In short, what we have here is a veritable orgy of vacuous generalities and meaningless slogans. |
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Don't simply opt for apparently powerful but ultimately empty, meaningless rhetoric. |
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Version numbers are, and always have been, meaningless between software providers. |
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This kind of meaningless rhetoric vitiates Craven's discussion of the issue. |
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Comparisons between polls done by competing pollsters are absolutely meaningless. |
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Decibels of sound volume must be specified with the distance, typically one metre, otherwise they are meaningless. |
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They will do better at them and not resent you for filling their lives with meaningless busywork. |
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Granger's framework can be seen as a preventative in minimizing the use of meaningless correlations. |
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Who can take interest in anything when every arterial spray is so completely highlighted, yet so meaningless? |
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For him, endlessly violent modern films have vulgarised red blood and made it meaningless. |
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I now have pages filled with meaningless strings of words, little diagrams, squiggles and waves. |
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They are necessary, within the context of his meaningless existence, for the evolutionary progression towards a meaningless future. |
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Irrational and meaningless as it is, this exercise will nonetheless soothe your irritation. |
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If your receiver drifted out of sync, the picture dissolved into meaningless dots and lines. |
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His payslips would state his occupation as something harmless and meaningless, like KGB agent. |
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He once again kept up the flow of meaningless but soothing chatter as his hands passed over every handspan of the glossy hide. |
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It may be an old-fashioned idea, but life is meaningless unless it is shared. |
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All this in a world where the biggest problem comes from terrorists and rogue states for whom treaties are meaningless. |
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The videos apparently distract the viewer's attention from the song to the meaningless portrayal of carnal desires. |
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It's literalness is so easily consumed that there is no choice but for the work to be ephemeral and meaningless. |
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Now, I know in this blog I have talked about how much I would like a relationship, as opposed to a meaningless one-night stand. |
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They expected us to do no more than to lob a few cruise missiles at a meaningless target. |
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Briant painted a picture of a meaningless post-pub altercation, an open-handed push, a momentary spat from which both parties walked away. |
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Marcus repeatedly casts life as a kind of death already, a procession of meaningless occurrences. |
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He had merely spoken kindly and sincerely to her, not using the meaningless flattery most courtiers employed in her presence. |
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It's quite possibly the worst film in the series, and is certainly the most meaningless, despite its shadows of thematic pretensions. |
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Shopping, a ceaseless search for the next meaningless object, is for people without purpose. |
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So far those attempts have been at worst disastrous and at best meaningless. |
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May I humbly suggest a clearer alternative to that meaningless bit of cant? |
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Those technologies are also meaningless if attackers blag legitimate login credentials through social engineering. |
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In reality, it is the schools that choose, and parental choice becomes almost meaningless. |
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And the only one who saw through the hyperbole and the meaningless superlatives was my Aunt Petunia, and she was half-deaf. |
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The machinations of the plot, of course, might be hard to follow if they weren't so meaningless. |
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Unfortunately, most of the money is swallowed up in bureaucracy and the production of meaningless consultancy reports which benefit nobody. |
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Because holography is a method of lens less photography, the photographic plate appears as a meaningless pattern of swirls. |
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We go through the motions, the meaningless hugs, the tears, the constant apologies. |
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Celibacy, as commonly understood, is therefore a meaningless parody or travesty of the true formula. |
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If Congress acts and the president signs the annual budget authorizations, then you'll see how meaningless that deal really is. |
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This score may function passably within the context of the film, but outside it is meaningless, barely raising even a frisson of fear. |
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At once claustral and emancipating, these poems announce that the event of life is meaningless without the form we give to it. |
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Those who can afford keywords can be the victims of click fraud, by which they are charged for meaningless traffic. |
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Worldly attempts to change the state of one's soul through indulgences and penances were meaningless. |
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Who are the faceless idiots who dream up such meaningless titles for our well established institutions? |
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They strain credibility by taking the universal language of face-saving and meaningless political rhetoric to the limit. |
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Much of it was so abstract in relation to fiction or poetry as to be nearly meaningless in a literature course. |
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But this does not mean that the distinction between acts and omissions is meaningless or illogical. |
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Ideas endlessly repeated and permutated become platitudinous, trite, meaningless. |
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Anyone can, for instance, glue styrofoam cups to a board and it is meaningless, craftless, and immaterial. |
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It was another of John's meaningless sexual encounters, and this one with a woman old enough to be his mother. |
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The June 30th date is clearly meaningless except as a photo op for domestic political consumption. |
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The generalisation is so sweeping, so incurious, and so final that it is utterly meaningless. |
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I've been enjoying the competition, indulging in brief and largely meaningless intensities of feeling. |
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An uncrossing is just an uncrossing, whether you want to tart it up in cool post modern chaos lingo is pretty meaningless. |
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If it is not robust, then any observed correlation with apparent abnormal brain scans is medically meaningless. |
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In language, a lone signifier would be an utterly meaningless sound or concatenation of sounds. |
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As he bears his soul with his inner man, he finds that the majority of his life is meaningless. |
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And they couldn't understand either why anyone would be trying to tax their brains with such a meaningless inquisition. |
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It was the ubiquity of the militia that made British victories over the Continentals in the field so meaningless. |
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It is presumed that the legislature avoid superfluous or meaningless words, that it does not pointlessly repeat itself or speak in vain. |
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In any case most observers believed the atmosphere was so poisoned that any ceasefire would be as meaningless as those which preceded it. |
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At first the monkeys were intrigued with the computers and typed all sorts of stuff, even though it was meaningless gibberish. |
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It is difficult not to put scare quotes around the word spiritual, which is notoriously vague, if not meaningless, in contemporary usage. |
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They're rendered completely meaningless because those sorts of tests absolutely decontextualise the person. |
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He drew five intentional passes in the second game of a meaningless 1929 double-header with the Phillies. |
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The skaters may be placed in the correct order, which is all that counts at the bottom line, but the marks are now totally meaningless. |
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This ritual together with tonight's celebrations are all that mark an event which has now become pretty meaningless to British society. |
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Most of the world's populations live in abysmal poverty, our governments are corrupt, and we lead meaningless lives of banality. |
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The world starts making sense, and the meaningless scribbles are left behind. |
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The promise to launch the biggest-ever public consultation smacks of meaningless waffle. |
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Try to copy a short-cut with a right click, and you'll get meaningless garbage. |
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He told the Sun Herald that weekend rates, overtime and penalty rates could be bargained away, rendering the 38-hour week entirely meaningless. |
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Man has no hope for salvation, only a chance for dignity, gained by absurdly carrying on in the face of the yawning maw of the meaningless abyss. |
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Huddersfield, of course, can render both results meaningless if they themselves gain a victory and maintain their position in sixth place. |
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Young people of my generation had no time for Larkin's irony and simply dismissed traditional sexual morality as a clutter of meaningless taboos. |
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She paused as she glimpsed the shock in my expression that she was speaking more than a handful of meaningless words. |
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She focused on her laptop, tapping keys but she was typing meaningless words. |
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Despite Sheehan's passion for words, he understands that words by themselves are meaningless. |
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Tired faces turned, waiting for the thread of babble and meaningless words they would only pretend to hear. |
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They asked if I was going to the office, and I replied with some meaningless nonsense. |
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He would see right through my choice of large meaningless words, but I didn't care. |
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Words became meaningless, and a fountain of primal silence washed over the crowd of young people. |
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Lisa, the secretary, offered her deepest sympathies but the words were meaningless. |
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During his latest round of meaningless words their faces had drifted closer. |
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She shook her head vigorously, trying to get his meaningless words out of her head and ears, and shoved him away. |
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Avoid useless and meaningless words, and certain phrases that will place you in the penalty box. |
