Word: meaninglessness
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...left hungary in 1956 as a 20-year-old refugee. I was escaping from a totalitarian regime and the oppressive demagoguery of its political leaders. I could no longer stand to listen to the meaningless platitudes about the great success of the latest five-year plan. I settled in the U.S. to get away from that. But I have now been living in Europe for the past several months. When I see President Bush on TV declaring that Iraq and the world are safer and saying that the U.S. economy is recovering, I get an eerie sense...
...relative scale, the game against Northeastern was meaningless. Sure, the Huskies were a nationally ranked opponent and a regional rival, but in terms of the all-important Ivy race, the result was inconsequential...
...sits at 2-0 in league play. If it can claim victory in its final five conference matches, the squad will take the Ivy title, hang up its cleats and call it a year. If the Crimson drops out of the top spot in the Ivies, its season becomes meaningless, except for a final game against Yale that well over half the student population would rather tailgate for than show up to. This makes every league game crucial and every non-league contest utterly worthless, since the concept of postseason play is about as foreign to Harvard as the score...
What does “responsibility” mean for “win-win” scenarios? If the sustainability principles save Harvard money and go no further, then “responsibility” is meaningless. To maintain incentives to save money through reducing resource use while meeting Harvard’s obligation of environmental stewardship, one common-sense solution is to reinvest 50% of cost savings—which result from sustainability measures—into research on campus sustainability or environmental mitigation efforts, like the Kennedy School of Government’s use of 100% wind...
...dialogue is entirely meaningless to the development of the film, making it all the more unbearable to watch. The dull, tense conversation between the protagonists experimenting in their garage makes one wonder if Carruth has yet to leave his own parents’ garage to interact with the outside world...