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...after all, arrant nonsense to claim that no one has seen a fairy, or a ghost. Thousands have, over the course of human history, and thousands more have seen what might have been fairies or ghosts or other, stranger things. It’s possible that in every instance there was a trick of the light, or a hallucination or a burst of wishful thinking. But since we do not know (and by definition cannot know) the probability of the supernatural’s existence, the assertion that every ghost or fairy-sighting must be a fiction is little more...
...important for kids to spend time with their peers, the objectors will bleat. Well, yes, time with one's peers is great--but must it be every day, from eight till five and beyond? Surely this is arrant nonsense. Adolescents are messed-up, confused, insecure human beings, each buckling under an individual, angst-ridden burden. Why on earth would it be good for them to spend all of their time with other angst-ridden, insecure, unhappy types...
...Bozell III has a more elegant way available to call someone "a f---ing idiot." It is the Janet Cooke Award, the Media Research Center's highest accolade, bestowed annually, like an Oscar, upon the journalist who, in the opinion of the judges, committed the most egregious work of arrant liberal media piffle during the previous year...
...prank apparently fooled Utah-based Sun International Pictures, which produced the show and sold it to CBS. But Jammal's tall tale was not the only misleading part of the special. Sun filled the two hours with a mixture of fact, conjecture, fantasy and arrant nonsense, while offering no clues as to which was which. "Eyewitnesses" who claimed to have seen or even touched the ark paraded in front of the camera. Unfortunately, the audience was told, an earthquake, attacks by terrorists, the Russian Revolution and other inopportune events had frustrated various attempts over the years to bring back clear...
Former federal judge Frederick B. Lacey, after a seven-week probe of Iraqgate, deemed it "arrant nonsense" to suggest that the Bush Administration derailed a probe of a scheme to funnel billions of dollars to Saddam Hussein. If there had been any corruption, he said, "I would have smelled it." Attorney General William Barr declared the case closed. But Bill Clinton may yet reopen...