| To pretend or believe that any or all of this could be done without explicit state and military sanction is the most arrant nonsense. |
| Poynton's arrant realism provides echoes of Lucian Freud, Stanley Spencer, Eric Fischl and Philip Pearlstein. |
| The animist beliefs of so many of this Labour Government who talk about the mauri within a mountain or a river are arrant nonsense. |
| But the chorus of whines about interference in the internal affairs of the country is 90 per cent arrant hypocrisy. |
| Ruth would have felt the need to cap the comment in some way, or qualify it, or even dismiss it out of hand as arrant nonsense. |
| These people crumble when their arrant nonsense is confronted with simple common sense. |
