nonentity

How To Use nonentity In A Sentence

• He has fallen down and worshipped that miserable 'Ich' of his, and made that, and not God's will, the centre and root of his philosophy, his poetry, and his self-idolizing æsthetics; and when it fails him, then for prussic acid, and nonentity. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
• She was once a political nonentity, but has since won a formidable reputation as a determined campaigner.
• She was once a political nonentity, but has since won a formidable reputation as a determined campaigner.
• What the rationalist calls nonentity is the substrate and locus of all ideas, having the obstinate reality of matter, the crushing irrationality of existence itself; and one who attempts to override it becomes to that extent an irrelevant rhapsodist, dealing with thin after-images of being. The Life of Reason
• Toler's reason for it was that he was too _constitutional_ to interfere with a jury, Be that as it may, a nonsuit was a nonentity, 'I hope, my Lord,' said counsel in a case actually commanding one, 'your Lordship will, for once, have the courage to nonsuit? The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
• I put above the cold sweat of putting aboard the forehead altitude nonentity-this either the elder brothers returning is actually speed.
• This collection of essays is saved from nonentity by the stature of the contributors.
• This bumptious bloke is either a nonentity or is likely to be a nuisance - never heard of his name among the boss's acquaintances.
• How could such a nonentity become chairman of the company?
• His nonentity was a source of regret to us: we lamented to see s tall handsome youth, destined to rule over his fellow-men, trembling at the eight of a horse, and wasting his time in the game of hide-and - seek, or at leap-frog and whose whole information consisted in knowing his prayers, and in saying grace before and after meals. The Memoirs of Napoleon