Sentences with phrase «for sheer nonsense»

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The true believer is «a man determined to drag the supernatural back to life by the sheer power of wishing, or failing that, to vent his desolation on those around him — on reality itself for being such a cheat» (The New Nonsense [Simon & Schuster, 1974] p. 75).

And to attribute human mortality to the fall of Adam is sheer nonsense, for guilt implies personal responsibility, and the idea of original sin as an inherited infection is sub-ethical, irrational, and absurd.

It will enable us to clarify our language, to avoid contradiction, to stop talking sheer nonsense, to look for some kind of referent which will give the necessary verification to what we are saying as Christians.

Secondly, the idea that exercising a check on the budget for the executive branch absolves the executive himself from responsibility including legal responsibility for his actions here is SHEER NONSENSE to which I can say «tell it to the judge!!»

For every neglected classic I come across like The Auctioneer there are a dozen empty - calorie mind - melters like William W. Johnstone's Toy Cemetery that manage to make my hair stand on end through the sheer quantity of pulp nonsense it shoots into my eyeballs like a high pressure fire hose.

Considering that at least 43 % of the letter's signatories have received money from the fossil fuel industry, being given large sums of money just for being climate «skeptics» and publishing error - riddled nonsense like this op - ed, the sheer nerve it must have taken to make this «follow the money» argument is astounding.