non sequitur

How To Use non sequitur In A Sentence

• Second, linking logging of mature trees to clearing of underbrush is a policy non sequitur.
• This wouldn't be much of a play, so Donaghy tells it in stammers and dithers, fragmented verbiage and non sequiturs, inchoate bits and overlapping dialogue, aposiopesis and time lags (a question is answered three or four lines later).
• It's a first-person blurt, a perspectival non sequitur given what follows. The Times Literary Supplement
• She has turned it into an increasingly ludicrous set of insinuations, non sequiturs and delusions.
• The patent claim, riddled with typos and non sequiturs, has already been widely reviled, but if successful could blow a chill through the hand-held industry.
• The playwright is clearly striving for Dennis Potter style moments of rapture; sadly he achieves only a bizarre and unintentional effect of Pinteresque non sequitur. Critique From HereNow
• Adding insult to injury, the spokesman's comments drip with sophistry, doublethink and non sequiturs. Times, Sunday Times
• It hardly takes a brilliant operatic dramaturge to see through this brainless travesty, loaded with irrelevant inventions and non sequiturs.
• It's a parade of theatrical non sequiturs set to some of the world's catchiest tunes. Times, Sunday Times
• This is the only way one can reasonably explain the numerous grammatical and spelling errors, logical non sequiturs, inaccuracies, misquotes, opaque prose, and prolific use of jargon that clutter almost every page.