Word: meaninglessness
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...Christian Promise. "The tragedy of the world is that it knows no judge, no Lord of history. To the church it is given to know that man is not condemned to an endless succession of meaningless nights and days . . . to uncomforted mourning or ever-disillusioned hoping . . . The time of evangelism will not last forever; it will be succeeded by the time of the kingdom fulfilled. The good news will not remain forever a promise: it will become a promise kept...
...transition is fairly well accomplished in a general way, though sometimes what goes big in the parlor gets lost in the movie house (e.g., the staccato monotone, urgent and effective when the actor is only ten inches high and has to exaggerate plenty to get attention, is just a meaningless affectation when he is 20 feet tall...
...most Americans, Government statistics are meaningless, dust-dry columns of astronomical figures printed in small type in dull pamphlets. Few citizens actually read the figures, but not one is unaffected by them...
...objective reality of beauty and its concrete embodiments, of goodness and its impact on human life, of God and His relation to man, is the major premise of the humanistic disciplines. Deny this premise and you make thoughtful, reflective study of the arts and literatures, of morality and religion, meaningless and impossible...
...drop the charges against Crummer, and gave him more than 60 letters from Crummer's clients. Said the Keating report: "It was improper for these attorneys to offer, and for the Attorney General to accept, argumentative materials ..." Besides, the subcommittee added, "the letters themselves were practically meaningless," since the point of the charges against Crummer was that he concealed his manipulations from his clients...