mindlessness

Example Sentences

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All our knowledge-seeking will be for naught, because everything we have learned will be forgotten as the universe lapses into utter, irreversible mindlessness.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2021

Some conservative faculty at Yale welcomed Hill as a superior antidote to such civic mindlessness and as the embodiment of an older social discipline and sense of duty on which Yale had been founded.

From Salon • May 8, 2021

For the collective outrage over the Virginia scandal to be truly meaningful, it should open up a conversation in this community about how racial mindlessness and hostility play out right here, in our own backyard.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2019

We reward them with the same mindlessness they serve to us, a daily exchange of pablum.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2016

My buddies had sent me homework from the classes I’d missed, so I started to tackle that pile of mindlessness.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen