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The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

"Someone came up to me speaking nonsensically, I didn't understand what he was saying," he said.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

I want to skip ahead for a second, because against everything I experienced previously while watching Hallmark's nonsensically titled holiday movie "Hanukkah on Rye," I cried at the end.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

Now, this vision has been nonsensically ported into the midcentury brain of Marilyn Monroe.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022

Charles took a swallow of his drink and ran up another octave, trilling nonsensically on the keys with his right hand.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt