| 单词 | meaningless |
| 例句 | “Not far now, Hlao-roo, not far now,” he kept muttering, until he realized that what he said had become meaningless, a mere refrain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A president came in, an invasion failed — both in meaningless suspension. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I start bobbing around like a puppet, holding up outfits and saying meaningless things like “Don’t you love it?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Yet she detested that “most meaningless of phrases, ‘plain Miss Smith.’” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Somewhere a burglar alarm went off, a meaningless blangy sound, followed by the joyful shouts of looters. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z My ambition and integrity were nothing to them and my failure was as meaningless as Clifton's. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t usually speak in lofty, meaningless ideas. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Probably the ruffians of that time so marked innocent people as a cruel joke and the practice had persisted down through the centuries to be distorted into a meaningless Halloween prank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I told myself that every dollar we made was a good thing and that it was all just meaningless stuff. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Too much research in the social sciences, in fact, is a mindless collection of such meaningless data. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A few sociologists go so far as to say that social complexity has made the concept of class meaningless. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The word “independence” in Africa and the word “integration” here are almost equally meaningless; that is, Europe has not yet left Africa, and black men here are not yet free. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z If my life is meaningless, it makes no sense for the sluggers to spare it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He was a Strange, with all that that entailed—though the significance of his name would be meaningless to her, and anyway, he didn’t think she was inquiring into his pedigree. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Over and over the lines repeated themselves in her head till they were altogether meaningless. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the bus had run another fifty yards on the highway, its destination would be meaningless, and its point of departure changed from metropolis to junkyard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will you please stop talking about imprisonment? You seem to be preoccupied with the thought. Actually, you seem to enjoy thinking about it. Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What emerged was a long, intricate string of meaningless gibberish. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z But I read them for reasons which, I imagine, are similar to those that make children play with meaningless rhyme. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We did not consider ourselves poor or deprived, or depressed, for the rules of the outside world seemed meaningless to us as children. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He won’t listen to anything and hits out, his mouth is wet and pours out words, half choked, meaningless words. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “They didn't know what that meant. They said the word was meaningless.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After you've witnessed your twentieth, hundredth, thousandth person perish, words are meaningless. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Suddenly he wept, a slow bellowing sound, meaningless and sustained. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z That, of course, is a meaningless expression, as are all expressions of the sort. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Unlike good names, pet names are frequendy meaningless, deliberately silly, ironic, even onomatopoetic. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He handed the paper with its seemingly meaningless words back to the postmaster. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And later, I found I had an ability: to not listen to something meaningless calling to me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z George Orwell once wrote that whenever a critic uses the word human, he usually renders it meaningless. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And the question of what lies beyond is meaningless. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Galahad,” said Elaine, and she leaned over the wrappings, making the foolish gestures and meaningless sounds which mothers delight to use when their babies ate beginning to pay attention. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And that was why, she realized, their conversation was always lighthearted, superficial, essentially meaningless. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I spoke the words, but they were meaningless. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z What’s to stop them from cheating us with meaningless “everyday low price” signs every time we walk in? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Board was meaningless, as some commentators have claimed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Today scientists agree that “race” is a meaningless concept since human differences are only skin deep, but the Nazis defined the Aryan race as Nordic or Caucasian people with no mixture of Jewish ancestry. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Jonas moved his hands together, clapping, but it was an automatic, meaningless gesture that he wasn’t even aware of. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z That was his belief, and if he were ever to doubt it, his life would become meaningless. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z If anything and everything is to be treated as an actor’s judgement then the ideas of truth, rationality and objective reality become meaningless, and we can all be immortal if we choose. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Both girls had their names stitched in cursive on their uniforms, but with my dyslexia, the words looked like meaningless spaghetti. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In the aftermath of that meaningless scrimmage in the summer twilight in Lubbock, Trapper envisioned a definite fate for the Boobie Miles who had been the dazzling jewel of the Watermelon Feed. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To the brother-in-law, these sounds were meaningless, and he was most impressed at the blind man’s ability to understand the bush although it must have been for him one great darkness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Time was meaningless, but after an eternity, she and Frank sat together under a black poplar tree, listening to the screams from the Fields of Punishment. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Because if that’s all they are—if there are no rules governing our lives—then our entire existence is a meaningless farce. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He maintained, for example, at one time that all existential propositions are meaningless. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She knows it’s a meaningless offer from me, anyway. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He had emptied the vessel which life had tilled for him and found the emptying meaningless. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I throw them on the floor and lay down, a room away from Viola and all her meaningless, evil quiet. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They went now a way in which all events were perilous, and no acts were meaningless. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Strict parents, bad grades, or stupid boyfriends—my friends' complaints seemed so unimportant and meaningless compared to what Martin was experiencing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Now the two men were silent, breaking it only with small false courtesies—meaningless inquiries about health and weather, with answers unlistened to. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She keeps him away by chattering with Grandpa about meaningless facts of various small towns, keeps him away by answering the encouraging texts from Luke, keeps him away with calls to Dr. Mann. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “No. A day job is a meaningless job that pays. No offense to your dad.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z She stood by my bed and said Pianopalooza was meaningless without me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z One look at Mr. Reilly and the students would understand that the note was the meaningless fantasy of a sick mind. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But this undistinguished rectangle had only an unobtrusive, meaningless label on the door, annex. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And once you’ve started, resist the temptation to pad your sentences with meaningless stuffing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you want my life to be meaningless?” he shouted. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I had a feeling he wasn’t listening to anything but the sound of my voice, a comforting background noise as meaningless as a cicada’s song. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It was another meaningless figure, to three decimal places. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Anytime. You want to hear some really meaningless pats on the back, just come to me.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Us two meaningless kids with some meaningless plan, and how if you got right down to it absolutely nothing we did or planned to do even mattered. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z All those conversations with Mama in that sunny Harlem apartment, conversations meaningless to anyone but us, prepared me to use language in special ways, making it my own. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z In most of physics and chemistry the concepts of “ultimate cause,” “purpose,” and “function” are meaningless, yet they are essential to understanding living systems in general and human activities in particular. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In a black hole, space and time are meaningless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But eventually, all of these treats started to feel meaningless. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z To Merry the ascent seemed agelong, a meaningless journey in a hateful dream, going on and on to some dim ending that memory cannot seize. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Little things, meaningless and stupid in themselves, but they were there for me to see, for me to hear, for me to feel. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z My denials would be meaningless, the rantings of a stranger. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I mean, no, not really. Right now I’m just thinking about how meaningless it all was. The faction system, I mean.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Of course, there are assumptions underlying these phrases which are invalid or meaningless without clarification. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He fit every stereotype of the dumb jock, all of which went to show how absolutely meaningless stereotypes can be. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So it is meaningless to ask: which is real, “real” or “imaginary” time? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I took an academic interest in the thought of stealing the car, knowing all the time that it would be not so much criminal as meaningless, a lapse into nothing, an escape into nowhere. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He shuddered at his own craven circumlocution, using so meaningless a word to obscure so hideous a truth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z —Oh, don’t get me started about rap music . . . meaningless, mindless noise. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaving out any part might make the whole thing meaningless. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was a meaningless demand because the concubine was so annoyed with the comradeship between her lover and his daughter that she did not want anything to do with her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Bull grunted, a monosyllable meaningless in any language, but an audible assent that he had heard and understood her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Again the priest offered interpretations, which were as meaningless to me as if he too were speaking in tongues. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The symbols on the window melt into meaningless streaks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The old sayings had a purpose in village life, but they were completely meaningless in modern Harare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It could simply be that a meaningless whim had suddenly overtaken me at that moment—but that is hardly a convincing way to account for such distinctly odd behaviour. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “If the Merchant Council fails to honor its end of this bargain, no one from the Barrel will ever traffic with any of you again. Your word will be meaningless.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was some meaningless number that ended in two decimal places. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In 1752 David Hume published an essay, ‘Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations’, pointing out that the figures we find in classical texts are meaningless. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But that did not make my life meaningless. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The humilities are piled on a soldier, so Cyrus said, in order that he may, when the time comes, be not too resentful of the final humility—a meaningless and dirty death. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I also told him that all of Father’s and Mother’s pet names were meaningless, that a kiss here and there didn’t automatically lead to trust. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Blossom continued his meaningless comments, ignoring her as she stood there for several minutes expecting him to answer her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bucky hadn't deserved to go to trial for a meaningless accident. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The fact that the insecticide was applied in very low concentrations is meaningless, as its explosive progress through the natural food chain in the lake demonstrates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is meaningless, therefore, to talk about the “safety” of any specific amount of residue. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Boethius will show you that striving is ultimately meaningless, that we must learn to accept. Ask Miss O’Hara about him.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A dozen lines of thought began and continued in my brain without ending; crossing, tangling, like threads on some meaningless warp. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And so it was a lot of fairly short and meaningless relationships. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was clear that he rather liked Clinton and that he wanted Clinton’s expression to have been no more than a meaningless facial tic. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Words and stuff can pass through it, but the wall renders every word meaningless. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The Bible stories seemed slow and meaningless when compared to the bloody thunder of pulp narrative. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Except in the life of the hero the whole world’s meaningless. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z A meaningless swirl in the stream of time, a temporary gathering of bits, a few random specks, a cloud . Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Those numbers are so enormous they’re almost meaningless, even to an adult. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When Roz first stomped across the island, the animal squawks and growls and chirps had sounded like nothing more than meaningless noises. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season — something inevitable, but meaningless at the time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z From being ordered often to bring some particular scroll to Pai, he had become superficially familiar with these drawings, which at first had looked like meaningless bird tracks to him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z When I try to talk, the words are exploding in my brain, but all that comes out are meaningless sounds and squeaks. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “Well, he got suspended for punching Zac, and Cheyenne said that he’s going off the rails. The rich boy trinity: booze, pills, and meaningless sex.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z One might at first be inclined to dismiss this assertion as meaningless, because the experiment is imaginary and my claim about its outcome cannot be verified. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ghouls divided into two factions: there were those who felt that the vanishing of their friends was meaningless, and those who believed that something, probably the night-gaunts, was out to get them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z And yet, positively: The ability to consider experience so abstractly allowed me to shape into desire what would otherwise have remained indefinite, meaningless longing in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to shut this meaningless conversation down or else who knows what we’d start talking about. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete,” his mother explained carefully. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m no longer satisfied with the meaningless affection or the supposedly serious talks. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z More fake smiles and meaningless exchanges with the minders, who always make sure to say hello to each of us during dinner. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “It would be meaningless to apologize for what I did. Even inappropriate. But I do. I apologize.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Rachel cleared her throat, gave another meaningless smile. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The other possibility was that the hug had happened, but it was just a meaningless blip in their day, and they’d already forgotten about it. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My father’s death had been meaningless, and the violence in this world was meaningless, too. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z For most of us that is of course an utterly meaningless measure, but then with astronomical measures most distances are so huge as to be utterly meaningless. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Shadow had said something meaningless, like “You tell ’em,” and left it at that. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z But suddenly we’re asked to stipulate, according to a list of terms, why we think that, and the terms are meaningless to us. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Teachers confronted with evidence of a student’s inadequate comprehension found it easiest to dispense a grade that moved a student toward meaningless graduation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Claire wrapped her arms around the neck of the impatient creature and tried to soothe him by murmuring meaningless sounds. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She had covered the blackboard in the office with “meaningless words and symbols” and began to conduct the meeting in what she seemed to feel was normal fashion. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I looked out at the scene now from far back in my despair, seeing the platform and its actors as through a reversed telescope; small doll-like figures moving through some meaningless ritual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The two spoke in their own language, as meaningless to her as drums or birdsong. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At the time the word was meaningless to me, but termination of parental rights—usually abbreviated as TPR in the system—is a huge transition in a child’s life. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z This “automobile accident” is a new crutch to help you make excuses for your meaningless, impotent existence. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His plan seemed so ambiguous and meaningless now, in front of these uniformed men. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Bears, who didn’t cry, couldn’t understand what was happening to her, it was some human process, meaningless. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I saw myself swelling like bellows on their blood, a meaningless smudge in a universe dead as old wind over bones, abandoned except for the burnt-blood scent of the dragon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And I wanted to shout to the clock and make its meaningless noise be silent, but I did not. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Life was empty and meaningless unless he found some meaning. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The deaths exist in my mind as a string of meaningless equations, and I stand frozen, unable to solve them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z All at once I began to smash things—benches, tables, hanging beds—a rage as meaningless and terrible as everything else. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z That may seem a meaningless figure, but look at it this way—it is eight times the total mileage of America’s interstate highway system. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The problem is, when we try to calculate all the way down to zero distance, the equation blows up in our face and gives us meaningless answers—things like infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Incredibly, some of the last inscriptions are gibberish, as if scribes had lost the knowledge of writing and were reduced to meaningless imitation of their ancestors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z You could pick any of a handful of ways to construe those questions as malformed or meaningless, and in a sense you’d be right. Do guns or people kill people? 2013-03-06T13:12:00Z So the concept of them being “meaningless” is both disconcerting and anti-intuitive, even just for the sake of playing a game. “You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Against Donald Trump’s “meaningless visibility, his compulsive Tourette’s tweeting,” Sinclair contrasts the “measured respect for the printed word” demonstrated by the quietly polite, but elusive book scout Martin Stone, whose death he mourns. Review | Modern life, as seen by a writer without a smartphone 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Gene falls face-first into a redemption arc that could turn his life around or prove meaningless. "Barry" returns three years later and is funnier and darker than ever 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z The score never acquires the entrancing richness of Mr. Glass’s music for “Einstein,” which added elements of grandeur and momentousness to that production’s willfully meaningless libretto, justifying its epic length. Theater Review: ‘Life and Times: Episodes 1-4,’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-23T03:00:48Z Otherwise it would be meaningless for me to write about my life. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z He eloquently discusses the nature of grand wars, like the one they find themselves in, and worries that his death and Jamie’s will prove to be meaningless. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 10: On Your Way, Soldier 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z On one hand, she sees it as a point of pride, a mark of character and honesty, not to be like the simpering saps who exchange meaningless pleasantries to grease the wheels of social interaction. Olive Kitteridge and Why "Likability" Is for Saps 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z That game, in the standings, was meaningless for both organizations. 10 thoughts on Bears' loss to Saints 2011-09-19T11:23:00Z With good reason: Movies are filled with dead spots, padding, meaningless interludes, pointless detours, grace notes and extraneous subplots that you don’t have to see to follow the movie. I missed a crucial moment in Jurassic World. Have I misjudged every movie? | Joe Queenan 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z But as I write this, I am far from worried about meaningless amenities. Nashville pulls together to weather the storm 2010-05-15T03:54:00Z It’s all equally meaningless, but someone has to say, No it means something to me. Wayne Coyne, mad scientist: “If the Flaming Lips make a wrong move, so what?” 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z A charge up a meaningless hill: a lot of effort with little payoff and, by Thursday night, a lot of potential careers lost in the process. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: The Boot Camp Begins 2011-10-06T15:02:23Z Spears is, of course, way more famous than Paula Abdul, and if she sits on the panel and says nice, meaningless things to the contestants each and every show, she will have earned her money. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z I am going to live in a world where the whole category of appearance is meaningless to me. How my husband saw blindness as a ‘dark, paradoxical gift’ 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Popular Photography could have been mistaken for the early opponents of Impressionist painting when it described the images as “meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures.” Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z First Italy’s prosciutto producers warned against “meaningless alarmism”. Wurst case scenario: Germany and Austria defend their sausages 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z But, she added, they’re “meaningless in the sense of, if you really want to hire people of color, there are a multitude of experienced people of color who you can hire.” She’s the Hollywood Power Behind Those Seeking a Voice 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z She meets with Fred in his prison, has a drink with him, appears moved and tearful by his words of apology which are of course meaningless. "The Handmaid's Tale" furious finale could turn the show around – and it's all in the execution 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z So the fury of Frank’s finger passes to those of us who have been benumbed by today’s proliferating, meaningless urban menhirs—street after street a corridor of dead souls. Frank Gehry’s Digital Defiance 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The arbitrary segregation is presumably a reference to the political forces that divide populations, sometimes families, through obscure or meaningless rules. Dance Review: YelleB Dance Ensemble at the Joyce SoHo 2010-05-28T21:57:00Z Or was the point that it was all meaningless, that no sense could be made of the seemingly "Act of God" tragedies that bookended the film? 10 year time capsule: The puzzle movie hits made possible by DVD 2011-03-22T16:37:00Z The whole series felt like a threadbare film idea meaninglessly stretched to total breaking point. From Top Gear to The X-Files: the six worst TV shows of 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z It's a meaningless point, but it was good enough for the planning committee of Sheffield city council. Jessop hospital, Sheffield – review 2013-03-31T00:05:21Z September signals the end of summer, which sometimes means a pause on your favorite trashy dating shows and steady influx of new, delightfully meaningless rom-coms to indulge. From a "Dear White People" swan song to Tokyo assassins, here's what's new on Netflix in September 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z The idea was so dumb and meaningless that the magazine actually didn’t go for it. Art doesn’t pay 2012-09-30T14:00:00Z Who knew that voting for the outcome of a meaningless reality show using a premium rate phone number could be such a pointless waste of your time? The X Factor 2010: the lessons we've learnt from this year's show 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z The name was meaningless and conjured up nothing, which was perfect. The Story Behind the Cars’ ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The dilemma of the day job — do I keep myself afloat with this meaningless toil, or do I follow my dreams to bankruptcy and beyond? — looms ever present here. "Party Down": The best comedy you haven't heard of 2010-04-17T22:59:00Z He apologised to me when I was 13, and went on to assault me again: another apology would be meaningless. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Our minds wander, and life is full of meaningless moments. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Popular Photography magazine complained about their “meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons, and general sloppiness.” Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z "But accountability is meaningless unless it's for everybody, whether it's the leader of a network or the leader of the free world," Colbert concluded. Stephen Colbert on accused CBS boss Les Moonves: Accountability must be for everybody 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z This notion of suffering offers the illusion of control: if we believe that our pain is a form of punishment, then that pain isn’t meaningless. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z What if the universe is not meaningless but actively malevolent? Faith and magic get a 'Revival' in new Stephen King novel 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z As more events, alternately violent and seemingly meaningless, unfold beyond the predictive abilities of any algorithm, Beetle’s employees begin to label such events as “category Zed.” Review | A technocratic society unravels in Joanna Kavenna’s ‘Zed’ 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Thus it’s interesting to see the workarounds that people use to keep their interactions from dissolving into a meaningless spray of pixels. The Tyranny of Constant Contact 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z FitzHigham, after all, is quite enough personality for one show, and the lengths he goes in pursuit of meaningless achievement are charmingly comic-heroic. Tim FitzHigham ? review 2011-08-28T13:32:13Z He reminds us that the word “quark” was plucked, by the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann, from a seemingly meaningless word in a nonsensical phrase in “Finnegans Wake”: “Three quarks for Muster Mark!” Review: ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ Is Long on Knowledge 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z And so another episode in this glittering, damaged life is translated into song, into emotion so meaninglessly simple that anyone can feel it. Anyone Who Had a Heart by Burt Bacharach with Robert Greenfield – review 2013-07-21T08:00:02Z “Maybe the problem was that no one else could possibly understand how meaningless was the hate, how deep was the love,” Ebert writes. Life Itself - A Memoir - By Roger Ebert - Book Review 2011-09-25T04:13:02Z The museum has examples of spirit-spouse figures that, set side by side, seem worlds apart but together demonstrate how meaningless, in terms of valuation, distinctions between classical and contemporary can be. Art Review: African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers, Tenafly, N.J. 2010-08-19T22:05:00Z Was waiting in line for a professional reason as meaningless as waiting in line for boring old consumer desire? At Palace, Facing the Unbearable Being of Lines 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z But hacking proved a powerful social outlet for the sometimes sickly misfit uninterested in student clubs, which he described as “empty, meaningless groups of people.” Sean Parker Brings Facebook-Style Skills to New York Social Scene 2011-12-17T12:39:01Z Categories like home and work, said Andrew Cogan, chief executive of Knoll, “are becoming meaningless.” The Details: Making the Best of It at the Milan Furniture Fair 2013-04-17T22:33:36Z Now, the line between fringe extremists and mainstream Republican politics and right-leaning media is so blurred as to be almost meaningless. Perspective | We must stop calling Trump’s enablers ‘conservative.’ They are the radical right. 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z There are so many other falsities necessarily built into this productions as to makes this idea meaningless, and disingenuous at best. Stage reader review roundup: Julius Caesar 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z Mr Laws has been far too apologetic about breaking this preposterous rule against "renting accommodation from a partner", which is a meaningless sentence when nobody knows what a "partner" really is. Sex and the City 2: What happened to good old Sex?| Victoria Coren 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z But this doesn’t mean the natural/synthetic distinction is silly or meaningless. Organic standards fight over synthetics shows there’s room for a third system Latin American experiences of otherness and progress pervade the new writing, particularly the label of “developing country,” rendered meaningless in distant futures or by alien invasions. Science Fiction From Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z “So the fact that I love it is so shocking to me. But everything kind of pertains to me now,” like contracts, for example, which would have felt meaningless to her in college, she said. Inside Kim Kardashian’s Prison-Reform Machine 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z “Life is meaningless, not empty,” chides Death, when Mort finally meets him in the inevitable “Seventh Seal” pastiche. ‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Review: Woody Allen Travels to Movie Memory Lane 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z It’s like the home run contest before the All-Star Game, an essentially meaningless display of skills where titans watch one another show off. Critic’s Notebook: Discovery’s ‘Dude, You’re Screwed’ 2013-12-20T22:30:53Z Philosophers have been puzzling for millennia over what it is about those organised but apparently meaningless sounds that we find so compelling, joined more recently by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and neuroscientists. Music is a vital strand of our social fabric 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z Whether through the filter of a buzz or through a director’s tinkering or through seemingly meaningless chatter, whoever’s sitting around the taps can tap into tragedy, hope, and of course, truth. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: the story of the drunkest film of the year 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z “I think she looks around at the prevailing culture and thinks: ‘None of that really applies to me and I don’t get it’ – the magazines, the ‘figure’ culture and the handbags – it’s just absolutely meaningless. Emma Thompson: sexism in acting industry is worse than ever 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s an aging code, and a euphemism, meaningless to those who don’t already get it. Perspective | Let’s talk about maternal gore 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The list is so long as to be almost meaningless, but a new Soul Jazz compilation, Elektronische Musik, reinforces just how wild German music from that period was. Elektronische musik: a guide to krautrock 2010-03-30T10:27:00Z Once again, localism is exposed as a meaningless term that allows the Tories to attack Labour's record and pick on an easily vilified group. Why are the ConDems designing factory schools? 2011-02-22T12:34:38Z Best is the meaningless compliment he gives to Annie after her set: “It was very musical.” Annie Hall at 40: ranking the film's funniest moments 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Grandin also inserts “interludes” about Melville’s thoughts on slavery and his metaphorical use of blacks in slavery to represent the individual in a meaningless universe. ‘The Empire of Necessity’: No free people on this slave ship 2014-01-22T22:32:11Z On a more serious note, Colbert then criticized the far-right for making such meaningless comparisons, which he said was a way for them to divert attention away from the ongoing hearings. Colbert on "shameful" Fox News coverage that painted dog puppet act in the Capitol as "insurrection 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Setting out to learn everything from real Oaxacan moles to traditional Aztec chocolate would have been impossible, he said — and for most customers, meaningless. ‘Modern Mexican’ Steps Into the Spotlight 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “The sociology and liberal faith of Arthur Laurents’s book are now fairly meaningless,” he continued. ‘West Side Story’: How We Covered the Classic N.Y.C. Musical 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The pioneers realize that founding a new warren is meaningless without mates and offspring. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z It is, after all, a comedy that deals in death and meaningless rituals: what has happened to the British and German gentlemen who are no longer with James and Miss Sophie? What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z De Kretser is a great describer of the meaning of meaningless clutter – she loves redundant things such as tape recorders that are not antiques, just outdated. Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser – review 2013-04-27T07:30:00Z Without adjusting for inflation and changes in purchasing power, comparisons from one time period to another are meaningless. Thanks, "Avengers: Endgame," for showing us inflation 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The demon world of industrialisation forces meaningless repetition. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z Once you remove the wow factor, it's heartless stuff, so devoid of any real emotion, other than astonishment, and so slickly meaningless that I left feeling not elated, but curiously empty. You Me Bum Bum Train 2010-07-06T20:31:00Z I regret that so much of Gursky's work is empty and meaningless in the absence of the interpretations of "experts." Andreas Gursky Is Taking Photos of Things That Do Not Exist 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z “Constantine” thrusts us into an all-too-familiar milieu of meaningless symbols, old leather-bound books, sudden power outages, gathering storm clouds, garbled Latin and the Beast within. NBC’s ‘Constantine’: The devil you know a little too well When he is hired as a teaching assistant in the engineering department of a university in Seattle, a friends tells him that “caste would be meaningless in the United States.” She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. Now Her Fiction Is Crossing Into Reality. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z For many of them, relying on the mythology of "the struggle" is meaningless. ANC's alarmist curbs signal waning support for ruling South African party 2012-06-06T16:06:07Z Charlotte Bennett, a former aide to whom Cuomo personally apologized in a taped response to the findings, called the apology “meaningless” and said that if the governor were truly sorry, he would step down. EXPLAINER: Where does harassment report leave Andrew Cuomo? 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z The effect of Ms. De Keersmaeker’s formal repetition of pattern and gesture is remarkable, appearing simultaneously meaningless — purely choreographic — and also full of narrative implication. A Triumphant De Keersmaeker Takes Paris Opera by Storm 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z There is a fortitude in these new pieces, and a fragility, balancing as if to remind us: One is meaningless without its opposite. A Choreographer’s Reflections on Transience 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z But because most addicts fall into both categories, the boundaries become blurred and ultimately meaningless. Why it's time to shut down "Celebrity Rehab" 2011-03-09T18:49:00Z In Pulp Fiction, the deaths are practically meaningless, at the service of a giddy postmodernism that delights in stylistic flourishes, wisecracking and the trappings of genre. Tarantino's gruesome revenge fantasies are growing more puerile and misogynistic | Caspar Salmon 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z It’s a meaningless jumble of adolescent, pseudo-intellectual poppycock To begin with, your play is not a play at all. Noël Coward's wittiest lines – quiz 2013-07-05T12:58:31Z The alligator handbag – grotesque, fascinating, meaningless, ugly – seemed like an apt metaphor for the entire experience. On the run with my dad 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, self-care runs the risk of becoming more meaningless than ever. Generation treat yo' self: the problem with 'self-care' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Where does literature stand, Sutherland seems to ask, when its substance is so much trash, in an age where the words are infinitely identifiable but also so fungible as to be meaningless? A Radical Poet in the Age of Google and Guantánamo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Our first imperative was to eliminate “clutter,” which Bill regarded as “the disease of American writing . . . unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.” Tuesdays with William Zinsser 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The phrase "award-winning architect" has never been so meaningless. Carbuncle Cup: what's the ugliest building of the year? 2013-05-21T10:36:49Z Ike’s story is random and truncated and pointedly meaningless: he hangs out on his stoop, goes to a diner, flirts with a waitress, talks to his daughter’s boyfriend, and then gets shot to death. Grab Life By The Sugar Frosted Nutsack 2012-04-11T16:53:05Z I don’t feel that the work we’re doing is necessarily important with a capital I, but it’s also not meaningless. How Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon Straightened Out ‘Full Circle’ 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z In Facebook rants, emails, and private conversations, friends and colleagues of mine have critiqued “Formation’s” lyrics as “dumb” and “meaningless,” her video as “vapid.” Dear liberal white guys: Before you offer your critique of Beyoncé’s “Formation,” read this 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z There were long stretches of our career where I felt Sara dwelled on meaningless things. Nine Albums Later, Tegan and Sara Are Finally Ready to Discuss High School 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Don't think `My contribution will be so meaningless and small that it won't matter.' Sandra Lee urges: Get involved in storm recovery 2012-11-06T20:21:08Z “It was so meaningless and pointless, and such a baffling event that it got me thinking about the why of it,” he said. In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Ichiro Tanioka, the president of Osaka University of Commerce and an expert in the economics of gambling, supports lifting the casino ban but describes measures outlined to address addiction as “meaningless”. Casino project will offer Japan's addicts a new way to lose 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z As for this new pile of Drake songs, they feel mostly meaningless. Review | Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ is a lonely, predictable wail from the mountaintop 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Godly hates the dull routine of his meaningless existence. Review | For the disenchanted: two lightly comic and quietly touching tales of magic 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z “I had zero motivation to do anything. I just thought it was all useless, meaningless,” she said. 'Society is suffering': Hong Kong protests spark mental health crisis 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z That doesn’t make it an illusion, or meaningless. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z Such questions, in retrospect, seem meaningless, she said. Spring Fashion: Only the Half of It: The Skirt, and Its Shape, Are in Play This Season 2012-03-21T22:05:04Z “Silicon Valley” marries the two with the particular brand of do-gooding, disrupting, one-percenter technobabble that has profound effects on our lives from an insular system in a rarefied community with bizarre, meaningless rules. Ayn Rand goes to “Silicon Valley”: The farcical libertarian world of Mike Judge, where corporations are the new soul-crushing villains 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z “The executive order is meaningless,” said Reinhold Martin, an architecture professor at Columbia University “This is an effort to use culture to send coded messages about white supremacy and political hegemony.” Trump Makes Classical Style the Default for Federal Buildings 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z The observation is as meaningless as it is vulgar. JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson – review 2013-03-22T16:30:04Z But the effect is puerile rather than provocative, and fundamentally meaningless. Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z These are meaningless assertions, exposing the relativity of the adjective on which they depend. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z Everything was prettily conventional, tritely romantic, safely heterosexual and ultimately meaningless. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center 2012-09-30T21:58:45Z “I feel a very deep connection to the existentialist tradition of God as an absence — not a meaningless void, but a negative presence we live in terms of,” he told the Paris Review in 1985. Remembering Robert Stone 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Take their recent discussion about who is the best shooting guard in the N.B.A., one of those mostly meaningless debates that are the meat and potatoes of such shows. Zaniness of 'Inside the N.B.A.' Doesn’t Depend on the Score 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z O’Neill’s innovation is to assure us that meaningless work is just as mind-numbing at $500 an hour as it is at minimum wage. In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking A red herring is something that led you down a path that went nowhere, or that was ultimately meaningless. Damon Lindelof on the ‘Leftovers’ Finale, Mark Linn-Baker and Preserving the Mystery 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z When Diaz rails against the “more than 70 additives” wineries are allowed to use, she essentially cancels sustainable, organic or biodynamic certifications as meaningless. Wine labels can be vague, and drinkers are thirsty for clarity 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z The things that it's shouting about – television, oppression – are little more than meaningless bellows. Rereading Stephen King: week 12 – The Running Man 2012-11-22T10:13:57Z That question is as meaningless as the movie’s title. | 'To Age or Not to Age': Robert Kane Pappas?s Documentary 2010-07-15T22:37:00Z Shortly after Gossip Cop’s debut, an editor at New York magazine wrote: “Publicist denials are not only boring, they’re meaningless. These are people who are paid to lie to protect their clients.” Johnny Depp Is NOT Best Friends With This Lizard, Despite Report 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Any man who sneers at them now for worrying about the shifting paradigms, offering only meaningless platitudes or accusations of bigotry, is showing his male privilege. Don’t you just love it when a man explains to you what it means to be a woman? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z And by saving its shocking Rachel twist for its final minutes, "Sweet Girl" essentially renders the twist meaningless. The shock twist in “Sweet Girl” subverts the typical masculine revenge thriller — with a catch 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z It sounds, in many ways, as meaningless as it actually is. Toward a Different Language of Size 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Within a few years such distinctions would be meaningless. Art Review: When the Artists Voted for the Politics of Order 2010-10-10T21:37:00Z F won’t mock her for saying pretentious, possibly meaningless things like “I am no longer a bodied animal I am only an effect.” Review: Building a Better Girl in ‘Honestly Sincere’ 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Photograph: Helen Boast/Rex Features Rare is the musician who takes a pop at British music's holiest of holy cows, but Richard Hawley has done just that, saying the "has become meaningless to me". Richard Hawley refuses to play 'meaningless' Glastonbury 2013-06-11T15:29:05Z We are a meaningless mosquito that he barely hears buzzing by his ear. John Oliver Returns: ‘I’m Not a Complete Nihilist’ 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z So are these trade group ethics statements and company-specific values promises just meaningless rhetoric? Why the travel industry’s ethics matter 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But it's misplaced and almost meaningless from a movie that uses Asian culture and people as a two-dimensional backdrop. Netflix's Tokyo-set action flick "Kate" tries to critique imperialism while ultimately relying on it 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The definition of “rock and roll” has gone from fluid to meaningless in recent years, and the bar for entry to the hall remains difficult to locate. No charts, no Grammys, no Hall of Fame: Why pop greatness requires talk and time 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Even a drunk Don Draper would be embarrassed to pitch such meaningless dross. Perspective | Beeple’s digital ‘artwork’ sold for more than any painting by Titian or Raphael. But as art, it’s a great big zero. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z But “Morning Sun” highlights neither the existential angst of a meaningless world nor the interpersonal conflicts that make so many fictional homes feel dangerous. Review: Edie Falco Shines as an Everywoman in ‘Morning Sun’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Painfully inhibited, neglected by her family and racked with guilt over her meaninglessly violent actions overseas, Isabelle is not at ease in this world. Review: ‘This Is Not a War Story,’ Nor Does Coming Home Mean Peace 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Sure, all human activity is meaningless, seeing as the world will probably end one day. The Hurricane Hit, but Our Show Went On 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Does she regard the movie business as meaningless and empty? 'I hate romantic comedies' 2010-03-21T22:00:00Z “I would go to school and people would be talking about television, which was meaningless to me, and bands. I can remember someone talking about Take That, and I was like: ‘Take what?’” What George Clooney, Lupita Nyong’o, Elton John and Eddie the Eagle taught us in 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z They are penalized half the distance to the goal, which is meaningless. Perspective | Why you shouldn’t go toe-to-toe with a sports columnist 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z To say so is to render the word meaningless. My bad sex wasn’t rape 2013-03-22T23:00:00Z He's entirely too willing to throw an innocent stranger under the train for the sake of his meaningless career, and he lacks enough interesting texture to serve as the story's moral center. "Dinner for Schmucks": Steve Carell's greatest nerd role? 2010-07-29T11:01:00Z Walking around them this week, I was struck by how they divided between banal literalism and meaningless abstraction. London is now full of war memorials, but the oldest are still the best 2012-11-09T22:29:02Z “The washing instructions are meaningless to me because I err on the side of caution and dry clean everything, and I don’t really care who made it as long as it looks good on me.” Taking the Scissors to Annoying Labels 2011-07-27T18:32:44Z A meaningless task, but somehow it felt important. After the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting, a Russian-Jewish Immigrant Remembers Squirrel Hill 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z When Will arrests the arsonist, the man taunts him, treating Will’s badge as if it’s meaningless. HBO's "Watchmen" trolls history and heroic whiteness in the most extraordinary episode yet 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z If these stories are not the real thing, they’re such a good imitation of it that the distinction is meaningless. Review: The Bold Voice of Rebecca Schiff, in 23 Stories 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Of course, even though the numbers are initially meaningless, they acquire meaning once Fischer is told they’re important. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z It is only one of the book’s many ironies that the making of “Badge” proves not dissimilar to the war Crane and, after him, Huston wished to portray: cruel, relentless, ultimately meaningless. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z PG: Yes, sure—even speaking of the media is a meaningless simplification. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z A generous reading would be its ability to say something about how the regurgitation of mass-culture images renders them meaningless. A Coming-Out Party for KAWS at the Brooklyn Museum 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z If you keep reading from left to right, it’s meaningless. In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z As a children's book author, it's difficult to know what to do while facing the world's despair, which often makes writing and revising stories about imaginary characters seem meaningless. Making sense of a senseless world: How children's books can mitigate the horror around us 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Archaeologists rejected these ideas as fantasies for a long time, interpreting the orientation of the passages at Newgrange and Knowth as coincidental and the incised stones as a set of meaningless geometric designs. Jane Smiley Explores Ancient Ireland’s Mysterious Tombs 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z “And our lives are as meaningless as a single, lonely letter, an s with just a hiss that meant nothing, a p sputtered, a t of staccato disapproval.” In Love With Language, but Not Necessarily With Each Other 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, it seems that the “delete” button is practically meaningless: Gabrielle Union: Sharing Stolen Nude Photos Is a 'New Form of Sexual Abuse' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z “The way I look at it, life is meaningless,” Everman said the last time I saw him. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z Having the court declare the sets to be authentic is meaningless, he told Mr. Thome, “because his inability to sell the sets is a function of the marketplace.” When Judging Art’s Authenticity, the Law vs. the Market 2012-08-05T20:26:23Z A rebound may be the only acceptable way to have a meaningless summer fling, she says. Analysis | The summer fling isn’t fun anymore 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z This type is known as “eustress” and without it, they say, our lives would be dull and meaningless. Under pressure: how stress can change our lives for the better 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z While it's true that acts as experimental and commercially maladroit as Jackson's Way seldom bag the big prizes, the idea of winning "inexplicably" is just the kind of meaningless activity that Adamsdale appreciates. Will Adamsdale: the guru of nonsense 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z But queuing up for a meaningless foodstuffs is a total Abbi move, and that’s why it’s funny; some things will never change about these characters. Broad City: meet the 21st century comedy queens that even Hillary loves 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Sam’s violence is cruel, sudden, arbitrary and meaningless. 'Bloody' Sam Peckinpah: wasted, insane and indestructibly pure 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Probably not — it’s nearly a meaningless distinction, and there will never be a reason to stop playing. Perspective | ‘Jeopardy!’ has named its Greatest of All Time. But why did it have to go there? 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z And, because you’re among “your people,” then you can indulge yourself in interests, discussions and arguments that seem both meaningless and beyond comprehension to outsiders, whether it’s the victor in a classic Kirby Thor vs. Are Political Conventions the New Comic-Con? 2012-09-05T12:00:17Z He added, laughing, “It shows you how meaningless the Internet really is.” Television: Daniel Tosh Is a Hit on ?Tosh.0? 2010-08-20T17:25:00Z Genre's foot soldiers think that literary fiction is a collection of meaningless but prettily drawn pictures of the human condition. Gaiman's choice: shouldn't good writing tell a story too? 2010-06-23T10:41:00Z The cost of a cheap plastic hanger may seem meaningless, but it is unnecessary waste. Behind the Scenes at an H&M Opening 2012-11-21T23:36:27Z Why, Brad darling," says the blonde, as they stare at a painting whose back we see, various meaningless shapes grinning through the canvas, "This painting is a masterpiece! Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z If this is a highly self-conscious way for Ms. Rebeck to smuggle in a feminist message to Broadway audiences, it’s so compromised as to be almost meaningless. Critic?s Notebook: Women Playwrights and Gender Stereotypes on Broadway 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z To start suggesting affinities between artists based on national or regional identity almost inevitably leads to cliches, categories that are exclusive, or ideas that are so capacious as to be meaningless. Perspective | Is there a difference between national art and nationalist art? 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The numbers in ultra running are so big and insane that they start to become meaningless in the space between the races, when you’re talking and thinking about them rather than actually running them. Just a baby ultra? Qualifying for the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Such fare is a balm as well for people dealing with regret, he suggested, those eager to extract a message of hope from apparently meaningless, ungovernable events. The Dead Get a Do-Over 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Your “procrastination” is actually your wiser self telling you that doing meaningless work is an outrage to the soul and that more real grieving needs to be done. I’m avoiding work 2013-02-07T01:00:00Z All of them are pretty meaningless in Geldof's view, largely a collection of the "complacent" and "smug." Bob Geldof: American music 'exhausted' | Kot at SXSW 2011-03-17T19:16:45Z Particularly her remark that Faber were "probably trying to save a sheet of paper in their design of the book" which seems to me to be completely meaningless. Interview: Elizabeth Sigmund, dedicatee of The Bell Jar – Reading group 2013-01-18T17:16:43Z I recognize that's a statistically meaningless sample, but it's not an encouraging one. "The Change-Up": Bateman, Reynolds buddy comedy gives us the willies 2011-08-05T23:01:00Z I would either wear that hat on the first day of a new shoot, or I would wear my T-shirt that says “Time becomes meaningless in the face of creativity.” The New, Improved James Cameron Wants to Reintroduce You to ‘Avatar’ 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Likewise, Attack of the Clones seemed to speak to its sequel’s endless conveyor belt of meaningless CGI aliens, planets and cityscapes as much as to the creation of the first proto-stormtrooper army. Could The Last Jedi's title bode well for Star Wars' spirit of invention? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Yet more often than not, these interactions are effectively meaningless or close to it, serving more as catharsis for the complainer than as a realistic way of achieving concrete results. Why America needs a little more rudeness 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z In Tudor times, when few people had any learning, "learning disabled" was a meaningless category. All the King's Fools: 'Disability is deep in comedy's DNA' 2011-02-24T10:18:28Z He was explaining his impeachment rationale, and why arguments against it — Trump’s term would be up in 2½ years anyway, Democrats couldn’t get the votes — were meaningless to him. Want to impeach the president? This billionaire is on the case. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z We’re being told to believe that the vigilante killing of three young Americans is socially and politically meaningless. The Chapel Hill Massacre Blues 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Grand Vin de Bourgogne A meaningless but compulsory indication that the wine is from Burgundy. How to Read a Wine Label, in 12 Easy Lessons 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The view that it is fuelling short-term, meaningless connections isn’t quite right, says Julia Carter, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of the West of England. Why childhood sweethearts no longer measure up – and six other ways dating has changed 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z “If my music doesn’t succeed as music and touch you in some purely musical way, then it becomes meaningless,” he says. Seattle Symphony to present world premiere of John Luther Adams’ highly anticipated ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z A sweetness that would have relegated me to chicks’ work and chicks’ passivity and a chick’s small, meaningless life. Screw the sisterhood! I’d rather screw your boyfriend 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z We don’t read detective novels to find out that the universe is meaningless, but that, with sufficient information, it all makes sense. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Industry statistics from the Entertainment Software Association say 47 percent of game players are women, but that number is frequently viewed as so all-encompassing as to be meaningless, bundling Solitaire alongside "Diablo III". In virtual play, sex harassment is all too real 2012-08-02T04:14:04Z But it wasn’t the dark I was afraid of, it was the disintegration of the body, becoming meaningless, becoming nothing. Skin hunger: touch saved me from unbearable loneliness. What will we become without it? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z However laudable the academy’s efforts, they will remain meaningless if the industry doesn’t make good-faith efforts at real equality. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z As if reinforcing the idea that old rules are meaningless, the festival booked two members of the performance art/meta-pop PC Music collective. Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The Fourth of July, with all its celebratory fervor, is yet another meaningless ritual, ironically existing only to expose the hideous distance between fantasy and reality. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Forrest’s life is a meaningless joke; the job he’s shackled to is degrading and pointless; and the life he’s critiquing, barely worth living. Hate your job, or your life — or both? Find catharsis in the cruel humor of “Review” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z So it is precisely because her work renders meaningless the distinction she draws between documentation and art that she is now the first full-time, lifelong journalist to win the literature prize. Nonfiction Wins a Nobel 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z If you think the world is meaningless, but you are in love with life or with a person, you can’t help but experience the world as utterly meaningful. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z Until they do, promises by the airlines to end fees will be meaningless. Perspective | No, this is not the end of travel fees. It’s just the beginning. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z They are, of course, as silly and meaningless as ever. Golden Globes announced, but it's all Amy and Tina 2012-12-13T17:52:16Z But life among the undead is meaningless for him until he kills a suicidal teen leading a scavenging party and eats his brain. 'Warm Bodies': Isaac Marion's novel of zombie love 2011-05-05T17:23:04Z The symphony is not an attack on the military, but an indictment of the governmental instigation of meaningless slaughter. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2012-06-11T17:10:04Z What can I tell you of pain, you who have worked your way through pages of this meaningless, turgid drivel? Digested classic: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 2010-04-30T09:38:00Z Their research seems to support the idea that the manuscript is meaningless. The strange quest to crack the Voynich code 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Over Roman's shoulder, Shiv wears a look that says the huggy thing is meaningless. On "Succession," why bother simply surviving when you can fake what it means to be living ... plus? 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Badu said she was not shown the edited version, which she called a "tasteless, meaningless, shock motivated video". Singer Badu angered by nude video 2012-06-07T13:48:25Z What Gingrich does is portray structurally meaningless reforms, like the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, as “revolutionary,” so as to simultaneously scare seniors while achieving nothing. Combativeness Doesn't Equal Seriousness about Entitlement Reform 2012-01-26T04:17:11Z There, for reasons that become obvious to the audience long before Paula is able to grasp them, he convinces her that, as she puts it, she does “senseless, meaningless things.” Why ‘Gaslight’ Hasn’t Lost Its Glow 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Telling the story of how you loved and how you lost gives shape and meaning to what first seems to be a meaningless, uncontrollable event. I’m Dying Up Here: Books on How to Grieve and How to Die 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The “words” turned out to be meaningfully meaningless. Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” Came From The Future 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z There is a fair bit of early-90s style-over-substance, and the film was denounced by no less a figure than Arthur Miller as “meaningless”, but stylish is undoubtedly what it is. The Coen brothers’ films – ranked! 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The events of the following day, he says, rendered the script meaningless. Forrest Gump 2: a sequel berserk enough to suit our hellish times? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z She calls it ephemera, meaningless boxes; Sam points out that when you open one of those boxes, there's Phil's brother. The "Better Things" final season reminds us of how incredible it is that we – and it – exist 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “Unionised white people are the least racist white people in the working class,” says Christman, “and it’s especially meaningless now because the working class is made up of minorities anyway.” 'We just want to make fun of Toby Young!': socialist US comics Chapo Trap House 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z What is the point, in this meaningless universe that goes on forever?’ ” — while Angelina Jolie appeared unruffled as she declined to comment on the death of Osama bin Laden. Party Love at Cirque de Cannes 2011-05-16T22:16:49Z Schorske writes, “Klimt’s version of the universe is Schopenhauer’s—the World as Will, as blind energy in an endless round of meaningless parturience, love and death.” The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z As you will discover, should you chose to read on, vowels are meaningless in music these days. Paramore, MDNGHT, RDGLDGRN: this week's new tracks 2013-05-17T12:00:00Z And free speech to me is completely meaningless if you can’t offend. For Rowan Atkinson, Comedy Isn’t Always a Laughing Matter 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z They are capitalism in human form, utterly meaningless except for the meaning onlookers place on them. Keeping Up With the Kardashians gave America its real first family 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z All the chips he’d earned—the tokens given by AA for milestone periods of sobriety—became meaningless. The pseudo-science of Alcoholics Anonymous: There’s a better way to treat addiction 2014-03-23T18:30:00Z His trips into a place where "into" is meaningless brought him to the attention of the local detective, Aschemann, who bore an uncanny resemblance to the older Albert Einstein, and his unnamed assistant. Empty Space: A Haunting by M John Harrison – review 2012-08-02T07:00:00Z The prelude to the group’s farewell performance is an elaborately staged, overlong, meaningless car crash on the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. Movie Review: ‘Now You See Me,’ Directed by Louis Leterrier 2013-05-30T21:29:58Z In 1975 he goes further: “To say that the world is too much with us is meaningless for there is no longer any us. The world is everything.” ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z What’s curious, then, is not so much the careful avoidance of politics — politicians are really good at this — but Sasse’s repeated assertions that political solutions are meaningless. In Two New Books, Unhappy Conservatives Ask: What Now? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z From Vicki’s perspective, Billy is “empty, open, nothing but a conduit for meaningless rage or bliss.” Unheard Melodies: On Helen Garner’s “The Children’s Bach” 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z It was meaningless, play-pretend, like depositing an envelope of very generous checks into my account, each of them written on cocktail napkins. My relapse years 2012-06-14T00:00:00Z The film's cynical tone is hollow, and meaningless. "Crisis" boasts big names – Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, even Armie Hammer! – and fails them all 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z "The two constructs are essentially measuring the same thing," Brown said, so putting people in one category rather than another was "meaningless." Happiness study draws frowns from critics 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z The problem isn’t necessarily that it’s crass but that it’s meaningless. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z So he said unto himself many more meaningless and contradictory statements until he reached the city. Digested classic: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 2010-04-30T09:38:00Z “The high jinks in New York made a sham of my marriage, so it logically made the fruits of that marriage meaningless as well,” he says about shooting his lazy daughter. Books of The Times: ‘Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls,’ by David Sedaris 2013-05-14T20:26:13Z I've been to bars out there, and while they may seem meaningless to the outsider, these are the places where hip-hop lives and breathes. America's Musical Cities 2010-07-07T21:20:00Z “The winning song isn’t a restrained ballad as you might expect after corona,” Mr. Maas said, “but instead it’s an exuberant plea for authenticity, a call to ignore meaningless chatter.” Eurovision, Celebrating the Sounds of a Postpandemic Continent 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z In the “The Art of Loading Brush,” the collection of essays and stories that you published in 2017, you write about the future being a meaningless idea, or at least not a terribly useful idea. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Without wider social or political context this is practically meaningless. What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner – review 2013-07-11T09:00:00Z “For years people have said that Cannes prizes were meaningless to American audiences but that has not been our experience,” Mr. Sehring said. Special Report: Cannes Festival: They'll Always Have Cannes 2012-05-15T23:11:00Z “There is a door in a forest that was not always a forest. The door is no longer a door, not entirely” vies for the most meaningless lukewarm word milkshake herein. 8 Years After ‘The Night Circus,’ Erin Morgenstern Has a New Novel 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z “Detox and anorexia rendered asceticism meaningless decades ago.” ‘Quicksand’ review: A zany, and trying, tale of a man who can’t catch a break 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Every nervous giggle, coy look, awkward silence and meaningless remark is captured, rather prettily, by the film’s director, cinematographer and co-writer, Conrad Jackson. Movie Review: ‘Falling Overnight’ 2012-07-27T01:05:24Z The main thing she will have to do is stay interested, because unless you know how to regulate and have a balance, it’s meaningless.” Main Course: Still Strutting, on Stage and Off 2011-08-05T20:32:31Z “Hey now” is a catchphrase schemed up for its own sake, a meaningless noise invented by a pathetic man whose only goal was to have a catchphrase. From Homer Simpson to Hank Kingsley: TV's greatest catchphrases ranked 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z If these commentators can find meaning in the song, then I strongly encourage anyone who has dubbed the song meaningless to reconsider their assessment. Dear liberal white guys: Before you offer your critique of Beyoncé’s “Formation,” read this 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Sentence after sentence is inflated with meaningless intensifiers such as "deep", "powerful", "magnificent", "famous" and "prestigious". CS Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath – review 2013-05-08T09:00:04Z “At some point in this meaningless action I heard a note whenever I tapped the floor.” Herbert Deutsch, Co-Creator of the Moog Synthesizer, Dies at 90 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The phrase “fake news” has now been used so liberally, it’s meaningless. John Oliver Returns: ‘I’m Not a Complete Nihilist’ 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z What you seem to be or what religion you follow, what race you are, that's all meaningless. Lt. Joe Kenda of "Homicide Hunter": "I never pulled the trigger because I never had to 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z At the national level, it devolves into a meaningless language of heroism, valor and sacrifice, often in service to a larger and menacing nationalism. America is chock-full of World War I memorials, so why build another one? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Then candidly, in as much as I like some of his policies, I thought President Trump was one who engaged in what I called meaningless conflict. “Bar Rescue” boss Jon Taffer wants to show you how to argue better 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z But in court documents, CorePower’s lawyers dismissed karma as a meaningless “metaphysical precept,” on par with words like “authentic,” “World Class Yoga Experience” and, yes, “soul-rocking.” Psst. Kid. Wanna Teach Some Yoga? 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Here and elsewhere we see barriers disappear — those between genres, cultures and languages become meaningless. Review: In ‘Landfill Harmonic,’ One Person’s Trash Is a Child’s Violin 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z What poetry enables us to do is to savor, to taste the words that will sustain us, in contrast with that sense of the meaningless that confronts us every day. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Or as Richardson puts it, in what may incidentally serve as a warning to readers: “One is taught from an early age to discern difference, however meaningless it might seem outside of this group.” Review | Scholars have dismissed debutante balls, but ‘The Season’ digs in to the strange, fascinating history 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z The technology is a stark reminder that our exchanges have devolved into something so meaningless, a robot could do them. Perspective | Google wants to write your emails for you. It’s time to draw the line. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z It allowed Germans to chuckle at a very sinister thought: that history was only ever repeating itself in meaningless loops, that nothing was ever changing. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z But I sincerely believe that “praise is meaningless if criticism is not free.” Zhang Zanbo: A Chinese Documentary Filmmaker Returns to His Roots 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Without the arts, which put things into a human context, all that other stuff is meaningless. Tim Daly, Sibling Bonds and the Stage 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.” William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ at His Work 2013-04-28T16:18:48Z His poetry was suffused with the search for unity and meaning in a meaningless age. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z There’s no more time to waste in meaningless bars, having meaningless conversations, yet in some ways, there was no time to waste doing anything else. Denis Johnson' posthumous collection 'The Largesse of the Sea Maiden' is a poetic argument against toxic masculinity 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Little things like self-editing and narrative coherence were abandoned in favour of vast, meaningless spectacle. 'We're gonna need a smaller boat': where should Pirates of the Caribbean 4 make its savings? 2010-05-06T13:13:00Z Which meant it maintained almost exactly the same format, apart from the contrived addition of a meaningless competition against other local fishermen. Extreme Fishing Challenge; Food & Drink – TV review 2013-02-26T07:00:05Z The criticism, no matter how virulent, has long since ceased to bother me, but the price of this is that the praise is equally meaningless. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z Instead of a total library filled with mostly meaningless books, there is a single "magical sentence", written by God on the first day of creation. Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges – review 2013-05-30T11:00:01Z And, twice, I was drunk enough to risk rug burns and my self-respect for that quick, meaningless contact. I was the evil “other woman” 2012-06-19T22:30:00Z It is true that many have not come here legally, but it is important to understand that, in their countries, that word, “legal” can be meaningless. 40 years ago, I fled South America for freedom. I am one of the lucky ones 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The sex scenes were never gratuitous, because the entire films were about sex — usually, they were about how disastrous meaningless sex can be. When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z The meaningless “B, JB” line arrives predictably in every Bond film, helping to fuse them all together in your mind. Gene Weingarten: Mythunderstood We wouldn’t be those people bound to travel halfway across the country for awkward gatherings and forced photos, upholding meaningless, mercenary gift exchanges. Peace on Earth — and at home for the holidays 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z There are bevelled boxes in shades of tangerine and mint, yellow blobs floating on meaningless green arrows, and that all-pervasive header choked with a congested scatter of company logos. Prism: the PowerPoint presentation so ugly it was meant to stay secret 2013-06-12T15:39:20Z The other thing that struck me," Mackenzie adds, "was that it was festooned with expression marks, which just seemed arbitrary and meaningless. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z Like the term “natural,” these labels aren’t regulated by the FDA and are relatively meaningless, Davis said. Essential oils are potent, risky and promising. Here’s what you need to know. 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z “They agreed to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, which isn’t just ambiguous compared to the multiple previous agreements involving North Korea, it’s also close to meaningless.” John Oliver calls deal between US and North Korea 'close to meaningless' 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z "You're welcome," in response to a thank you, is literally meaningless. Lucy Mangan: how do I do? Much better without canapes and kisses, thanks 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z There is no way the Greek people will accept an austerity programme that renders democracy meaningless and condemns them to decades of poverty. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z A grand statement about how, ultimately, politics, money and power are meaningless in the face of an unstoppable environmental catastrophe? Mother of Dragons or the Night King: who will win the Game of Thrones? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z “The Quiet Ones” is not very original, nor even especially scary, and its title ultimately proves as meaningless as its plot. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z He was on heroin all the time – I hate all those druggies because their eyes get glazed and what they say is meaningless because they don't follow through. How we made: Kenneth Anger on Lucifer Rising 2013-07-22T17:55:00Z That anything stupid that may bother me is just meaningless when you realize the bigger picture. Toto's Steve Lukather remembers bassist Mike Porcaro 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Authenticity has been rightly picked apart by critics, who argue that it’s easily manufactured and so vaguely defined as to be meaningless. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z It is certainly quite difficult to go through life without having meaningless tragedy happen. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z “Or that the plans, as written, are so watered down by worries about density and new development as to be effectively meaningless in attacking our acute housing shortage?” Essential Arts & Culture: Björk-apalooza, a master of theater, architecting L.A.'s newest museum 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But they're mostly meaningless to everyone but the artists, their families and their handlers. Billboard Music Awards are ho-hum, but Taylor Swift was impressed 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Then I guess the entire legal system is meaningless. Keep your guns out of my school! 2012-12-21T19:54:00Z Sure, I have looked them up, but their definitions are so gauzy and academic that they are meaningless to me, and forgettable. Gene Weingarten: Admit it. You don’t know what ‘epistemological’ means either. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z But so abhorrent are the staff's methods that their objective is meaningless. Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z For now, one more delightful instance of Greene's ability to wrongfoot – a quote from Travels with My Aunt: "People who like quotations love meaningless generalisations." Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z Hicks's worldview – we are all energy; money and status are meaningless distractions; authenticity of feeling is paramount; embrace love, not fear – basically made him a hippy disguised as a punk. The adulation of Bill Hicks 2010-05-16T22:30:00Z It is a small, symbolic step, meaningless in itself. One small step on the long march to freedom: This weekend, I will not say his name 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Listening to his gorgeous voice utter meaningless sentences is an almost perfect metaphor for the experience of playing this beautiful but vacant game. Destiny Is a New Shooter Game From Activision and Bungie 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z It remains largely a static and meaningless cacophony. Mothering in a Newly Quiet World 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z At the end of the line, he looked to Wags like “a carcass with no further purpose,” like a walking symbol for a meaningless life. ‘Billions,’ Season 2, Episode 5: The Taste of Loneliness 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z My joke-writing style is less topical and more autobiographical, so most of my time in New York has been spent writing jokes about crippling loneliness and meaningless sex. 50 Comics Walk Into a Club. No, You Haven’t Heard This One. 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Last week, Bar-Lev, who had interviewed me for “Long Strange Trip,” sent me a link to a long reply that Hunter wrote, in 1996, to a scholarly essay that called his lyrics meaningless. Robert Hunter Gave the Grateful Dead Its Voice 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z As with so many natural disasters the human victims are left knowing that their feelings are completely meaningless as far as the natural disaster itself is concerned. Where are the good volcano novels? 2010-04-21T13:26:00Z And maybe in some cosmically meaningless way, it was the kind of microburst of entertainment that could make a time of sequestered disconnection a bit more bearable. Perspective | I am a theater critic in New York. Not a hair salon in Dublin. Let me explain. 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z She doesn't seem content with just being a pop star, and while others may decry her efforts, I'm happy she's not content with resting on her laurels with vapid meaningless music. Beyoncé Unearths Pain and Lets It Flow in ‘Lemonade’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Looking back, I think I really was in danger; her threats weren’t meaningless. My mother abused me as a child. Can I report her now? 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z You write that we all have an “obligation” to find meaning in the world—even though, “objectively,” it’s meaningless. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s meaningless that some guy on a bicycle gets given 20 million quid. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z Sometimes I wonder if this self-building is the real creative act, necessary to writers and artists, and without which their lives are meaningless. Kathleen Jamie on writing a book 2012-08-17T21:55:09Z With its nasty corridors and distant, repeated and meaningless screams, the building is like a psychiatric hospital. Berberian Sound Studio – review 2012-08-30T14:30:01Z The book's key ingredient – a sassy but klutzy female protagonist, embroiled in comical misadventures – could arguably be found in Jane Eyre, leaving any definition so elastic as to verge on meaningless. Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent ? and also ditzy and klutzy' 2012-02-12T20:00:11Z Such lists are daft and ultimately meaningless, I know. The Rest Is Noise festival explores American literature 1900-1950 2013-03-21T15:57:50Z No. The term is often meaningless because of the group’s size and diversity. If you’re using "millennial" as a meaningful measurement, you should probably stop 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z To many research psychologists, high self-esteem is symptomatic of narcissism, and healthy narcissism seems a “vague and somewhat meaningless way of describing ‘all human efforts.’” Lay off Kim and Kanye! Why millennials actually aren’t “Generation Me” 2014-04-06T15:00:00Z Further complicating matters: Certain words — natural, plant-based, nontoxic, organic — regularly used on cleaning products are unregulated, making their appearance on labels meaningless. How to find ‘green’ cleaning products that get the job done 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Still, the day of reckoning finally came, the one day my promise was meaningless. Among the Masters at the Ferrari and Lamborghini Museums 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Not a Kafkaesque existential deadness, but something else, something that captured “not the endless cycle of meaningless activity but the endless cycle of meaningful activity.” George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z Francine will hear none of it, because she’s come up with a meaningless slogan — “Freedom from fear” — that both the candidate and public adore. ‘Totalitarians’: Woolly takes a risk and stumbles badly with a murky political satire He said that “the tendency to find patterns in both meaningful and meaningless noise” — or, as he calls it, “patternicity” — developed as a way to keep humans alive. Why doesn’t everyone believe in God?: The skeptical brain may hold the answer 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Whatever the modern precedent, a president can easily render the vice president’s role meaningless again. Six vice presidents talk about job once considered invisible 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z A consensus quickly formed that the study – meticulously planned, lavishly funded, overseen by impressively credentialed researchers – must have been so flawed as to be meaningless. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “All these trinkets we adorn ourselves with are meaningless. It’s time that’s the only gift. So I don’t like to waste time.” ‘My therapist gave me a pill’: can MDMA help cure trauma? 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z And Melania saying that she "hates to see children separated from their families" is hollow and meaningless if she takes no issue with her husband's policy of ripping children from the arms of their parents. Melania's hollow statement on separating immigrant children from their parents 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z China’s foreign ministry said the renaming was “meaningless” and called for countries to maintain peace in the region. Indonesia welcomes giant pandas on loan from China 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z There were three bedrooms, but since there were no real walls left, that distinction felt somewhat meaningless. | Great View, No Walls in Cotto 2012-10-17T17:19:22Z He and his attorneys have said that renders many of his daughter’s complaints about his control over her life meaningless. Britney Spears hearing may mean freedom from court or father 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Prose is sensitive to age: its frustrations for the old, who have attained it; for the children, who yearn for its advantages and power; for all those who see it slipping meaninglessly past. High Praise for a Novel About an Awful Children’s Musical 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Part of what makes work tolerable is the idea that it is heroic, the fantasy that repetitive and meaningless tasks are charged with risk and significance. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z As this magnificent collection attests, the world that the Continental Op investigates may be “meaningless,” but that nameless “little man’s” work — and Hammett’s achievement — remain momentous. The nameless detective who launched Dashiell Hammett’s career 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z But is it all meaningless, since the public vote hasn’t been revealed yet? Eurovision song contest 2016 – as it happened 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z More than a third of British workers think their jobs are meaningless, according to a survey by YouGov. Do you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z There’s a great Francis Bacon quote about how, since life is so meaningless, we might as well be extraordinary. Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z This one involved glass, asphalt, overcast skies and other spurious doggerel, and was almost impressively meaningless. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode four recap – Some Guy 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z His single effective act is as meaningless as it is cruel: when he finds an effeminate young soldier serving at his weekend retreat, Pinochet orders that the man be humiliated and expelled from the army. A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z “It’s so vague as to be meaningless, which is why sources want it, but that’s also why it can feel like a deceit for the reader when they learn who you’re actually talking to.” The New York Times called ‘Anonymous’ op-ed author Miles Taylor a Trump ‘senior official.’ Was that accurate? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s that way people can overuse words and terms to the point of rendering them meaningless.” Quirky sketches, goofy humor and sharp social commentary — ‘Portlandia’ is back 2014-02-19T20:20:55Z As that team counted, competitor Julie Louis was tracing the seemingly meaningless shape that the performer walked. Veteran Post Hunt champions take the prize once again It didn't exactly scream reblog, but announced that this would be sex at its most empty and meaningless. Fifty Shades of Grey: first film image appears, and it's not very sexy 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z It felt so insular, so time-consuming and yet so meaningless, too, in the grand scheme of things. Breaking Up With Twitter 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z I’m staring at the card for “Mexican cottage pie” thinking it should have a different name, because the one it has is meaningless. Is this cooking for idiots? My week eating nothing but ‘recipe box’ food 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z “The only thing success has taught me is that success is meaningless,” he told The Saturday Evening Post in 1961. Glenn Yarbrough, Folk Singer With the Limeliters, Dies at 86 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z I found the beginnings of an answer to the epidemic of meaningless work – in Baltimore. Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z To anyone other than the scribe, these notes might seem meaningless, McKellar said, but to her, they are an opportunity for creativity. Librarian finds love notes, doodles in books and shares them with a grateful public 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Another problem: Terms like “natural,” “environmentally friendly,” and “non-toxic” found on packaging and in advertising are meaningless. 5 “green” products that aren’t as environmentally friendly as their labels suggest 2014-05-13T11:15:00Z Meanwhile, despite the common, slightly defensive warning that no one goes to Waka expecting traditional hip-hop lyricism, there's enough subtext and emotion that to label his music as meaningless would be a mischaracterisation. Waka Flocka Flame – review 2012-12-05T13:20:19Z But the whole spectacle of his suffering wasn’t just baroque in its intensity — it shared the spirit of the “Laocoön” depiction of meaningless, amoral, unproductive agony. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Life, caught up in meaningless rituals, feels as if it’s slipping by, but at the same time “progress” has landed us in a place we no longer recognize. Reclaiming the Past in the Internet’s ‘Infinite Present’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The passing seasons are almost meaningless to you. ‘I’ve been told bacon smells lovely’ – life without a sense of smell 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z It is ever present in the corners of one's field of vision, apparently motiveless and meaningless beyond it's own assertion of presence. The culture of tube graffiti is dying 2012-07-09T12:50:00Z I suspect that were he alive, Adolphe Sax would face the same quandary and would further be dismayed by your reviewer turning his invention into a meaningless adverb. Letters to the Editor 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z What is the point in this meaningless universe that goes on forever? Jolie, Black seek "inner peace" in Kung Fu Panda 2 2011-05-12T14:48:43Z Undocumented immigrants comprise a mere 3.5 percent of the American population, but reality is meaningless when the “real America” is angry over the invasion of Mexicans “bringing drugs” and “taking our jobs.” “Real Americans” vs. “Coastal Elites”: What right-wing sneers at city dwellers really mean 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The phrase cultural appropriation is a dull academic term to describe my sin: taking something that has real meaning for other people and making it into a meaningless gesture for myself. Two Tattoos Gone Wrong 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z But in room after room, the vasty majority of the objects were mute and meaningless, and only those that somehow referenced other periods of tumult and decline spoke with clarity. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Hamilton later wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation, starring James Stewart, but was unhappy with the result, calling the film "sordid and practically meaningless balls". Patrick Hamilton gets blue plaque 2011-02-15T15:08:31Z But "Barry" has taught us that what he says is meaningless next to what he does. Bill Hader gives "Barry" his made-for-TV movie hero wish 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Not just those; any kind of meaningless hype, whether it’s a supposed gaffe or some meaningless polling random variation, is going to get far more attention than it deserves. Women Olympians: They’re hot! 2012-06-19T18:40:00Z As he worked a crowd, “His eyes rolled, his body language was inappropriate and weird, and his hand flew around meaninglessly in odd directions.” Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Hofstra's examples of "subtle hazing" include but aren't limited to deception, demerits, quizzing on meaningless information, name calling and requiring new members to refer to current members by titles such as Mr. or Miss. Miss America admits sorority hazing, denies severity of accusations 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Initially Paul's role is to play the show's Everyman avatar, a blue-collar guy trapped in a spiral of meaningless existence. "Westworld" rides towards its manifest destiny, this time in a straighter line 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z This idea—that the apparently meaningless twittering of birds could have something like syntax, thought to be the hallmark of human language—electrified me. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z By doing so, he reinforces the show's assault on the distinction between meaningful and meaningless – which, six years on, is as hilarious and provocative as ever. Jackson's Way ? review 2011-01-09T21:30:01Z Pierre Anton decides that life is meaningless, so he leaves school, climbs into a plum tree and stays there. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z Ms. Lauper asks as she and the other panelists are accumulating meaningless points for their responses. Television Review: ?Would You Rather ? With Graham Norton? on BBC America - Review 2011-12-02T23:13:31Z So many novels these days are set prior to the author's lifetime that to label a novel "historical" is almost as meaningless as to call it "literary". The lying art of historical fiction 2010-08-06T15:44:00Z My Israeli credit card was of no relevance; my bank account in Israel was meaningless. The American Promise in a Free Refill 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s not like the heads of the major studios — who really do thrive on empty, meaningless and violent spectacle, the cinematic equivalent of fast food — are rushing out to support Weinstein’s cautious mea culpa. Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z In the context of a meaningless task, military protocol and discipline seem like some exotic absurdist religion. Arts & Leisure: ‘Denial,’ ‘Bofors Gun’ and the London Revival of Rage 2012-06-17T00:00:31Z But in bringing out the Republican Dash, Rock skewered how meaningless attempts at “diversity” usually are. OscarsSoWhite: Chris Rock exposed the depths of the industry's race problem 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Early on, Nick insults a braggy thug by comparing him to TV, a meaningless barb when nearly everything on television today is better than "By the Gun." Mob movie 'By the Gun' misses its mark 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Life, even for a bird, is full of meaningless humiliations. ‘Stanleyville’ Review: The Most Senseless Game 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The broader lesson here is that every 20 years or so some male guru comes along and he says to men, "Your lives are empty. They're meaningless, you're not going anywhere". After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z But mostly their choices are meaningless or downright baffling. Sandra Oh saved the Golden Globes: The good, bad and ugly of the 2019 awards 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z As the meme spread, it devolved into near meaningless: people are now posting photos of just about anything with the phrase attached. This Is the Joke That Liberals Need 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z So Gaby’s admiring declaration to Tony that “You got me dancing, the thing I love most in my life” is meaningless. Review: Musical Triplets: 'The Band Wagon' Times Three 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z For the former, it is a silly, slick, almost meaningless term that does not answer to experience and seems to threaten the sovereignty of British and American Standard English. Globish and its discontents 2010-04-12T11:56:00Z Like all conspiracy theories, evidence and facts to the contrary are usually worse than meaningless to the people pushing them, says Joseph Uscinski, author of “American Conspiracy Theories.” ‘False flag’ planted at a pizza place? It’s just one more conspiracy to digest. 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Her diplomacy made my role as executive producer somewhat meaningless, and I remember the way she charmed the civic worthies of Bergen to win our film unit the total co-operation of the harbour authorities. Letters: Susannah York obituary 2011-02-08T18:37:05Z The anchors give us meaningless happy chatter as the world falls apart. The World of Mannequins 2010-05-05T21:23:00Z It’s a bit surprising that Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt thrives on a streaming service, because its devotion to shock over insight yields meaningless discomfort more often than it does insight. Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is TV's Most #Problematic Show 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Random, meaningless and incoherent modernity is still many decades in the future. Poem of the week: Two in the Campagna by Robert Browning 2010-07-26T09:44:00Z “Sartre’s feeling was that life is meaningless, that everything is pure chance, that life is a useless passion,” Mr. Wilson told The Toronto Star in 1998. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z Brows, as measures of superficial complexity, are meaningless as determinants of artistic value. The Creative Class and the Movies 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Before I read the novel this fall, I assumed this sentence was a meaningless series of hyperboles, unworthy of its master. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 6: A Tale of Two Cities 2012-01-31T18:00:47Z The word “underrepresented” is often glossed over as a meaningless descriptor when in fact it is a literal and accurate one. The new Oscars diversity rules show Hollywood is inching in the right direction | Steve Rose 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z In the end, Corinthian granted meaningless diplomas that did nothing for students’ career prospects. “It’s like a nightmare that just won’t go away”: The Corinthian Colleges scam demonstrates the madness of student debt 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z And look on the menu for the names of specific farms, not meaningless generic pastoral terms like “farm eggs,” which means nothing. Q&A: Even Michael Pollan Breaks Rules on the Road 2013-06-14T20:07:03Z In this context, where tidiness and sense-making are the worst of all vices, "arbitrary" and "meaningless" are terms of praise. The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso – review 2012-07-06T21:55:15Z And even when they aren’t, who cares: Women are just as entitled to meaningless flings as men. Flowers, for me?! 2012-10-07T01:00:00Z I do believe it's a grim, nightmarish, meaningless experience. Cannes: Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" 2010-05-15T23:01:00Z Isn’t it just as likely that it’s a meaningless coincidence and White called him Stuart Little simply because he was little? “The Mansion of Happiness”: Matters of life and death 2012-06-24T21:00:00Z While the Old World-New World construction can strike some as condescending and meaningless today, I think it applies when speaking to cultural influences. How the Internet Has Left Its Mark on Terroir 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z It doesn’t mind padding its overall playtime with perhaps 10 hours of meaningless go-fetch quests. Video Game Review: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword by Nintendo - Review 2011-11-29T16:04:04Z It’s sort of feels like “Boy, what I do feels completely meaningless.” Rock sideman steels the show: Jason Narducy comes off the road and produces a second album as solo act Split Single 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Your sensors — for differentiating among humor, meaningless barbs, grumpiness that is about you, grumpiness that isn’t about you, and grumpiness that isn’t about you but is intolerable nonetheless — simply become more accurate. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is my boyfriend’s relationship with his co-worker a red flag? 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Now, science tells us that our reveries are more or less meaningless — a kitchen junk drawer, the brain’s information-dump at the end of the day. Review | Dreams are dangerous — and contagious — in Karen Thompson Walker’s apocalyptic thriller 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z “His sole and devouring preoccupation since infancy,” money, has been rendered “meaningless.” ‘Lionel Asbo,’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-18T00:06:07Z Destroyed and past, meaningless, unending pain, orphaned, what’s left: as if he’d never been, my father — called Max, but later bore the imposed name Israel, with dignity. A Physician Examines His Novels 2010-09-03T22:26:00Z Now studios and actors lobby and campaign for awards, and why they deserve them, and as a result, have cheapened the whole thing to something almost meaningless. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Sort of like how it’s always the parents of the nightmare toddlers who insist that without children one’s life is meaningless. How to cope with a solo Christmas? Relish every moment 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z It makes our agency seem irrelevant and meaningless. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z “A journalist’s promise to maintain confidentiality would be meaningless if a source’s identity could be discovered” through such means. Photographer who shot Proud Boys photos files suit to block House Jan. 6 committee subpoena 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The formerly meaningless word “covid” had a limited commercial history before the pandemic. ‘Covid’ is a word most of us dread. But some think it could make a good branding opportunity. 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s not like everyone grows up and dreams of working two essentially meaningless part-time jobs while collecting food stamps. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Or that the plans, as written, are so watered down by worries about density and new development as to be effectively meaningless in attacking our acute housing shortage? Unfinished business along the Expo Line 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The futility of his essentially barren and meaningless life has at last overwhelmed him and he's thrown himself off Norwich cathedral? Pass notes No 2,838: Alan Partridge 2010-08-30T19:00:00Z If the intention was to reflect the meaningless of the times we are going through, the production itself achieved that. Review: ‘The Present’: Even in Russia, It’s Hard to Turn 40 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z What did end up central to the story snuck into the plot via twists so random — and so boring! — that they rendered the narrative thrust of the season meaningless. “True Detective” recap: The beauty of the finale couldn’t save this flaming disaster of a season 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z It was the colonial state that opted instead, he says, to refer to the soldiers with the “meaningless mumbo-jumbo” of “Mau Mau” in order to obscure both their goals and their purpose. Song of Africa 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The paradox of that choice is that his death would be meaningless, whereas his voice in the novel seems so meaningful. Review: ‘The Dream of My Return,’ by Horacio Castellanos Moya 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z David’s response: The word is meaningless, and all she did was read the internet. ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ and the Difficulty of Coping IRL 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z If you believe the world is meaningful but you don’t love, you cannot help but experience the world as meaningless. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z We would be playing meaningless baseball, just like last year.” Driving to Work With Keith Hernandez, the Real Mr. Met 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Once upon a time, there was something to be said for that: a happy ending is meaningless if the journey is a cakewalk. Inside Disney’s New Fantasyland 2012-12-21T16:55:27Z In fact, being liked is meaningless without being your true self; otherwise people like your act, not you. Carolyn Hax: Reticent college student chokes on feelings of all sizes 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z At the same time, it strikes me as a meaningless concept open to two obvious objections. Is Judi Dench the best ever? 2010-12-16T13:54:02Z One is that the vocation I’ve dedicated my life to is meaningless. The Hurricane Hit, but Our Show Went On 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z It depicted an America so plagued by tedium and meaningless routine that its citizens are in danger of dying of boredom. Books of The Times: David Foster Wallace Biography by D. T. Max 2012-08-22T14:21:10Z The answer, Allen said in an earlier interview, is pure distraction from sitting at home pondering, “Gee, life is meaningless. We’re all going to die.” Working late in life, directors refuse to say cut 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s almost meaningless to call the performances in “Money Monster” good. Jodie Foster's Boring and Exciting “Money Monster” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The characters are flat, their relationships meaningless; their trek through European history is an intellectual construct rather than an artistic reality. Review: In ‘Good’ and ‘No End of Blame,’ Politics and Prickly Debate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z We are made to feel, she writes, “that an ordinary life is a meaningless life.” What's Wrong with the Mommy Track? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It was a reminder that while cartoon violence can be exhausting and meaningless in live-action shows, it can still be mesmerizing and meaningful when done where it belongs. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z An unwitting viewer might be unsure whether they were watching meaningless nonsense or a lost Tarkovsky script. 'It's a war between technology and a donkey' – how AI is shaking up Hollywood 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z "It's all meaningless if I have to force them to do anything." Help! We're trapped by "Lost"! 2010-05-08T23:01:00Z “If you think the United States was a good idea, you don’t want people to think the whole effort was for nothing, or was meaningless or malign.” The Battle for 1776 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z I keep calling Truckasauras the best band in Seattle, but with so much good stuff happening locally these days, it's a tough, maybe meaningless call. Late notice: Helladope at Triple Door, Truckasauras at Neumos, both all ages 2010-05-10T21:21:00Z "I don't want to say it's all meaningless because that's not true - there is good art and there is non-art," Franco replies. What lies beneath 2011-06-09T10:33:59Z Like Marley, Tosh “believed that ‘Babylon have no fruits’ and awards from the oppressors were meaningless. Late Reggae Icon Peter Tosh Receives Jamaica Honor 2012-10-16T02:02:42Z This sounds like a meaningless detail, but these napkins play an important role—if a tiny one—in the way I’ve come to think of Alger Hiss and what happened to him. My dinner with Alger Hiss 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The process appeared direction-less; the programme, such as it was, expressed in such indecipherable jargon as to render it meaningless. Ruth Mackenzie: 'There's no time to mess around' 2010-03-29T20:30:00Z Some people argue that the alcohol level is meaningless, as long as the wine is balanced. Even Bad Jokes Can Make Good Thanksgiving Wines 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z These are small and maybe meaningless concessions, especially in a world where Mr. Bieber is steady tabloid grist, and all his peccadilloes are a Google search away. Justin Bieber’s So-Watched Life 2013-12-20T20:45:07Z In the face of the Bataclan and San Bernardino it seems practically meaningless. For architecture in 2015, the world's 'soft targets' prompt a reevaluation 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z So many of us just leave meaningless, thoughtless comments that add nothing to the conversation and your brilliance puts us all to shame. Joan Baez on Her Next Chapter: ‘I Don’t Make History, I Am History’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Even with such meaningless groupings, there were patterns of gene activity seemingly characteristic of each group. Happiness study draws frowns from critics 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z “But freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. “That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed. Neil Young expands on his response to Donald Trump's use of 'Free World' song 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “I think people are drawn to social interaction in an age where social interaction is almost meaningless.” San Francisco Noir 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s a meaningless jumble of quips, witticisms and fanciful one-liners To begin with, your play is not a play at all. Noël Coward's wittiest lines – quiz 2013-07-05T12:58:31Z That's sort of a relative of the larger principle of the show, which is that if life is truly meaningless, then everything is meaningful. Dan Harmon on the Future of Rick and Morty and That Community Movie 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s meaningless to say that the theories of such writers merely confirm or reinforce their preëxisting taste, or that their theories limit or override their taste. Albert Murray and the Limits of Critics with Theories 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z National boundaries are essentially meaningless, as war affects financial markets around the world and one group's suffering is likely to provoke vengeance and more harm. 'Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life': Living the Golden Rule 2011-02-03T00:03:04Z It must be voluntary – but regulation would be meaningless if significant publishers refused to join. Leveson vote: no cause for hyperventilating 2013-03-17T23:46:18Z Can it be extended indefinitely without becoming meaningless, or will it reach some natural limit? The Narrative Experiment That Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z We still fight meaningless wars and sacrifice troops at the whims of politicians and their backers in the defence industries. Letters: How to commemorate the first world war 2012-10-12T20:00:07Z "Instead of parroting the meaningless rants of a flock of Right-Winged Loonybirds infesting the refuge, why doesn't the Oregonian talk to the people who live there?" Ursula K. Le Guin blasts Oregon 'Right-Winged Loonybirds' 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The problem often has been that late-season meetings are meaningless for at least one team. 10 thoughts on Bears' loss to Saints 2011-09-19T11:23:00Z A prison stands in for the city: a walled theatre of meaningless degradation and punishment, where the only language left is violence. 