Word: meaninglessness
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Your story implied that when a woman has a midlife crisis, she can rewrite the rules. But when she decides to pull the rug out from under those who have built their lives on a promise before God, all commitment and loyalty become meaningless. The trendy solutions to a midlife crisis leave devastation and sadness in their wake. It is possible to take a new direction without selfishly destroying one's family...
...found itself the target of new global protests for its decision to underwrite Shell's controversial Sakhalin II pipeline in the northern Pacific, a project that environmentalists say threatens the endangered western gray whale. Without adequate transparency and monitoring of sensitive projects, NGOs fear, the Equator Principles will become meaningless. "What good is a series of principles like this if you can't verify that they are being applied on a project-by-project basis?" asks Oil Change's Kretzmann. "Equator banks are saying to people, 'Trust us,' but they are not allowing any independent verification. That's a problem...
...once that will happen then we will move to the Road Map. We are committed to the Road Map. The Palestinians committed themselves to the Road Map. But I'll tell you in this part of the world, it's different. Declarations, promises, speeches, even signing agreements all are meaningless. Only acts are meaningful. I am ready to make painful compromises. But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises...
...more alike. Louis XVI is known as a foppish king, decked out in his powdered wig and walking stick; Handsome Dan is no less a vain show dog, chosen expressly for his ability to strut in front of a band and tear up a Crimson blanket. Both are the meaningless figureheads of their respective institutions, all bark and no bite; both inhabit silly expensive palaces—Versailles and Yale—pretty on the outside but pretty useless on the inside (where it counts). In fact, ironically enough, Handsome Dan XV’s first name was?...
...don’t fancy myself a Sandy Koufax, refusing to play ball on Yom Kippur. But I’ve come to learn that simple traditions, even silly ones that don’t seem to make much sense, can add meaning to an often meaningless existence. At the very least, they can remind us that we are not alone...