He resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It's an exercise in meaninglessness!. From Wordnik.com. [Is Time Travel Even Possible?] Reference
Police later recovered a suicide note, in which he wrote about the "meaninglessness" of life. From Wordnik.com. [Top Headlines] Reference
The terror of extinction, the terror of meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
But the meaninglessness of all utterances in quasi-existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Sufficiently vague, the phrase is remarkable for its meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel Beehner: Anybody Know What 'Smart Power' Means?] Reference
My mother and father taught me the meaning and meaninglessness of money. From Wordnik.com. [Marcy Carsey: Moxie and My Mother] Reference
Gibbs says he doesn't pay any attention to the meaninglessness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2009] Reference
The most thoroughly hopeless exposition of the world's meaninglessness, in. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Come to think of it "How ya doin '" belongs in this memorial to meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Franken: Insincerity Hall of Fame?: Just Asking] Reference
Yet, in the throes of this flux of relevant meaninglessness, it became believable. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
Come to think of it \ "How ya doin\'\" belongs in this memorial to meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Franken: Insincerity Hall of Fame?: Just Asking] Reference
I think I didn't state my point well, so I'll restate it: meaninglessness generalizes. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
Our greatest teachers, he suggests, should “encourage us to endure meaninglessness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Adamantly Against Patriotism- A Plea for Individual Audacity] Reference
Ari's surreal-real journey makes a viewer re-experience the numb meaninglessness of war. From Wordnik.com. [Karin Badt: Cannes 2008: "Waltz With Bashir": A Cartoon Journey into War] Reference
And, in fact, all that was completely meaninglessness since Russert had already testified. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2007] Reference
Echoing the other posts on the meaninglessness of national polls in Presidential elections. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Obama Has Narrow Lead In Swing State Of Colorado] Reference
It's a drug that weak-minded people take to help them deal with the meaninglessness of life. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: My Purpose in Debating Christopher Hitchens on the Afterlife] Reference
"Perhaps you have already diluted your life into meaninglessness," suggested the philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Old Attic] Reference
Wealthy people often have difficulties with issues of self-worth, guilt, and meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [Ed and Deb Shapiro: Does A Recession Make Us Less Compassionate?] Reference
The ridiculousness of the headline pointed up the meaninglessness of declaring war on a product. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Goldin: Becoming the Enemy] Reference
We have to take Apuzzo's word for it that the White House is guilty of murk and meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Diabetic Jailbird] Reference
Those are examples of words whose meaning is now being strained to the point of meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [A letter sent to former SoS James Baker] Reference
I must say it's strange to read the word 'logic' in Lalo's strange conglomeration of meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [DNC Releases New Ad Hitting McCain] Reference
There are a few basic existential realities we all confront: mortality, aloneness and meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [Therese Borchard: Am I Depressed Or Just Deep?] Reference
The word "change" is now so overused that it's in danger of sliding past platitude into meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Theater of Big Change] Reference
He then proceeded to give a definition of jazz that was so expansive that it bordered on meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [John Hollenbeck Only Looks Like a Jazz Musician] Reference
One possible explanation for this could be the general meaninglessness of the phrase "support the troops.". From Wordnik.com. [Poll: 70% Think Bush Has Let Iraq Veterans Down] Reference
I'd much prefer a heartfelt "Happy Holidays" to this faux-inclusive, hodgepodge of treacly meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [Cathleen Falsani: Do Whateveryouwannukah? Why I Won't Be Fa-la-la-la-la-ing In To The Gap This Holiday Season (VIDEO)] Reference
People are haunted by a feeling of meaninglessness which is often accompanied by a feeling of emptiness … ". From Wordnik.com. [Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Passover 5770 - March 29, 2010 ]] Reference
People look at these polls without understanding their meaninglessness six months, two months out from the election. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Campaign 2000 Hits the Airwaves; Is There a Shrinking Audience For Cable News? - September 2, 2000] Reference
You might point out that given the general meaninglessness of the phrase, perhaps this doesn't matter all that much. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: 70% Think Bush Has Let Iraq Veterans Down] Reference
Sting brays "information" as if to demonstrate how words, when repeated enough, can disassemble into meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost In The Machine] Reference
SUE SHELLENBARGER, AUTHOR, "THE BREAKING POINT": It began with a feeling of emotional deadness and almost meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2005] Reference
The article is meaninglessness but the meaninglessness is also the goal, which would be fine if it was just entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Elliott: Rolling Stone Slanders The Transgender S&M Community] Reference
"It comes down to the problems of the human condition: separation, meaninglessness, powerlessness, fear of death," he says. From Wordnik.com. [GOOD Magazine: Vermont: Most Likely To Secede?] Reference
The new "adaptation" of the book for Channel 4 by Michael Winterbottom is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: This Film is an Idiot's Version of Naomi Klein's Masterpiece] Reference
This bland acceptance of the meaninglessness and the inefficacy of beauty is habitual to most young professionals who wield pen or pencil. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
They're usually quite terse, almost to the point of meaninglessness, but they often don't require much more than that to make sense to me. From Wordnik.com. [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference
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