Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic pact would be meaningless unless the European allies were able to defend themselves when attacked. They had the will to do this, and the manpower; they did not have the weapons. Only the U.S. could provide the weapons soon enough. U.S. refusal to provide them would have a shattering effect on Western Europe's morale...
...weeks of behind-the-scenes study and discussion no new program had emerged. The immediate question was whether to extend diplomatic recognition to the Communist-dominated government now being formed in China. Washington tended to discuss this in terms of procedural technicalities. Actually, the arguments pro & con would be meaningless until a broad political policy was decided upon...
Musical comedys, like vacations, were better before the war. They were a let more amoral and meaningless and thus unencumbered, they were free to be musical and comic...
...came in for some hard words. "The new De Chirico," said the Manchester Guardian, "is evidently a great admirer of Rubens. The knights in armor, the nudes and most of the landscape backgrounds appear to derive from that artist . . . but the overemphatic drawing, the heavy black shadows, the rather meaningless color are very different...
Though Stravinsky refers to Irving Fine as "my son," his compositions are distinguished by originality of style. In an attempt at classification, Boston critics have dubbed him a member of the Stravinsky-Piston-Boulanger school, but the title is essentially meaningless. He writes with extreme craftsmanship and ingenious contrapuntal technique, marked by a delicate sense of appropriateness and taste...