Word: meaninglessness
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Thursday evening, then, the East and West of music, so to speak, met. The contrapuntal perfections of Palestrina and the polyharmony of Boulanger bowed, smiled, and behaved in a highly amicable way. The "Vielle Priere Bouddhique", to which Wilbye's rather meaningless "Amarillis" afforded good contrast, is modern music at its best, and establishes a thoroughly ancient and oriental atmosphere by the simple devices of unusual melodic progression and strange and mingled harmonies. The open chords at the beginning are effective; they seem to tell of mystery and paganism. The Christmas song of Arnold Bax's is rousing and tuneful...
...point involved is important. Thousands of tax-payers have sworn to their income tax returns without raising their hands. Are their oaths to be repudiated? Every day hundreds of would be motorists submit to the same stereotyped process, not bothering to raise their right hands, and merely mumbling meaningless phrases through their teeth; yet they are judged to have sworn to the truth of their statements...
...become disgusted with his opinions but, in most cases, you will read to the end. In the first place he has a style which, however, careless it may be, moves, and in the second place he is by no means without a sense of humor. It may be a meaningless world but it has amusing aspects and Fitzgerald has a keen eye for them. Sometimes there is high comedy and sometimes farce but it is always entertaining...
...proposed reservation to the Four-Power Treaty is so drawn as to be meaningless now and forever it is a childish gesture unworthy of the Senate. If, on the other hand, it is worded so as to mean something no (as it seems to) or so as perhaps, to mean something in the future, it is open to objection not only in connection with this particular treaty but on broad considerations of national policy...
...lamentably ignorant of human nature that it thought that it could violate women, enslave men, murder defenceless children, and make war on churches, libraries, and hospitals, in order to destroy a commercial rival, and that the civilized world would look on and see it done with only feeble and meaningless protests...