Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough that Bush signalled that shadow governments are acceptable and the separation of powers meaningless by cooperating in the Iran-contra cover-up. He didn't even exhibit a shred of courage by admitting that what Weinberger and the others did was wrong, but that he had chosen to pardon them anyway...
After months of meaningless cease fires, negotiations over the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina are progressing rapidly. The Serbs, the Croats, and even the Muslims appear to have accepted in principle the division of Bosnia into ten autonomous provinces, mainly divided along ethnic lines. While there is still debate over the specifics, dissection is now unmistakably Bosnia's fate...
...structures itself as an organization and what that organization actually does." The Crimson does itself a disservice by granting Rabie's letter any legitimacy, particularly when Rabie is so eager to find ways to defame Israel that she needs to launch her attack from a rather meaningless editorial. Joshua Lehrer-Graiwer '95, Chair, Harvard-Israel Public Affairs Committee
...every right to spend all their time lolling in cafes thinking up fresh words: all those spanking new particles and objects have to be called something. But the sewage of cultural theory and philosophy is a pernicious influence, taking your average happy noun ('problem'), and disfiguring it with a meaningless suffix. Take a few more such words; apply prefixes at will; stir boldly for a decade; before long, an entire generation will have on its tongues an assortment of unaesthetic and utterly meaningless words. And there, comrades, lies the rub. Their complete uselessness means everyone will use them--simply...
Barnes' reserve is immensely appealing. The person who emerges seems to be that rarest of creatures, a man who understands the infinite allure and necessity of mystery. In an era when too many novelists traffic in meaningless psychobabble, Barnes' novels represent a continent of hope. His work reveals that the obituaries lamenting the death of the novel are premature. A new Barnes' novel demands a magnum of champagne...