stuff and nonsense

Example Sentences

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Hewing to genre conventions, Iris frees herself from Josh’s control and fights back, forcing him to whip up a plan B involving a fine-spun alibi made of stuff and nonsense.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025

Peter who has dementia had been at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff when he was diagnosed with Covid-19, a virus he had dismissed as "stuff and nonsense".

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2020

True art is when the human psyche's lust for stuff and nonsense is baldly and boldly revealed so that we all weep with shame at just how pathetically self-indulgent we have become.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2014

For all the stuff and nonsense about escaping mortality by switching bodies and devouring souls, death is at the heart of this novel.

From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2014

This was all stuff and nonsense, really the one was taller by quite half a nose than the other.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul