Here 'unmeaning' does not signify that we are saying anything about the value of such entities, but it gives expression to an ontological characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
Page purely as a kind of unmeaning noise it filled you with astonishment at first. From Wordnik.com. [Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow] Reference
Believe me, Emily, these kind of unmeaning sacrifices are childish; your heart is new to love, and you have all the romance of a girl. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Emily Montague] Reference
He calls their unmeaning verbosity. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
For us, such reconciliation is an unmeaning phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
Our praise would be unmeaning minstrelsy, our prayers. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
Girls coquettish, silly women, vapid and unmeaning men. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
"My brother is dead," she says, in a slow, unmeaning tone. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
On the whole, what is left of this ceremony seems rather unmeaning. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
Then their calling me "mother" was not, I think, altogether unmeaning. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
I believe children are sometimes tortured by hideous and unmeaning names. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
"No steps backward," must be something more than unmeaning platform words. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
The daughter looked at me again, and sickened me with her unmeaning laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
It becomes unmeaning as soon as nature is expanded to the fulness of the idea. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
Conversation was more or less general, but it sounded vague and unmeaning to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
Dining in hall then applied a certain social test, which has now become unmeaning. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Sidonie had disappeared after exchanging a few unmeaning words with the impassive Frantz. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And in these curiously chosen, yet not unmeaning words, did we celebrate our deliverance. From Wordnik.com. [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference
"De la Ventileria" is the unmeaning name given to a frivolous coxcomb, instead of "De la Ventilera.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
The walls are unmeaning, often hidden by buildings, and there is not a portal worthy of description. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Asaad evidently wished to be alone, and the brother, after a few mild, unmeaning inquiries, left him. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Sometimes the word was written two or three times, and there were numerous blots and unmeaning lines. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Lady Scapegrace to unmeaning Miss Minnows; each stared at me for about two seconds, and so made up her mind. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
The world would have stood in amazement, and would have been perplexed and confounded by an unmeaning statute. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
But Catharine's face was very like a doll's just now -- the eyes as bright and unmeaning, the pink as unchanging. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
This state is usually accompanied by an unmeaning stare or fixedness of countenance quite peculiar to the drunkard. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The gracious invitations and promises of the Gospel are reduced to unmeaning terms, so far as the many are concerned. From Wordnik.com. [On Calvinism] Reference
It is to this habit of unmeaning self-disparagement that we are to attribute many of those phrases which have been thought in. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
There are many unmeaning remarks made, the why of which it is difficult to explain, unless we put that interpretation upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
The American is polite, but over-refined, unmeaning compliments form no part of his manners, nor does he expect them from others. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
If what they say sounds to us wholly unmeaning, it is probable that we have not fully understood the voice that speaks within them. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Such directions would be very vague and unmeaning, and might lead to the commission of the very errors which they aimed at preventing. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
He returned the next day after Alonzo got home: -- his aspect and his conversation were marked with an assumed and unmeaning cheerfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
This is no accidental insurrection of the 5th and 6th of June, '32 -- no outbreak at a funeral -- no riot of operatives -- no unmeaning revolt, as in' 39. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
"We shall see what we shall see," and so on -- the unmeaning chatter of the crowd, which merely serves to show that it is at the command of the first who chooses to sway it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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