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The tale is existentialist in nature, pointing out that, ultimately, our protagonist's life was meaningless. |
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But as you get older you rely on words, and as you get wiser those words become longer and more meaningless. |
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He had stopped talking when he realized his words were turning into meaningless mumbling. |
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Some rather meaningless words were exchanged, but they soon ran out of things to say. |
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After alteration, formerly understandable Swedish words become meaningless. |
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Then they were shown a series of words either neutral, meaningless or related to aggression. |
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Any other construction of the words or order in section 3 would render them meaningless. |
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Right and wrong are meaningless to him, all that matter are sensation and experience. |
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If one changes between different function and effect it becomes meaningless to claim that the former was a preadaptation to the latter. |
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Meanwhile, Albert meets a fireman, Tommy, who introduces him to the French existentialist, who teaches that life is meaningless and cruel. |
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I should say, it's meaningless goop that some poor soul spent a whole lot of time creating in order to dumfound the unwary. |
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Corina often found her job meaningless without a Master in the manor, but her loyalty to the Warrick descendant never wavered. |
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Miel related the meaningless events of her day in the city to Lucas and waited patiently for him to tell her about the experiment. |
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They would talk, but about pointless, and meaningless things, but only if they could spare you the time of day. |
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Exhibition games are the NFL equivalent of football's meaningless pre-season friendlies. |
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People were specks far below, crawling about their meaningless, methodical lives like insects. |
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Why should I want to get my voice back when life itself was already meaningless to me? |
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Of course we also feared that such thoughts were nonsense and Doug's death was a meaningless accident. |
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Geneva does put some constraints on the handling and adjudication of detainees, but they were meaningless restraints. |
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It was as if they had received notice that their lives had been meaningless. |
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As Evan says the price increase is meaningless to all, but those wishing to move. |
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While we wait with bated breath, the meaningless one day jamboree rambles on. |
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Indeed, so far as the Masters is concerned, the rankings appear to be essentially meaningless. |
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So, it's meaningless to say that the rest of the album doesn't quite measure up. |
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It was just a husk, an empty shell, worth nothing, containing nothing, meaningless. |
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The Commons' order paper is cluttered with meaningless early day motions that allow MPs to do nothing but posture and preen. |
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Selfhood, life and mere existence are meaningless if not suffused with this life-giving force. |
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Appraisal is not a load of meaningless jargon sprinkled liberally across a ten page grid full of interminable tick boxes. |
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For program lending, which fungibility made into budget support, conditionality was meaningless. |
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Cliche is symptomatic of an entropic democracy where meaningless statements are repeated unconsciously by the masses. |
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In other words, religion is our way of making sense out of nonsense, necessary precisely because life, in and of itself, may well be meaningless. |
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In our day the false currency of meaningless words has been made to circulate in quantity. |
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Not too much to beggar the family, but not too little as to be meaningless. |
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Expect an explosion of meaningless tommyrot of an unprecedented magnitude on the red carpet. |
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This encompasses random and fairly meaningless collections of words which have a certain euphony. |
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An environment without people is even more abstract and meaningless than the ideal frictionless surface beloved of physicists. |
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This unabashedly meaningless affair wholeheartedly subscribes to the more-is-better recipe for cinematic second instalments. |
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Chess takes the place of all the other passions, and the people in his life, including his parents, become shadowy, meaningless figures. |
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History is not a chain of meaningless and often accidental occurrences, but a necessary process heading towards a discoverable goal. |
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Normally I would think this would be a meaningless, empty statement, but hopefully it will be a bit more for you than that. |
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Without the ability to see friendly and enemy troops on the ground, such air support is almost meaningless. |
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Similarly, the most complex ritual forms can be rendered impotent and meaningless if a sufficient level of emotional investment isn't there. |
