Sentences with phrase «devoid of any meaning»

Let employees lead you to community events and don't force anyone to participate in programs devoid of meaning for them.

It is devoid of meaning related to goals and context.

Rejection of the supernatural doesn't lead to depression, hate or an unfulfilling life devoid of meaning.

Sartre, Beckett and others contend that we must give ourselves to a universe that is itself devoid of meaning.

In the twentieth century, such research has relied almost exclusively on perception in the mode of presentational immediacy, that is, on quantified sense data devoid of a sense of past inheritance and thus devoid of meaning, emotion or purpose.

At no time in its existence, then, has the universe as known by faith been devoid of meaning.

The kind of influence that Jesus wielded was not based on implied threats or favors with strings attached; it was grounded in grace freely given — grace not earned by actions grown empty and devoid of meaning.

The language of faith, the meaning of the sacraments and the basic doctrines of the Christian church are almost totally devoid of meaning for the average churchgoer.

Eternal life means no solitary or static «going on» in some bare existence devoid of meaning.

According to Sartre, we live in a universe that is utterly devoid of meaning and hope.

But that's not to say my life is boring or devoid of meaning!

«Brexit means Brexit» may well have been devoid of meaning when trotted out by Theresa May in her first speech and afterwards, but it became clear certainly by autumn 2016 that the government did intend to control immigration.

For example, when an ad for the anticholesterol drug Lipitor trumpets a one - third reduction in the risk of heart attack or stroke, that is a relative risk, devoid of meaning without context.

But scientists have questioned whether these expressions convey anything to other rodents, or if they are simply physiological reactions devoid of meaning.

Boring, misogynist, devoid of meaning beyond self - indulgence.

In Nicolas Winding Refn's follow up to Drive, his stylisation has become so heightened and his «hero» so taciturn that there is nothing real to grab on to; we're given ninety minutes of iconography devoid of meaning and are told to bring our own.

The lives of the children of such parents, he writes, «are empty, devoid of meaning.»

Today we face the reverse situation: a society saturated in material comforts but almost devoid of meaning.

Is it not reasonable to suspect that if existence were pointless and the universe devoid of meaning, we would never have achieved not only the ability to imagine otherwise, but even the ability to entertain this very thought — to wit, that existence is pointless and the universe devoid of meaning.

Reviews for individuals will be meaningless, devoid of any meaning, and generated one every hour (from the same reviewer).

Also, my life is devoid of meaning and I externalise that frustration onto others.»

We shall say that any other definition of essence is «devoid of meaning»; in fact, it is devoid of the means to remain in presence, to last.

This style of acrylic painting was as always, visually bold though devoid of all meaning or narrative, and sums up his quest to combine Mondrian - geometrics and Albers - colourism in an attempt to uncover the relationship between colour and form.

Where landscape once revealed the omnipresence of God in the grandeur of eternal nature, or later documented a moment and place through an atheistic naturalism inspired by Darwin, it has now evolved into a formal device devoid of meaning, save for the individual viewer's personal interpretation.

In typical Warmist fashion, you pose a question almost completely devoid of meaning.

Don't they know that it's «an emotionally hostile word filled with innuendo and practically devoid of meaning.»?

And you conclude with more bluster at me that is so devoid of meaning as to be laughable: viz. «Of course, that won't stop people like you who want to believe him from either ignoring these demonstrations of Monckton's falsehoods or incorrect assertions or falsely claiming that they are wrong or have been rebutted by some diatribe that Monckton releases in response.

This is not to say that the language is devoid of meaning.

Today, the word is so devoid of meaning that many employers are just going to roll their eyes when they see it.

Not exact matches

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Leibniz saw clearly that this definition of substance means that finite entities must also then be devoid of any power to affect other entities.

Perhaps God is perfect in whatever ways perfection can really be conceived; but some among the traditional theological ways of trying to conceive perfection are capable of producing only pseudo-concepts devoid of consistent meaning.

That literally was nothing, not an answer, it was even devoid of thought and meaning, the only thing you have proven thus far is that you can put words together to make a passably english sentence but have yet to understand the mechanics of imbueing those sentences with real meaning and content.

Max Weber noted that as the pursuit of wealth becomes devoid of religious and ethical meaning, «it tends to become associated with purely mundane passions, which often actually give it the character of sport» (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism).

For gifts to be about relationships, however, does not mean they are wholly devoid of interest.

The statement «In the beginning, there was no time» is devoid of coherent meaning.

However, that does not mean that God the Father or even Jesus Himself are devoid of violence.

Even though to cosmic pessimism the universe outside of us appears to be devoid of any objective meaning, this is no cause for personal despair.

So maybe if we want to communicate the message of Jesus we have to get away from archaic terms like gospel which have become traditional» buzz words «or theological jargon devoid of precise meaning and make anew the original intent which was about an announcement of the coming of God's Kingdom and all that that implies.

The purpose of all of these religious messages is to make the spiritual assertion that our lives are devoid of security, truth, and meaning unless and until we become a part of God — in other words, until we become part of that which is really real.

Is the biological matter that constitutes a human being so intrinsically devoid of value and meaning that it is permissible to use this material for some mundane and utilitarian purpose?

That is, given the distinction that I am making between physicalism and materialism, the latter formulation would mean that «vacuous actualities,» devoid of experience, exert all the causal efficacy in the world (which is one of the basic points that led Kim into insuperable difficulties in affirming the reality of the mental).

This way of setting up the world and its relation to subjects is compelled to consign the whole realm of meaning and importance to that of the subject, for the «objective» world is itself devoid of inner worth.

This journey of faith was never meant to be lived in isolation, devoid of relationships or absent of conversation.

We, like stones and worms are encased in a network of material forces completely devoid of intrinsic spiritual meanings.

At least I saw that «the positing or emergence of this effort or desire is not only devoid of all intuition but is evidenced only by works whose meaning remains doubtful and revocable.

Newman's «knowledge» is a substitute for wisdom; it is knowledge of facts devoid of values, of facts that remain uninterpreted, unstructured by meaning, detached from the «big picture,» degraded to an «informational commodity.»

In Whiteheadian terminology this means that only past actual entities which are devoid of subjective immediacy can be objectified.

But I could not agree with his description of God as «actual» if that means an actuality devoid of all potentiality and, thus, of all passion, or all capacity to «under - go.»

The Church would do a great service to our current culture if she could help those who care deeply about truth see that their devotion to reason need not condemn them to a crimped, scientistic approach devoid of moral wisdom and metaphysical meaning.