Word: meaninglessness
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...months, through 86 formal sessions and a number of private meetings, the words of the Viet Nam negotiators have filled the conference room. With rare exceptions, the talk has been meaningless exchanges of the unacceptable that amount almost to silence. Even a whisper of potential change in such an atmosphere becomes a hopeful rumble. And hope is rumbling now in Paris...
...member of the so-called "Vienna Circle" of philosophers and mathematicians that flourished during the late '20s and early '30s, Carnap was a founder of the school of thought known as logical positivism. The traditional areas of philosophy, such as metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics, he dismissed as "meaningless" because their statements could not be empirically verified, and were based on "emotional needs, not on intellectual concepts...
...world gets more insane every day. My AM radio just said, "Your right-on radio station is Here in Boston..." Shit, "Right on" used to mean something, just a couple of months ago. And now it is lost, rendered almost meaningless as an expression of passion. I want to smash the radio, to deny what is happening. But that would be insane. Yet there is the feeling that at some point there must be a final line, the line which Camus says defines the revolutionary situation, where one says this much and no more, and picks...
Your wife, aware of your infidelities and lack of interest, began to see her lot as slavery and her life as meaningless and dull...
...arms embargo has always been rather meaningless. Though shipment of tanks and certain other big items has remained suspended, the U.S. sold the Greeks a few jet fighters and trainers in 1968 and has maintained the low of trucks and small arms-precisely what the regime needed to keep a tight grip on the country. Pressure on the White House from both Athens md the Pentagon for full resumption of arms aid increased with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. More recently, the Soviets have shipped to Bulgaria several hundred of their latest tanks, which outgun Greece...