Some of the galimatias regarding Sotomayor's identity has to do with lack of understanding of Puerto Rico's confused legal status. From Wordnik.com. [Gregg Easterbrook: What Is The "National Origin" of Apple Pie?] Reference
Yet I went not; but thou, of the briefness of thy wit, hast journeyed from place to place, on the faith of a dream, which was but an idle galimatias of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Our geography was galimatias, and book-keeping a crime: the people must not think they were on a level with the learned, and the children must do this and that. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
What if, a la Dylan, many of his lyrics were just trendy-sounding galimatias?. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
As a matter of fact, idle talk and galimatias of the sort are in no wise literature. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference
"I fail to see," a dignified young lady stated, "what Cazaio, at least, has to do with your galimatias.". From Wordnik.com. [Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes] Reference
With the "Théologie familière" they exhibit a fair specimen of Saint-Cyran's galimatias and obscure asceticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
General Wilkinson's galimatias, which he calls his "Memoirs," is frequent reference to a Jorkins-like partner of his, of the name of. From Wordnik.com. [If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact] Reference
Quel jargon metaphysique jete mal a propos dans l'histoire naturelle, qui tombe dans le galimatias des qu'elle sort des idees claires, des idees justes!. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
28 The prose-rhyme is answerable for this galimatias. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
"At times," said de Puysange, with dignity, "your galimatias are insufferable. From Wordnik.com. [Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes] Reference
Life was becoming intolerable, just because Alec was talking galimatias to a number of irresponsible journalists. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Immortals] Reference
Quel jargon metaphysique jete mal a propos dans l’histoire naturelle, qui tombe dans le galimatias des qu’elle sort des idees claires, des idees justes!. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
While all this galimatias of dramas has sunk into the limbo which waits for all such work, Villon's two lines remain as bright as the day on which, four centuries ago, he wrote them: ” 'Jeanne la bonne Lorraine. From Wordnik.com. [Joan of Arc]
Yet I went not; but thou, of the briefness of thy wit, hast journeyed from place to place, on the faith of a dream, which was but an idle galimatias of sleep. ". From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
"galimatias" of Plato!. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
'I should be, Sire;' and Berenger was on the point of confiding the situation of his affairs to this most engaging of princes, when a fresh supply of prisoners, chased with wild antics and fiendish yells by the devils, came headlong in on them; and immediately, completing, as Henry said, the galimatias of mythology, a pasteboard cloud was propelled on the stage, and disclosed the deities Mercury and Cupid, who made a complimentary address to the three princely brothers, inciting them to claim the nymphs whom their valour had defended, and lead them through the mazes of a choric celestial dance. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference
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