senselessness

Four Black men find themselves in a waiting room in the afterlife, struggling to make sense of the senselessness.

Most people, however, will find the video to be comical, not to mention the product of pure irrationality or senselessness.

Yet for the reader, the book is clearly a cautionary tale about the cost of self-deception and the senselessness of shrinking from love.

“All these greatest things have one thing in common: senselessness.”

Paustovsky’s enchanted nostalgia underscores the cruel senselessness of war — then as now.