Sentences with phrase «into meaningless»

It's been watered down into a meaningless word.

In our sessions, I can teach you how to manage conflict effectively, so that arguments don't spiral into meaningless storms of emotion.

Just when the whole composition is about to fade into a meaningless blur, though, the realizaiton hits that these are in fact discrete elements, conscientiously placed.

Unseen but for their hands, the human actors in these works, too, are rendered mutant, their words blunted into meaningless grunts and stuttering titters.

It can't find any steak beneath the sizzle, and in the process turns a solid piece of Texas noir into a meaningless geek show.

Confined to this sterile office space, «The Belko Experiment» descends into a meaningless orgy of murder.

I have no desire to invest time / energy into meaningless conflict or debate.

Once again, she retreats into meaningless tautology or truism when confronted with a thorny issue.

He co-opted a term that was useful in describing a real problem, and turned it into a meaningless trope.

Unless in consequence of a stupid insensibility this fact should some time deteriorate into a meaningless human conventionality, each subsequent generation will exhibit the same proportion of offense as the first; for there is no immediacy by the aid of which anyone could come any nearer to it.

They are either fading into meaningless formulae, or are gaining power by the new lights thrown by a more delicate apprehension.

If I had focused I'd still be programming little subroutines into their meaningless databases along with half the people I started working with there over 20 years ago.

It speaks volumes about Mayer's management skill that she continues to employ an executive who can cram both «impact» and «leverage» into a meaningless platitude.

Not exact matches

Purvin agrees that research that lumps together thousands of unrelated business concepts, from gyros to muffler repair, into one statistic is ultimately meaningless.

You can have the greatest product in the world but if it can't get into customers» hands efficiently and effectively it is meaningless.

You may be the best storyteller in the world, but if you don't use your stories to convert your audience into customers, the effort will be meaningless.

Complementary research from academics Xavier Drèze and Joseph C. Nunes conclusively shows that airline miles incentivize customers even when they are meaningless (taking into account that 90 percent of airline miles never get used, they are essentially meaningless).

The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»

When Harper first ran for prime minister in 2004, his name was so meaningless to Canadians that he sought to pour meaning into it with those issue - based television ads that ended with the oddly insistent «My name is Stephen Harper» tag.

if your so called god will forgive murders and child molesters as long as they go to confession and say 10 worthless and meaningless prayers, don!t you think god would forgive a person the tales birth control, if there really was a god, which there is not, I do not believe in god or wasting time going to church to try to get myself into the dream world heaven, but if I am wrong I am going to hell because that's where all my friends are going and I don, t want to hang out for eternity with you morons in heaven.

A «primary framework» is one «seen as rendering what would otherwise be a meaningless aspect of the scene into something that is meaningful» (FA 21), and the frame for all such primary frameworks, the understandings shared by a group regarding interpretive schemata, their interrelationships, and «the sum total of forces and agents that these [schemata] acknowledge to be loose in the world,» constitute its «belief system» or «cosmology» (FA 27).

It turns the universe from a meaningless chaos into a designed place in which there is justice and there is hope and, therefore, we all have a duty to discover the nature of that justice and work towards that hope.

This philosophy sees life as a meaningless absurdity, a succession of moments of decision into which no hope enters to provide expectations of a better tomorrow.

The reason why so many post-christian Westerners turn into pathetic, meaningless worship of self.

Reason could fall into the temptation of going back to the security of its concepts, proclaiming that God - talk is meaningless.

And since every social reform brought about by liberalization can be whisked away as «unsubstantiated and meaningless» by your same sheer will that allows you to unassistedly manifest wealth into existence, due tell what conservatism has brought us.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

To the thousands who were reached and electrified by his words it meant the difference between the suffering of a meaningless fate and the liberating insight into the ultimate triumph of Jewish spirit which knows no defeat....

It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life... Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: «You are accepted.

Friend you need the guidance of the Holy Spirit to lead you into all truths, otherwise you're like a vehicle without fuel - you have no power to get you anywhere i.e. your words are meaningless.

There he would enter into conversations with Greek and Roman intellectuals, many of whom were seriously interested in Judaism: those for whom the pagan cults had become meaningless visited Jewish services instead.

It is not inherent either in man or in society, and it is meaningless to write it into a law.

Lenin expressed this thought when he said that «the transfer of biological concepts into the field of the social sciences is a meaningless phrase.»

First he perceived that his conviction that life was meaningless took only this finite life into account.

And as for the pre-existence of Christ, with its corollary of man's translation into a celestial realm of light, and the clothing of the human personality in heavenly robes and a spiritual body — all this is not only irrational but utterly meaningless.

The second that spirituality and god was inserted into the debate it became meaningless, supersticious mumbo jumbo.

It has reduced the possibility of wonderful individual union with the universe into the recitation of meaningless misinterpretation and limitation of personal revelation.

If the counselor's acceptance of the person does not have this direction within it, if it does not look out upon the possibility of a venture of the human spirit into a larger world, then it is meaningless.

How can one understand the concept of justice in evaluating the dignity of the human being without falling into the trap of meaningless rhetoric and empty sloganeering?

A negation sign in front of a meaningless string of symbols does not convert the whole into a meaningful statement.

All such experiences, quite paradoxical and meaningless on the production - theory, fall very naturally into place on the other theory.

Out of Egypt into this land: out of chaos into meaning — but now back to Egypt, as it were, consigned again to the chaotic and the meaningless.

The linguistic and biblicist vetos have been seen to be both arbitrary and unwarranted — which makes it all the more pathetic that Dr Paul van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel still seems to accept them as valid and to rule out «God - statements» as «meaningless» while at the same time his excessive Barthian christocentrism and bibliocentrism turns the patent intention of scriptural statement into a parody of their proper meaning.

If there were no God, all our works would be as meaningless as the ground of nothingness out of which they arose and into which they would otherwise sink.

A meaningless array of things is a collection that has no perceptible system of coordination into one concrete entity.

The conquest of ancient Mexico by Spain in 1521 and then the conquest of northwest Mexico by the United States in the 1840's forced the native population and their succeeding generations into a split and meaningless existence.

But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated

But there was nothing like the unchecked badinage I heard in the kitchen at Mina's house, the meaningless spats dissipating into cackling laughter.

Existence will remain meaningless to you it you yourself do not penetrate into it with active love and if you do not in this way discover its meaning, for yourself.

The only reason the UFC created this meaningless interim title is because they lacked the testicular fortitude tell Conor McGregor to fuck off and call them when he could fit «fighting for the UFC lightweight title» into his busy schedule.