Word: meaninglessness
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...course the Oscars are a waste of time - God bless them! - they were always a waste of time. They're a meaningless celebration of spoiled rich people, their self-entitlement, their vulgarity, sanctimony and vanity. (Later, Kevin Spacey introduced the annual In Memoriam roll of clips of dead movie personalities by asking for a few seconds of silence for the victims of Sept. 11; apparently that was considered a roughly equal trade.) They're pretty much the sort of thing that caused the Taliban to outlaw all those TV sets. But that's what makes them American; that...
...nation Commonwealth's punitive suspension of Zimbabwe is unlikely to force any dramatic changes. Mugabe's Minister of State for Information, Jonathan Moyo, described it as "meaningless." For Mugabe, the Common-wealth move - recommended by South Africa's Thabo Mbeki, Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and Australia's John Howard - conveniently averted the possibility of further sanctions from Commonwealth members such as Britain, Canada and Australia. The European Union and the United States have drawn up "smart" sanctions, which would include a travel ban on Mugabe and senior members of his ZANU-PF party and a freeze on their assets abroad...
...Ethnic studies is difficult because any course could be construed to be at least partly ethnic,” Sollors said. “It’s very hard to administer a general ethnic studies certificate. It would be a meaningless piece of paper. It makes much more sense to focus on specific groups. There can still be a comparative element...
...Bill of Rights becomes meaningless in a time of war,” Zinn said...
...part, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat publicly supported Abdullah, though a senior official of the Palestinian Authority says that privately Arafat worries that the Saudi initiative is just meaningless talk. The consensus within the Authority, this source notes, is that Abdullah was less interested in helping the Palestinians than in improving Saudi Arabia's image...