Word: meaninglessness
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...sometimes they fizzle), programs from almost anywhere are apt to show up almost anywhere else. The pictures will seldom be good, and they will seldom last long. If the foreign station has a different line image (Britain uses 405 lines, the U.S. 525 lines), its picture will be a meaningless pattern of distorting interferences. U.S. viewers in some cases can adjust their sets to pick up the foreign picture, but then they will not get U.S. pictures...
...challenger did not hang around for an answer. Early in the second round Bobo crowded in and Sugar shoved him off. Carelessly, Bobo tapped his gloves together in a meaningless gesture. In that instant the challenger became Sugar Ray Robinson, the champion. His right whipped out and clouted Bobo on the head, bouncing him off balance. His left followed, flush on the face. Bobo went down for good...
...sustains the abstract-size scale toward which his vision has probably always been directed. It is a 'cosmic' scale because of the multiple overlay and continuous spiral movement in conjunction with the non-figurativeness." ¶ Arts summed up: "A Pollock painting, charged with his personal mythology, remains meaningless to him for whom Pollock himself is not a tangible reality. As Indian sculpture is related to Vedic and Upanishadic thought, exactly so are Pollock's canvases related to his self. Ignore that relation and they remain anonymous and insignificant." In other words you can't tell very...
...powwow, sponsored by the national committee. Everybody was optimistic and harmonious, especially at the $100-a-plate dinner. But two mild family quarrels were noted: ¶ Facing an old and troublesome problem, he national committee worked out a face-saving compromise on the party's "loyalty oath." The meaningless new rule assumes that state Democratic organizations will place the nominees of the national convention on the state ballot under the Democratic symbol; it eliminates the old provision requiring a pledge by individual delegates. But not long after the compromise was approved, former National Chairman Stephen Mitchell, a chief adviser...
...impeccable. Every bow movement, from delicate nudges at the tip to slashing down-bow accents, produced a flawless tone, fine-drawn and luminous, made mellow but not ripe by judicious use of vibrato. In a concert full of lovely little touches-his method of approaching such an essentially meaningless figure as a trill was a joy to the sense of propriety-Oistrakh even managed to breathe warmth and dignity into the withered carcasses of Tartini's "Devil's Trill" Sonata and Ysaye's distraught Sonata-Ballade...