Word: meaninglessness
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...problems of distinguishing talents in the large middle group, and informing employers where differences in ranking are significant and where they are not. It may be several terms before any change, if any, is made in the actual competitive system. Meanwhile, the administration should take immediate steps to minimize meaningless distinctions in the middle group, and the Placement Office should do its utmost to make sure employers know who are the sheep and who are the goats...
Since the United States chief consideration should be its own national interests and security, a political revision would be meaningless, said Gross. It would "only dramatize the frustrations" of smaller countries, without solving their more basic economic problems...
...that caused Rollo and his line to admit their power and decide many a cause against their own immediate interest. Practical considerations of staying in the king business made it desirable to give the constituents the feeling that the king obeyed a higher law of justice. Kingship, indeed, is meaningless without reference to a higher law. And this is the irony of power: that it will either create checks upon itself or it will wither...
Autonomous men are especially important in a culture of other-directeds; they provide models that call the attention of those who are merely adjusted to the variety of which men are capable. Without such reminders of variety or choice, freedom becomes meaningless...
...Gradually her fear mounts to hysteria. She loses all control, screams in her sleep, abandons even vanity. Using lipstick would be indecent now, she thinks, "like painting the face of a corpse." In the end Mary cannot even think any more, and her execution, even to her executioners, seems meaningless and barbaric...