unmeaning

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He recapitulates his life's journey in a series of dreams and daydreams that reveal to him the meaning and unmeaning of his existence.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wrote: "That unmeaning and abominable custom �swearing."

From Time Magazine Archive

Antonioni's point is unmistakable: his hero, like Orpheus, has entered Hades, the contemporary hell of unmeaning materialism� will he find there the love, the soul, the vital core of meaning he has lost?

From Time Magazine Archive

Howl is an astounding screed, an interminable sewer of a poem that sucks in all the feculence, malignity and unmeaning slime of modern life and spews them with tremendous momentum into the reader's mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old woman, wrinkled, dirty, clothed in an ill-sewn sack of sealskin, pointed at the little silken dress and at herself, and smiled: a sweet, unmeaning smile, like a baby’s.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin