Word: meaninglessness
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...writers, who have to cover a certain team game-by-game and are constantly writing for a newspaper or magazine deadline, Angell is not constrained by such daily pressures. As the "senior fiction writer" for the New Yorker, he isn't preoccupied with reporting the details of any single, meaningless midsummer game...
...sounds inane, it is. There are a few unexpected turns in the plot, and a handful of genuinely funny interchanges, but by and large it is difficult to imagine a less ambitious comedy than this one. In the conclusion, as if aware that what has gone before is essentially meaningless, Simon glibly trots out those eternal verities that You Are How You Perceive Yourself, and Love Conquers...
...nation has unwittingly conditioned its Presidential candidates to do the same--make only meaningless noises about the deficit. The perverse, tacit agreement between the electorate and the candidates is, "Don't upset us, even if you have to fib a bit, and we'll vote...
...last Sunday's meeting, a motion for an informal vote on the issue was debated for an hour before failing to pass. Bok and his advisers have decided to address this pressing moral question by resorting to procedural wrangling. But while the meaningless arguments continue, the efforts at obfuscation increase, and the gamesmanship goes on, in South Africa as Transafrica's Randall Robinson said at Harvard, "the clock continues to tick...
...might have been a helpful and amusing device, had the execution been less haphazard. Most of the costumes either add nothing in the way of characterization or worse, create an image that is incongruous with the characters. The musical interludes, which range from Billie Holiday to George Michael, are meaningless and inapproprate to the plot...