Example sentences for: nonsensical

How can you use “nonsensical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Critics dismiss the fourth installment in the Batman series as nonsensical kitsch, a "wild, campy costume party" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Director Joel Schumacher ( A Time to Kill ), a former window dresser, leans heavily on high-concept get-ups (villainess Uma Thurman sports a suit made from 450 Santa Claus wigs) in the apparent hope of deflecting attention from a script that "has the eerie feeling of having no beginning, no middle and no end" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Still, his overwrought attempts to make the film fun--fast editing, crashingly loud sound effects--end up making it "a punishing ordeal" (Alex Ross, Slate).

  • But Chatterbox was too beguiled by this little operetta to notice at the time that once Bradley finally permitted Roberts to change the subject, it was Bradley who gave Roberts a nonsensical answer.

  • I think that it is pretty nonsensical to make the statement that Windows is "free" under any circumstances.

  • She constantly embellishes her stories and everyday conversation with nonsensical, made-up whimsy that she expects people to take at face value.

  • For all its nonsensical trappings, the mummy narrative is serious business, because when other peoples' passionately held taboos are casually flouted it is serious business.


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