Word: non-sequitur
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...Throughout the episode, Averell was prone to non-sequitur outbursts, such as “Put on some pants—it’s time to dance!” or a long session of scat-singing while jogging to a clue...
...heights, “Shady Business” achieves the anything-for-a-laugh lunacy that sends a production skipping merrily over credibility gaps. The appearance of a refugee from “The Oresteia” at the end is a delightful non-sequitur that gets laughs for its sheer randomness, as does the argument that breaks out over who is the main character. In fact, Wan portrays Wanda with a similar flair, acting in an affected way that bears very little relation to any sort of reality, but is over-the-top enough to steal any scene she?...
...realize this might be playing devil’s advocate. Responding to “the Patriot Act infringes on civil liberties” by saying “40,000 children die every day of malnutrition” is at best a non-sequitur and at worst dangerous and trivializing. For every injustice, there will always be something greater, and ranking them on a scale of acceptable moral outrage is nearly meaningless. Just because our standard of living is astronomically high compared to 86 percent of the world doesn’t mean that we can?...
...richly textured and wildly unconventional that it seems to be drunk on its own words. Dissolving the long-hewn pillars of “good message” and “good taste,” he gives gaudy and vulgar personalities, vaudevillian song-and-dance and narrative non-sequitur the freedom to run amok onstage...
...good Democrat—and then we find out that he himself never voted? Check out www.thesmokinggun.com for the proof…If I see the Pearl Harbor trailer one more time, I’m going to send Gwyneth Paltrow a stink bomb. (Yes, yes, a total non-sequitur figuring that Gwyneth isn’t in Pearl Harbor, but a) wouldn’t it be just like her to be in a movie like it? and b) doesn’t Gwyneth deserve a stink bomb in the mail anyway?)…The Writers Guild...