Word: meaninglessness
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...binding measure is a symbolic gesture that depends on the idea that students are making a “sacrifice” for the environment, but, because it does not give information about the scale of the sacrifice (i.e. the cost), it is a meaningless gesture...
...hypothesis that an even greater share of American women are what might be called periodic excessive buyers. They buy things they later regret. It's hugely helpful to be able to recognize one of those meaningless purchases before you make it. Here are some tips...
...Because they’re constantly in flux, the “identities” that we think we’re creating in these public spaces are ultimately meaningless. If one day you’re telling the world your life story, and how emotionally complex and introspective you are, and the next week you’re saying, “I’m a really laid-back kinda guy who likes to party—get at me,” ultimately you’ve shown everyone nothing, except perhaps that you?...
...behind the charmingly idiosyncratic S&M romantic comedy “Secretary”—have taken the idea to new heights with “Fur,” reaching for margins so extreme as to be unpalatable and a center so trite as to be meaningless. The film begins in media res, with legendary photographer Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) donning a coat of hair that makes her look like some sort of vulture and swooping into a nudist camp. We soon backtrack to see Arbus as an Amish-looking housewife attending to her loving and supportive...
...book. Beyond the Southeast Asian/East Asian divide, there are historical factions within the groups. Until only a few generations ago, Japan and China were bitter enemies (see sidebar); now, they’ve been bound together in a designation that, while useful for political reasons, is somewhat meaningless in other, important cultural ways. As far as making a stronger Asian-American voice heard on campus, to the extent that it can be done when an entire continent is lumped together under one term, Sanby Lee recognizes the challenge: “I definitely think that it comes up again...