unmeaning

Example Sentences

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“Substance has yielded to form, the religion of the heart to the observance of unmeaning forms and ceremonies.”

From New York Times

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 Literature

Immigrant voters were "corrupting the ballot box - that great palladium of our liberty - into an unmeaning mockery", he fumed.

From BBC

“It aims at the palatial and attains the sham-palatial,” the anonymous reviewer wrote, describing the projecting cornice as “huge, umbrageous, unmeaning, irrelevant” and characteristic “of the cheapest and vulgarest kind of tenement houses.”

From New York Times

They dropped like the stones I’d throw in Catclaw Creek or fluttered spastically and panickedly up whereupon I took more tenacious aim— much more difficult now because they moved —not me, frozen as if in a camera’s flash— troubling the tyranny of the ordinary as if a wave of meaning or unmeaning went rippling like heat through the yard.

From Slate