just waking up to the #INeedDiverseGames phenomenon, can you tell us who you are and how you got into this gaming nonsense? “It’s more common to see a blue hedgehog than a person of color as a protagonist”: Inside the whitewashed world of video games 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z And the entrance criteria have changed so much over 30 years as to make comparison between eras a nonsense. The business of laughter 2010-08-03T19:00:00Z “I was anticipating the euphoria of the crowd, and the fun of the red carpet-y nonsense, and the everyone wanting to be the last one to sit down.” March 12, 2020: The Night the City Sighed to Sleep 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z I would like to thank my boss House of Payne and The Browns for giving me the opportunity and an open canvas each week to create huge piles of nonsense. Crystal Bowersox stands alone atop The 'American Idol' mountain 2010-05-26T14:31:00Z The blots and the words—both bilaterally symmetrical like a body—flicker between legibility and nonsense. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Martin Amis’s “Experience” affectionately captured the bantering, comradely relationship the author developed with his father, the novelist Kingsley, who professed to find his son’s books unreadable, his liberal politics “dangerous, howling nonsense.” Books of The Times: Hanif Kureishi Recalls His Mentor, Critic and Father 2010-03-22T20:04:00Z If this bit of nonsense prevents that happening to Beryl, and her books sell more and more copies, that must be good. Is the 'Beryl Bainbridge Booker' a good thing? 2011-02-13T00:05:32Z Just as some people use celebrity gossip to distract themselves from the tedium of their own lives, perhaps Page's focus on environmental causes and feminism distract her from all the celebrity-focused nonsense swirling around her? 'Why are people so reluctant to say they're feminists?' 2013-07-03T18:00:00Z Take the best of both cultures and leave out the nonsense. Star Trek legend Michael Dorn: Forget "Picard," I've been trying to pitch a "Worf" TV show 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z His latest material highlights that same absurdist delight in transforming the deadly serious into utter nonsense, including another joke about paranoia about Sept. 11. A Comic on the Verge, His Absurdism on the Fly 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z I do not want to hear any more of this claptrap and nonsense from you. Ray Bradbury investigated for communist sympathies 2012-08-30T11:45:03Z “The idea that somehow artists are hurt because they don’t have copyright is nonsense,” he said. Artists File Suit Against Sotheby?s, Christie?s and eBay 2011-11-01T12:00:00Z A lot of modern, wishy-washy nonsense if you ask me, the main problem being that they start from the ridiculous premise that a child is some kind of human being. TV review: Queen Victoria's Children 2013-01-01T20:05:01Z A lot of their comedy was in reaction to Margaret Thatcher, or "Thatch" as Elton, their fellow Manchester student, dubbed her, but a lot of it was sheer high-energy nonsense and gooning about. Rik Mayall obituary 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z In the next instant she admits that “what she was saying was nonsense; it was only ever possible to pretend not to mind losing: Losing was always terrible.” Books of The Times: Staying Civil as the World Convulses 2011-01-02T22:21:30Z Isn't this the sort of adolescent nonsense we all try to leave behind as soon as possible? Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z But some experts denounced as nonsense his portrayal of wolves as relatively gentle animals that would rather hunt mice or hares than caribou and debates about the accuracy of his work continued for decades. Canadian author, environmentalist Farley Mowat dies at 92 2014-05-08T17:03:46Z Most of these answers are, of course, nonsense. Torchwood: Miracle Day ? episode eight 2011-08-27T05:00:00Z “Because when he was recently asked why he was going around spouting unsubstantiated nonsense, he offered this explanation.” John Oliver on Mueller investigation: 'If this is a witch-hunt, witches exist' 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z She added: "This is a happy time for me personally and as an artist so please do not be concerned about nonsense reports in the press." Jenkins parts ways with Warner Bros 2013-05-30T11:26:57Z Butler’s factual, no- nonsense tone is surprisingly comforting, as are her stories of how ordinary folks confronted difficult medical decisions. Review | The surprising comfort of a new book about death 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z But it’s a nonsense to pretend that important invisible connections are not forged in these clubs. Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Over the past 500 years everything from chess to coffee houses and vernacular Bibles has been seen as possibly corrupting the young, making them frivolous or indolent or filling their minds with nonsense. Will the internet eat your brain? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Evoutionary psychology nonsense.While the more mainstream conservative movement embraces a religious form of misogyny, the new misogyny often prefers to pretend to have a “scientific” rationale for its negative attitudes towards women. 4 myths about sex and women that prop up the new misogyny 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z I hate this nonsense, many people do not care if it is 4 women, it does not bother me in the least. Our ‘Ghostbusters’ Review: Girls Rule. Women Are Funny. Get Over It. 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z In the trial scene in “King Lear,” Edgar/Tom protests the Fool’s own nonsense, saying, “The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a nightingale.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z I fired off a post about religion or some other nonsense. I had a fake online girlfriend 2013-01-18T16:15:00Z It’s a fascinating history of the consumerist nonsense that is the modern wedding. Your wedding's been cancelled by the coronavirus lockdown? Good 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z “The humorous touches are fun,” the editor’s “Dear Ms. Goose” letter went, “yet there is a fine line between the silly and the senseless, the fanciful and the outrageous — in short, between nonsense and rubbish.” Charlotte Pomerantz, Inventive Children’s Book Author, Dies at 92 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Ironically, eastern medicine and health practices have long been mocked and dismissed as "voodoo," mystical nonsense — that is, until the right white influencers peddle it and are subsequently called geniuses and awarded with exorbitant wealth. “Nine Perfect Strangers” and the orientalist displays of the western wellness industry 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z The book made me take my bucket list out and start rethinking this “invisibility” nonsense! Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z It sounds outlandish enough that "The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness" director Joshua Zeman said that, at first, he thought that it was just nonsense. "The moment blew my mind": Son of Sam serial killer may not have acted alone, says new Netflix show 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Another was “tired of all this SJW nonsense,” using the abbreviation for “social justice warrior,” a pejorative term for progressives. When ‘Captain Marvel’ Became a Target, the Rules Changed 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z She is likely just distracting herself from her uncertainty and grief with much of her online nonsense. My Mom Obsesses Over Her Love Life. She Couldn’t Care Less About Mine. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z He recalls taking stock of himself at 30, and finding himself "full of nonsense, preposterous in many ways". Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z I was told to try The Lord of the Rings, as something more grown-up, but that was, somehow, worse; just a mess of nonsense to me. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 22: The Eyes of the Dragon 2013-06-20T15:00:35Z It feels like a subconscious confession from Hidalgo, who must think quite highly of his own directorial chops to create such misogynistic nonsense in the first place. ‘The Exorcism of God’ Review: Devilishly Demeaning 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z “It’s another living artifact that automatically wipes out any nonsense about the earliest years of African-American food,” he said. Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z “I’m a loudmouth who’s on TV blathering on about all kinds of nonsense, but since I did have a mouthpiece, I wanted to say: we can afford to take care of people,” he says. Rob Delaney meets Sally Wainwright: ‘People say, God, you’ve got a sick mind’ 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “There couldn’t be a better opportunity for the arts to respond to so much nonsense and ignorance and stupidity.” ‘Zoot Suit,’ a Pioneering Chicano Play, Comes Full Circle 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z As evidence for its diminished status, he quotes celebrations of nonsense by the Talking Heads and Zorba the Greek. In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The novelist compared the current cutbacks to the laying waste of the great Library of Alexandria in the 4th century, reserving particular scorn for the idea of volunteer-run libraries, which he called "patronising nonsense". Library defender 2011-01-27T12:05:29Z It's built on nonsense – faith is not a sense, so it's no sense. Lupe Fiasco: 'I have the right to speak out' 2011-03-03T21:59:00Z That made it an apt partner in Ms. Dinnerstein’s brief improvisation on Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky,” which opened the evening, creating cobweb-and-moonbeam music well suited to the ominous nonsense text of the poem. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z I didn’t notice when legions of nonsense constructs marched through the portcullis of my psyche and overran my internal dictionary. How I Became Addicted to Online Word Games 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z No nonsense, just get on with it, enthusiasm seems to be very much part of Saunders' psyche. Jennifer Saunders: from Comic Strip to Spice Girls musical 2012-12-11T06:30:02Z And I felt a little like that now: an automaton, holding a nonsense sign, trying to sell something. I felt the love – finally – at the Women's March, but what do we do tomorrow? 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z “If anyone tells me that sending the Elgin marbles back to Greece, that somehow the British Museum will be empty, it’s nonsense,” he said. For U.S. Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z By night’s end, you had started to feel like a Marx Brother, making nonsense of “Il Trovatore” in “A Night at the Opera.” Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z No one ever really called out his nonsense in anything but the gentlest terms. Perspective | The brilliant, subversive jerkiness of Eddie Haskell 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z “And I would just say ‘stop this ridiculous nonsense. In 'Seymour,' Ethan Hawke and Seymour Bernstein as creative odd couple 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z But this 40-minute play from 1921, seldom seen or read outside academia, has an exhilarating air of discovery that finds the fun — and the sense — in Stein’s seeming nonsense. ‘Reread Another’ Celebrates Gertrude Stein’s Babble 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Her very existence is enough to inspire, for example, an I Hate Miranda July blog, which purports to detest her “insufferable precious nonsense.” Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z “He’s used it well and will absolutely escape that nonsense. Fortunately, I make a living not out of that.” Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z But this is not nonsense poetry, which tends to reject elegiac sincerity in the face of emotional distress. Nonsense by Christopher Reid – review 2012-09-28T21:55:02Z You don't write to me at all; you don't love your husband; you know how happy your letters make him, and you don't write him six lines of nonsense . The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Predictably, the twist that smacks of the "it was all just a dream" or "none of it was real" sort of nonsense, has been widely criticized for being bizarre and nonsensical. The shock twist in “Sweet Girl” subverts the typical masculine revenge thriller — with a catch 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z The ancillary nonsense, though, sapped the momentum of the show, which ran three hours and somehow still didn’t have room for “The New Girl in Town,” a smart, punchy number from the film version. Review: ‘Hairspray Live!’ Had Power Voices but Still Lacked Power 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The latter is valid, the former much less so, but by combining them all in this meta-hodgepodge, the legitimate complaints are conflated with the nonsense. 'Girls' Recap: Hannah, the White Girl in the Room 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z There's that whole Bobby Jindal, "I'm not taking federal aid" nonsense. Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z “An art world that says, ‘You can’t paint portraits anymore’ is nonsense, really,” he said. David Hockney Takes a Fresh Look at Portraiture 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Click, and the pixelated visions of Kobe shooting a fadeaway over Jordan stream past like a pleasant daydream, a Valhalla of sports nonsense. The Truth Is Out There: N.B.A. Conspiracy Theories on YouTube 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z In fact, he is so full of self-serving, self-contradictory nonsense throughout the whole thing that he’s making Donald Trump seem lucid and considerate by comparison. “The Fat Jew” defends himself and comes up short: Even on “the cutting edge of the Internet,” stealing actually is “a matter of right or wrong” 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z This is utterly specious nonsense, of course, and one of the great delights of "The Lost Time Accidents" is how meticulously Wray advances this pseudoscience, to the point where it's almost convincingly real. In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Children respond worse than adults do to the seemingly random change in routine, but kids are also canaries in the coal mine when it comes to inexplicable adult nonsense. Daylight Saving Time is proof we hate parents 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Afterward analysts waste time attempting to dissect the nonsense to obtain some meaning or, more often, to demonstrate their offense. Jon Stewart is right: How long will the media play Trump’s game? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z But to some extent, it has made it easier to keep straight what was important and what was nonsense. Director John McTiernan prepares to appeal sentence 2010-10-07T00:50:00Z They loved it, and it freed up my schedule for utter nonsense. My hot, rowdy Indian summers at Hindu youth camp 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z The nonsense that has continued to be written about the story is shocking to me. Interview: Olwyn Hughes, Sylvia Plath's literary executor 2013-01-18T17:12:15Z Ines isn’t fooled by the costume, of course, and it’s not always clear whether her colleagues believe Erdmann’s nonsense or are playing along with a joke they don’t quite get. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, he raps such outrageous nonsense that you wonder why someone hasn't created an online Kiedis-lyric generator. Red Hot Chili Peppers: I'm With You ? review 2011-08-27T23:05:44Z “I was like, be graceful? Are you mad? If anyone comes talking nonsense, I’m going to shut them down. You have to fight fire with fire sometimes.” John Boyega: ‘I’m very direct. I can’t lie’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z But as has been said many times on this blog, we don't mind nonsense. Torchwood: Miracle Day ? episode eight 2011-08-27T05:00:00Z To thereby blur any distinction between monsters and victims is the sort of nonsense that Primo Levi, to choose just one example, spent a lifetime protesting. The Story of the Girl Who Volunteered To Be Imprisoned by the Nazis 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z In one upstairs room, a fuzzy, amateurish film by Pettibon played; bad actors spoke a nonsense language that I couldn’t muster the interest to interpret. Watching a Fish Gasp for Air in Jonathas de Andrade’s “O Peixe” 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z My fairly traditional and strait-laced family sat nervously in the lounge while Ethan talked nonsense, his father eventually explaining: “He’s not well again.” Why I went back to my ex-boyfriends, one by one 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The Express called it "tasteless nonsense" and "blatant rubbish". Fab furore: Is it time to re-evaluate the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour? 2012-09-25T17:33:00Z Much of the white nonsense in "Servant" is baked into the dialogue and situational settings. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Maine said fans should not "believe the nonsense about comas and tubes to breathe." Rapper Lil Wayne says he is fine after health scare 2013-03-16T01:42:55Z There are even those who peddle nonsense that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is set to be abolished. I argued for the arts – and won. We will keep the philistines from the gates 2013-06-20T19:03:00Z Seven singers become their voices on occasion, but mostly they sing Dada-esque nonsense syllables. Worlds meet and worlds beyond at Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Even when they’re tearing a documentary to shreds, their insightful conversations somehow manage to stay warm, and it’s always clear they’re motivated by a real passion for countering damaging nonsense. For an Antidote to Diet Culture, Try These 6 Podcasts 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z And yet, in comparison to the nonsense that came out of her mouth at her Trump endorsement speech, those moments seem relatively lucid. Sarah Palin’s American lobotomy: The Republicans keep making us dumber, and not even Stephen Colbert can save us 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z "This play from Bobby and David Goodale is an absolute hoot - a wonderfully crafted and joyful bit of perfect nonsense," said former Spooks star Macfadyen. Jeeves and Wooster head for West End 2013-06-03T06:32:46Z But it’s not all luxurious fluff and nonsense — and anyone who tells you that “The Crown” is the new “Downton Abbey” has beans for brains. Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ is best when viewed like separate little movies 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Like the spirit guide nonsense: Bear finds his while he's knocked unconscious. "Reservation Dogs" is steeped in pop culture. The difference is that its homages star Native actors 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z “Then I suddenly realized my ideas and thoughts and rationalizations were nonsense, and I just decided to go with my intuition.” Party Like It’s 1959 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z He called Yudkin’s theory “a mountain of nonsense”, and accused him of issuing “propaganda” for the meat and dairy industries. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z None of it is nonsense language, all of it is a prayer, what you would want your grandmother to have in her ears on her last moments on Earth.” Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z For nearly an hour the actors practiced a 10-minute excerpt in which Ms. Boras knocks dishes to the floor, hides beneath the tablecloth and gabbles nonsense. John Ford?s ?Broken Heart? and ? ?Tis Pity She?s a Whore? 2012-01-27T18:00:00Z Anderson, through multiple chapters of his “Resident Evil” franchise, Jovovich is well prepared to class up this latest video game-derived nonsense. ‘Monster Hunter’ Review: Beasts of Boredom 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem “Jabberwocky,” Herrera grabs readers and would-be poets by both hands and races them into his wild, word-flinging world of Jabberwalking: “That is, write & walk & write & walk nonstop.” Speaking Truth, Beautifully, to Shattered Young People 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z References to “brave noble red skin” have been removed, as have other nonsense phrases like “gugg-a-bluck.” 'Peter Pan Live' Updates Songs to Remove Slurs 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Six days afterwards, his memory for the nonsense words was at about 20%, which is where it stayed afterwards. Spotify Wrapped and more: What do end of year music wrap-ups say about our listening habits? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z And that they even think of accusing me of a conspiracy to shame India—what absolute nonsense. “I am infuriated by India right now”: Delhi gang-rape documentary director lashes out against government ban on “India’s Daughter” 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Nor has he been politically didactic, preferring the approach of Dadaists like Hugo Ball, who provided the lyrics for “I Zimbra,” “using nonsense to make sense of a world that didn’t make sense.” ‘The West Wing’ and David Byrne Stage America 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z He withdrew from you because he graduated from high school some time ago, and who needs that kind of nonsense now? Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman must reset her dorkometer for dating success 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z But if the substance of Abramovic’s spirituality is fuzzy nonsense, her respect for the music seems genuine, and she is absolutely right about the need to connect more deeply to listening. Hand over your cellphone, and obey the gong. Marina Abramovic reinvents Bach. 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z All in all, a splendid palate cleanser after the heavily larded nonsense of Nigella. Nigella Kitchen, Trinny and Susannah: Boom to Bust and My School Prom 2010-10-01T07:21:00Z A historian and a philosopher of science, she is a witty, elegant writer with no nonsense about her. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Even once it had stopped purposely killing its citizens in large numbers, it oppressed them, it poisoned them with a toxic environment, it stuffed their ears continually with nonsense, it demanded their absolute passivity. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z A lot of stories told about the band, he suggested, are nonsense. Pop: Gregg Allman and Other Pop Memoirists 2012-07-27T16:00:00Z Mr. Svenonius knows his trickster logic; everything he says and sings rests on the line between cathartic pop sincerity and total nonsense. Critic’s Notebook: I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival at Pier 36 2012-09-24T22:29:50Z The best rock star memoirs steer clear of nonsense about personal journeys, formulaic expressions of regret over drug use and sexual highjinks, or emetic tributes to the love that saved their lives. Rod: The Autobiography by Rod Stewart – review 2012-11-07T00:00:05Z My favorite is the chunky, trotting blues track "Boodle-De-Bum-Bum," the nonsense chorus of which affectionately conjures the hokum street-corner entertainment the Chocolate Drops specialize in. New CD shows Carolina Chocolate Drops at their best 2012-02-28T01:02:08Z The minions’ voices, which largely speak nonsense words peppered with the occasional recognizable term like “potato,” translate well across international borders as well. With cuteness on steroids, ‘Despicable’ minions are stars 2013-07-03T22:34:11Z Another common characteristic of white nonsense entertainment is that non-white bystanders are often forced to patiently bear it. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Vampires have special powers that enable them to get away with all sorts of nonsense; Nandor's outstanding talent for hypnosis, for instance, gets them out of jail in an early episode. "What We Do in the Shadows" prepared us for the disbelief that met the latest Jan. 6 indictment 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z The message is outlined and repeated in tick-tack-toe squares with plenty of illustrations and humor, straightforward, with a hint of Mary Poppins’s intolerance for nonsense. Screams. Tears. Meltdowns. New Picture Books Let Bad Behavior Fly, With Just a Bit of Advice 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z This may sound like hippie nonsense, but if you value growth and learning while living a life devoid of the same, the chances of you being happy are pretty slim. The key to keeping your New Year's resolutions: subtraction 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Do you believe that people will ever see the end of pseudo-scientific nonsense such as astrology or holistic medicine? Brian Cox digested: A summary of Thursday's live Q&A session 2011-03-25T17:58:00Z But Mr. Wood accused Mr. McCarthy of writing sentences that sometimes veered “close to nonsense,” of “appearing to relish the violence he so lavishly records,” and of being hostile to intellectual consciousness. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z He said it was "nonsense" that his primary concern was the publicity that would come as a result of English leaving the job she won on the television contest. Alan Sugar alleges disgruntled apprentice is 'suspicious and untrusting' 2013-03-07T19:58:43Z Meanwhile the poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen tells us why we should all get over Dickens and instead celebrate the bicentenary of nonsense writer Edward Lear. Philosophical nonsense 2012-05-25T11:28:27Z He spoke to me in Kyrgyz: “Don’t you understand that you came here for a reason? There is nothing out there for you. It’s all nonsense. This is real. I am real. I know you.” The Man in Xinjiang: A Frightening Experience in Rural China 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Virginia Congressman Arthur Lee wrote in despair in 1783 that formerly serious, Quaker Philadelphia was too interested in “affecting the vanity, & nonsense of French parade.” Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Related: Five things we learned from the new Ghostbusters trailer The first idea is nonsense. Is Ghostbusters the unfortunate victim of Hollywood hitting peak reboot? 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z It also legitimates and makes funnier the type of nonsense behaviour that can seem – dare I say – pointless in the hands of other comics. Jackson's Way ? review 2011-01-09T21:30:01Z In some of Hershberg’s punchlines, there are hints of a delight in pure nonsense that suggests a more surreal direction in his future. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Such nonsense aside, Mackrell's biography of Lopokova was a thrilling one, deeply researched and scrupulously avoiding the cliches that tend to appear whenever "Bloomsbury" is lodged in the title. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell – review 2013-06-01T10:01:01Z One of the best things about contemporary digital wizardry is that wild animals no longer need to be subjected to human cruelty and nonsense in the name of cinema. ‘Beast’ Review: More Bore Than Roar 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z One of the most famously difficult works of 20th-century prose, the novel is a linguistic mash-up of slang, pun, poetry and nonsense. Joycean Character Comes Alive in ‘riverrun’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z I love a bad pun and a nonsense line about what’s “technically a ravioli.” Jonathan Van Ness, Ali Wong and John Hodgman Walk Into a Bar … 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z True, but a little nonsense offers laughs and flights of imagination. ‘Fall River Fishing’ Review: So She Dated an Axe Murderer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Neuwirth admits to being a fan of nonsense, Edward Lear in particular, and this substantial, five-movement piece is certainly of the more elevated kind; indeed, its masterly delight in engineering intriguing musical collisions recalls Mahler. Prom 42: Philharmonia/Mälkki – review 2012-08-14T11:30:25Z Given the rooms that I've sat in and the nonsense I've heard from studio execs, I think foremost, they just don't connect to it. "The Old Guard": Gina Prince-Bythewood on superhero diversity, that ending & sequel possibilities 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Beautiful, smart as hell and not interested in nobody’s nonsense. Nichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different Future 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z She sang words direly, squeaked nonsense, hollered and squealed and chanted and, occasionally, for effect, screamed. Music Review: Duchess Says, Canadian Band, at Public Assembly 2012-08-26T21:11:40Z I used to think so, but I've come to agree with writer Lindy West that this too is purposeful, that "Trump has weaponized nonsense." In the house of alternative facts: How my parents' lies prepared me for post-truth America 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Josh Groban tweeted: “Hello Kitty is a cat. She has whiskers and a cat nose. Girls don’t look like that. Stop this nonsense.” Hello Kitty: when is a cat not a cat? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z It’s a passably chilling bit of nonsense that builds on the past, the tropes of the genre, and relies on them for the odd jolt and the occasional ironic laugh. ‘Dark Skies’: the kids are not all right, so where’s the parental panic? 2013-02-22T19:19:36Z LaBeouf said that he wrote a narrative that was "nonsense," admitting that his dad was troubled but "never was not loving, never was not there." Why do some celebrities pretend to have struggling, working-class backgrounds? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Did you notice that odd song with the nonsense syllables that Margene was singing with the kids? Jennifer Lawrence and "The Hunger Games"? 2011-03-14T17:11:09Z No issues, just the reality and none of this poor me nonsense. Dance Luminaries Weigh in on the Conspicuous Absence of Female Choreographers 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z One dictionary from 1859 defines it as "To talk in a silly manner, talk nonsense." Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z A press representative for Carnival Films, said on Monday that the Daily Mail report was “complete nonsense,” adding: “We never comment on future story lines but it’s not true that she’s leaving.” ArtsBeat: Maggie Smith Departing 'Downtown Abbey'? Studio Says 'Not True' 2012-04-16T14:38:29Z Mackie described the costume as a “gypsy pulled through the idea of Cher. A little bare midriff, little rags, little coins, and all that nonsense.” A Lifetime of Dressing Cher 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z When asked for the definition of the word, Camerota defined it as, “a nonsense word made up by the President of the United States in a late-night tweet.” Not even the Scripps Spelling Bee champ knows what do with “covfefe” 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The notion that stuff like this will make a material difference is nonsense. 10 Ways to Be a Greener Traveler, Even if You Love to Fly 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z I don't like the popcorn, the 'world's going to end tomorrow' kind of nonsense. Rupert Sanders is living the fairy tale 2012-06-01T23:02:00Z As it was, I ended up with page after page of Jackson Pollocked nonsense. The best gift for a writer is a good reader ? and a cup of cocoa 2011-03-22T11:27:33Z Wolff’s medical ethics are gibberish to a person of faith, as a politician’s equivocation is nonsense to her. Review: In ‘The Doctor,’ a Rare Case of Physician, Harm Thyself 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z I said, ‘Oh, Mr. Beckett, it’s just nonsense.’ Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z It’s unapologetic, irreverent nonsense — but it should get a laugh, so why not? ‘Tyler Perry’s A Madea Homecoming’ Review: Tyler’s Hard Lemonade 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z “She didn’t put up with nonsense, she wasn’t mean or ugly to people but not fooled by foolishness,” Mr. Collins said. Is It Time for an Enid Collins Revival? 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z I woke up every morning and smoked pot and took a Dexedrine and wrote nonsense in my Notes app as “Milk” played on the big-screen TV. Leaving Los Angeles 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Spending an hour watching him on stage is like eavesdropping on a bizarre inner monologue, with a dizzying, eclectic mess of odd characters, peculiar catchphrases and wonderfully infectious nonsense. This week's new live comedy 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z And because that happened, we could finally leave all that nonsense behind us, or so I then believed. Riff: Thelma, Louise and All the Pretty Women 2011-04-24T01:43:01Z “But before he did, he told Ron to take over. He targeted Ron to do that because he knew that Ron could. Ron is a no nonsense guy.” At 85, the Jazz Bassist Ron Carter Still Seeks ‘A Better Order of Notes’ 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z After disparaging their self-produced 1967 album "Their Satanic Majesties Request" as a work of utter “nonsense,” the Rolling Stones turned to American sound man Jimmy Miller to set things right. The Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed" at 50: An even darker "Gimme Shelter" emerges 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Placing the trivial nonsense that ensues in a country that’s experiencing political and economic catastrophe is about as dicey as the movie gets. Actors Flock to Netflix to Satisfy Their Most Loyal Fans 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Ms. Carne became widely known on “Laugh-In,” an ensemble comedy show composed of brief bits of slapstick antics and verbal nonsense tumbling over one another in furious succession. Judy Carne, ‘Sock It to Me Girl’ on ‘Laugh-In,’ Dies at 76 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Ride Along 2 offers pretty much more of the same Ride Along nonsense, with the same lead actors intact and the same director, Tim Story. REVIEW: Ride Along 2 Offers More of the Same Silly Laughs 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Critics praised his supple voice, his improvisational skill and, in particular, his virtuosic ability to produce an array of vocalizations, ranging from delicious nonsense to clicks and growls to quasi-instrumental sounds. Al Jarreau, Singer Who Spanned Jazz, Pop and R&B Worlds, Dies at 76 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Diana Rigg’s look of relief, crossed with a mild roll of the eyes—a sort of “I’m too old for this nonsense, but on I forge”—is excellent. “Game of Thrones”: Start Choppin’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z “I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense,” she once declared in a letter to her publisher. ‘You Can’t Hide It’: Georgette Heyer and the Perils of Posthumous Revision 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z None point to a single figure responsible for the unethical nonsense on display. Everything is terrible: How to watch “The Big Short,” “Making a Murderer” and “Concussion” without losing your mind 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z In this fantastical piece the soloist shifts from passages of humming and “Rumtum de diddle” nonsense, to elegiac melodic writing, to passages where the voice leaps about in a super-high register. Music Review: Oliver Knussen in Composer Portraits 2013-04-19T21:04:30Z Let’s throw that nonsense out the window and settle for a few new traditions instead. A New Year resolution that's good for you and the planet: stop eating meat 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z It already is one, in a manner of speaking, given that its strengths are lavishly violent, inventively choreographed fights that have been glued together by nonsense and Charlize Theron. Review: Dressed to Kill, ‘Atomic Blonde’ Also Shoots to Kill 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Not those words, exactly, but about halfway between sense and nonsense. Are you a sleep texter? You’re not alone 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z “I think that is nonsense,” Loach says: the stronger the movement, the greater the chance of winning an election. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Then there are the real masterpieces, where the writing grows so lumpy and strange it sounds like nonsense poetry. A Mother and Son, Fleeing for Their Lives Over Treacherous Terrain 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z All of it is performed in a cascading blend of English, French, and German with Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Swahili, not to mention high-speed nonsense verse. The African Toll of the Great War, in Song and Shadows 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z But for all its maverick – and often subversive – imagination, the moral vision is clear for anyone who can see past the tufty haircuts and nonsense words. Dr Seuss, happy birthday! Let's say it once more 2011-03-02T19:05:00Z Fellow citizens who aren't white have contended with this special brand of nonsense for all of their lives, so to them this massive eruption in Washington D.C. is nothing new. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Admittedly, the “Macbeth” prohibition has its origins in nonsense, as an invention of the 19th-century critic and essayist Max Beerbohm. Break a Leg but Never Whistle: How Stage Superstitions Live On 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z It may be, after all, just a medieval nonsense joke.'' The strange quest to crack the Voynich code 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Lydon said during hearings at the High Court last month that he “heart and soul” opposed the music’s use in a show he considered to be “nonsense.” Rotten ruling: UK judge rules against Sex Pistols singer 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z “All of this, ‘Oh, he went to L.A. because there is too much competition in New York is absolute nonsense,” Mr. Fabius said. Giant Steps for Dance in Los Angeles 2012-10-19T00:40:07Z Tyler’s Everest goal is “utter nonsense,” Kuepper told a German website. California 12-year-old readies for Mount Everest climb 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z "Tricky Cad" pulls apart tidy police narratives, transforming them into darkly disordered nonsense poems. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z People thought we lived this way because of the romance, some environmental nonsense. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The original version was accompanied by much late-Soviet-rock nonsense, like synthesizers and a sax solo. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z “I think it’s nonsense that just because a film is animated, it should automatically be a family or kids’ film. From Genocidal Organ to Your Name: Japanese anime‘s new golden age 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z This was nonsense: Poor Folk is a mawkish tale that would have been forgotten had the same author not also written Crime and Punishment et al. Has any author's reputation fallen further or faster than Dostoevsky's? 2010-09-24T15:14:00Z Time will tell if they can make a decent wine in spite of the nonsense. The Italian Winemakers’ Cult 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Suddenly I thought, right, away with all this, this is total nonsense. John Tavener, Composer and Seeker, Dies at 69 2013-11-12T18:20:35Z What is this nonsense, you are forgiven for occasionally wondering over the first 50 pages or so. Summer readings: One Day by David Nicholls 2011-08-08T08:42:14Z Personally, I think there’s a lot of nonsense talked about the ligatures. Designer for the age of austerity 2012-06-25T00:00:00Z To many it was repetitive nonsense, and even offensive in its apparent simplicity. Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s very kitsch and total nonsense, but absolutely compelling. Brian Cox: 'I’m dying to get back to work so I can get some rest' 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z For all of its nonsense, the fake “L Word” never seemed this stingy. | 'The Real L Word': On Showtime, Gay, Female and Overworked 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z Kids were lured away by the siren call of flashy nonsense like Space Invaders and Pac-Man—you know, with their blinking lights and endless beeping and boastful scrolls of High Scores. The Forgotten Greatness of Air Hockey 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z “Girl,” one colleague says to another, cutting through the nonsense at last. ‘Events’ Review: There’s Kool-Aid in the Water Cooler 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z A Century of Fatherhood In the early 20th century, it's often assumed, fathers were distant figures, patriarchs who stood no nonsense. Wimbledon 2010-06-21T05:45:00Z "This business of putting it all in airplanes is nonsense." T Magazine: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 2012-08-06T21:00:59Z He has been wounded both in battle and in life, you are regularly reminded, even as the movie barrels deeper into nonsense. ‘Amsterdam’ Review: A Madcap Mystery With Many Whirring Parts 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Nick, in my opinion, is nuts, buying Celia's nonsense and enjoying walking around covered in gore. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 7: This Place is Dangerous 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z It is every child’s prerogative to believe in nonsense, and every child’s fate to lose at least a portion of that belief. Movie Review: In ‘Rise of the Guardians,’ Childhood Naïveté Wins 2012-11-20T22:29:12Z But my father was not willing to put up with nonsense. What James Donovan Did After the Bridge of Spies 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Mediocre actors are often undone by great material, but good ones can burnish even meretricious nonsense with craft and conviction. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z But with “Give Me a Nail,” Bragg and Wilco found a nonsense song hiding inside a manifesto, a manifesto hiding inside a nonsense song. Greil Marcus on “Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions” 2012-07-16T14:06:00Z One went into his history with Viagra after his daughter was born, while the other tooted homophobic nonsense. Reflections of a Wedding Singer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z "All this date nonsense," he said, suddenly yearning for the good old days himself. Rewind TV: Hit & Miss; Hell on Wheels; The Fish Market: Inside Billingsgate – review 2012-05-26T23:05:38Z There were also passages of syllabic nonsense in which the singers became instrumentalists creating complex rhythmic structures. Music Review: Oscar Bianchi’s ‘Matra’ Debuts at the MATA Festival 2014-04-20T20:25:50Z Most movies seize your attention with noise and nonsense but soon fade. ‘What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?’ Review: But I Digress 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z He’s more than a little precise, and he can make your forebrain hurt after a while, but his patterns and accents and small, strong fills cut through the nonsense; he’s got a sound, a fullness. Music Review: A Little Bit Like a School Orchestra 2011-07-04T20:29:29Z “I’m very inspired, and I really long to do this,” he said, “so I hope that all this nonsense hasn’t made it impossible.” Derailed Director Cites Urge to Entertain 2011-05-20T23:26:44Z Generally the s**t begets the nonsense, a notion amply demonstrated in shows like "Tiger King". My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Sometimes it was just nonsense words, but early on we realized that all the songs had these cultural reference points to them. Interview with Adult Swim's Tim Heidecker and Davin Wood 2011-03-21T12:21:00Z But, elsewhere, Taddeo’s view of women as both impossibly complicated and fundamentally constrained leads her to ascribe nonsense and clichés to them. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Some people thought that digitization would banish this nonsense. The Bullshit-Job Boom 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The Post also noted, by the way that the proprietors have responded to online criticism with claims of “mean spirited nonsense” and “she made all of this up.” How not to avoid a bad online review 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Any actor, writer, artist or filmmaker who isn’t moved by a fan telling them what their invented nonsense meant to the lives of people who embraced it all should be shot. Magnum Opus: ‘Bloom County’ 40 Years Later 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Here is Phillipson as Kennedy, in the speech he was due to give on the day he died, desperately hoping that “fewer people will listen to nonsense.” The man who plays JFK in ‘Jackie’ looks uncannily like the former president. He’s Danish. 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z At one lecture, in Edinburgh again, a former colleague, Tom Creighton, rose to his feet to protest after a peculiarly challenging exposition of new Continental thinking: "it's all higher froggy nonsense, isn't it Frank?" Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z However, somewhere in Ibiza last month, a provincial bank teller probably experienced a spiritual E-stoked epiphany to this kind of faux-orgasmic nonsense, and who are we to rain on her parade? This week's new singles 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z But my point is: why do celebrities bother with this nonsense? Celebrities! You’re on a yacht with your kids – stop pretending they have a normal life | Hadley Freeman 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z In many ways, its popularity hinges on our seemingly bottomless fascination with all things prison-related, even as the couples themselves try to move on and put all of that jailhouse nonsense behind them. Prison Romances, Standing the Test of (Hard) Time and Cameras 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z It wasn't as though I had returned the moment the account disappeared, acting as if all world evil had been dealt with, posting my usual trivial nonsense. Twitter is failing to efficiently police child pornography 2012-08-13T13:47:18Z So Venmo’s excuse of not answering its phones because of the pandemic is utter nonsense. A Venmo user sent $100 to the wrong person. Then the payment service froze his account | Travel Troubleshooter 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z The vast bulk of what people say about Christ seems to me nonsense, impossible, absurd. Philip Pullman: a life in writing 2011-03-03T12:00:00Z Even as I was muttering nonsense, my mum did me the great kindness of ignoring it and trying to convince me that I was perfectly lucid. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z For one thing it shows just how much arrant nonsense we actually accept in television.” Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The belief system of the happy inhabitants of Hårga seems to be a mix of northern European paganism, occult tradition, arcane numerology and made-up nonsense. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Emily isn't going to take any more nonsense, especially not from her ex-adoptive-mother/employer, as she embarks on her new life solving magical mysteries and bringing out of control criminal witches to justice. Kate Pankhurst's top 10 books starring young detectives 2013-05-09T17:10:47Z The doctors said he was not ill but his father still says Sultan has "smeared his honor" and must get "that nonsense" out of his head. Gays fear new law will drive them out of Kyrgyzstan 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Their nonsense song — “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf” — has become a kind of lifesaving lullaby. At 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' ... Pain, laid bare, and then 'ring, ring' 2010-12-16T23:20:41Z “Who Is America?” is a great name for this project, in our new era of craven nonsense. Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” Reviewed 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z But I’ll tell you what, Rand could make a pot boil; there’s a reason her brand of nonsense sells. The Science Fiction Writer John Scalzi Readily Quits Reading 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z A good starting point for tackling Shakespeare is the art of nonsense and as pupils walk into the lesson, greet them with this presentation on Shakespearean Insults, in particular the first slide. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z Is there a charming way to end this nonsense and protect the feelings of the ladies present without upsetting the party? Perspective | Miss Manners: Responding to an insincere ‘Marry me!’ 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z "It can be bracing to see Picasso shuttle between triumph and kitsch in the space of a week."Patent nonsense. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z I think of her reflections on Lewis Carroll, whose nonsense rhymes “made perfect sense” to Coleman “in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the ’50s.” Should L.A. have a Wanda Coleman Memorial Library? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z In Kim’s closing argument, she gets to the heart of the matter by saying that the destruction of evidence charge involving the cassette of Jimmy’s secretly taped confession is nonsense. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 6: Brick by Brick 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z He wrote once that: 'It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects.' Orwell prize goes to 'chilling' study of Baha Mousa's death 2013-05-15T19:30:01Z Both of my parents hate me for rejecting their nonsense. How I escaped being a right-wing extremist 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Blank, a former playwright, includes a zinger about a multiracial revival of “Fences” and a gloomier story line about a new play workshopped into subscriber-pleasing nonsense. Best Theater of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z “There was something very methodical and no nonsense about the website that I found reassuring,” Ms. Misner wrote. With an Arsenal of Apps, a Fearful Flier Faces the Skies 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z I'm feeling quite nostalgic, for Bow Wow Wow, and Kirk Brandon's Theatre of Hate, even for some of the new romantic nonsense, and the hair gel – the orginal green stuff, in a jar, remember? Last night's TV 2010-05-17T07:00:00Z It feels like with every movie that comes out, there’s always one quote from me where it’s like, “How? What kind of out-of-body experience produced that screaming nonsense?” What Can Robert Pattinson Do to Keep You Guessing? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z It soon collapses into violent and boring nonsense. Dead Man Down – review 2013-05-03T10:12:34Z It works best when Dickinson seizes on a cluster of phrases and repeats them with varying expression, using and reusing the words until they seem to disintegrate into nonsense syllables. Haunting look at mental illness, laid bare on the streets 2013-05-08T18:38:25Z The interesting question is not whether clean eating is nonsense, but why so many intelligent people decided to put their faith in it. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z I think he loved to give the impression he was an academic and, like Brando, was often very dismissive of acting, and I think there's a fair amount of nonsense. Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter: being Burton and Taylor 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z This nonsense implies that American authenticity exists only in a small exurb somewhere far from "the city" where white people dutifully file into the megachurch every Sunday morning. Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z His wife pleaded with him to stop this nonsense: “You don’t have to live like a ref, Eugene.” Style Invitational Week 1383: Questionable Journalism 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z One of the show’s funniest monologues was his recitation of a lengthy, fictional music review, replete with academic jargon and bogus literary allusions that sounded authentic until it morphed into pretentious absurdist nonsense. Review: Aaron Weinstein, Wunderkind as Highbrow Dandy 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z She looks so tough, so intimidating, though this may be fantasy; it is, after all, easy to imagine all sorts of nonsense about animals. ‘Vedette’ Review: A Cow’s Trouble in Paradise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “It changed the way I thought about food. And I found myself eating things I’d never eaten before, hiding food, stealing money from my parents to buy food. All sorts of nonsense.” Gabrielle Deydier: what it’s like to be fat in France 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z “There’s a lot of nonsense about me in books. . .assumptions, assumptions, assumptions.” Joni Mitchell Won't Let Taylor Swift Portray Her In Now-Cancelled Biopic 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z It could be absolute nonsense, but it will project me into the next phase of thinking. ArtsBeat Blog: John Williams Lets His Muses Carry Him Along 2011-08-19T11:00:56Z “I think Terry Gilliam is spewing nonsense. These were not transactions. His comments about that aspect of this are shameful.” Hollywood condemns Terry Gilliam for #MeToo comments 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s nonsense, we knew it was nonsense, but it’s a fun story. