Word: meaninglessness
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...Here, the characters’ worlds are hermetic. Iñárritu needs to show us that the film’s varied cultures have something to say to each other. He gives us a valiant effort but ultimately fails—the connections are too contrived and meaningless to pay anything more than lip service to the idea of a united humanity.Bottom Line: Frustratingly reticent. It’s a beautiful film, but the cat’s got Iñárritu’s tongue. —Reviewer Jake G. Cohen can be reached...
...than did my 30 years of trying. Service members have faith in the core values of the military: duty, loyalty, honor, selflessness and courage. That faith sustains them as they answer the call to do what must be done. They also have faith that no casualties are meaningless, wasted or ignored. Perez's sacrifice and commitment did not go unnoticed by her comrades-in-arms...
...many elements of the undergraduate experience coalesce within the confines of the archetypal coffee shop: caffeine-addled study sessions, flirtatious glances over sourcebooks, heated yet meaningless discussions of self-important pseudo-intellectuals. The ideal collegiate coffee shop sells more than lemon cakes and Ecuadorian brews: in its role as an informal campus meet-n-greet...
...that West Pointers do--parading in unyielding formation, shining already gleaming boots, enlisting to sacrifice their lives on some unknown and unloved territory far from home--are done not out of foolishness but out of faith. They have faith that American values and resourcefulness do not lend themselves to meaningless death...
...Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day and that Charles Bronson was the only member of both The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen. There's something touching about the world of trivia. It's a place where minutiae have a paradoxical grandeur and no fact is meaningless. Or as the coach of Carleton's quiz-bowl team puts it, "Everything's going to be worth 10 points someday...