Word: meaninglessness
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...felt a nerve tweak in the back of my neck from the massive cringe I suffered through the rest of the movie. After being crowned Miss Illinois, Mona tries to outdo Miss Texas (Bridget Wilson) who was hospitalized for giving marrow to her foster sister in meaningless altruism. One particular scene in which she carts a pregnant woman to the hospital in a shopping cart full of marshmallows (no, it doesn't make more sense when you actually see it) had me gawking in dumbfounded amazement at the brazen act of courage which it must have taken for the producers...
Over the last two weeks, Newsweek has begun to mention the results among likely voters. But without mentioning the margin of error among them, the polls remain meaningless...
...impact? Meanwhile, Jennifer Lopez's squeaky voice is starting to get on my nerves; for a girl who prides herself on sass and ass, she's awfully shrill. But in the end, she's cast as eye candy, not as an actress. And in a movie filled with meaningless visual stunts, she simply dissolves with the rest of them...
...brink of catastrophe. What would people think of me if I abandoned them all at this stage?" By this point in the novel, normal narrative logic no longer applies; after telling Sarah why he can't go with her, Banks agrees to do so. And that consent proves meaningless too. Ishiguro is a master at evoking unsettling moods, but When We Were Orphans comes to seem more tantalizing than fulfilling, a whodunit with no real...
...Unfortunately, when the characters in "Duets" aren't singing, they don't have much to say. That's probably because there's not much to these characters to begin with - come on, a karaoke hustler? Played by Huey Lewis? Karaoke as a metaphor for finding meaning in a meaningless world? Most people would probably be better off reading the Bhagavad Gita than crooning "Bette Davis Eyes" in front of a bar full of strangers. Bruce Paltrow's direction (in the past, he served as executive producer and director of NBC's "St. Elsewhere") is as aimless as his characters' lives...