meaninglessness

Example Sentences

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By the early aughts an older, wiser Dolours is disillusioned with the meaninglessness of so much bloodshed and pondering what it means to have so many spent matches poking her from inside her pockets.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024

The phrase “spring in L.A.” has about the same level of meaninglessness as “it feels like a Tuesday.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2024

If you want to delve into a cinematic exploration of the meaninglessness of life, the terribleness of humanity, and the loss of fingers, may I recommend “The Banshees of Inisherin.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2023

Yet Twombly grasped, I think, that life is plotless, that meaninglessness reigns — hence, perhaps, his urge to deface, to vandalize.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

She flinched from him, the hoarseness of his voice, the nebulous and easy meaninglessness of his words.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie