What's the difference between baloney and sense?

Baloney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Female columnists have not been kind to the group in retrospect; Caitlin Moran basically blamed "Girl Power" for the loss of interest in feminism, while Grace Dent went further by saying that "any student in 2012 who regurgitates this Spice Girls-helped-feminism baloney in a dissertation should have the whole thing shredded and be made to wear a dunce cone in graduation pics".
  • (2) Sapin, in a French twist on Johnson’s “baloney” jibe, said: “There are four freedoms and they cannot be separated.
  • (3) This is pure baloney: the bottom line is that all the major technology companies outside of China are American.
  • (4) Sometimes it occupies the high ground and sometimes it is camped so far down-market, amid celebrity trivia and Big Brother baloney, as to be almost out of sight.
  • (5) Farage describes the Hitler Youth song allegation as “baloney”.
  • (6) Farage said any suggestion of singing Hitler youth songs was "complete baloney", but admitted: "Of course I said some ridiculous things, not necessarily racist things."
  • (7) An interview with the author, Jessica Porter, ran in a British broadsheet on Monday and was as full of baloney as the diet itself is full of wholegrains, which, Porter claims Gillian McKeith-style, "literally have intelligence" – a claim that begs the snark, "Well, comparatively, perhaps."
  • (8) Hinting that he would like to take on the EFDD role, Nuttall said: “If the opportunity became available, of course, as leader of Ukip, I would like to do it, but it would only be done with agreement of Nigel.” Talk of a coup was “complete baloney”, he said.
  • (9) In the spin-room after the debate, Romney's spokesman Eric Ferhnstrom responded to the "pious baloney" line with a sly reference to the embarrassing disclosure last year that Gingrich has a $500,000 account with Tiffany's, presumably having lavished jewellery on his wife Callista.
  • (10) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich , out for revenge after being on the receiving end of a $4m (£2.6m) advertising battering from Romney in Iowa, did not hold back, accusing him of lying, being unelectable and, in a phrase likely to be remembered long after the campaign is over, of talking "pious baloney".
  • (11) You don’t want to be in that kind of situation, so you gotta be quiet about it, so you don’t go down that route.” While shackled and interrogated over the next three days, police fed Terry only twice, he said, with baloney sandwiches and juice.
  • (12) Baloney!” Cakmakci is the president of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 951 .
  • (13) Johnson, a leading Brexit advocate, told Sky News on Thursday that the EU’s position that there was an automatic trade-off between access to the single market and free movement was “complete baloney”.
  • (14) And George young has taken the bait: "Gary Naylor may be looking for a rise and I'm happy to give it to him - his comment about Ronaldo is utter baloney.
  • (15) John Cakmakci’s response to that argument is simple:“Baloney!
  • (16) Quell is a damaged second-world-war navy vet; groggy on paintstripper liquor, reeling from a broken heart, who falls under the spell of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the baloney-preaching leader of a Scientology-style cult.

Sense


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
  • (v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
  • (v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
  • (v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
  • (v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
  • (v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
  • (v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.
  • (v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
  • (2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (3) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
  • (4) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (5) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
  • (6) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
  • (7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
  • (8) The narX gene product may be involved in sensing nitrate and phosphorylating NARL.
  • (9) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
  • (10) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
  • (11) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
  • (12) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (13) The anticoagulant therapy undertaken by the patient appears to be of some benefit in the sense that no recurrence of thrombotic manifestations occurred.
  • (14) The results showed that measles virus produced three size classes of plus-sense N-containing RNA species corresponding to monocistronic N RNA, bicistronic NP RNA, and antigenomes.
  • (15) In this sense synapse formation must be considered a drawn out affair.
  • (16) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
  • (17) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
  • (18) Stimulation threshold, sensing, and resistance measurements from both leads were comparable.
  • (19) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
  • (20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.