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Beyond all the dairy chat, though, Phoenix’s reference to his late brother, River, was, alongside Bong’s salutes to Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, genuinely moving; real emotion among all the nonsense. Self-flagellation and stuffed goodie bags: my night at the tacky, endearing Oscars 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z And yet, the idea that political comedy is more partisan today is nonsense. Jon Stewart resigned, Trump is a joke and Larry Wilmore got canceled: Understanding the power of political satire this election 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The things that didn’t make sense made “The Wishing Tree” nonsense to them. My children are hooked on Faulkner! 2012-12-03T20:30:00Z Howarth is skilled at taking the old forms of the Western — the thrill of the chase, the Manichaean nonsense of “civilized” and “savage” — and reshaping them to address contemporary concerns. Review | Two Australian boys seek revenge for their parents’ murder in this blood-soaked tale 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Which was, of course, nonsense; her “us” is the tiny sliver of established, high-maintenance hit makers. Critic’s Notebook: South by Southwest Festival Starts to Feel Corporate 2014-03-16T22:44:49Z And it's that, rather than any nonsense about plagiarism, that makes it seem a relatively weak Booker prize winner – and far from Swift's best work. Booker club: Last Orders by Graham Swift 2012-07-24T11:28:36Z Staging the England v Wales match at Old Trafford would tick that box and sidestep all the nonsense about Cardiff hosting this pivotal fixture. Kathryn Hunter, actor – portrait of the artist 2013-02-26T17:00:03Z The book may be nonsense but Novello knew how to write songs, even if occasionally under the influence of Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers. Gay's the Word – review 2013-02-10T18:22:00Z He called Swift's claims "nonsense," adding that his girlfriend, Swift's security team, and photographers were all around. Taylor Swift Is Expected to Testify in a Groping Case 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Nobody knows what to make of the instant infant except for Dorothy, who goes along with this miraculous white nonsense because she's touched in the head. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z “Virginia” was her mother’s name, and “mountweazel” was a nonsense word she and her cousin used. ‘Glitch of the Pentagon’: There’s a reason you might not have heard of this monster 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “I saw her being accosted verbally by a very drunk older man, and she was being nice enough to entertain his nonsense,” he said. June Ruppert, Garrick Anderson 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Anyone who wants contraceptives can access them, but it’s an utterly made-up nonsense issue.” Ted Cruz’s ridiculous “condom police” denial: “No rubber shortage” doesn’t mean no problem for women and birth control 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z All that nonsense makes it hard to see any hope for redemption. NBC’s ‘Constantine’: The devil you know a little too well She stands in the frame smiling wanly and swinging her arms while he impatiently reels off the kind of pedantic nonsense that is meant to signify superior intellect. ‘Magic in the Moonlight’: Another Woody Allen Odd Couple 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z And there are moments of inspired nonsense, like a quick scene in a fancy restaurant where a waiter asks Burgers how he wants his steak cooked. Rediscovering an Ambitious Sketch Comedy That Never Caught On 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s nonsense because political comedy, by its very definition, is partisan. Jon Stewart resigned, Trump is a joke and Larry Wilmore got canceled: Understanding the power of political satire this election 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z But usage of the terms got sloppy, which will happen with language born of nonsense and burnished by pop culture. ‘Growing up, we were the weird ones’: The wizarding, mermaiding, cosplaying haven of Epic Nerd Camp 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z But well-established scientific principles don’t lend themselves well to conversations in which I say something based on hard physical evidence and carefully analyzed data, and then you shoot back with a bunch of spurious nonsense. Stop giving equal time to pseudo-science! 2014-03-24T14:08:00Z An unwitting viewer might be unsure whether they were watching meaningless nonsense or a lost Tarkovsky script. 'It's a war between technology and a donkey' – how AI is shaking up Hollywood 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z They want to be affirmed in all the things that television usually affirms: being larger than life, the action, the adventure, the nonsense. ArtsBeat: The Game Never Ends: David Simon on Wearying 'Wire' Love and the Surprising Usefulness of Twitter 2012-04-05T16:14:47Z Geffen, however, dismissed as “nonsense” any suggestion that he is playing favorites when it comes to coasts. David Geffen pledges $150 million for new LACMA building 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z People with common sense around Scotland will recognise that and will see this nonsense for exactly what it is.” Finland disputes Scotland's baby box claims after expert warning 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z As Crystal’s unwelcome roommate, Kennan turns what could be another scuzzy bogey man into a damaged soul whose anti-establishment rants are garbled with both sense and nonsense. ‘Bethany’ at ACT: A mom whose life has crashed — hard 2014-04-19T03:40:16Z There’s no way to say anything intelligent about those things, because the entire conversation is based on nonsense. American Identity, Muslim Identity 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z He conveys with zest the relish Crosby and Hope took in evading such nonsense. Review | How Bing Crosby bounced back from personal and professional malaise 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z And Coffin, who co-directed both "Despicable Me" films, also excels at voicing the amusing polyglot nonsense language that is the essential lingua franca of Miniondom. 'Minions' has irresistible, wonky golden touch 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Every once in a while, a meme rises up from the wondrous bog of entertaining nonsense that is the Internet. We Should Probably Have a Conversation About ‘Damn, Daniel’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z He expresses his perpetual annoyance — to his confidante, God, to family and friends — with childish mockery, nonsense blather, a touch of camp. Review: Fierstein propels a robust, faithful 'Fiddler on the Roof' 2010-05-26T20:47:00Z That kind of nonsense is one reason why Perry's music isn't the sort of thing you argue for. Katy Perry comes to KeyArena, demonstrates the power of blending in 2011-07-14T14:01:06Z First, there is no good way to avoid assault – 90% of rapists are known to their victims, so those old chestnuts about not wearing short skirts, or going out late at night are nonsense. 10 common comments on feminist blogposts – and my responses 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z “They called it nonsense, terrible, nothing there,” Mr. Baryshnikov said. Baryshnikov in the Tragic Love Story ?In Paris? 2011-09-14T13:58:08Z Both an origin story and a topsy-turvy script-flipping, the drama, which has enough cliffhangers to make nonsense of a topographical map, sympathizes with Moriarty and savages Holmes. The Shape-Shifting Sherlock Holmes, Now Playing the Villain 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z “Who is working there and approving this nonsense?” How the U.S. ethics chief took on Trump and became a reluctant Washington hero 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s also possible that the kids were visualizing their mother’s face when they heard the nonsense words. What Happens in Kids' Brains When They Hear Mom's Voice 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z “What a lot of nonsense that law is to say that you need specific insurance to deliver someone’s food. Any decent cop would not even blink an eye at that fella.” Police deliver McDonald's order after pulling over driver, seizing his vehicle 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Other ideas run counter to the text, as when gods gather up youth-providing golden apples in anticipation of Freia’s absence, thereby making nonsense of the moment when, deprived of them, they grow old. Review: A Promising Start to 'Ring' Cycle 2010-03-23T17:10:00Z He’d heard overawed Yanks spout such nonsense before, but I ignored his look and asked why every pub didn’t serve such an honourable pint. Some say the affable charm of the people and the culture is Ireland's draw, but it's the pubs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “Still we can’t put all our nonsense behind us,” he says. The Past Pushes Back in 2 Shows With Contemporary Blackness in Mind 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “Some do work. And some work only for certain people. But some are just patent nonsense.” Can an app guarantee a good night’s sleep? I tested them to find out 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Before all that football nonsense Sunday night, why not indulge in what really matters? TV highlights: Katy Perry performs at the halftime show for Super Bowl XLIX 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The Arc de Triomphe is “the mother of all this nonsense all over the world,” he said. A Monument Man Gives Memorials New Stories to Tell 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z She also had a lovely way of deflating all the nonsense the PRs spoke about tea's calming/energising/cleansing/spiritual properties with a quizzical look or a quick aside. Mad Men; Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea; 24 Hours in A&E – TV review 2013-04-11T06:00:00Z These award shows are trifles of manufactured nonsense but that moment rang true. The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z More bewildering white nonsense transpires, whirling to an apex when Leanne and George disappear with an eccentric aunt wielding a death stare . . . and so does living Jericho, replaced by a doll yet again. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z As any regular readers of this column may be aware, Lost in Showbiz thinks all award ceremonies are nonsense. The Oscars graciously recognised Crash and Halle Berry. Is that not enough? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z But eventually he gets this nonsense out of his system and begins serving up substantive segments that, taken together, do help us see the Constitution in new ways. Television Review: ‘Constitution USA With Peter Sagal,’ on PBS 2013-05-06T20:20:31Z Granted “The View” rarely if ever veers into the acid bog of screaming and nonsense where “Crossfire” finds itself. How we view the women of "The View": Come for viral catfights, stay for the substance 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z But when she starts spouting nonsense in the form of advice “you might want to consider,” “just to give you information,” then she’s actually becoming a problem. Alicia Silverstone’s clueless vaccine advice 2014-04-23T14:31:00Z More consistently than Davidson, she related the nonsense verse to Lear's life – linking the destruction of his first house in Sanremo with the poem Mr and Mrs Discobbolos, which evoked the childhood loss of home. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z Packing an extraordinary soul singer's voice, Watts is more interested in sound than words; the lyrics are sometimes nonsense, and sometimes frustratingly inaudible. Reggie Watts – review 2013-06-19T16:54:00Z I’m embarrassed for humanity at all this nonsense, and I don’t want to submit the world to the complete and perfect judgment of an innocent. Riff: How to Read a Racist Book to Your Kids 2012-06-16T04:00:05Z I know it looks like crazy nonsense, but there's intricate wording to this stuff. Glastonbury: 11 acts to watch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z In days of yore, a broiler was easily prepared Marcella Hazan style without fuss or nonsense. A Chicken That Grows Slower and Tastes Better 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z I think even when he’s switched to nonsense lyrics there’s a spirit of inquiry that pervades all of Byrne’s best work, and “Fear of Music” is dominated by it. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z This isn't comic book nonsense; we're watching a man fight to save his own soul. "Justified": How FX's struggling TV western redeemed itself 2011-02-23T16:13:00Z Reject the guff and nonsense of diet culture. Never be an ego lifter: personal trainers' 12 secrets of succesful exercise 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z This celebrity worship political nonsense is truly nauseating. Happy No More, Pharrell Williams and N.E.R.D Want to Wake You Up 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z And this New York project is partly a nonsense joke, and it's partly a new way of continuing to be sarcastic about the usual 18th-century categories: such as freedom, and reason. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z Some of the words are nonsense and don't gel, but he goes back and develops it. Folk's man of mystery: is Cecil Sharp a folk hero or villain? 2011-03-24T22:30:02Z For the novel version, released this week, Penn has ditched the Pappy Pariah nonsense and filled out the plot, though it is still a slim tale. Review | What is Sean Penn thinking? His debut novel is a mess, again. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z “It keeps you looking at your own process, so you don’t import any nonsense.” George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z But now that relatively modest body of work has been overshadowed by all the "previously unseen" and "the making-of" nonsense that becomes necessary if you want to flog people the same thing year after year. The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review 2012-10-10T12:16:01Z He may, as I say, have become a bit of an institution, but I hope we can dismiss all the "national treasure" nonsense. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z The play's nonsense humour, which had delighted audiences at the Royal Court, failed to engage film audiences increasingly used to a diet of realist drama. Peter Yates obituary 2011-01-10T18:39:17Z This is not the same as universal empathy or divinely inspired forgiveness or any of that softheaded nonsense. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z Instead, "The Problem" presses more forcefully into its confrontations with elected officials who other interviewers would allow to spew utterly false nonsense without confronting them on it. The problem with "The Problem with Jon Stewart" is that it's not more widely available 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z “And when it comes to Cobain, most of what they believe is fabricated nonsense. ‘Montage of Heck’ does nothing to counter that. “Total bullsh*t”: 5 things Kurt Cobain’s close friend says aren’t true about “Montage of Heck” 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z And she reads alongside her reader, revisiting Heidegger to exclaim, "half of me says 'what nonsense' while the other half is re-enchanted." The existentialists come alive (over cocktails) in Sarah Bakewell's 'At the Existentialist Cafe' 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The debate split between those – such as rrrrrsrrrr – who thought Dunham justified in getting the hump: Why shouldn't a female comedian writing about the nonsense of female paranoias be called a feminist? Al Murray: comedians should never express political views 2013-06-04T13:41:55Z After the gangster nonsense, Perry sensibly jumped ship. Luke Perry obituary 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Through its dynamic performances, gleeful anarchy and insistent embrace of nonsense and mayhem, “Die Monosau” restored a chaotic energy to a venerable company that has stumbled repeatedly in recent years. Review: ‘Die Monosau’ Revives Chaotic Energy in Berlin 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Matthew is sweet and doting; Marilla is gruffer and tougher and has less patience with Anne's "nonsense". Eleanor Birne's top 10 books on motherhood 2011-03-30T15:44:16Z Patience pays off because there will always be noise and nonsense. Critic’s Notebook: LG Listens to Conservationists and Preserves a Landmark 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Even more than the Kevin-to-Kevin chat in the Situation Room, this may be the moment that persuades our hero to stop playing along with nonsense. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 7: Bombs Away 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Certainly, it is still nonsense, given that France remains under a state of emergency, following the deadly November attacks in and around Paris. Even on Alert, It’s Still Cannes 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z He derides Arthur Schlesinger for talking such nonsense as that the best defense against Communism may be the social welfare state. Review: ‘The Jeweler’s Eye,’ by William F. Buckley Jr. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z All this Dogme nonsense, and all the other things I have done, has been to prevent myself from doing things that I'm too good at, that I feel is the easy way out. Lars von Trier: "I don't want to be an adult" 2011-05-21T18:22:00Z Brand’s an imperfect messenger, to be sure, and just last week he spouted some 9/11 truther nonsense. EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand unloads on Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, sad Obama fans and more 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The poster girl, he said, is Anne-Sophie Mutter, whose "bulldozer showy nonsense" is becoming endemic in music colleges around the UK. Mendelssohn on Mull ? review 2011-07-08T17:25:42Z On Monday, Mr. Kratz called the scenario “nonsense,” and he said the jury in Mr. Avery’s trial considered evidence either left out or glossed over by the filmmakers. Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’ Omitted Crucial Facts, Prosecutor Says 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, the speed of the “Planes” story and the script’s constant shifts in Dusty’s racing progress more resemble the busy nonsense of Pixar’s disastrous “Cars 2” than the engaging, character-driven plot of “Cars.” ‘Planes’: Disney takes to the skies for high adventure 2013-08-08T19:41:46Z He has weapons-grade nonsense at his disposal, and is more than happy to use it.” The Bugle: Andy Zaltzman revives 'satire and bullshit' podcast sans John Oliver 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The anti-literal aspects of “The Future” might be described as surrealism, magic realism or Jabberwockian nonsense, but none of these terms quite capture her ability to blend whimsy and difficult emotion. | 'The Future': Is That All There Is? Milking Life for More 2011-07-28T22:44:40Z As for the rest, there is plenty of nonsense, a great deal of stylish posturing and clothes-horsing, and a few action sequences that manage to be both gripping and preposterous. | 'Takers': Taking a Long, Cool Look at Both Sides of the Law 2010-08-26T23:36:00Z The more they drank onstage, the more they indulged a liking for obscure in-group nonsense, the louder the audience cheered. When the Rat Pack ruled supreme 2010-10-07T19:29:00Z And I try to erase this above/below the line nonsense and just find how wonderful this kind of independence is. | Bruce Weber and Kathleen Turner on Becoming Mentors 2013-05-20T23:11:48Z It's a good idea if people wear roughly the same thing, I suppose, but they don't have to cling on to Edwardian nonsense. Oliver Knussen: 'It never occurred to me that not everybody thought music was the most important thing in life' 2012-06-06T16:50:00Z Viewers have been burned by his nonsense once before, and they’re reluctant to return now. Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy gets funnier the more it apologises for its own rubbishness 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z As Mr. Collins pointed out, “When the connections do occur, they’re like perfectly distilled mosaics in a sea of nonsense.” 3 Classic Novels. 22 Minutes. Why Not? 2011-05-23T22:34:30Z In 1947, she won a supporting role in an acclaimed Broadway revue, “Angel in the Wings,” singing the nonsense song that went “Bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo.” Elaine Stritch, vivid stage and screen personality, dies at 89 “It was Republicans who elevated this dangerous nonsense,” not the media, she said. The media can’t ignore Marjorie Taylor Greene. Can they figure out how to cover her? 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z All it really needed was the feeling of having nonsense babbled at me by a confused stranger but, fortunately, Gemma Cairney wasn't far away. Glastonbury on television, radio and online: a festival without drunk people 2013-06-30T17:22:50Z Generally speaking, nonsense words are a series of sounds with the original sense dislocated from them. Phonics speaks to children's knack for nonsense 2012-11-19T13:31:18Z "To say the whole case is speculative is frankly nonsense... to say there is not a shred of evidence is going too far," Vos said. High court judge criticises police failure to fully investigate phone hacking 2011-02-15T18:44:42Z Common nonsense has its place and purpose, too. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z It's a great story, but most experts would probably dismiss it as apocryphal nonsense. Erik and Me: Alistair McGowan on Satie 2013-07-12T17:30:08Z Any criticism of his policies gets dismissed as “woke” nonsense cooked up by the “corporate media.” Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z The problem is when becomes too tragic, when certain right-wing nonsense is actually culturally criminal: the anti-immigrant stuff, the Donald Trump nonsense. How Janeane Garofalo Knew 'Wet Hot American Summer' Was a Cult Hit 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z What would the dowager countess think of all this film-fest nonsense? At TIFF: 'Hyde Park,' 'Great Expectations,' Dame Maggie 2012-09-10T22:30:14Z It’s the moment where Chazelle gives the diabolical character his due, and it’s utter, despicable nonsense. “Whiplash” Gets Jazz All Wrong 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z There’s opener “Don’t Smoke In Bed”, which presents a screeching, crayon sketch of the original, followed immediately by random woodwind nonsense on “Don’t Explain”. What Do Xiu Xiu and Nina Simone Have in Common? 2013-12-06T19:47:13Z She decided then that she couldn’t afford to waste any more time with such nonsense. An incurable disease covered her face in tumors. She had to learn to like herself. 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z “It’s in nonsense language; it makes no sense at all. It’s mumbo-jumbo. But it’s mumbo-jumbo that hypnotizes people. It dazzles and entertains, even though she is saying nothing.” Perspective | Opera plays its Trump card: Yes, the president is showing up in Verdi 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z It's an old idea: it takes a village and all that nonsense, but I think it helps the kids having childcare that's within the group. Stephen Daldry 2013-02-10T07:00:19Z Pegg’s script is a nonsense, but it is a spirited one, the closest in tone of the recent trilogy to the original “Star Trek” series. “Star Trek Beyond”: Humor and adventure abound in this course-correcting sequel 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Equal parts playful and cynical, this trend of art dealers subletting digs from the entertainment industry is making perfect nonsense. | An Outlaw Art Fair Sets up Shop on L.A.’s Frontier 2014-02-04T00:08:30Z Gale-force nonsense, as ever, with the inexplicably acclaimed Welch wheeling out another iteration of her impression of Tori Amos with a bat up her nightdress. This week's new tracks 2012-07-06T23:05:23Z The idea that there is no Hungarian equivalent for "Arthur" is nonsense. Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z “But that doesn’t make any difference, for the nonsense is generally good and at times it reaches the level of first-class satiric burlesque.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Lovecraft Country’ and the Billboard Music Awards 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z But I mean, it's just nonsense because then you look at so many of the great American comedies which is sort of cynical and snide. Nate is a "troubled soul": "Ted Lasso" star Nick Mohammed on his character's dark turn 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z He ended the combative interview by calling Mr Pratt "a dangerous man espousing dangerous nonsense" and declared, "you shame your country". Piers Morgan faces US gun backlash 2012-12-24T16:23:07Z All of this pales, though, compared to the nonsense idea of a sports correspondent for the show. Radio head: Graham Norton 2010-10-13T06:00:00Z I can only suggest that Mr. Brown should, instead of being offensive, read poetry and stop writing nonsense about it. Peeved, Irritated and Annoyed: Early Letters to the Editor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z "All this date nonsense has come in the last 10 years," he moans. TV review: The Fish Market: Inside Billingsgate; House 2012-05-24T22:00:02Z Do you remember all this nonsense, how humans insist on sorting ourselves this way? Perspective | Dear Brood X cicadas: Welcome back to our messed-up world. Here’s what you missed. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z And if there’s any film that should hammer the nail into the coffin of this pervasive nonsense, it’s Black Panther. Why Black Panther should win the 2019 best picture Oscar 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It soon emerges that the charismatic Tyler Durden is encouraging nightly basement get-togethers in which the first rule of Fight Club is that it sounds like a load of pointless macho nonsense. Which other Hollywood 'bro' movies need a Ghostbusters-style gender swap? 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The Internet, he said, is “at least 80 percent garbage — lies, distortion, nonsense.” Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z And so to Kassam, who appeared on the Today programme and honked all kinds of nonsense without a grown-up expert having been booked to counter him. The dark stars of the far right compete to bask in the glory of Tommy Robinson 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z In that context, publishing such misogynistic, unsubstantiated nonsense to a wide audience could have a very real impact. No, wives 'withholding sex' are not to blame for male violence | Laura Bates 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z It is nonsense with the heft of animal certainty and magic. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z “This is not what museums are about. It’s nonsense.” State asked to halt sale of three Baltimore Museum of Art paintings 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z If however you’re telling teenagers flat out nonsense, pushing a fictitious view that, for instance, gay people are gay because they were damaged in childhood, you do not deserve to call yourself an educator. Controversial nun had a long history of anti-gay remarks 2014-04-08T14:27:00Z For a moment he looked like he might stop and deal out some nonsense, but instead he shook the unholy carrier again, muttered, and carried on up the tracks. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z “I think the poetry world is full of nonsense and twaddle,” Mr. Gibson said. Inside the 'Circus' of Oxford's Poetry Professor Election 2010-06-11T18:41:00Z Stewart was at his best in antagonistic interviews, interrogating ideas and calling out nonsense. Trevor Noah’s Optimism Set His Version of ‘The Daily Show’ Apart 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Like all of Wodehouse’s best tales, “Uncle Fred Flits By” is utter nonsense, a tightly plotted farce made of thin air. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z A riotous, exuberant 30-minute work for chorus and orchestra, it channels the spirit of Dadaism, with a nonsense text by one of the movement's founders, Hugo Ball. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z "We will be releasing an official statement shortly but dont believe the nonsense about comas and tubes to breathe...that's false!!" Reports conflict over health of rapper Lil Wayne 2013-03-16T01:20:14Z Mr. Koepp’s lawyer said, “We are going to say nothing about this nonsense.” The Bay Citizen: A Big Hollywood Movie Is Coming, and a Novelist Cries Foul 2011-08-21T05:43:03Z Stirred into rare public indignation, Major, who left the premiership in 1997 and is now 79, issued a statement denouncing the suggestion that any such conversation took place as “a barrel load of nonsense.” A Low Point for the Monarchy, in a New Season of ‘The Crown’ 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z But if you also need a stocking stuffer, pick up a copy of the complete nonsense. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z His writings circle back on themselves, devolve into nonsense or trail off in mid-sentence, recording moments or thoughts so fleeting they are usually beneath notice. A movable feast of words in Ray Johnson books 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Spooks: season eight, episode eight Spooks: season eight, episode seven Spooks: Season eight, episode three Spooks: overblown nonsense or top TV? Spooks: series nine, episode six 2010-10-25T21:00:00Z “They say they are doing this for the readers, and all kinds of nonsense,” she said. In Stieg Larsson’s Head, but Anxious to Be His Own Man 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z But even nostalgic nonsense requires more than attitude and energy, which is all that Mr. Black has to offer. Review: ‘The Nice Guys’ Pairs Gosling and Crowe as Slapstick Detectives 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Perhaps that’s why so many of the words in the last game of the finals look like nonsense. Nigeria's Wellington Jighere almost lost for words after Scrabble world title triumph 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z But the main way in which “Blackstar” is prime Bowie is in its willingness to embrace nonsense. The Beautiful Meaninglessness of David Bowie 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z We are over the halfway point now in what will be the only series of Camelot so I'm almost more inclined to treasure every moment of camp nonsense rather than scoff at it. Camelot: episode six 2011-07-10T21:09:00Z “I don’t think it’s right that you should evade responsibility for what you are doing with some kind of clever nonsense.” Napoleon on the Backstairs 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z There would be no point, and indeed no fun, in nonsense without a formal structure to operate against. Phonics speaks to children's knack for nonsense 2012-11-19T13:31:18Z Somewhat embarrassed—after all, it’s all such nonsense—he told me that, since it appears that he’ll die before me, he will send me a sign from the other side. Father 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z I will not be watching this attempt to engage in pc nonsense. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z She took the nonsense words they generated and put them through Google Translate into 80 languages — producing a work that explores randomness and order, nature and technology. 89 Plus Project Focuses on Technology-Obsessed Artists 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z All of it is tied together by Q-Tip and Fife’s easily inventive flow, dispensing wisdom and nonsense with equal aplomb. The 12 greatest albums of the ’90s 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z I find myself looking up absolute nonsense only tangentially related to my work, fuelled by obsessions and whims and characterised by topic-hopping, bad spelling, squinting, forum lurking and comically wide-ranging search terms. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z “She’s so easy and comfortable to be with — genuinely no nonsense, no attitude, no pre-emptive strikes.” Brandi Carlile Has Always Seen Herself Clearly. Now It’s Our Turn. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z "I'm getting too old for this nonsense," sighs Robbie Coltrane, as he adjusts his stick-on moustache, straightens his lapels and draws himself up for the camera, clearly not meaning a single word of it. Catch me if you can: The Comic Strip reunited 2011-08-28T20:30:01Z These are, instead, gentle and sombre poems whose moments of "nonsense" erupt like canned laughter, serving only to underline the narrator's dejection. Nonsense by Christopher Reid – review 2012-09-28T21:55:02Z What I like most about “Dead to Me” is how it sees cover-ups in everything: in suburban nonsense, beachy waves, slogan T-shirts, mediocre romances. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z What doesn’t fit is all the comic nonsense on stage. Is it news or entertainment? The fuzziness of modern life gets operatic in JacobTV's 'The News' 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z This “healthy pet” nonsense—I just don’t buy it. Untamed 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Anthology was also a refuge from that kind of nonsense, a safe space to be weird in. Jonas Mekas: how a Lithuanian refugee redefined American cinema 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The stereotype of the heroic war correspondent is nonsense. No, Democrats aren’t launching a civil war on July 4. But could it happen here again? 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Women are fed nonsense about their role as mothers being special and spiritual. Eyes Wide Open reveals the homophobia of Orthodox Judaism 2010-05-27T11:25:00Z Whatever you do, please say you're not a #Crazycat … It's all nonsense of course, but interesting nonsense, not least because it reveals a lot about the person coining the phrase. The rise of the Twitter tribes 2011-04-01T23:06:07Z The movie traces the mythic origins of the worst of modern cable news — the mindless jingoism, the split-screen shouting, the cluttered graphics, the breathless coverage of car chases and celebrity nonsense — to Ron’s initiative. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z The real unforgivable sin was season five, taking Mike Post’s masterful original theme – a warm, welcoming bubblebath of soothing cocktail jazz – and remixing it into obnoxious, artificially energised nonsense. When good TV goes bad: how Quantum Leap made one leap too far 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Mayer writes the kind of nonsense that makes sense, and sense that is nonsense: I can’t think of a better centering device in these topsy-turvy times. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z But to be clear, especially for new readers: My disappointment is not because I dislike the show or any such nonsense. ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 10 Recap: The Rich Are Different 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Near the end, a character decries being the middleman in this “moralizing transfiguring partially visible comic book freak-show nonsense.” Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Crucially, the subtitles are rendered in what he has described as "Navajo English", a kind of semiotic sloganeering that strips out the verbs and teeters on the verge of nonsense. Cannes film festival diary: no joy in Godard 2010-05-19T09:22:00Z They’re kind of haunting because she was a guarded, stern woman who didn’t take any nonsense. Braddock's LaToya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi's and 'ruin porn' chic 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z "The BBC is always on the front pages for the wrong reasons and it's nonsense." Winkleman honoured for Strictly debut 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z And if you’ve ever worked in retail, there’s a lot of nonsense. Independent bookstore owners look back at a year spent trying to stay afloat. Not all of them succeeded. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Time betrays them, inevitably, indiscriminately: even Trip Fontaine, once an owner of the most “lustrous father-and-son tan in the city,” turns into a haunted alcoholic, rambling nonsense in a desert rehab. “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z I trust the journalists any day over the age-old naïveté of those foreign policy “experts” peddling nonsense about the Sauds. On Barack Obama’s Memoir and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Who is circulating this nonsense and how do you rebut it? Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “This is the president of the United States that is putting out this nonsense and social stigma,” said Kelley Cutler, the human rights organizer for the Coalition on Homelessness. Trump attacks California's homeless crisis with false environmental trope 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “Juan” nails the way food documentaries fetishize chefs’ single-mindedness, their sometimes contrived restrictions and demands, and the secretly nonsense ways they talk in these kinds of docs. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Luke Cage’ and ‘Documentary Now!’ 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z If someone had said to us back then that the short would develop into a full-length feature with our double-act nonsense at its centre, we would have run a mile. Andrew Buckley and Ed Gaughan: How we made our Brit hit Skeletons 2010-10-21T22:00:00Z Avoid a brusque confrontation with him: Instead of saying, “Stop this nonsense with celebrities,” try to be gentle. If You Can’t Stop Name-Dropping, You’re Not Coming Skiing This Year 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s the Protestant-ethic default setting in American philosophy, which rejects all societal or structural arguments as namby-pamby socialistic nonsense: Every individual chooses freely whether to be thin and rich, or fat and poor. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z But the result of this is to make us see more sharply the difference between what really matters and all the dross and nonsense that clutters up life. In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z Why do American consumers fall for this nonsense, I asked Heitner. The Grapes of Wrath 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The 78-year-old comedian is too busy for any of that nonsense. Get ready, Seattle: Joan Rivers is rolling into town 2012-02-23T21:28:10Z But then it was time to get down and dirty about the latest round of Donald Trump nonsense. Bernie Sanders curses out Donald Trump demagoguery: “That kind of crap is not going to work in the United States of America” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z To be fair, it’s still nonsense in many ways. Dopamine fasting is a tech fad that sounds silly – but might just work | Oliver Burkeman 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z “Why do you insist on ‘sharing’ nonsense like this from the Trump camp?” asked Dave Hogg, a freelance sportswriter who frequently leaps into Haberman’s replies. Maggie Haberman and the never-ending Trump story 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Photograph: Gary Calton for the Observer The cast walks circles on the rehearsal room floor, shouting nonsense. Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z “I still think it’s a nonsense really and so does my wife by the way. But it just seemed like a nice cozy thing to do,” he added. Hugh Grant on marriage: 'a nice cozy thing to do' 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z At least, that cookery item was aimed at parents entertaining their kids at half-term, instead of ostensibly functioning adults who take this cutesy-wutesy, cartoon nonsense seriously. It’s poké, man: the ultimate hipster-food glossary 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z But instead of moving into the substance of the matter, the conversation immediately pivoted to wonderful nonsense. Zaniness of 'Inside the N.B.A.' Doesn’t Depend on the Score 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z It’s all nonsense,” said Mr. Schneier, who is also the author of a new book on the psychology of security, “Liars and Outliers.” Update: The Mystery of the Flying Laptop 2012-04-04T15:17:45Z He never stops — never stops trying to pull the rug out from under us, never stops trying to twist our arm, never stops believing that nonsense can be an aphrodisiac, too. All That Sex and Blood, Mr. De Palma! 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z This time, we were spared such nonsense about Ms. Kennedy. Letters: Bike Helmets, Please 2013-08-02T22:32:56Z The Russian talks nonsense about sleeper cells and a plot to assassinate the Russian president on American soil. "Salt" adds flavor to summer movie menu 2010-07-18T17:58:00Z Maybe, though, he’d already made the decision, and the decision was to protect his running mate for as long as possible from the sexist nonsense that awaits her. Perspective | Brace yourself: America is about to act really awkward about Biden’s female VP pick 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z It allows you to keep your whole body and its unperturbed emotions at home, far away from the stress of some fool braying nonsense about the evils of critical race theory or coronavirus conspiracies. It's the most wonderful time of year ... to not make your loved ones of color visit a sundown town 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z They loved it, and it freed up my schedule for utter nonsense. My hot, rowdy Indian summers at Hindu youth camp 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z There are monsters and mushrooms: it is enjoyable nonsense. The Glasgow International impact zone 2010-04-19T20:30:00Z Some of it is nonsense, but the most delightful sort of nonsense. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel Celebrates the Reign of the Empress of Fashion 2012-09-20T15:33:12Z His sermons, however, are of the insipid sort, not spiced up with any of the vicious nonsense bespattering the Bible. Sean Hannity, very bad critic: Fox News, Sony, Sarah Palin pal help hit movie prey on the gullible 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z “It’s just nonsense!” says a businesswoman and mother to two grown children. Motherlode Blog: How She Does It in Britain 2011-10-03T17:57:46Z "Thanks to the Internet it's gone round the world as some sort of "official" statement on my part, absolute nonsense," Iommi said, apologizing to his three bandmates. Tony Iommi denies report of Black Sabbath reunion 2011-08-16T22:01:24Z It matters that the 73-year-old former governor and U.S. senator spoke of putting “an end to this nonsense” because Oklahoma is a Southern state that I don’t usually associate with forward-leaning racial ideals. Lonnae O’Neal: Dear President Boren, thank you for your outrage and action 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Their romance lifts the movie into a realm of pure nonsense, and their graceful, inventive idiocy makes the rest of it look labored and overdone. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z Part of the author’s outreach is devoted to debunking the content of Shark Week, a “dumpster fire of nonsense” that drives him berserk with its “horrifically inaccurate” narration. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z And it’s absolutely obvious that all that Putin is talking about, that there are Nazis in Ukraine, was all nonsense. Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z But the Ukip approach seems clumsy at best – blaming the last ones in when things are tight; superstitious nonsense akin to witch-burning. British Sea Power on tour: from Helsinki to the FA Cup final 2013-05-23T18:00:01Z On the humour shelves, I will never know why or how, was Gertrude Stein, presumably because she wrote what looked like nonsense … I used to help out at the library. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z To me, it’s anti-comedy, it’s more about PC nonsense than are you making us laugh or not.” 10 “Seinfeld” episodes that are racist and sexist in retrospect 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The nonsense verse known as the limerick was invented by 19th Century poet, famous for his Owl and the Pussycat poem. Barker rewrote 'boring' Lear book 2012-06-13T10:09:26Z "It was around this time that I finally started to put to rest all the nonsense that had always driven me," Shriver writes. Mark Shriver explores what made 'Sarge' a good man 2012-06-16T19:46:04Z He didn’t like a lot of subterfuge or a lot of nonsense.” Bill O’Reilly Has Top 2 Spots on Hardcover Best-Seller List 2012-12-23T22:52:22Z To those impacted in a real way by these issues or savvy enough to recognize when they're being used as mechanisms to impart a sense of relevance, they come across as didactic nonsense. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Beyond "nonsense," malarkey can mean "insincere or pretentious talk or writing designed to impress one and usually to distract attention from ulterior motives or actual conditions," noted Sokolowski. Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year 2012-12-05T14:42:08Z The performers dispersed, birdlike, to corners of the crowd as they sang sudden bursts of little melodic fragments on nonsense syllables. A Musical Solstice Spectacle Sprawls Across New York 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z This: “bwilliams hasn’t tweeted yet.” Trump’s also busily continuing to spout nonsense like, “It’s freezing and snowing in New York — we need global warming!” Trump: You’re fired! 2012-11-07T20:54:00Z Yet while the series has, over the years, made surprisingly cogent arguments about everything from gun control to mental illness, its true dedication has been to its own flavor of nonsense, and to itself. The Comforts of Watching “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Eat Itself 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z On Monday, the author posted an anagram: "Cry, foe! Run amok! Fa awry! My wand won't tolerate this nonsense." JK Rowling solves tweet riddle 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The influence of experimentalist forebears — Mac Wellman, Thornton Wilder — is palpable, and the show is playful with language and intonation, eager to juxtapose sense with nonsense. Exponential Festival: Unexpected Theater in Unfamiliar Real Estate 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s somewhere between “Can you believe this nonsense?” and “What a world.” 5 Smart Comedy Specials From Veteran Standups 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z He must get on his grubby hands and knees and beg me for forgiveness because his flub cost me seconds, minutes, hours, and soon to be days of my life thinking about this nonsense. Anatomy of a scene: how Steve Harvey destroyed Miss Universe 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z “Oh, you haven’t heard of that?” but that nonsense was short-lived. Boys’ Night In pork tacos 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z A picture between chapters, mid-paragraph or even -sentence takes my OCD-addled mind off all the re-reading nonsense and I can get to the end of a book a lot more efficiently. Jim Bob's top 10 illustrated books for adults 2010-05-05T10:32:00Z If Romney gets elected, I expect the same nonsense from the other side. Don Berwick, Martyr for Socialized Medicine 2011-11-29T15:27:12Z She would vow to ignore the nonsense and focus on the bigger picture of the country. ‘I feel like this is the last shot’: A Kentucky family greets the Trump era 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z It doesn’t matter that you believe that it’s nonsense. ‘At the Devil’s Door’ Owes a Debt to Classic Horror Films 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Other days, I think that’s all nonsense and you are just dead and gone and that your absence is total and final. A letter to … my wife, whose death has left me struggling to make sense of life without her 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z A distinct stylist with a pert, carbonated sound, Terry is also famous for a comic, blues-singing routine called “Mumbles,” in which he sings nonsense in the most convincing way. Quincy Jones at SIFF with jazz documentary 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The book can be read as a defense of poetry’s nonsense, and One as a stand-in for the frustrated reader, of poetry in general and this book in particular. In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z If on some level “Beasts of the Southern Wild” may be nonsense, it’s a wonderful, imaginative and daring breed of nonsense. “Beasts of the Southern Wild”: A spectacular bayou folk tale 2012-06-29T14:00:00Z Through all the noise and nonsense, it was becoming clear. Lenin and the Russian Spark 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s made us a very generous audience, so unused to seeing ourselves onscreen that we’ll put up with all kinds of nonsense dialogue and dead girlfriends. How ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Sees Power in Two Women in Love 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z It's irritating nonsense from the off, pompous and whingey, and Bardem, sporting a silly ponytail, looks like a baleful puppy throughout. Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z This whole thing really is such utter nonsense – if there really was such a thing as privilege making pop success easier then why can't James McCartney get a gig? Is pop too posh? 2013-03-30T18:00:01Z I think it's absolute nonsense, if the truth be told. "I'm a Scottish witch, I think": Shirley Manson on the prescient lyrics in Garbage's dark new album 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Five years ago, Christopher Hitchens went public with his esophageal cancer diagnosis, and went on to chronicle his last few months with his typical unflinching eye, sending dispatches from “Tumortown” and railing against “pseudo-scientific nonsense.” “I feel intensely alive”: Oliver Sacks contemplates death with eloquence after terminal cancer diagnosis 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z He didn't denounce the nonsense of faith schools, but allowed their closed-mindedness to denounce itself. Rewind TV: Our Drugs War; Faith School Menace?; The Great British Bake Off 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z But what’s a bit startling is when a smart show run by people based in California pull the same nonsense. “Mad Men’s” California: Hippies, real estate agents, and a place where even Pete can get laid 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z While his mechanics and optics have stood the test of time, that nonsense has not. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z "Ancient astronauts are utter nonsense as a historical and scientific theory, of course, but the idea sure is entertaining," Mr. Walsh said. ArtsBeat: History News Network Celebrates Bad History Books 2012-07-04T14:51:09Z The name came from “Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem about the fearsome Jabberwock, in “Through the Looking Glass.” A Hip-Hop Dance Crew’s Frabjous Reign in Las Vegas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z And we can’t forget about the fraudulent nonsense perpetrated by Elizabeth Warren and others about the supposed frequency with which bankruptcies are caused by a lack of health insurance. A Look Back at Year One of The Apothecary at Forbes 2012-01-31T17:22:00Z Whether this woman is clueless, titillated or terrified of the same thing happening in her own marriage, there is no reason to put up with her nonsense. A Ride to the Polls? Not With That Vote 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z "There's a lot of nonsense talked about directing," he says. In at the deep end: the Young Vic's theatre boot camp 2011-01-10T21:31:01Z "Already a Disney classic and much more deserving of your awe than nonsense like The Lion King." The Guide's 1,000th issue - 1994-1999 2013-01-05T00:02:00Z Communication with the dead is a risky business, principally because once the door to the beyond opens a tiny crack, all kinds of maudlin nonsense come rushing in. | 'Hereafter': The Dead Have Messages for the Land of the Living 2010-10-14T21:49:00Z And is there really no way to lead a life outside this nonsense? Review: ‘American Hookup’ Gives College Sex Culture a Failing Grade 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Placing ham on the same level as asbestos is outrageous nonsense and only serves to unsettle people. Wurst case scenario: Germany and Austria defend their sausages 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The article called the Newseum “a museum dedicated to elitist arrogance . . . an institution designed to promote the promoters of lies, Democratic Party disinformation and general leftist nonsense.” Perspective | Enter here to explore the alternate universe of right-wing media 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z “Waterfall” is a clutch of nonsense rhymes seemingly aimed at a small child. New Music: Albums From Pink, Dwight Yoakam and Aimee Mann 2012-09-17T22:14:32Z Lennon suggests using a nonsense phrase — “attracts me like a cauliflower” — until something better emerges. ‘Get Back’ series dispels, and confirms, some Beatle myths 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z In the end, there was enough good news – or news that made a certain sort of sense – for this not to be simply another exasperating Academy Awards pageant of mysteriously over-promoted nonsense. Oscars 2019 verdict: lovely surprises can't compensate for shock horrors 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Or she just cackles at my nonsense, stomping both of her feet to the tune of that hysterical laugh she inherited from her mom. I love being a Girl Dad 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z God, imagine if it were like that today, and suddenly we were all getting in to snake oil, or nonsense neo-classical architecture. Dancing on the Edge; The Year of Making Love – TV review 2013-02-05T07:00:11Z “She sees these old men looking very uneasy because they think their time is over, young men are spouting a lot of nonsense they’ve read in the newspapers, and the women have gone completely silent.” In ‘The Silence of the Girls,’ Pat Barker Tells ‘The Iliad’ From a Woman’s Perspective 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z But at a certain point the play takes a leap beyond tidy smirkiness into the outer space of sloppier, cruder and far more satisfying nonsense. Theater Review: ‘5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche’ at SoHo Playhouse 2012-10-22T04:40:05Z As World War I pulverized any last European claims to civilization, these expat artists turned Zurich into a compression chamber of Western insanity, baptized with the nonsense name Dada. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z I sat stunned by the deadpan nonsense of these lines. There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z I'm far too intellectually evolved to submit to that nonsense. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The answer is the same in every case: because this is top shelf white nonsense. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z People detected a connection to Berg, which is of course nonsense.” Friedrich Cerha, 96, Who Finished Another Composer’s Masterpiece, Dies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z It's all nonsense, but it appeals to the great American dream that anyone can achieve fame through manic application. 42nd Street 2010-07-02T20:45:00Z And I know what's coming after this wispy "Kiss Me" nonsense. "American Idol" recap: The next Loretta Lynn? 2010-03-04T15:05:00Z It was all nonsense, and it was deadly serious. Perspective | The grand finale of the Trump show: America watches farce devolve to horror 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Dave’s simple delight in pure nonsense and public embarrassment, matched with Biff’s sweet, Everyman demeanor, left every victim glad for the tuba blast that startled sleep or spilled coffee. Video: Your Favorite David Letterman Memories 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Using some language that can’t be printed here, he said sometimes you have to put up with a lot of nonsense just to keep other nonsense from happening. Is August Wilson the 'Shakespeare of our time'? Cast and crew of 'Ma Rainey' say you can hear it 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Blaming Rock as host for the Oscars’ ratings dipping to an eight-year low is, of course, nonsense. Chris Rock’s Oscars didn’t “fight the power”: A night of crude jokes and cynical deflection is a poor way to show progress 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Like Milne’s books, the movie is partly an initiation into the delightful errancies of language, which fashions sense and nonsense out of the same materials. | 'Winnie the Pooh': Hundred Acre Gang Is Back in Town 2011-07-14T23:35:54Z Had I believed the nonsense about Nebraska being a “flyover state,” for instance, I would never have herded cattle on horseback through rolling grasslands lush with purple wildflowers and tall pines. I was determined to visit all 50 states. I soon discovered I wasn’t alone. 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z While typically entertaining and coruscating, the piece was fundamentally, to use Jacobson's own word, nonsense. Booker prize disdains comedy? What a joke 2010-10-14T09:09:00Z It’s about a caddish husband and the good and loving wife who puts up with his nonsense. Scene City: Shakespeare?s Been Reading the News 2011-06-22T22:33:14Z Mr. Washington is, with Liam Neeson, one of our leading middle-aged action heroes, a rugged avenger whose craft and discipline endow even exploitative nonsense like this with a center of gravity. Denzel Washington Exacts Vengeance in ‘The Equalizer’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z We can even make up nonsense words and people will be able to read them. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice | Book reviews 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Edward Lear is the other great master of Victorian nonsense. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s utter nonsense — imagine finding a parking space — but that’s exactly what a movie about the self-proclaimed “Prince of Humbugs” needs. Review: In ‘The Greatest Showman,’ a P.T. Barnum Smaller Than Life 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z At Wine School, we always try to separate common sense from nonsense. There’s More to Rosé Than You May Think 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The blackmailer’s aim is simple: He wants to gain a romantic advantage with one of Simon’s female friends, and while Simon is in a sense too smart for this nonsense, he reluctantly complies. Review: In ‘Love, Simon,’ a Glossy Teen Romance, the Hero Has a Secret 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The news is dominated by raised voices and nonsense seeded, watered and fertilized by the reality TV host occupying the Oval Office. CNN turned Democratic debates into fight nights — and we're the losers 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z We sang along to nonsense tunes and improvised being monkeys picking salt out of each other's skin. From Hare to Hytner: leading cultural figures oppose the EBacc 2012-12-14T22:50:00Z You hear a lot of nonsense spoken by some advocates of legalisation. Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America's war on drugs 2013-03-31T00:02:00Z “It is nonsense,” Robertson told Cruz supporters at a February rally. Phil Robertson’s hate speech continues: Why won’t A&E take a stand against its “Duck Dynasty” star? 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z His skill is not in generating nonsense, but knowing how to use it – what to leave, what to weave, what to conflate, what to reincorporate. Ross Noble: wake up call 2012-11-12T18:30:02Z When I speak about being disconnected, it’s more than kumbaya hippy nonsense. No backyard, no problem: how to grow your own vegetables in an apartment 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The answer is pure Jazmin: no nonsense and uttered with the easy confidence of a maestro. Like any great artist, she knows to let her work speak for itself. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z In the manner of Dada nonsense art, but without Dada’s penchant for social disgust, Moholy-Nagy’s Constructivist explorations incorporate numbers and letters as abstract shapes and “visual sounds.” In the face of facism, he showed industrial-strength optimism: The art of Moholy-Nagy at LACMA 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The result was almost, but not quite, incoherent nonsense, riddled with cryptic nonsequiturs, bizarre turns of phrase and unfathomable stage directions such as “he is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor”. 'It's a war between technology and a donkey' – how AI is shaking up Hollywood 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z If Stan worked as, say, a bond trader, we wouldn’t have this nasty nonsense distracting us from his complicated romance with Angel. “Pose,” Reviewed: In Ryan Murphy’s Latest Musical Melodrama, Elektra Abundance Steals the Show 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Don't let the staid English backdrop fool you, this is not some boring arthouse nonsense for your grandparents. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "The Help" 2011-08-09T15:16:04Z After an intriguing start, “The Killing” has spiraled into flabby nonsense, becoming nearly as ridiculous as “Damages” and the groundbreaking “Murder One,” but a lot more solemn, affected and full of itself. “The Killing”: Who killed Rosie Larsen? We’ll finally learn 2012-06-14T15:25:00Z Eventually, she was forced, under oath, to admit that this was made-up nonsense. Perspective | Sarah Sanders was the disdainful Queen of Gaslighting 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Ha ha, we can all stop quoting Miranda Priestley’s speech about the importance of blue and go back to sneering at how stupid all this lady nonsense is! A former editor dished the dirt on Vogue – what did we learn? It’s just like any other magazine 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Loving "Pose" means accepting such nonsense, if not all of it, as the trade-off for basking in the sublime. "Pose" kicks off its final fabulous walk by ratcheting up the nonsense as well as its optimism 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z I think the critics of this newspaper - and a lot of other newspapers - are failing in their mission to provide the public with solid, no nonsense criticism in favor of becoming gossip columnists. Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Part of me felt that this was a lot of inside-baseball nonsense. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z But while endorsing relatively inert quackery is one thing, it is an order of magnitude worse when a celebrity uses their platform to push debunked nonsense. From vagina eggs to anti-vaxxers: is it time for an influencer detox? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z It's like a filter for all of the nonsense. Mystery illnesses are on the rise with women, whom doctors are dismissing as "nervous Nellies" 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z But in this bravura Russian nonsense, it’s Actaeon who wears only a loincloth, and the two carry on like hunters in love. Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z This is probably pure fiction, but the fact that the band have bothered to come up with such nonsense speaks volumes. New band of the day – Goat (No 1,361) 2012-09-28T15:02:33Z When the Queen of Hearts demands the court give the “sentence first — verdict afterwards,” Alice answers appropriately: “Stuff and nonsense!” In Art and Words, a Book Lover Honors the Characters He Can’t Forget 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Each of these are tightly drawn and fully realized before descending into total nonsense. ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Has the Most Exciting Comics (and the Silliest) 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Then there are nonsense definitions for words: "a motorway is a strong wind". First sight: Yorgos Lanthimos 2010-03-25T23:50:00Z No. For instance, the smoked haddock scotch egg is a nonsense – a sad end for two individually fine foodstuffs. How to eat: scotch eggs 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z A less mentioned yet super-abundant part of life is club chat, that often glorious nonsense that leads to nowhere but a red-eyed morning. Clubs picks of the week 2012-07-06T23:05:26Z Fools and jesters are accepted as wise men whose nonsense conceals truths too difficult for mortals to accept. Phonics speaks to children's knack for nonsense 2012-11-19T13:31:18Z Back then, he said, he used to write lyrics by chanting nonsense over tracks at warehouse parties, and he was famous for asking the audience to form conga lines or to perform humorous dances. Dan Deacon Shows a Changed Attitude in ‘America’ 2012-08-28T21:58:24Z For more than a week now America has had a front row seat to white nonsense in sundry forms. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Their extraordinary art-damaged ode to suburban disturbance, with its hilariously off-key chorus, proves that one person’s “rhythmic adventurousness” could be another’s “unlistenable nonsense.” 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Maybe you expect them to die in this very dramatic, huge, heroic way but actually, they just died in this really silly, nonsense way. After a dystopian "mandemic," the wacky "Creamerie" pokes at the remaining "inequities among women" 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z “Practically all of my friends, their little brothers got murdered over nonsense. I wanted to know what’s going on.” Jamel Shabazz: Proud Street Culture on Display 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The Tooth Fairy was a plausible bit of nonsense. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Meet Fred, the Tooth Fairy 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z One day, she spotted a series of regular pulses coming from what appeared to be fixed coordinates, but her supervisor dismissed them as nonsense. Beautiful Minds and Celebrity Roast 2010-04-07T23:05:00Z Flamboyance baked into every gesture, her hyperarticulate monologues, which could also spiral, delivered stream of consciousness nonsense with the gravity of a religious epiphany. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z She'd become spiritually untethered, spending her time on the show wandering around aimlessly and babbling nonsense into the sky. Britain's Got Talent needs more Simon Cowell not less 2010-04-29T11:10:00Z And it quotes Princeton University economics and public affairs professor James Trussell assessment that the logic “sounds like nonsense.” Dumbest argument against marriage equality yet? 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Along with Hidden Figures, Girl’s Trip and of course Black Panther, it showed that the old beliefs about films with non-white protagonists not selling at the box office are bigoted nonsense. Radicalism lite: eight things we learned from the Oscars 2018 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z He is of the school of thought that band names are essentially "just nonsense" so picked a suitably self-deprecating one. Deptford Goth – review 2013-04-27T23:05:38Z If your friend is good to you, put aside this wedding nonsense. Thanks for the Piece of Plastic? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z You know how you can repeat a word until it starts to warp into nonsense? Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? Discuss. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “That was not his reputation. And I think a lot of people who admire him were shocked by that performance. And a lot of what he said was just nonsense.” "Fox & Friends" worry Michael Flynn judge could invoke death penalty: "Is this guy just winging it?" 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It's nonsense, but when Hollywood does nonsense right, it can be a lot of fun. Capsule reviews: `Fast Five,' `Prom' 2011-04-27T13:28:09Z They deliver quips and silky come-hither nonsense, only to end up like a big green monster stuck on rewind: “Hulk smash!” again and again, ad infinitum. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z “Enough of your dreams and nonsense, Claudia,” he tells her after Jesus is dead. Review: ‘A.D.: The Bible Continues,’ an NBC Mini-Series 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z In it, Jake calls Amir out for his weirdly obsessive and self-hating behavior on the online community, while Amir responds with a string of whining nonsense. “Lonely and Horny” and Little Comedy 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z "This seems like a lot of gnashing of teeth over nonsense," he said. CBS' Miller rises above the fray in Boston case 2013-04-29T11:35:10Z Only on the west coast can people push nonsense like this with a straight face. Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The title is a nonsense phrase, meaning tangled beyond repair. A Great Indian Novel Reaches American Shores 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z That, and the notion that the venerable health care non-profit is just a front for a fetus-selling underground is a self-evidently idiotic conspiracy theory that surely would strike anyone who encountered it as nonsense. Anatomy of a right-wing hoax: A year later, the Planned Parenthood videos are still backfiring on the scammers 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Increasingly popular is the Michelle Obama-inspired defence: when they go low, you go high, holding the dignified moral high ground so as not to get corrupted by your supposed betters’ prevailing nonsense. Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and all: have we reached ‘peak asshole’? 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z But there are also times when the fictional white nonsense wonderfully exists apart from any specific type of s**t, as we enjoyed in "The Undoing." My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z The delay in release seems to have been due not to record company nonsense but more to Richman’s own change of direction. Dean Wareham: My Jonathan Richman romance 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z I am five seasons into a dirty box-set binge of this sparkly, badly acted nonsense and I cannot stop. Dynasty: should it return as a movie? 2011-01-14T14:54:19Z And while everything he said was titanic nonsense, it was that last part that drove me crazy. John Oliver on Monty Python: 'inspirational idiots who changed comedy' 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Lady Diana endorsed Pond's Cold Cream, blagged free hotel rooms, and kept the British and American press enthralled by prattling nonsense in a cut-glass accent. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell – review 2013-06-01T10:01:01Z Rebecca then hears a lot of what sounds like nonsense, including the importance of a “green matchbook.” ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Zava Superstar 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z But if you, like me, were not knocked over by the bizarre misadventures of Sean, Dorothy and Julian maybe you'll get a jolt out of the white nonsense at play in these new installments. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Coward's ballads can be so overripe in their effort to convey emotion that they become nonsense: "I'll follow my secret heart/ Till I find love" – what does that mean? Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z Good intentions are all but submerged in nonsense. Snitch – review 2013-06-20T21:30:02Z "New Yo-o-o-rk: concrete jungle where dreams are made of", as Keys sings on the penultimate chorus, takes two cliches and mashes them into complete nonsense. Newport State of Mind improves on the original 2010-08-01T21:00:00Z His world bears similarities to Dr. Seuss as much as it does the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, bringing utopia and nonsense together. Famous in Italy, Rodari Reaches U.S. Shores With ‘Telephone Tales’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z It is probably nonsense, of course, but it would be no great surprise if it turned out to be true. Nicole Kidman on Lion and adoption: 'It's about the simplicity of love' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “All that stuff in the Mafia about honor, it’s a lot of nonsense, there’s no such thing,” Scorsese tells Kenny, in an interview relegated to a single chapter near the end of “Made Men.” Review | ‘Goodfellas’ turned 30 this year. ‘Made Men’ explores its lasting influence. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z The 19th-century English artist and writer was a serious painter, but he is most loved for his nonsense verse “The Owl and the Pussycat.” In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But the low-budget horror movie "As Above, So Below" — an entertainment-free sinkhole of Dramamine-worthy nonsense — can turn any space you see it in into a torture chamber. Trail in 'As Above, So Below' leads to grade-Z horror clichés 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z It’s a nice opening for a movie that spirals into nonsense. Review: ‘American Fable,’ Pastoral With a Wolf Howling 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Surely no woman in her right mind would want a part of that nonsense. Boys’ Night In pork tacos 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z One of their favorite tricks is to mimic the affect of the character type they are portraying while talking something close to nonsense. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Our culture is too frazzled and fried and exhausted for this kind of nonsense! Review | Oscars 2017: From Blah-Blah Land to wait — what just happened? 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z I say "or something" because the idea that this type of image is "realistic" or "documentary-like" is nonsense. Time to declare war on the shaky camera 2011-03-15T20:16:00Z I walk him back through the office to the front door, where he hugs me goodbye and apologises for “garbling a load of melodramatic nonsense”. Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z By 1915, he had begun to devise a “nonsense fairy language” that would eventually become the tongue of his elves. Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Sipping is nonsense for a product designed for mind alteration. Does Blended Scotch Still Have a Place in the Modern Bar? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z On the other hand, at least this means the clothes are actually being made, and there is less of that “prices on request” nonsense. Front Row: A Look at September Fashion Magazines 2013-08-28T19:10:13Z If it was just goofy cartoon nonsense, we’d all be bored.” The Weird World of Adventure Time Comes Full Circle 2013-03-29T11:00:44Z Following the success of teen-oriented vampire nonsense like Twilight, it seemed like a no-brainer to attempt a vampire drama aimed at an even more profitable demographic – young children and pre-schoolers. "It's Lost meets Heroes in real time ? kind of like 24' 2010-06-11T23:07:00Z But devotees knew that this was entirely planned: It was the exact spot where Garland had forgotten the lyrics in 1961 and frantically subbed in nonsense syllables. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z You just realize everyone is dealing with the same nonsense. Aziz Ansari on His New Book and How Texting Is Ruining Our Relationships 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z We do get a general impression of Silva as a family man who rises above some of the nonsense in his sport, but that alone doesn't justify a film. 'Like Water': Getting in the ring with fighters, but not in their heads 2012-05-31T20:18:08Z He asked Echikunwoke: “Can you do a ‘nonsense’ with more oomph? Whit Stillman and the Song of the Preppy 2012-03-18T05:30:57Z Comedy clubs have long been packed with head-shakers airing grievances and heatedly picking apart nonsense. Sick of Angry Comics? Try Some Sweet-Tempered Stand-Up 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z You can wander round the cone, watching the lasers inscribe their interminable abstract nonsense over its surface. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z “Order a journal,” she suggested, “write your thoughts down. Put the pain to the page. Also the funny things, the everyday nonsense. Keep making it interesting for yourself.” Review | Mary Morris is best known for her travels, but she has plenty of lessons for life in isolation 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z There’s a danger that, in fighting the nonsense of clean eating, we end up looking like apologists for a commercial food supply that is failing in its basic task of nourishing us. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z I was also freaked during the 2012 presidential election when a few of the candidates started speaking nonsense and hate—things I had heard when I was an impressionable teen. How I escaped being a right-wing extremist 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The name might be someone obscure but real, or just nonsense, or perhaps it's a character in an upcoming book. Haruki Murakami's advice on love and cats 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z “It’s a powerful intuition, but the evidence of its effects has simply never materialized. That is because it is unscientific nonsense.” ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z It took me three and half years to make and early on I went to see Bambi and thought, what a load of saccharine nonsense. Richard Williams: the master animator 2013-04-19T17:59:00Z It reads, “The idea of calling a bartender a professor or mixologist is nonsense.” Munich: So much more than beer and bratwurst 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z At the Bitter End, Sullivan Hall and Le Poisson Rouge, you could walk in an arc around the stage, hearing the music from different angles, escaping pockets of nonsense as you desired. Critic?s Notebook: Jammed Sessions Abound at a Village Jazz Festival 2011-01-10T00:00:16Z Case in point: the entertaining nonsense of their debate over which actor is harder to understand in "The Dark Knight Rises" — Tom Hardy or Christian Bale. 'The Trip to Italy' a movable feast with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Is it a profound masterpiece, or pretentious nonsense? The Tree of Life?has divided both critics and ?audiences. Is it a profound masterpiece, or pretentious nonsense? 2011-07-12T21:30:00Z He takes down the Stars and Bars and raises Old Glory above his territory; this movie holds no truck with magnolia-scented nonsense about a genteel Southern way of life menaced by Yankee aggression. Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Yeah, all that was just complete and utter nonsense. ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z White nonsense generally describes behavior that combines idiocy, delusion and aggressive self-importance. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Even Bill Maher, who could have emerged with a stream of xenophobic nonsense, did not embarrass himself. We expect comedians to comfort us: “SNL,” “The Daily Show,” and comedy’s new ritual of public mourning 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In the words of the director Barrie Kosky, whose new production of the operetta opens at the Salzburg Festival on Aug. 14, it’s “fabulous nonsense.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Without ever collapsing into nonsense, it’s a remarkably fluid use of prose to represent the experience of delirium while wrestling to the final moments with the challenge of absolution. Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z “He’ll make some ridiculous statement because on the surface it sounds good, and two days later it turns out to be nonsense.” The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands called the decision “nonsense” in a televised interview, and said he would keep using the label. A Dutch Golden Age? That’s Only Half the Story 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z After the jury was empaneled, lead prosecutor Kevin Steele took a swipe at the defense, calling comments about “the optics” of the case “nonsense.” A battle over jurors ends, and a trial looms for Bill Cosby 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z There’s a whole idea out there that there’s a real America that’s the opposite and antithesis of that, and it’s all just nonsense. Jon Stewart Has a New Talk Show, but He Plans to do More Listening 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z They started with some experiments — making animal sounds, practicing nonsense syllables. Solving the 6 Biggest Mysteries of This Broadway Season 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z “I like the meta-level of nonsense that we can be accused of.” Never-Ending Superheroes: Here Come the Defenders and the Tick 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Mae might not have the sniffles, but in the logic of the story she’s soul sick, incapable of surrendering to love or some nonsense like that, but it doesn’t matter. Film: Making Hollywood Films Was Brutal, Even for Fritz Lang 2011-01-23T02:19:11Z "I've made a career of all this nonsense - and I'm very proud of it - but it all pales in comparison to what happened Saturday." 'Night of Too Many Stars' shines on one who's not 2012-10-18T17:47:14Z "It's amazing to me the degree to which he's able to cut through a bunch of the nonsense," the president said. Obama's Rolling Stone treatment -- politics to pop 2012-04-25T13:13:10Z After picking up delegates from Brazil's committee, the going gets slower and slower, allowing the team to deliver more of their trademark government-speak nonsense while Graham, Head Of Infrastructure, turns into a punishing backseat driver. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-21T08:00:02Z Though the experiment is carried out in a complex format — one that blurs satire and minstrelsy and comedy and drama — this is not some avant-garde nonsense producing microscopic results. Review: ‘Slave Play,’ Four Times as Big and Just as Searing 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z MPs are being asked to choose between two versions of a royal charter – a medieval piece of constitutional nonsense that fudges the issue of statutory regulation. Leveson vote: no cause for hyperventilating 2013-03-17T23:46:18Z And if it’s not nonsense, then how much does the film implicitly endorse? Fight Club at 20: the prescience and power of David Fincher's drama 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Such nonsense – no court will ever buy that, and Polanski would sneer at the weakness. End game for Roman Polanski 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z He denounced reports of the criticism as “absolutely ludicrous” and “nonsense”. Finland disputes Scotland's baby box claims after expert warning 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z It isolates a fairly minor theme in his work and loses the thread of even that, as if they realised it was nonsense – for the sea does not offer an insight into Sargent at all. Sargent and the Sea 2010-07-14T20:30:00Z The Punisher is a calculating smart guy who goes after his objective without a whole lot of dramatic nonsense in the middle. "The Boys" comics artist Darick Robertson on Amazon's adaptation, politics and "The Punisher" 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z On a literal level, Bloom recognizes that a linear relationship between wasted food on a dinner plate and starvation thousands of miles away is nonsense. 'American Wasteland': a prescription for reducing waste in the food chain 2011-03-03T20:58:04Z References, registers and nonsense rhymes fly with madcap precision. | '3 2?s; or AFAR': ?3 2?s,? by Mac Wellman, at Dixon Place - Review 2011-10-17T23:32:34Z Even when he’s en route to get a well-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he grouses about how he got wrapped up in all of this nonsense. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Black Godfather 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z But in “I Kinda Like It,” his arguments gradually unravel, deconstruct and are interrupted by supernatural details and then pure nonsense. A George Carlin Special Too Raw After Sept. 11 Resurfaces Now 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Poet Edward Lear was a genius at writing "nonsense" verse. Two hundred years of nonsense 2012-05-22T07:39:49Z This is nimble nonsense—a precociously knowing manner with little knowledge attached. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Something solid, stylish and assured, befitting a person of my age and taste, a bed that says this woman will put up with none of your nonsense, do not even think of trying it, pal. I Was Misinformed: I Was Misinformed: The Breakup Bed 2012-10-15T19:07:39Z As Moiraine, she can deliver long, deeply felt monologues about fantasy nonsense and make you buy it. Oh thank god, The Wheel of Time isn’t terrible 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z It lacked the wild abandon of “Jamberry” and the wacky nonsense of “There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!” The Enduring Wisdom of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z "It's metaphor built on metaphor built on metaphor … The tragic climax of the story comes when what's going on in the outside world finally impinges on this bubble of imperialist nonsense." Found: JG Farrell a worthy winner for the Lost Booker 2010-05-19T19:37:00Z Keys, whose work on dietary fat as the prime cause of coronary disease had been supported by the Sugar Association for years, ridiculed Yudkin, calling his evidence a “mountain of nonsense.” Why sugar is bad for you 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z "I'm sure they were Masons, they were all up to that sort of nonsense in those days," the designer Mark Brazier-Jones explains briskly of the latter. National Trust brings the bling as Vyne stately home gets makeover 2010-05-26T12:12:00Z "All of it was nonsense," the singer told People, in hindsight. Scott Stapp reveals he's bipolar: 'I was out of my mind' late last year 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z "There is a lot of quasi-scientific nonsense which doesn't stay in your head that easily and that meant entire weekends spent on solid learning." John Hurt: Profile 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z For Fox News the speech was a significant political moment, not a blathering of embarrassing nonsense. Sarah Palin’s American lobotomy: The Republicans keep making us dumber, and not even Stephen Colbert can save us 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z “I want to stop the nonsense of some of the stars in my business who think they own a Pat Cooper,” he said. Pat Cooper, Comedian of Outrage, Is Dead at 93 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z This, of course, is absolute nonsense, and they all know it. I almost died in Syria 2013-04-09T00:00:00Z With a syringe for a beak, bent drinking straws for legs and a foam cup for its head, “Gull Sculpture” is an antidote to the overproduced nonsense that makes up the rest of the exhibition. Art that looks expensive but ultimately is still just trash 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Uche called it “nonsense” for Chicago police to ask Smollett for his DNA when he was still considered the victim of a crime. Jussie Smollett awaits verdict as jurors consider case 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z But there’s about 17 kinds of nonsense just in the setup for “Prometheus,” before we even get to the main action. “Prometheus”: Ridley Scott’s dazzling, sci-fi spectacle 2012-06-06T20:09:00Z "Just return the tiara and stop all this nonsense in your life," posted Mi Mi Naing. Dethroned Myanmar beauty queen and pageant officials tussle over tiara 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z “It’s nonsense,” she said, waving a glowstick and tapping her foot to the band’s latest music video. BTS fans keep fervor alive amid coronavirus outbreak 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Silliness, of the Harry Hill variety, is also Simmons's stock-in-trade; his show Meanwhile is a volley of skilful nonsense, culminating in an oddly moving taco-smashing routine. Edinburgh 2011 comedy awards: who should have the last laugh? 2011-08-24T16:56:37Z “I think there’s a great deal of nonsense about computers and writers,” Hersey, who died in 1993, told the Paris Review. ArtsBeat: Who Word Processed First? Professor's History Has Writers Staking Their Claim 2012-01-10T13:00:55Z He wrote once that: "It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects." The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z For nine years, it has been that “Stephen Colbert” who’s insightfully skewered the rabid nonsense of conservatism by just being a rapid, nonsense spewing conservative. “Stephen Colbert” is dead, long live Stephen Colbert! 2014-04-11T14:36:00Z Wittgenstein’s declaration is usually taken to mean that talk about anything metaphysical — God or gods, supernatural phenomena, mystical experience — collapses into nonsense under scrutiny. Milton Resnick Exhibition at Mana Contemporary 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z “There were moments where I recognized the problematic nonsense but didn’t have the language for it.” Perspective | Warped Tour is over for good. Will the culture it created finally reckon with its demons? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z “There’s only so much of this nonsense you can talk about before your brain starts to feel like it’s bleeding,” she said. Main Course: Comedy With a Side of Disgust 2011-05-20T21:11:50Z Tip: Don't listen to the nonsense you get from art historians, teachers and critics. John Stezaker's best photograph 2012-08-08T17:00:01Z |
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