Word: meaninglessness
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...read. Reading a Moliere farce, for example, means condemning your mind to an endless purgatory of Punch-and-Judy beatings and convoluted accusations of cuckoldry. The lines aren't literary. By themselves, they're not even particularly funny. The play works as comedy only by transcending the meaningless quips to reach the lasting humor beneath...
...ways, and makes you love him for it. Killer eyes. Killer grin. Lady killer. Killer. But somehow a hell of a hero. Whether he's Bad-ass Buddusky fiving a kid his last breath of freedom, J.J. Gittes investigating a roller-coaster mystery, Bobby Dupea trying to shed his meaningless skin, or George Hansen smoking his first joint, Nicholson has found that inner peace and worldly violence are often inextricable...
...meaningless non-conference game, Maine out-gunned Princeton, 55-44. Even with Princeton quarterback Bob Holly rushing for two touchdowns and passing for 433 yards and three t.d.s, the Tigers' famed non-defense couldn't stop the Black Bears, who amassed 403 yards on the ground...
...will filter out, in phone calls to Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, in his own writing and speeches. The trip was his; his idea, his arrangements. The flap about who knew, or didn't know, where he was going and what he was doing is ridiculous, meaningless. Nixon brushes by the subject as he focuses on a larger problem...
...this nation is based. For the past two centuries, political argument has assumed freedom of individual choice as a given, and has proceeded from there. The debate, Will said, between the "Massachusetts liberalism" of Edward M. Kennedy '54 and Ronald Reagan's "Manchester liberalism," though politically significant, is philosophically meaningless. Both agree on the basics; they disagree merely on how to achieve the ends...