What's the difference between blather and nonsensical?
Blather
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, as Brexiteer Boris Johnson dismisses the whole Panama story as the Guardian “blathering”, Mr Cameron could point to the advice of a leading QC, which the TUC publishes on Thursday, which underlines all those EU employment rights which are in fact, very often, all that stands between an otherwise-vulnerable workforce and the footloose global elite.
(2) Whatever door of perception that pill is machine-gunning off its hinges, blathering on about the experience through clenched teeth is tedium squared to anyone sober.
(3) And because when you have to talk for the sake of talking – which is the job at hand – your blather quotient is going to increase.
(4) Professional politicians, and their intellectual menials, will no doubt blather on about “Islamic fundamentalism”, the “western alliance” and “full-spectrum response”.
(5) Somehow, a small group of Republican lawmakers have hijacked the national conversation about financial matters to blather about deficits and long-term budgets.
(6) Outside this room lurk beheadings and sharia law, a president who is clueless and weak generals blathering away on TV screens.
(7) Gameplay The plot may be uninspired fantasy blather, but the side-scrolling brawling is exemplary.
(8) "The way that we're living now is good - we're not driven by a desire to get a raise or climb up the ladder because we're pretty much at the top of what we're doing already," he says, and as one-quarter of the most blathered and blogged about band in Britain, he's got a point.
(9) "Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity, and spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another."
(10) The pharmacist Homais's blather about progress is drawn with as much ruthless precision as the Blind Man's scrofulous face, Emma's final agony or her husband's uselessness.
(11) 3.50pm: Birmingham City's Chris Hughton has been asked if he would be interested in replacing Roy – at Wes Brom, not England (yet) – and blathered on about concentrating on the play-offs.
(12) So the Church of England has turned a great opportunity to show why it still had a role as a voice of the voiceless in our divided society into a profoundly dispiriting display of back-biting, bitching and blathering on about health and safety concerns and the lost income from tourists.
(13) David Moyes blathering on about how Man Utd's 1-0 defeat to Liverpool was the best under his tenure was a bit rich, reviews Daniel Taylor .
(14) And, too, because no matter how much practice you have at blathering and how much boilerplate you can regurgitate, unscripted moments can be as rough on cable heads as on politicians.
(15) The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
(16) 4.42pm BST "Currently sitting in an all day professional development class to keep my teaching license," blathers Scott Stricker.
(17) It’s a principle that Conservative politicians blathering about conflict with Spain over Gibraltar would do well to study.
(18) His famed negotiating technique is to propose an exorbitant figure, then let the producer blather and rail about budgets only to find an eerie silence on the end of the phone.
(19) 7.04pm BST "Having cycled through London today I was impressed by the sheer number of jolly Dortmund fans enjoying themselves," blathers Adam Brown.
(20) She doesn't do much of the chattering class's news cycle blathering.
Nonsensical
Definition:
(a.) Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
(3) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
(4) The first paper of this series (Picheny, Durlach, & Braida, 1985) presented evidence that there are substantial intelligibility differences for hearing-impaired listeners between nonsense sentences spoken in a conversational manner and spoken with the effort to produce clear speech.
(5) These data suggest that yeast tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase interacts with positions 34 and 35 of the anticodon of tRNATyr and opens the possibility that nonsense suppressor efficiency may be mediated by the level of aminoacylation.
(6) But this no-nonsense venue, just 10km but a world away from parliament, is the latest stop in a national pro-renewables tour that is making the Abbott government decidedly uncomfortable.
(7) Free recall of nonsense syllables was significantly better when these were learned under active compound.
(8) "It is clear this is a government which is short of ideas, desperately trying to bring up nonsensical diversions to distract attention from the situation in the country.
(9) Four regA mutants (regA1, regA8, regA11, and regA15) failed to make a protein having a molecular weight of about 12,000, whereas mutant regA9 did make such a protein; regA15 produced a new, apparently smaller protein that was presumably a nonsense fragment, whereas regA11 produced a new, apparently larger protein.
(10) In the first, span and free-recall measures were obtained for 24 subjects, each tested with four types of spoken material (nonsense syllables, random words, fourth-order approximations to English, and normal prose).
(11) I’d have been a TV celeb type, done these albums that are nonsense – and yeah, with hindsight, that wouldn’t have been a bad idea.
(12) In addition, purified protein of 62,000 daltons, resulting from the suppression of the nonsense mutations tox-30 and tox-45, will react with antisera purified against the terminal 17,000 daltons of the toxin molecule and are immunologically identical to toxin by radial immunodiffusion.
(13) The other three carry nonsense mutations which inactivate both the excision repair and essential functions.
(14) La Manga in Spain is an example of human nonsense: 20km of city length, two kilometres wide, with huge buildings all along,” said Couet.
(15) In a sign of Labour's need to avoid tension with business, Darling was careful to stress he was not criticising the signatories but said: "I wonder if one of their finance directors came to them and said 'look, we have this wonderful idea, and we are going to pay with it by savings we have not yet identified and by calculations we cannot verify', they would say 'that is complete nonsense'."
(16) The mutation, which is not of the common CG-to-TG type, is at the same codon in which both nonsense and a different missense (Arg to Gln) have previously been observed.
(17) Introduction of an ochre nonsense codon into the reading frame of the leader peptide sequence leads to considerable reduction of the basal expression and loss of inducibility of the cat gene.
(18) On the Iraq war, he admitted he had voted in favour of military action in 2003 though he said he thought at the time that Blair's claims about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were "nonsense".
(19) Two nonsense mutations at codon positions 33 and 187 and an aberrant splice site were found in the human gene.
(20) The studies on the reverse mutation of osm3 indicated that this osmotic-sensitivity arises from a missense or nonsense mutation in OSM3 locus.