Word: meaninglessness
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...petition" circulated by the Liberal Union and the Society for Minority Rights . . . it is at best a meaningless shot in the dark. Again, the motivations behind it may be of many sorts, and it would be futile to comment upon the various possibilities. To me, it looks like an uncalled for attempt to obtain Publicity. Very poor taste, indeed, as poor as the prank which originated...
...commission to study the whole price situation to see what controls can be removed. Actually, prices are decontrolling themselves so fast that many ceilings are meaningless...
...Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, arranged for two pianos, drew the loudest applause of the evening, but perhaps that was because Mr. Piston himself was at one of the pianos. The music's substance was unclear--the themes undistinctive, the dissonances meaningless, and the two-piano arrangement not wholly successful. The piece appeared to be little more than long, scale passages, and the composer must have intended more than that. However, Piston and Tucker both played zealously, and it appeared that they, if no one else, knew exactly what was going...
Denis went to confession, but confession had become meaningless. To himself he said: "God is dead. There is no one else but us." It was wartime, and when their town in occupied France was bombed, Sister Clothilde went to her family's house in the country. Denis' unsuspecting parents were glad to have him go to a safe place with...
More & more U.S. painters are turning to abstract art. Many are trained, honest men who have already made reputations with pictures of recognizable things. Yet to most Americans, their abstract work is messy and meaningless-an energetic mishmash of blobs and squiggles. Why do they...