Sentences with phrase «seems meaningless»

If we don't know (at least roughly) how many there is overall, talking about «most» things seems meaningless.

Chop a little off the highs, a little off the lows, and it almost seems meaningless — which is their point I guess.

«If you feel angry going to work every day,» she asks, «is it because work seems meaningless?

Even when life seems meaningless and the future a blank, we can go forward and know we are not alone.

Johnson's contrast, then, seems meaningless except in terms consistent with the action of the Sorbonne Deputies.

A freeze or even a 50 per cent reduction seems meaningless.

Life can come to seem meaningless.»

However, when Star Maker is fully conceived in the novel — the universe ceases to seem meaningless, but is seen as in the grips of an evolutionary creativity in which change is necessary for growth.

Yet, everything seemed meaningless and there was a constant void.

The message seemed meaningless.

When we refuse to give God anything less than our best — especially in the moments that seem meaningless or difficult — we become beacons of hope for people.

They know they're going down and so the rest of their league encounters will seem meaningless to them.

A consequence that doesn't fit the crime will just seem meaningless to your child, and won't get you the desired result.

The question of whether the labor should have been induced suddenly seemed meaningless, and I forgot about it — until about a year later.

At first glance, the participation of a ski resort — a small business by global standards — would seem meaningless.

The very concept of the future, seemed meaningless to N.N. «It's like being in a room with nothing there and having a guy tell you to go find a chair,» he explained.

Science can seem meaningless out of context and the lengthy processes of clinical drug trials is sometimes misinterpreted as repeating the studies already carried out in animals.

It makes all bad days at work seem meaningless.

I am saddened that my efforts researching and negotiating the work of public education seem meaningless in the face of current policy debates — and that last year's nationwide struggle over teacher tenure or this week's «debates» over teacher evaluation in New York arrive forcefully, demanding immediate reaction rather than initiative from educators.

In that context all these measures Mr. Kirst talks about seem meaningless.

Again, objectives are unclear, puzzles seem meaningless, and it just did not seem as spooky as Silent Hill 2.

Without a cover letter, your application would seem meaningless as it is hard for employers to get a real feel for a person just from a CV.

While writing these may give you some sort of satisfaction, they will seem meaningless and boring to an employer.

Why do we get into fights that seem meaningless and repetitive?

Not exact matches

But the question, at least from Zuckerberg's point of view, seems increasingly meaningless.

We can choose to write off various forums as meaningless «gabfests» especially when we're not included, but it seems odd that most if not all of the other serious players in Asia see value in groupings such as the EAS, and it smacks of sour grapes.

He learns that his existential awareness does not give him self - transcendence and that his personal choices do not define his humanity — his alternatives in this society seem so meaningless.

As seems to always be the case, the entire premise of this presentation is flawed to the point of being meaningless, and you have to suppose this is done purposefully.

There was no forgetting, no Korsakov's then, nor did it seem possible or imaginable that there should be; for he was no longer at the mercy of a faulty and fallible mechanism — that of meaningless sequences and memory traces — but was absorbed in an act, an act of his whole being, which carried feeling and meaning in an organic continuity and unity, a continuity and unity so seamless it could not permit any break.

is as such meaningless, since it seems evident enough that the issue this formulation is intended to express is the clearly meaningful issue between theism and atheism.

Though people are materially well off, they're discovering that their lives seem hollow and meaningless.

The context of the speech was the previous month's riots across England, largely perpetrated by groups and gangs of apparently nihilistic youth, who seemed on the whole to be enjoying themselves rather than protesting about anything - except perhaps the meaningless of the world - view bequeathed to them.

as a false answer, all that he says besides will be likely to seem to us either meaningless or incredible.

Such words must seem to many to be pious and meaningless platitudes, mere gestures of respect to the past and bare of that realism which the present moment demands.

It would seem like if it did, it would be meaningless in its «sameness.»

And until we discover what that purpose is, and begin to single - mindedly fulfill that purpose, life will seem empty and meaningless.

It seems to exhaust the theoretical options to say that such an answer must be achieved by reference to either: 1) the categories themselves; 2) the noncategorial aspects of events; 3) both categorial and non categorial aspects of events; 4) some alleged factor (e.g., a God, Platonic Forms, «nothing») other than the categorial aspects of events; or 5) by nothing (i.e., by no alleged factor at all, including «nothing»), so that the ultimate issue is meaningless or at least unanswerable in principle.

With this ammunition, Justice Blackmun was able, in his Roe v. Wade decision, to explain away as a meaningless historical accident the medical profession's traditional prohibition against doctors performing abortions: «This it seems to us is a satisfactory explanation of the Hippocratic Oath's apparent rigidity.

It seems unlikely that these arose form a random, meaningless universe.

It would seem to be meaningless to talk about splitting or multiplying a person (or a soul).

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.

At this point it would seem the definition of religion is so broad as to be meaningless in deciding cases, at least free exercise cases.

There are whole tracts of history which seem to us to be almost entirely meaningless.

The problem we had though, was what to do with the Tomatoes after roasting them, Typically other salsa recipes would remove the skin and seeds, but that seems kind of meaningless in this instance.

You're the holders but it sometimes seems Arsenal fans — those who feel it is and has been for a while time for a managerial change — disregard the FA Cup as meaningless.

Your article seems to be glorifying mediocrity by awarding a 9 to a Manager that has just managed to overcome his nemesis in one out of 14 games even in a somewhat friendly meaningless game that will have no bearing come May 2016!

Also, Yogi seems determined to give Poldi enough meaningless appearances so that Poldi sets some more records regarding # of caps — Yogi LOVES him as evidenced by the fact that Poldi is still with the team while many of his contemporaries have retired from the national team.

Ties frustrate many American sports fans; the lack of a definitive resolution seems to render the competition meaningless.

That definitely makes our anger about a letter or parcel being lost in the post seem completely meaningless...

I believe wenger has the old tape of the «invincible era» and watches it every night before he sleeps, trading war of words between pundits and him is meaningless, it seems to make him more stiff and firm not to face the reality.