Word: meaninglessness
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...even as his dutiful eye shuttles back and forth through the blurred, meaningless words of the paragraph, he is with her--somewhere...
...Feild must go, the Fogg will stay though condemned by its students. Despite its brilliant exterior, it is a rotting hulk aimlessly floating on a sea of meaningless and unrelated detail. The study of fine arts has become largely a matter of identifying pictures. This is fine for embryo museum experts. But when it comes to aiding undergraduates to relate fine arts to the life and thought of an epoch, particularly the epoch we are living in, the department is inadequate, barren, and moribund...
...Chipping of Brookfield School is no great shakes as a schoolmaster, but he keeps it up for 63 years. Point of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, which begins at the end of Mr. Chips's life, is that, viewed in proper retrospect, his career is not the meaningless blank it appears to be. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips was young once, and so was Robert Donat, whose fishskin makeup in the first sequences is the most thorough- going physical transformation since the days of Lon Chancy. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips once courted a pretty girl in Vienna...
...signatures which the British Government was especially anxious to obtain for the "Stop Hitler" declaration were those of Poland, Russia and France. Count Edward Raczynski, the Polish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, soon told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that such a toothless declaration was meaningless, would only anger Herr Hitler. He suggested that Britain initiate conscription and sign a military alliance...
...writing a play about the contemporary South. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Yale, Oxford, the University of California. Since 1934 he has been an English professor at Louisiana State University. Coolest-headed of Southern agrarian writers, Author Warren declares "the danger of regionalism lies in the 'ism.' Meaningless as a fad, it is not a cureall, and gives the writer no substitute for talent or intelligence...