Word: meaninglessness
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...sheds a soft, warm light over life, reminding the reader of all of life's gifts. In seemingly meaningless events, Schnur finds an underlying richness of life. Although the book sometimes teeters on the edge of being cutesy and predictable, for the most part Schnur resists the temptation to over-sentimentalize...
...loopholes in the proposed accord could make it meaningless. Precisely which sites will be open to inspection and how the monitors will operate are questions that have not been resolved. The Prime Ministers of the two Koreas expect to close the holes and sign a formal pact later this month. Even so, the agreement still fails to commit North Korea either to signing the International Atomic Energy Agency's nonproliferation treaty or to IAEA inspections...
...prayer, "I have but one request; may I never use my reason against truth." Wiesel's grandfather believed "An objective Hasid is not a Hasid." The value of miracles hinges upon these distinctions. The subjective and objective flow into one another until the + distinction between the two is meaningless, just as the distinction between God and human vanishes. Reason has its mechanical uses in an ordinary world but is counterproductive in the higher realms that miracles inhabit. So says the believer's mystic line...
...essentially, do your paper work for you. There is no challenge. You may feel rich, but you can't buy the feeling that you're great from watching passive income accrue. And when the rewards are coming in faster than you can count them, they become meaningless...
...trigger for every round discharged. In 1989, two months after a deranged man with a semiautomatic murdered five children at a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, President Bush was persuaded to place a ban on the importation of all such foreign-made weapons. But the edict was virtually meaningless, since the vast majority of "semis" purchased in the U.S. are manufactured at home...