Word: meaninglessness
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...here tomorrow—despite the best ministrations of every “expert on evil” that the good people at Newsweek call in to deal with the meaningless, tedious “problem” of Timothy McVeigh...
...living wage might cost you more) have been termed “push polls” and their use in last fall’s campaigns to transmit falsehoods about candidates has been decried. Legitimate surveys avoid biased and vague items like the plague. Such questions not only produce meaningless results, they bias the answers to the questions that follow them by shaping the meaning respondents attach to them. And in e-mail surveys, respondents can see all the questions before answering any of them, meaning answers to preceding questions can be biased...
This morning’s Beanpot consolation game against Northeastern, who was pummeled B.C. in the other opener, will be even more difficult to get up for. It will be the final game of the year and-for all intents and purposes-the most meaningless...
That’s why a game like Assassin is so dangerous—because it’s meaningless, because it’s just a bunch of guys and girls with nerf guns running around shooting each other, it suddenly becomes okay to care, to behave as if the game is life and death, rather than just “life” and “death.” The real, academic competition that defines Harvard life, and that we so assiduously sweep under the rug for the sake of social peace, spills out with...
Unfortunately, the intentions of the film are often undermined by clunky dialogue that comes off sounding no better than the rank clichés that they are. At times it tries a little too hard to be inspirational, other times the dialogue is so absolutely meaningless that one can’t help but wonder why the director included it. To fill time? To create characterization? In a movie about movement, it is the actions that speak louder than words, and the dialogue often comes second to the acting as a means of establishing personalities. In addition, the script offers...