Word: meaninglessness
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...release with a promise to end his anti-Park political activities. Kim's own comments were uncharacteristically conciliatory. "My activities abroad had caused much trouble to the nation," he declared apologetically at a news conference. "Under the present circumstances, for me to engage in political activities would be meaningless." He hardly seemed to be the same compelling orator who, until this August, was calling President Park "an Asian version of Hitler" and proclaiming himself "the sole South Korean voice speaking against dictatorship and for freedom." Kim indicated that he might soon be allowed to leave the country...
...dozen Hail Marys. The interior monologue begins: "They're just words, it's all bullshit, it's not for me," etc. The cliches are telling--in reality he is tyrannized by the church, tormented by guilt, terrified of hell. He thinks he's fighting back, but his gestures are meaningless...
...blue and white Star of David. Commanding the fort was a young lieutenant from Tel Aviv. Leaning against a bunker, he reflected bitterly: "Back home they call this 'the Yom Kippur war' or 'the war of the Day of Judgment.' I call it 'the meaningless war.' There's no point to it. We are fighting it because the Arabs started it. We are just pounding each other to hell, causing a lot of casualties, breaking each other's necks for no earthly reason. The Arabs are not going to get back their...
Though Kreisky remained firm on his insistence that Schönau must close, it began to appear that his promise to the terrorists to ban "group travel" was all but meaningless. "We shall continue to allow the transit of Russian Jews as we have done before," he said, "but we shall keep the time allowed in Austria as short as possible. Under normal circumstances, the stay in Austria will be limited to one night." This represented a clear retreat from his initial position, which he had described as "genuine transit, without stopovers." His new position in effect will allow Russian...
...Aubusson to designs by Australian Artist John Coburn are soggy pastiches of Matisse's paper cutouts. In the foyers, no effort to mask and confuse the nobly strict curves of the roof ribs has been spared: one is met by a jumble of well-made but visually meaningless joinery, as if some gnome from the stingyback forests had gone berserk promoting the rarer Australian hardwoods...