unmeaning

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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

Noah Webster, in his 1828 American Dictionary, defined slang as "low, vulgar, unmeaning."

From Time Magazine Archive

Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: "The worthy, conscientious, entirely unmeaning and uninteresting son of plump old Edward VII."

From Time Magazine Archive

He still hears the voice of the demagogue, but it comes as a mere unmeaning murmur.

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