Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...period, in large part because it is not the objective of college to inspire such focus. The raw amount of reading, writing, problem sets we have assigned to us indicates that the emphasis in college lies on quantity and method, not quality. Rigid paper deadlines, which are an otherwise meaningless convention, illustrate this point...
...only ran people that were absolutely healthy," said men's co-captain Joe Ciollo. "It is a pretty meaningless event, and only about half of our team was running...
...medium, but they didn't have a hierarchy of art and craft. To them, the work of the lacquerer or the papermaker was no less worthy than that of the screen painter, and in any case so many media could converge in a single work that art hierarchy became meaningless...
Thus, although various computers on the Internet can still intercept the information you are transmitting, the encrypted nature of this information renders it meaningless. Attempts to decrypt the information, by anyone but the intended receiver, involves the commitment of years of computer time, frequently more years than the average human lifepan...
...sounds like a stretch to blame America's educational problems on what is essentially a literary and cultural movement, that's because it is. Paglia's assertion that humanities professors at Harvard are "trying to take away meaning, tell students it's all meaningless"--thus producing that "gnome" effect--simply isn't true. A small fraction of our humanities classes deal with literature produced in the second half of this century, much of which has come to be labeled "postmodern." The aim of these classes, like any others, is to give students a way of understanding and appreciating the material...