Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began filing achievement summaries at the end of each month, plus a plan for the next week. This year, when the teachers were ordered to tack on another week, Worley refused. His lessons, said he, were geared to the daily attitudes of his students. Submitting a detailed plan was "meaningless, a sham, hypocrisy...
...other end of the scale, the Vienna Philharmonic performed Anton Bruckner's sprawling (80 minutes) Eighth Symphony, a superromantic exercise whose occasional eloquence and melodic beauty is drowned in the wearisome repetition of meaningless climaxes. The orchestra brightened things again with a fine, majestic performance of Schubert's Symphony No. 8 (The Unfinished) and a round of selections from various Strausses, including a Fledermaus overture that seemed to transform Carnegie Hall into a crystal-hung ballroom...
Nevertheless, a review of this past year's effort by the gentlemen in Washington should cause great concern to the politicians, if only because of the difficulty in understanding what lesson to draw from the confused, and perhaps essentially meaningless, happenings...
...other with a sensitivity that escapes the impersonality of the screen. Their love affair seems dramatically as well as thematically plausible. Heather Sears, cast as the daughter of the local power, employs her bland manner with purpose. Her pleasant, but empty face, and her unobtrusiveness, admirably heighten her own meaningless relationship to Harvey. Knowing that her role is one of the pawn, she has enough sense not to turn it into a tour de force performance...
...wanted to come right out and say "nonsense," but the fact remained that Nikita's demand for total disarmament was so absurd and impractical as to be insulting. It paid no more than token heed to the all-important Western insistence that any disarmament agreement is meaningless and dangerous without an ironclad control system. It ignored the self-evident fact that no totalitarian government, whether in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East or Asia, would freely consent to dismantle the military forces on which its power rested...