Sentences with word «nonentity»

Jimmy (Michael Weston) is a young drifter who passes the time telling Judith stories, channeling his feelings of nonentity into fantasy.

Since that campaign, he clearly felt comfortable neither in the role of standard bearer of the Left, nor in the Commons (leading the the Daily Mail to describe him as «an almost total nonentity in the Chamber «-RRB-.

Williams» Lance is a good - hearted nonentity with pretensions to substance, and his well - intentioned staging of a more dignified suicide for his douchebag of a son (perfectly embodied by Daryl Sabara from the Spy Kids franchise) sees him riding the outpouring of unwarranted love for the little prick almost all the way to achieving his stifled dreams.

Others argue that Labour's problems predate this, that the party has been too complacent for too long, especially in the west of Scotland, where it was guilty of cronyism, putting forward nonentities as candidates for councils, the Scottish parliament and Westminster.

I'm a clueless nonentity who's desperate to be taken seriously by his equally unremarkable hipster peers.»

Unlike you, most sensible fans know that all three are totally incompetent, Kroenke, Gazidis and Wenger, plus the other nonentities on the board (apart from Ken Friar).

Psychologists say that it is better to be of a higher opinion of yourself than there is in fact, than to consider yourself a complete nonentity and engage in constant self - flagellation.

Apart from their envisagement by God, Whitehead writes, eternal objects are a bare multiplicity «indistinguishable from nonentity.»

The governor said apart from Markafi having more members, the calibre of people posing as Sheriff's supporters were political nonentities.

Based on experience from phoneticizing similar nonentities into Japanese, she renders it as biburon, under the fairly safe assumption that anyone in Japan likely to take notice will recognize the word as vibron written in phonetic script.

Nonentities like Congressman Grijalva have hitched their sleds to the AGW trainwreck and who will, along with many of the acolytes that comprise the so - called scientific accord on this subject, be consigned to the dustbin of history.

If the space which related places were wholly empty, he thought, it would be pure nonentity, and so unable to have contents or contain relations; while a wholly filled space would be a plenum, an extended substance in its own right, and thus unable to contain or transmit anything else.

But since possibilities are not nonentities, and are indeed factual — as are groups of actualities — we may wonder whether it is entirely appropriate to describe metaphysical truth as purely positive.

It remains true that «in separation from actual entities there is nothing, merely nonentity — the rest is silence» (Whitehead, Process 43).

Jorgensen dislikes Eckel's account of Buddhism precisely because «the awakened self» is a purified metaphysical nonentity which appears to trash the lived richness of individual experience and the vitality of creation.

Everton boss David Moyes had a busy deadline day, flogging both veteran defender Alan Stubbs to Derby and Brazilian nonentity Anderson to Barnsley, whilst also finding time to pick up a 6» 5 ″ defender on his way home.

Dude you're not only a deluded fool but also a daft nonentity!

Walcott (when are we getting rid of this footballing nonentity) and Campbell (yes he tries hard but his touch is poor)... Might have to give ox and Sanchez a run out at this rate

The United States team that so humiliated England at Belo Horizonte in the 1950 World cup was a ragbag collection of part - timers and international nonentities.

This blogger, this tattered nonentity, this speck on the windshield of life, this small ripple in a vast ocean has read the 35 page complaint against Silver.

You seem an egotistical nonentity to me!

This was a former Labour home secretary, chancellor of the exchequer, foreign secretary, prime minister and leader of the Labour party: being bawled at by nonentities, paper - sellers and placemen.

This MP is a totally obscure nonentity.

The acrimonious «palimony» suit that followed the breakup of Locke and Eastwood served only to perpetuate the myth that Locke was a blonde nonentity coasting on the reputation of her live - in lover.

At any rate, it's merely a Hitchcockian MacGuffin to bring star - crossed lovers Charlie, Irene (former Austinite Zellweger), and bad - boy nonentity Hank together.

Knightfall's muddied, dull clash of warring religious nonentities never commits to any aspect of its tale, which renders this newest period piece as dramatically inert as it is historically valueless.

After all, it began when a bunch of nonentities decided to through a big party and pass out awards.

Daniel Day - Lewis plays a haute couture dressmaker in 1950s England; the actor has announced this will be his last film but in a spirit of genuine humility has allowed it to be stolen by Vicky Krieps, a little - known actress from Luxembourg who plays the dressmaker's muse, progressing from a shy nonentity — a living mannequin — to his emotional equal and the keeper of his art and soul.

We are so tired of ego - tripping nonentities pretending to be artists.

Its central character, in one strip, is a gaunt, airheaded twerp of an unsuccessful fashion model named Mode O'Day, whose opening thought - balloon is: «I could be going to parties with Bianca Jagger and Andy Warhol instead of hanging around with these boring nonentities.»

«It is a contradiction in terms to assume that some explanatory fact can float into the actual world out of nonentity.

It has already folded in three of the five largest metropolitan areas — Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit — while it has been only a propped - up nonentity in New York and a cut - rate arena loss leader in L.A. «I'm not kidding myself,» Foreman says.

A tribal member found to have slandered another could face loss of home and property, relinquishment of tribal membership, and status as a «nonentity with no civil rights.»

It certainly doesn't help that Dolly's betrothed, Owen (James Norton), is a complete nonentity, both as sketched and rendered; ergo, there's no sense of proper balance or dramatic tension in Dolly's affinity for these two men.

Apart from this realization there is mere isolation indistinguishable from nonentity» (PR 392).

Speaking on a television programme on Tuesday, the governor said apart from Markafi having more members, the caliber of people posing as Sheriff's supporters are political nonentities.

But now, auctions are almost a nonentity.

RR: I think what's happened is that China and India, at least in the official sense or reported sense, were nonentities in the gold business 10 or 15 years ago and they have moved to being important entities.

The mere fusion of all that there is would be the nonentity of indefiniteness.

When Mantel's father disappears from their family, never to be seen or heard from again, Mantel follows her mother's line: He was a nonentity, dispensable.

Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility is a nonentity in this regard, and one fears that Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey is too detached and ironic to be much of a pastor, though he provides both intellectual and moral training for the heroine, Catherine Morland.

Nonentity is nothingness.

For that supposition violates what he calls the principle of positivity, that is, the principle that there can be no sheer absence or nonentity.