Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kamenica said NATO threats have been hollow in the past and remained meaningless to Milosevic...
Common to all of these is the concern about aloneness, the dread of abandonment, the fear of a meaningless existence. Sometimes it is associated with anger at the perceived devaluation and rejection (the famous psychiatrist Karl Menninger said two people are often killed with each suicide); sometimes with feelings of guilt, inadequacy or fear of criticism that are so great one punishes oneself rather than being punished by others...
Nothing could be further from the truth. The presidential scandal has merely served to separate those who understand feminism from those who would turn it into a mindless and meaningless hysteria. Feminism has not, does not and will never claim that all women are automatically right. Feminism is, as the popular bumper sticker proclaims, "the radical notion that women are people." Feminism suggests that a woman's place in life is determined by each individual woman...
...movie (and play) demonstrate throughout an irreverent playfulness with language as if it were an assumed meaningless jargon. Spacey's Mickey clarifies the distinction between "flip" and "sarcastic"; Chazz Palmenteri's actor-99.44 percent consisting of repressed fury--seeks some solace in the exact conceptual phrasing of "karma"; and then there's Eddie's kabbalistic Merriam-Webster romp. Some bits are even a little reminiscent of a Coen screenplay, the way the guys repeat and throw this or that phrase around like an exotic football...
...thought, "Okay, everybody in this room is going to be dead in a 100 years, and it's just ten minutes of my life, so why not?" So my advice would be to try...I travel so much, and I see thousand of people, and I realize not how meaningless I am, but that anything I decide to do is just for me. I want my friends and family to love me, but [you should do] whatever makes you happy. And also when I feel so little, it makes me feel skinnier...