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sensational .
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Examples
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"Abby and Brittany Turn 16" is handled with great care, the girls are given plenty of time to talk about their anatomy in nonsensational ways.
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I don't think there's much of a market for that kind of wandering, slow, nonsensational journalism about people whose names you would not expect to hear on TV in the first place.
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It is said to be one of the merits of the human mind that it is capable of framing abstract ideas, and of conducting nonsensational thought.
The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921
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Example of how nonsensational things are: When her friend Lilly (Emily Osment) throws a birthday party, she rents out the Santa Monica Pier.
California Chronicle 2009
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Example of how nonsensational things are: When her friend Lilly (Emily Osment) throws a birthday party, she rents out the Santa Monica Pier.
California Chronicle 2009
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Example of how nonsensational things are: When her friend Lilly (Emily Osment) throws a birthday party, she rents out the Santa Monica Pier.
California Chronicle 2009
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The change is palpable from the helplessly childish response to Horowitz’s polemical ad in the Brown Daily Herald arguing against reparations in 2001 to a frank and reasonably respectful debate between college Republicans and Democrats prior to the presidential elections of 2004, to a nonsensational welcome for Rick Santorum at a campus lecture last year where many disagreed with him forcefully, but through the prism of rational discourse.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Brown University Welcomes Duke Rape Case Victim: 2007
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A sober, nonsensational account of Sheila’s murder, the mind-boggling series of events preceding it, and the nail-biting sequence of twists and turns in the investigation of the crime….
Without Pity Ann Rule 2003
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A sober, nonsensational account of Sheila’s murder, the mind-boggling series of events preceding it, and the nail-biting sequence of twists and turns in the investigation of the crime….
Without Pity Ann Rule 2003
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