meaninglessness

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.

There’s a kind of epidemic of meaninglessness permeating the culture in a way that is now undeniable.

The film explores the various emotions of being trapped in different ways, including in relationships, hardships or just feelings of meaninglessness.

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

Very simply, it was the cultural response to modernity — to the combined impact of the scientific revolution and industrialization, to insecurity, fragmentation, remorseless change, cascading complexity and intimations of meaninglessness.