| And if meaninglessness is the point, then they've done their job quite effectively. |
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| It illustrates the Nietzschean belief that art can give form and closure to the meaninglessness of existence. |
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| More recently, Seeman suggested that normlessness and meaninglessness are manifestations of anomie rather than of alienation. |
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| The lead character, Chip, struggles desperately to find a way to circumvent the terrible boredom and meaninglessness of existence. |
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| It had begun as an experiment to prove the meaninglessness of best-seller lists, or indeed any standard that equates quantity with quality. |
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| In fact, it is an account of a desperate, doomed attempt to transcend meaninglessness. |
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| The only beneficiary of the adversarial relationship imposed on religion and science two hundred years ago has been meaninglessness. |
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| So, are you so over-committed because you're distracting yourself from the absurdity and meaninglessness of life? |
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| Existentialism is a 20th century philosophy that asserts the fundamental meaninglessness of life and our abject aloneness. |
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| Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate, mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities. |
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| Lucente's work indulges passive meaninglessness and unfocused ambiguity. |
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| It's a great example of what it is and the meaninglessness of the lyrics doesn't bother me now because they are just sung in a brilliant way. |
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| You do so when you testify to a «meaning» rooted in God's creative love and opposed to every kind of meaninglessness and despair. |
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| Without emulation we sink into meaninglessness, or mediocrity, for nothing great or excellent can be done without it. |
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| In this increasingly global age, the inherited explanations of each region are lapsing into meaninglessness. |
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| Migrants experience loneliness, marginalization and meaninglessness because of their disconnection from home and habitation in a strange country. |
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| Our reality may be governed by laws of whose existence we are unaware, rather than simple random meaninglessness. |
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| That relates to my question of goodness because goodness is not only the response to evil, but it is also the response to meaninglessness. |
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| The patient will either be frustrated or remains unaware of the meaninglessness of his or her message. |
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| The philosopher Edmond Husserl argued that the crisis facing modern men and women lies in the meaninglessness of the world around them. |
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| The content of the preface was repeated to the point of meaninglessness. |
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| We scream at how senseless the violence seems, how meaninglessness the tragedy. |
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| Pinker argues that we need not fear nihilism or meaninglessness from the modern human sciences because they show that morality is wired into the human brain. |
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| The advantage of its Latin origin and the relative meaninglessness of Lorum Ipsum is that the text does not attract attention to itself or distract the viewer's attention from the layout. |
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| I would say that the question of sin has been displaced from the centre by a question that is perhaps more serious-the question of meaning and meaninglessness, of the absurd. |
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| The task for any useful theory of citizenship now is therefore to provide a sense of meaningful political activity in a world where such activity is ever threatened with meaninglessness. |
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| It doesn't make any sense to divide that market into fragments, each protected by meaningless regulatory barriers to trade. But meaninglessness is in the eye of the beholder. |
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| With the collapse of metaphysical and theological foundations and sanctions for traditional morality only a pervasive sense of purposelessness and meaninglessness would remain. |
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| Some may find healing, or at least a fulfilling place in society, but the great majority are plunged into a world of loneliness, institutionalization, meaninglessness and ongoing failure. |
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| In The Last Man, she uses the philosophical form of the Godwinian novel to demonstrate the ultimate meaninglessness of the world. |
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| Therefore, through this forthcoming opportunity, I challenge you to realize yourself and understand thoroughly the meaninglessness of the flesh, so that you can receive the strength to cast it away. |
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| There may be pervasive feelings of numbness towards others, loneliness, emptiness, meaninglessness, regret, and difficulty acknowledging the death. |
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| Pamela Rosenkranz's solo exhibition pursues a renewed approach to the notion of nihilism, through a search for the meaninglessness composing the centre of the artwork. |
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| Its language wavers between jargon and meaninglessness. |
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| Though he reflects on the brevity and meaninglessness of life, he nevertheless awaits the English and fortifies Dunsinane. |
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| This version was translated word for word, which often led to confusion or meaninglessness. |
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| After all, one of the habitual recognitions of academics, at least in its more critical disciplines, is that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding can so quickly dissipate into meaninglessness. |
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| Worries at school, problems with relationships, bullying, stress, the feeling of being unwanted or useless, hate and bitterness, feelings of guilt and meaninglessness all weigh us down hard. |
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