Word: meaninglessness
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...structure, the film has serious faults. It begins so slowly that for a while audiences can almost imagine that there is trouble with the projector. Even as the emotional rhythm catches hold, the mood is continually jolted by meaningless digressions. Nonetheless, there are several scenes which draw their moral beauty to a point that pierces like anguish. There is the moment on the train when the father gives the boy his first present; the boy stares at it, his eyes immense with wonder; the father urges him to open it; the boy says simply, "I do aot care what...
Actually, the debt ceiling is almost meaningless. Congress has set a ceiling seven separate times in the past 18 years, but has never failed to raise it whenever the Government needed more money (see chart). Economy-minded Senators, well aware that in the same 18 years the ceiling has been lowered only once (at World War II's end), thought that Humphrey's dilemma would make for quicker, bigger cuts in spending. But they also knew, as did Secretary Humphrey, that the ceiling, as a symbol, meant little, that the important thing was the long-range determination...
This tremendous efficiency has turned many of the onetime valid high-tariff arguments into meaningless cliches...
...tyrannical persecutions." Historically, the struggles of the Puritans against ecclesiastical inquisitions, which resulted in the Fifth Amendment, established that religious and political heresy is not a crime, but it is rather the right, if not the duty, of the citizen in a democracy; and that freedom of speech becomes meaningless without the corollary right to keep silent...
...years, stepped up again to heave a few himself. Epstein's targets: the $32,000 Unknown Political Prisoner competition in London (TIME, March 23), and abstract sculpture in general. "Rot," growled Epstein, "abstract atrocities. The whole thing is bunk. One's like another, all empty and meaningless. They philosophize and talk, but it doesn't convince you. You can't take it seriously...