'A pas de deux of sex and violence': a poet's guide to film noir 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z In “Pong,” two unmoving paddles encapsulate the meaningless but addictive busywork of the digital age with an interminable game of catch. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z That’s a meaningless distinction for the many people excited by the adventurous programs the dynamic young conductor Teddy Abrams and his excellent players have been giving. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: Here’s What We Want to Hear 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Not really, of course, but that’s the kind of meaningless remark from which Mr. Eno derives both humor and twinges of quiet feeling. Theater Review: ?The Realistic Joneses,? at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-05-01T22:14:22Z But asking whether the "Iron Man" franchise has jumped the shark is meaningless. "Iron Man 2": Parody or party? 2010-05-07T11:10:00Z That’s why, at this stage, the awards themselves are relatively meaningless. MTV Video Music Awards, a Playground for the Next Generation 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Let’s teach our children that privacy is meaningless! Santa’s little voyeur 2012-12-10T15:37:00Z All meaningless phrases that undermine her attempts at unburdening her heart. Review | The best thing about Kesha’s big comeback is where she’s headed next 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s been crushing to watch so many meaningful lives end in such a meaningless way. Perspective | The coronavirus is devastating a uniquely American art form 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Fox’s decision to peg debate participation to meaningless national polls, instead of early state support or favorability ratings or some other, more useful measure of formidability, has changed the nature of early presidential campaigning. Roger Ailes runs the GOP: How the Fox News boss took over the presidential primaries 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Of course, just because qi is meaningless in the context of medical science doesn't mean acupuncture doesn't work. Why acupuncture is giving sceptics the needle 2013-07-26T09:31:00Z I hiked up into the misty mountain of meaningless chunks of castle wall pinned down by Pixy Stix trees and mossy with sword ferns. A tale of two delightful castles, in Germany and Austria 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Although Eliot's poetry is notoriously open to interpretation, one reading of that line might be an image of existential boredom, the sense that the world is random and therefore frighteningly meaningless. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z Is it the biggest of my life, or essentially meaningless? Going it alone: why I chose single motherhood 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Getting trashed is fun, and meaningless sex can be just that, meaningless. Sequins, eyeliner and loos: how female friendships on screen got real 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The point of a seder is to engage people; it's just a meaningless ritual if it doesn't engage people. In conversation: Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer 2012-02-10T09:00:01Z When it comes to the movie and TV business, rosy ideals are meaningless next to profit. Turner Classic Movies holds our cinematic past. Does it have a future under Warner Bros. Discovery? 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z But the state law came about through many lawsuits that were aimed at ending life with dignity, instead of prolonging meaningless suffering. On Death and Dignity 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z As a literary device, an invisible line 700 miles north of the equator is rather meaningless, no matter how many times Ms. Griswold insists that it unites her book. Books of The Times: In ?The Tenth Parallel,? by Eliza Griswold, Religions Clash 2010-08-17T23:26:00Z Also on display is Washington’s penchant for bureaucratic double-speak so technical and convoluted as to be basically meaningless. 'Veep' Recap: This Mouse Will Roar 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z The studio steps in and covers things up, thereby locking Palance's character into a lifetime of meaningless macho roles. Fran?ois Truffaut ? the man who loved actors 2011-02-17T22:23:01Z Layers have layers, most of them provocative and ultimately meaningless distractions to the true concern. The best new "Black Mirror" episode is a Netflix self-own that plays out our current AI nightmare 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z But the flexible storyline may frustrate viewers who try to want meaning in something that may be meaningless. Diego Luna and Sienna Miller can't figure out what's real in the trippy, exhausting "Wander Darkly" 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The answer to the riddle is as meaningless as a completed sudoku puzzle. Rope – review 2012-06-18T10:56:10Z Even “meaningless sex”, is an activity our mind has chosen. My boyfriend cheated on me using Skype sex. Does it matter? 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z The stakes become so high that they are meaningless. Death by boldness: has Scandal got itself in a crisis even Olivia Pope couldn't fix? 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “I was like: ‘I’ve been where you are: You don’t get it, it seems meaningless. When These Dancers Collaborated, 2 Learning Curves Met as One 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, Hutton dismisses her music as "country pop", saying it's meaningless and that she's too good for it. Does Gwyneth Paltrow convince as a Nashville star in Country Strong? 2011-03-07T13:48:06Z But what if it is only meaningless noise generated by mindless activity on a screen as time is killed and popcorn munched? | 'Grown Ups': Adam Sandler in Blatant Acts of Naked Regression 2010-06-24T22:53:00Z “When Aretha sings ‘Amazing Grace’ in that church, it’s suddenly not a song anymore, or not really—the melody, the lyrics, they’re rendered mostly meaningless. “The Queen of Soul” (After Charles White’s “Folksinger”), by Kadir Nelson 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z “My message is that nothing is meaningless or fortuitous.” said Edéenne. Special Report: Jewelry: Jewelry That Sparkles With Stories and Gems 2011-05-12T13:49:21Z From his reactions to these unconnected and otherwise meaningless events we sense that our hero is both painfully young and also a shattered veteran of the first World War. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z "Andy Warhol was replicating images to show they were meaningless," says Banksy. 2010-02-15T11:49:00Z The truth is we wanted the name to be meaningless. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z The touting of sales records by movie studios is usually meaningless spin; they don’t take inflation into account. ‘Incredibles 2’ Sells a Record-Setting $180 Million in Tickets 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Inconspicuous and all the more elegant for it, “After You” is a reaction against much contemporary ballet, with its frequent sight of whacked legs, meaningless gestures and partnering that turns women into brainless machines. Review: Choreography Is the Star at American Ballet Theater 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z At a very early age Alvy Singer recognizes that life is meaningless. Annie Hall at 40: ranking the film's funniest moments 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z It was the best night of her life, she wrote: “Veterans don’t need yellow ribbons and meaningless thanks for our service; we simply need to be heard.” Women’s war stories: Sex, stress-relief and mothering from afar "The impact of World Cup jersey sales is pretty meaningless in the U.S.," he says. World Cup Apparel Wars 2010-06-26T00:00:00Z That's reckless!' the solver has to regard 'see' as exploding as well as 'petard', a clearly meaningless concept. Azed slip No. 2,126 2013-03-25T10:24:00Z And are ordinary, nonheroic lives really as meaningless as Campbell's followers seem to suggest? 'Finding Joe': This journey lacks some bliss 2011-10-27T20:15:06Z You could take all this as an elegy to the numberless lives and moments subsumed in the modern world’s tide of meaningless garbage. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Thor makes up for this somewhat by killing Thanos in the beginning of "Avengers: Endgame," but it's a meaningless gesture at that point . . . and he knows it. Thor's change in "Avengers: Endgame" isn't offensive 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s a meaningless act of rebellion, which is entirely the point. Michael Cho's graphic novel 'Shoplifter': Adrift in the city 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to say, then, that this poll’s findings are just as meaningless as the term itself. Perspective | The term ‘fake news’ has lost all meaning. That’s just how Trump wants it. 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Are our lives meaningless or part of some divine plan? Farewell, telepathic octopus! Netflix has killed off The OA, and it’s a travesty 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Q: So you could have a very good will, and it will end up being meaningless? The big lessons from celebrity estate wars 2012-01-26T18:47:45Z When Aretha sings “Amazing Grace” in that church, it’s suddenly not a song anymore, or not really—the melody, the lyrics, they’re rendered mostly meaningless. Aretha Franklin Is As Immortal As Can Be 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z And, Bovey says, it is meaningless talking about average pain scores. Why acupuncture is giving sceptics the needle 2013-07-26T09:31:00Z The chorus concludes with a nonverbal “bom-bom-bi-dom-bi-dum-bum-bay,” but those syllables are far from meaningless. Perspective | Lizzo is everything. Is that enough? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z It's just such an erroneous, meaningless thing to say that comedy and feminism are incompatible. Lindy West reclaims the "witch hunt": On comedy, feminism and why terrible men think they're victims 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z This is so broad as to be meaningless, and in any case doesn’t bear scrutiny — the sons might be said to have created plenty of chaos on their own, after all. Colm Toibin on the Fathers of Geniuses 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Don't kid yourself in thinking his cult is meaningless. McGee on music: Salute Dan Treacy, the last bluesman in England 2010-05-04T12:08:00Z That message, in just about every Woody Allen movie a fan can name, is that morality is the most practical, rational way to get through a meaningless, ultimately fatally cruel, existence. ‘You know, I’m never happy’: Woody Allen discusses new ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ It’s likely that you have read somewhere that a wine’s alcohol content is a meaningless number, that the meaningful thing is whether the wine is balanced. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z That’s a testament to the enduring power of activist media, even in an era when it often seems impossible to attract attention to serious issues amid the rising tide of meaningless effluvia. The SeaWorld sea change: Will the marine park’s about-face signal a shift in how we think about animal captivity? 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Ebooks smell like burned fuel", and also dismissed the internet in an interview with the New York Times in 2009, calling it a "big distraction … It's meaningless; it's not real. Ray Bradbury's work finally available digitally in the UK 2013-02-20T15:12:22Z Exclusion always is, unless the inclusion in question is in something so awful or inconsequential that being left out is either to your great relief or meaningless. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sister restarted the family group chat without her. Is estrangement next? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z By the end of it everything that happened onstage before felt meaningless. MTV Video Music Awards 2014: Best and worst moments 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z “People will tell themselves that getting rid of their pillow is a meaningless protest. People may engage in some pro-social behaviour that — perhaps unconsciously — allows them to compensate for their use of a MyPillow pillow.” MyPillow boycott: How a product can spark an identity crisis 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z So, Jakob’s classes are bizarre affairs of repeating meaningless axioms, moving balletically in place while holding a napkin or imaginary dish or repeatedly thrumming the tines of a fork. My streaming gem: why you should watch Institute Benjamenta 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Anderson is using “partisanship” the same way idiotic centrist pundits like Thomas Friedman do: as a meaningless catch-all term for any political action or belief that they disagree with. Internet doomsday, explained 2012-05-16T11:45:00Z To create another love interest for him would be completely meaningless and also not true. The Imitation Game Director Morten Tyldum: We Didn't Need Gay Sex Scenes 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z However, I haven't ever seen one as funny and meaningless as this one found by MsCarey: Just started a new book with that most meaningful of quotes on the jacket: "writes like an angel". Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-03-12T16:10:04Z “Fashion is full of meaningless terms like ‘tribal’ and ‘urban,’ ” said Ms. Jennings, who is also the editor of Arise, a two-year-old monthly African fashion and culture glossy. Africa?s New Fashion Influence 2011-12-07T21:32:37Z I write and teach about what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet remains deeply divided by race. 11 ways white America avoids taking responsibility for its racism 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z But Kalinda’s testimony amounted to a few trivial exchanges heard through the disabled juror’s disordered senses, rendering the whole dramatic encounter between Geneva and her boss meaningless. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Alicia, the Scary Parent 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z But their real impact, in 140 characters or less, is this: Other companies now realize that they, too, have to invest in social media, even if it’s ultimately meaningless. Fashion’s New Order 2012-09-07T20:36:32Z A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common – the desire to write – could almost be considered meaningless. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z Verified Fan is rather a meaningless term, one you register for and hope for the best. Sleep deprivation and Taylor Swift: what the demands of modern fandom say about us 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z His Twitter feed could explode without warning, whether to deliver play-by-play of a meaningless hockey game or to debate strangers over religion. Perspective | Norm Macdonald was Tolstoy in sweatpants. Even when he texted you in the middle of the night. 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z “Awareness” is a self-serving, largely meaningless term, a rationalization for petty, demeaning stunts. Surprise, PETA! Sex doesn’t sell 2013-12-20T15:54:00Z “Old Town Road” might be here to stay, even though it’ll probably end up like the “Monster Mash” — highly durable but mostly meaningless, a true pop paradox, a graveyard smash. Perspective | ‘Old Town Road’ is a smash. Will it mutate into ‘Baby Shark’? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Regulatory shifts, like Public Justice and the ALDF's petition to remove the celery powder loophole, are also necessary for getting rid of ultimately meaningless marketing terms like natural. How Hormel exploited confusion over the natural label 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z But this stuff, even if practiced by EVERYONE, is meaningless in the scheme of things. 10 Ways to Be a Greener Traveler, Even if You Love to Fly 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Certainly, it doesn’t come across as a self-conscious revisionist western, an often meaningless category that implies that genres remain static or, worse, that latter-day westerns are more complex than earlier ones. Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Jealous ministries have been known to swoop in and highjack such successful independent ventures and transform them into meaningless self-congratulatory circuses. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z Finally, the ultimate case of life imitating art is the most meaningless. When real-life protest imitates art – from Three Billboards to Father Ted 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z “It’s meaningless B roll from Arab news agencies, and all of a sudden it becomes a treasure.” ‘The Green Prince’ Tells the Story of Mosab Hassan Yousef 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Focusmate is not a solution to the problem of meaningless productivity; its literature, for example, still relies on plenty of tired tropes about work. The Service That Makes Shame a Productivity Hack 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z But according to Anna Salter, PhD, who has conducted research with sex offenders for two decades, using such tests in family court is meaningless. Custody in crisis: How family courts nationwide put children in danger 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Crossing the Line dismantles labels by rendering them meaningless. Time to Put Choreography Back on Its Feet 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z And if it’s meaningless and random and unknowable, then how are we supposed to live?” Tom Perrotta Discusses the Themes of ?The Leftovers.? 2011-08-29T22:15:59Z My friend and I considered boycotting “Jeopardy!” over this decision, though that would have meant forfeiting our pop-culture comfort food — a meaningless but cherished respite from Everything Else in the World. Perspective | How journalism saved ‘Jeopardy!’ from an unworthy host after an utter failure of corporate vetting 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z “Seinfeld” was not a show about nothing, as that misleading formulation has it; it was about how everything is more or less meaningless. “BoJack Horseman” and the Comedy of Despair 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The title encapsulates Allen's stated philosophy of life: in this meaningless world, cling to whatever scraps of joy you can find. Larry David: 'I'm cranky' 2010-06-25T23:02:00Z China’s foreign ministry said the renaming was “meaningless” and called for countries to maintain peace in the region. Indonesia welcomes giant pandas on loan from China 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Haneke shows how in this situation, the family home becomes a barricaded, besieged place and the lives and cares of the outsiders – friends, even close family – are unwelcome and almost meaningless. Cannes 2012: Amour ? review 2012-05-20T14:26:48Z The grapes come from the Sonoma Coast, an amorphous designation that can be meaningless, but in this case includes grapes from the superb Heintz Vineyard and the Green Valley region. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Fall Edition 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z All those bags of rice and ghee and new roads were fine, but ultimately meaningless without a full commitment to support the Afghan people, which the US military was never willing to do. Serial recap – season two, episode six: five o'clock shadow 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Iphigenia repeats patriotic slogans that the play as a whole renders meaningless. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z For some, choice is meaningless if it occurs in a system of oppression. Evaluating female submission 2012-07-09T19:00:00Z This feeling of nostalgia can help increase our sense of social connectedness, mitigate feelings of meaningless, and reduce anxiety. Adele "30": The psychology of why sad songs make us feel good 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z If Donald Trump is not an “elite,” then the term is entirely meaningless, as it signifies nothing. “Real Americans” vs. “Coastal Elites”: What right-wing sneers at city dwellers really mean 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Years of meaningless bouts went down in an effortless attempt to prove who was more manly. We grew up afraid to be vulnerable: "Minding the Gap" helped me see my toxic boyhood masculinity 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z One of her many criticisms of the system she loves to hate is that schools are judged by meaningless Ofsted criteria and results are simply a reflection of intake. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z He admits that work in today’s world is “grinding,” meaningless, alienated, coercive. Karl Marx and the semantics of a “post-work left” 2013-03-02T15:00:00Z But this time, the sex really was meaningless. When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z My mother also has the Southern gifts of well-rehearsed public politeness and meaningless, cordial chitchat. Trauma and triumph: my father, his dementia and surviving segregation 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Female climax – in humans and, if it exists, in animals – has been viewed by many evolutionary psychologists as a biologically meaningless by-product with no effect on reproduction. Daniel Bergner: 'Women's desire is an underestimated and constrained force' 2013-07-05T21:34:00Z The line between solo show and stand-up has always been blurry, but now it is nearly meaningless. If Comedy Is Making You Feel Bad, You’re Not Paying Attention 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Some scientists think this is meaningless politics; others think it’s a way to focus the public’s attention on a problem. Butterflies were symbols of rebirth. Then they started disappearing. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z They agree to meet for some meaningless sex, the kind that is scorched with meaning. The Power and Hurt of Growing Up Black and Gay 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z He condenses his California experience into a gospel-rock plod that hinges on the grandly meaningless line: "All you need is imagination". Tribes: Wish to Scream – review 2013-05-16T20:40:01Z He said the wedding was meaningless for Britain’s black community in terms of addressing entrenched racism in job prospects, the criminal justice system and health disparities. 'I am proud to be a feminist': Will Meghan shake-up Britain's royals? 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z "But, listening to their songs, all of this seems distant and meaningless," L'Osservatore said. Vatican makes peace with the Beatles 2010-04-12T14:54:00Z Garner is one of the very greatest fantasy writers in the English language, though I admit that the categorisations of his work as "Children's" or "Fantasy" are meaningless. Graham Joyce's top 10 fairy fictions 2012-06-27T12:57:57Z “I was having an existential crisis. I felt everything was meaningless.” David Lowery on why he made A Ghost Story: 'I was freaking out, having an existential crisis' 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z And you can distract yourself in a million different ways, from turning on the television set and seeing who wins the meaningless soccer game, to going to the movies or listening to music. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z NBC considers anticipation levels relatively meaningless before Olympians get into the starting blocks. Plenty at stake for NBC as COVID Olympics opening looms 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Or is “forward” meaningless in the eternal present of streaming? ‘Fall TV’ Is Dead. But Buzz Will Always Be With Us. 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z As familiar to some Americans as the flag, the statue is just as meaningless or foreign to others, a sign without significance, or worse, a symbol of hypocrisy or unfulfilled promises. Perspective | Maybe it’s time to admit that the Statue of Liberty has never quite measured up 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z In hindsight, celebrity wasn’t the essential component to his appeal with voters; celebrity was meaningless in the face of notoriety. For all their wattage, the biggest celebrities still couldn’t elect a president 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Rather than adding some raw authenticity, the marks feel hollow and self-important, the residue of a meaningless performance. Marvelous or maddening? In Cameron Platter's show, it depends on which way you face 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The ostensibly meaningless "Bum bum be-dum" refrain in Rihanna's Disturbia, for example, is decoded as: "You good-for-nothing, idiotic person, let yourself become dumb, stop thinking and let yourself be hypnotised and possessed." Lady Gaga and the New World Order 2010-07-01T20:59:00Z He believed in an old-fashioned code of masculine honor and valor, but he had also begun wondering whether his life as a professional athlete was shallow and meaningless. "The Tillman Story": The surprising saga of a football star at war 2010-08-20T21:50:00Z So would James Wood, who has written that “in any private library the totality of books is meaningful, while each individual volume is relatively meaningless.” The Virtues of Shelf-lessness 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z One of the problems with this sub-genre is that narratives and character motivations have to be warped to fit convoluted, meaningless mergings. In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z But I admire its stoic reserve, holding firm as the surrounding conversation escalates into a meaningless din. Is Bally More Interesting Than Gucci? Depends Who’s Tweeting 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z That’s another reason that critics, should he win, will be quick to call it meaningless, as Iowa allows any resident to register as a Republican on the spot and participate in the caucuses. Ron Paul: If I'm leading polls, I'm electable 2012-01-01T22:30:00Z I mean, at some point, that is not an excuse; it’s almost meaningless. Conservative William Kristol: ‘We’re really going to pay a price for this terrible failure in leadership’ 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z One critic called the play “a torment,” and another complained that it was meaningless, although he conceded that it addressed “the wounds of the modern spirit.” Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z A selfish zealot who would happily ruin everyone’s day just to make a meaningless point. Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Indeed, her success might even preserve racial problems by serving as a meaningless symbol of a mythical post-racialism. Oprah Winfrey: will the US still worship the high priestess of the talkshow? 2010-12-26T11:08:01Z "How do you do?" is the perfect instance of phatic speech, which is all the formally meaningless stuff you say that performs the far more vital function of greasing the social wheels. Lucy Mangan: how do I do? Much better without canapes and kisses, thanks 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z But is it all meaningless, since the public vote hasn’t been revealed yet? Eurovision song contest 2016 – as it happened 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z And Tancredi finds himself agreeing with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as he lays into the politically correct Leader whose fear of offending renders his proclamations absurd and meaningless. New book satirizes reality TV, "PC Britain," media 2011-09-29T13:09:54Z The phrase “real men” was worse than meaningless: it suggested that basic empathy and compassion were somehow masculine qualities, found only in the carriers of sturdy, untainted Y chromosomes. Sorry, Nev Schulman: Real men don’t tweet about what “real men” do 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z These are meaningless European notions of chronology, urban order and modernity grafted on to the living reality of 21st-century Muslim life. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z He got posted to Flanders, where he witnessed the murderous, meaningless second Battle of Ypres. For Max Beckmann, Art’s Ironist, Crisis and Rediscovery 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z When it comes to the movie and TV business, rosy ideals are meaningless next to profit. Turner Classic Movies holds our cinematic past. Does it have a future under Warner Bros. Discovery? 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z It is often said now that the two opposing terms have become "meaningless", since both left and right contain a range of values from libertarian to authoritarian. Can Scandinavian crime fiction teach us something about socialism? 2011-02-24T09:00:03Z This is why apologies without action are meaningless—they are not catalysts of change, but rather a means of placating the public so that those in power can continue carrying on as they always have. Philadelphia's deadly MOVE bombing: Why we can't settle for apologies now 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z But under circumstances like these, it seems so meaningless.” T Magazine: The Accidental Activist 2011-03-25T19:21:15Z Manguso writes that, rather than waiting until the end of her own life to think about the end of her friend's, she waited "what seems an arbitrary, meaningless length of time". The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso – review 2012-07-06T21:55:15Z Here too are found-object works made by scratching and bleaching books, and painted works that foil or assault would-be readers with meaningless palindromes, redacted texts and profane titles. Art Review: Ed Ruscha at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea 2012-12-27T23:01:26Z The distinction becomes meaningless, because even with his most reliable jokes, he is constantly disrupting his own premises. A Comic on the Verge, His Absurdism on the Fly 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Its complete inability to do so ultimately makes it even more meaningless than Paul Stanley stating that he wants to "rock'n'roll all nite and party every day". Saxon: 'Metal fans are the most loyal in the world' – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-01-16T12:54:39Z According to the logic of the market, the matter of whether these transactions are right or wrong is literally meaningless. Michael Sandel: 'We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning' 2012-05-27T19:01:01Z Presented thus, as a detached list of facts, it seems apparent we are dealing with loneliness, lovelessness, the meaningless void. Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z One that is legally meaningless, Gerri says, due to how old it is and the fact that Logan did not communicate his wishes to his lawyer. If "Succession" is a competition that ends with a winner, we'd be foolish to count out Marcia 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The geographic distance is polite, but ultimately meaningless. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z He was at it again in the meaningless 2008 follow-up Where in the World is Obama Bin Laden?, which also premiered at Sundance but fell down when it revealed the limitations of his investigative reach. Morgan Spurlock for sale. Buy, buy, buy 2011-01-24T15:02:37Z The perpetual theme is society’s dizzying, almost primordial vacuousness: In the beginning was the platitude, the meaningless title, the counterfeit check. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Bruce’s act was meant to render racially charged language meaningless, Mr. Marmo said. Lenny Bruce Is Still Talking Dirty and Influencing People 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Smith’s ethos revolves around listening and singing, concepts so abstract as to seem meaningless, but which nevertheless compel the musicians around him. Philip Smith, Master Trumpeter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z It’s one of the many seemingly meaningless platitudes repeated over and over again in 12-Step rooms. My own sober miracle 2013-01-12T16:00:00Z They learn that this gives them advantages other black kids don’t have, but those advantages are meaningless when they’re confronted by institutional bias that judges them by their skin color first. "The Last O.G." thrives in its tastier second season 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z The exchange is in keeping with Mr. Allen’s oft-repeated insistence, on-screen and off, that life is meaningless, which may be true even if he seems feverishly bent on refuting it with his prodigious cinematic output. Review: Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’ Explores Life’s Randomness 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The end point of that kind of spirituality, alas, is spiritual goop and meaningless soul-blather. Perspective | Barnett Newman’s ‘Stations of the Cross’ draws pilgrims to the National Gallery 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Their past trust and mutual respect just seems to be meaningless. Gwendoline Christie on ‘Game of Thrones’ and Brienne’s Love Triangles 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Say it over and over again and it sounds like a meaningless label. I’m raising my kids atheist in a God-obsessed culture: How I learned to parent godless children 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Adding insult to injury is the fact that Cousin Greg received a meaningless scribble, with a question mark. If "Succession" is a competition that ends with a winner, we'd be foolish to count out Marcia 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s a word that also appears frequently throughout the Continental Op stories: meaningless. The nameless detective who launched Dashiell Hammett’s career 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z There was the inevitable, if in this case basically meaningless, connection to Hollywood, and an unresolved chord of anticlimax at the end. The People v. O. J. Simpson Will Be with Us Forever 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But to these men, female lives are meaningless. Mother superior: it’s been a great year for on-screen mums 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Wakslak also cautions against meaningless business jargon, words such as “ideaate” and “deliverables” that some workers resort to when trying to seem impressive. How to Get Ahead by Speaking Vaguely 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Mercy is rare and necessary, but without justice and true changed behavior, it's meaningless. Chris Brown finds an unlikely defender 2011-04-05T15:06:00Z It is so hard to focus on work — it seems meaningless in the scheme of things. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Struggling with business as usual after ‘the scariest moment of my life’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z When Woody Allen was 20, the writer Danny Simon taught him a few rules about comedy, the most important of which was this: always trust your own judgment, because external opinion is meaningless. 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z He and his attorneys have said that renders many of his daughter’s complaints about his control meaningless. Britney Spears court filing says conservatorship should end 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z We try to stay away from meaningless blurbs that, while functional and factual, are dimensionless, and do not reflect a connection to the music itself. Blog jam: AudioFemme 2013-04-03T17:22:00Z “Magnificent in the distance, meaningless closer up, mountains are but a surface standing on end,” Joseph Brodsky wrote in “An Admonition,” one of my favorite poems. Stepping Into the Frame in the South of France 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z “Tweets like that are actually really difficult to pass because they are somehow both a borderline obstruction of justice and the meaningless rantings of a confused old idiot,” he said. John Oliver: 'It is too easy to point at Trump being crazy' 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The word eclecticism has been used so much for the last 30 years that it has become meaningless — a sad, grasping pile of obstruents and sibilants, like a dying fire’s last pops and hisses. Mixing It Up at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville 2010-03-29T21:46:00Z “Basically, to me, awards are meaningless,” the star says, with a slouching self-righteousness. Why the Tonys Need an Award for Best Ensemble 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z And books become inert, meaningless objects if they are never read. Click here or we’ll burn this book 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z Others disagreed, the Hollywood Reporter branding the reboot a “self-indulgent, pointless, meaningless… exercise in misplaced nostalgia and auteur idol-worship”. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z All of it's imbalanced in the direction of sounding accomplished but being essentially meaningless, so it falls apart if you're trying to have a deep listening experience, though remains notable for ambition and scope. Album review: "Seattlecalifragilisticextrahelladope" by State of the Artist 2010-05-24T21:52:00Z |
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