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Numbers were practically meaningless to her, as she only barely could count to 100, something Laurel constantly nagged her about. |
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So it's a meaningless mismatch punctuated by spite, scrappy goals, cards and, with the exception of the peerless Pires, no flair. |
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Virtually the whole first team squad have withdrawn from the meaningless friendlies. |
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Lashing whips, hollow gunshots, meaningless choruses, whistling, echoing pipes, tubular bells and stylophones are all tipped into the collage. |
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What should we do when people say their lives are meaningless and worthless and they want to die? |
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With careful and unconscious precision he folded and refolded the corner of his sheet into and out of a meaningless pattern. |
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Now, heraldry is one of the quaint, meaningless traditions that so enthralls Yanqui Anglophiles like myself. |
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Mormonism also brings spiritual peace and meaning to the lives of many, who say their lives would be meaningless without Mormonism. |
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How much publicity should that act of folly generate, in comparison to the meaningless Plame farce? |
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The result is also meaningless as an emotive response to a complex problem. |
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The woman driving the other car is never seen again, which renders the scene meaningless. |
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It's a fairly meaningless, if archaic piece of self-indulgent flummery in most parts of Australia. |
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The Celtic fans know the season is over, and that even a win today will be largely meaningless. |
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An international coalition of pressure groups said last night the contents of the deal were so diluted that they were meaningless. |
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It is undisputable that without basic literacy, access to technology is virtually meaningless. |
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The public needs to see how useful mathematics can be, not how it can be applied to unimportant, meaningless things. |
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The marches that take place occasionally against crime are meaningless and of no effect. |
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The search for influences quickly degenerates into meaningless name-dropping. |
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And better armies are meaningless without a decision-making structure to allow quick deployment. |
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But those questions are not only often unresolvable, they are often rather meaningless. |
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Only a few patients experienced postoperative nausea, so any statistical evaluation would be meaningless. |
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The new conservatives saw that the rhetoric of self-sacrifice had become meaningless to the generation born after the revolution. |
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Somehow the weekly ceremony had seemed hollow and meaningless to her. |
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The allegation that changes of regimes following the Arab Spring has rendered the API meaningless is untrue. |
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We hear elected officials harping on about social partnership and citing meaningless macroeconomic fundamentals which signify absolutely nothing for most people. |
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Then he carefully cleaned and salved the cuts and scrapes on my face and palms, kissing them lightly and whispering meaningless, soothing sounds to me all the while. |
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Make joint custody a reality instead of a meaningless scrap of paper. |
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Changes in employment that have downgraded the status and pay of many of the old white-collar professions have rendered this term almost meaningless. |
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Kelly also argues that unique user and page impression data are meaningless to advertisers as they do not in any way reflect the number of individuals going online. |
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All that meaningless business-speak waffle really gets on my wick. |
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No story describing a problem or social phenomenon was complete without a few meaningless statistics passed off as hard fact or proof of some assertion. |
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Whether their other plans are ambiguous or meaningless is unclear. |
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At least mine was at least vaguely more constructive than an openly used, meaningless three letter word, which is an anacronym for something people never even say. |
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To find someone has been let off with meaningless punishments like community service orders and not even banned from keeping animals for life breaks our hearts. |
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We extol celebrity at a time when it has never seemed more fleeting or meaningless. |
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Moreover, in some cultures, the idea of seeking an occupation, or working to advance the self, is meaningless within or even antithetical to dominant belief systems. |
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She was tasked by Kofi Annan to be a United Nations Messenger of Peace, an appropriately meaningless, but distinguished, gong. |
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If even one of those four people is somebody that didn't actually get the vaccine, the results are meaningless. |
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The outrage of a meaningless cosmos impels all of humankind to struggle against it. |
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While Boehner and the Democrats squabbled over relatively meaningless cuts, the president sat back and played referee. |
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You give these words, meaningless scribbles, you give them life and shape. |
