Word: meaninglessness
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Every frame is dominated by the dizzying North African heat; with blinding sunlight and sweat-drenched bodies, Visconti comes close to prostrating his audience as he builds Meursault's unexpected, meaningless murder of an Arab on the beach. It is stifling, too, in the courtroom where Meursault is condemned, as much for his disengagement from society's proprieties and his refusal to pretend pieties he does not feel as for the crime itself...
...certain to demand several Cabinet seats, and there are those who feel that the U.S. must be just as certain to refuse. "If you give the Viet Cong the Interior Ministry," says one senior U.S. diplomat, "that means you lose. If you give them anything less, it's meaningless." But the U.S. is willing to see the Viet Cong get some political representation. The State Department has indicated as much. The V.C. certainly might be recognized as a political party, and it is not entirely out of the question that they might be permitted to administer the hamlets that...
...legacy of this maltreatment, Fisher says, made independence in association with the other two islands meaningless for Anguilla: "They replaced a warden responsible to Britain with one responsible to St. Kitts, so there was still a warden on the island who ran it and was the only government on the island. There was no school board, no local autonomy, no council to do anything...
Even if your existence isn't mean, it can still be meaningless. Britain's dilletante nobles and the others who still take their tea quietly at four sit in their gardens maintaining their fortunes (luck and/or money). And because their lives are irrelevant to anything or anybody, the Beatles tell us, they are left alone (like Eleanor Rigby) standing in the rain...
...least to end their 20-year "state of hostilities" with Israel. But the Israelis are in no mood to accept such half-measures. They are now convinced that it is much wiser to hold on to what they have than acquiesce in what Eshkol refers to as "obscure and meaningless formulas like declarations of the cessation of belligerency without a real peace settlement...