Word: meaninglessness
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...when some of his followers referred to themselves as Lutherans, he wrote: "Please do not use my name; do not call yourselves Lutherans, but Christians . . . The doctrine is not mine; I have not been crucified for anyone . . . Why should I, a miserable bag of worms, give my meaningless name to Christ's children?'' Only later, when Roman Catholics used the term as an insult, did Luther consent to let his name be applied to those who agreed with...
...with the most devout, but he has not practiced Roman Catholicism since his high school days ended his formal education. Though Hollywood seems a most unlikely place to have produced the author of Little Moon, he was raised there, played some bit parts as a child, shook off the "meaningless" glamour at 19 to go to Manhattan, "the Mecca of the artist...
...other day I read an interview with a resort hotel operator who claimed he was feeling the effects of the recession. He turned down 500 reservations every weekend last year, he said, but now he is turning down only 400. It is meaningless to talk about recession unless we consider what the economy is receding from, and where it stands in relation to the past. At the present it is receding from the highest peak in our economic history; and even now it remains at a record high, compared to the level of previous years...
Unless guilt matters the whole world is Meaningless. God too is nothing...
...does list price mean less than in the U.S. auto industry. Says Ward's Automotive Reports: Discounts are here to stay. "The 25% dealer price markup is greater than can be justified by the services performed by the dealer." The manufacturers' suggested list price has also become meaningless as the difference between it and the actual "delivered price" that the customer pays has increased. The original list price does not include taxes, delivery charges and optional equipment, which often add $1,000 to the cost of a car. As customers have learned to bargain harder, the percentage...