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Since Southerners stopped fighting the Civil War and joined their conservative brethren in the GOP, sectional differences have become meaningless in America. |
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From his own mouth the words are meaningless, and so he pulls up a chair. |
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It was just a useless coach trip to follow a meaningless tradition. |
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Still, trying to fulfil them always seemed so pointless and meaningless. |
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Now we are seeing all that hard work buried under meaningless work. |
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It's also meaningless to go shopping, if you judge your life this way. |
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Your life was meaningless, nothing significant would ever happen to you. |
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A spokesman told the New York Times that the audit was meaningless and suggested the infractions were the product of workers forgetting to punch their timecards properly. |
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The only problem with all the tea-leaf reading that next Tuesday will bring is that it will be meaningless. |
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It was held that the words were meaningless but that they did not destroy the contract as they were severable, leaving the core of the obligation intact. |
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It's like being ambushed by a rugby tragic who can recite meaningless statistics and All Blacks anecdotes with all the subtlety of a rolling maul. |
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This is meaningless though because the two are sufficiently dissimilar as to be incomparable, the results of traffic is generally for the betterment of society as a whole. |
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We are at a dead end in a meaningless war, and we are paying the bill for this fighting every day. |
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The result is that the term Russian River Valley on a label is meaningless. |
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Every meaningless name became shorthand for a certain class status. |
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Little moments are portentous of grand sweeping changes, and big, dramatic moments are meaningless to all but the few involved. |
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There are some very well-done montage sequences and some honestly insightful cuts, but they are drowned in a flood of meaningless and unmotivated shots and scenes. |
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This kind of blather, meaningless but essentially harmless, suggests that he might be perfectly suited to make the leap from show business to politics. |
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That's the silly thing about identity systems, their content is meaningless unless identity is assigned unambiguously and unchangeably at the moment of birth! |
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However, this has reduced consciousness of risk among young people, making the message of fear meaningless. |
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As such, the statement is clearly boilerplate, essentially meaningless and of no assistance in determining the actual reasoning of the trial judge in the case before me. |
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Don't hide behind meaningless rhetoric or claim you're ready for action only to back off when the NRA comes knocking. |
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I'm very unkeen on those percentages, they're sort of meaningless. |
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Not to mention the unmelodious and meaningless songs they parrot. |
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The whole exercise is so intellectually vapid the result is meaningless. |
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It looked nonsensical and meaningless but held its own importance. |
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I stared at the page of equations I had just finished, looking at the neat rows of numbers and seeing nothing but a blur of meaningless squiggles. |
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Such happenings are the norm, whereas objectified, meaningless processes are products of a theoretical attitude that is neither normal nor philosophically necessary. |
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If that sentence is meaningless to you, find the manual for your Wi-Fi router, pronto. |
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It may be that in a few years the letter rate will be meaningless, as nobody sends letters anymore, and the other rates simply reflect the cost of carriage. |
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But while leading figures in other sports often speak out on matters that affect their livelihoods, footballers hush up or are airbrushed into meaningless platitudes. |
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There are certain things where majority opinion is real but meaningless. |
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The Irish opt-out is therefore essentially meaningless because this tax will still hit people trying to travel into Ireland, including Irish people returning from abroad. |
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Such considerations cannot be material to the consideration of a planning application and serve to make subsequent debate in the Council chamber or Committee room meaningless. |
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These episodes do have messages, but they're buried under so much '60s television action series hokum that they are difficult to find and are rendered almost meaningless. |
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The title of the appointment was rather meaningless as he soon had his own surgical wards, where his skills in intestinal surgery and liver resection were legendary. |
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Moreover, in this process of hysterical conversion, symptoms are not arbitrary and meaningless phenomena but complex symbolizations of repressed psychological experiences. |
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Certainly, if grammar collapses and language unravels into a tangle of meaningless, ill-considered phrases, we will have lost something that should be treasured. |
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The apparently inane becomes loaded with import, the trivial can suddenly become significant, while the grand gestures are often revealed as essentially meaningless. |
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If it means withdrawing funding from those piddling around at satellite levels so be it, for better train one properly that give meaningless amounts to many. |
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Since Pilates, I haven't wanted to indulge in any meaningless road rage. |
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Free of meaningless menus and redundant pages, the style is reminiscent of the children's activity centres or pop-up books that adults enjoy playing with so much. |
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It is a representation that masks reality and presents it as a meaningless form of enslavement, one that portrays the loss of freedom as marginal. |
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The principle of ministerial responsibility has been debauched by its invocation on any conceivable occasion, to the extent that it has become almost meaningless. |
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Why do parties insist on meaningless gibberish as conference slogans? |
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Yes, gasoline prices are approaching nominal record highs, but since prices are denominated in money, the figures are meaningless without some comparison to the past. |
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This, for those who have embraced his philosophy, and that is most of our contemporaries, makes the world and human life meaningless and purposeless. |
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The history of western commentaries on ancient Mesoamerican objects is full of extravagant claims made on the basis of such meaningless formal convergences. |
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General Braxton Bragg's second Confederate invasion of Kentucky ended with a meaningless victory over Maj. |
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Have net price calculators, merit scholarships and tuition discounts rendered sticker price meaningless? |
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However, the two systems measure mastery of different sets of skills and any comparison can be subjective and therefore meaningless. |
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Not so with the stiff-upper-lipped unelected nobody who goes under the medieval, meaningless nom de plume of Black Rod. |
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The most desired internships provide real experiences and not meaningless busy work. |
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But a meaningless European game will hardly help him get accustomed to the hussle and bussle of Premier League football. |
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Which nearly 30 years later is not only absolutely meaningless but amoral. |
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He maintained, for example, at one time that all existential propositions are meaningless. |
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Traits, characteristics, or human qualities are relatively meaningless unless they can be anchored to some kind of denotable behavior. |
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It does help for data theft, such as from spyware or lost media, as the encrypted data is meaningless unless it can be successfully decrypted. |
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It is meaningless, that is, except to the meddlers who achieve it. |
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Freedom or equality are meaningless if people cannot act, develop and renew themselves, change course or, more mundanely, retrain. |
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Social networking will turn us all into facelessly meaningless numbers on a screen. |
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In some ways, this is such an expansion of the concept of imperialism as to be meaningless. |
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The Treaty of Tordesillas was rendered meaningless between 1580 and 1640 while Spain controlled Portugal. |
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His poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberley consists of 18 short parts, and describes a poet whose life has become sterile and meaningless. |
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For a period between 1580 and 1640, the treaty was rendered meaningless, as the Spanish King was also King of Portugal. |
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Branson's comment illustrates my contention that statism has made the dichotomy between left and right totally meaningless and mad. |
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It was also set well above the actual weight of fish being caught until 2005, rendering it meaningless. |
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Another important meta-ethical theory is known as emotivism or non-cognitivism. Emotivists... claim that all ethical statements are literally meaningless. |
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Their reason is George Orwell newspeak, in short, meaningless. |
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Critics slammed the new film, calling it violent and meaningless. |
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To force animals to perform these meaningless and often uncomfortable or painful tricks, trainers use whips, muzzles, bullhooks and electric prods. |
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Without the element of surprise the scenes become meaningless. |
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Comparisons are thus often meaningless across products or service. |
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Griffin's explication of the different views concerning compossibility is also exceptional, if not ultimately meaningless on a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz. |
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The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply. |
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It is clearly shown that right and wrong are conditions of otherdom. That ethics, in short, is a meaningless term to a single, isolated individual. |
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For example, the universal suffrage was, in practice, virtually meaningless, since the tsar did not have to approve any of the laws adopted by the Finnish parliament. |
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So we get semi-plot ballets without a storyline in sight, offering nothing but aimless, meaningless, and therefore artistically destructive, cheap emoting. |
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