Sentences with phrase «which is meaningless»

All three phones use a new camera sensor with «deeper pixels» (which is a meaningless term, at least photographically speaking).

On GISS it does not stop until the 11 - year trend, which is meaningless.

This is at the heart of the matter how much did the sun vary by over the past 200 some odd years, not what the solar average was over some x long period of time which is meaningless and not of importance.

That's tricky, however, if you're serious about bona fide «career and college readiness,» which is a meaningless concept if it differs by state; what's more, the new standards aren't really worth the bother unless «proficiency» levels for every grade cumulate to a desired end - point by senior year.

And sorry I'm not buying your Wallethub study that doesn't base its findings on energy costs but rather the average bill paid which is meaningless.

Try not to say «good job» which is meaningless, but be specific about what they did and how it helped you.

But, that date is a man made idea which is meaningless to the Bible.

It is notable that no biological science has been able to express itself apart from phraseology which is meaningless unless it refers to ideals proper to the organism in question.

He compared it to looking at the page of a book, which is meaningless when taken in as a whole and instead needs to be looked at word by word.

The decision to not release detailed documents could signal a desire for the government to shift away from the public quarterly budget updates, which are meaningless in terms of fiscal planning due to the province's dependence on fluctuating natural resource commodity prices and have become little more than public relations exercises for the government over the past two decades.

And the rewards for completing these challenges are Tokens, which are meaningless until they're crafted into a reward pack called «Plan» that without exception offer an underwhelming reward compared to the effort it took to collect the damn Tokens.

That which was meaningless becomes meaningful; that which was full of meaning becomes free of sense: such painting hovers above these two fathomless depths» (A. Mulder, «Images That Come from Outside: The Experiential Paintings of David Salle», in David Salle: 20 Years of Painting, exh.

And when we say accomplishments we mean real ones, not just vague statements which are meaningless for hiring managers (i.e. quote one of your colleagues saying something good about you or say that you helped the company achieve its goals).

Not exact matches

More often than not, you will find yourself doing meaningless tasks — which don't really need doing — simply because you're procrastinating the important jobs you think will be difficult.

List prices these days are largely meaningless and properties routinely sell for over asking — which agents happily promote by affixing a «Sold for over asking!»

There's nothing so meaningless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Many investors make the mistake of looking only at current or recent earnings, which are nothing more than meaningless snapshots of where a company is or was.

Mohrman - Gillis also noted that to help investors navigate the myriad advisor designations, the CFP Board plans to release soon an analysis it performed comparing and contrasting the 140 designations on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's website, many of which are «essentially meaningless» designations.

«That's like the two - second view that we see in digital currency right now, which is creating an extraordinarily false narrative and a meaningless narrative,» Piepenkotter said.

Partisans of the new scientism are fond of recounting the «Sokal hoax» — physicist Alan Sokal submitted a paper heavy on jargon but full of false and meaningless statements to the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text, which accepted and published it without quibble — but are unlikely to mention a similar experiment conducted on reviewers of the prestigious British Medical Journal.

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.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

The Christian public will applaud books in which every prayer is answered and every disease is healed, but to the degree those books do not reflect reality, they will become meaningless to a skeptical audience.

If it is meaningless, then there is nothing for which to live.

Sometimes the wound is apparently random and meaningless; to teach us there isn't a reason for everything, that we can't get our heads around it all, that not understanding and just trusting is the essence of faith — faith that takes us beyond our concept of God, which is always limited, towards a place of knowing the unknowable.

If by God is meant the Ground of Being, the Essence of Being, the Absolute, the Weltgeist, and all similar expressions, the reply is still No, for according to Schweitzer such terms «denote nothing actual, but something conceived in abstractions which for that reason is also absolutely meaningless» (The Philosophy of Civilization [Macmillan, 1949], p. 304).

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.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

Moreover, if all the formal possibilities are not controlled, we not only run the risk of fallaciously inferring the truth of one view from the difficulties of some only of its possible rivals, hut also we run the risk of trying to answer a perhaps meaningless question, namely, Which of two falsehoods (or absurdities) is more false?

When we come to that end (which to a Buddhist I guess is enlightenment, but to most Christians is death or heaven), theology and religion will be meaningless.

The Beelzebul controversy which Mark (3.19 - 22) supplies as the context for his version of the tradition with which we are concerned may or may not be historical, but it is certainly evidence for the fact that in the first century exorcisms as such were comparatively meaningless until they were interpreted.

If the fourth event is only the stuff of dreams, the three preceding events around which the whole story revolves are meaningless, and the God who speaks and in speaking acts in these events is not only dead — he never was.

We wish to God that baptism were meaningless, because it proclaims and gives a meaning which cuts to the core the selfish, materialistic values of our consumer culture.

The Coen's common tack of forcing the audience to confront the possibility of nihilism being true, of human life being essentially meaningless, which for them has usually played out within a crime drama, here occurs in a mundane set of events.

As it happens, I coined the original slogan in an attempt to keep together the western environmentalists and the Third World economists and church leaders; and of course I frowned when, subsequently, «the integrity of creation» was substituted, an expression which scientists I know find meaningless.

This is nevertheless a meaningless affirmation if it is not cognizant of the fact that family life is under assault, that as a result many people feel alienated from their families and have never found viable substitutes, that their experience within our technological society has left them feeling a profound sense of dissatisfaction with themselves from which they urgently seek escape through drugs, sex, or recreation.

They say that «God is love» which is an absolutely meaningless, nonsensical statement, not to mention the problem with equating love with a being that would let anyone spend even one millisecond in a place like hell.

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.

As a consequence a generation has arisen in which sin is an almost meaningless word.

To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.

A portrayal of God which would see him as in no sense thus affected would be alien to the general biblical picture, and would reduce human activity to a meaningless and irrelevant series of events.

One element in our contemporary thinking, which has helped to make talk of the «afterlife» appear meaningless, is the increasing recognition that there is no such thing as a «substantial self».

If that were the case, then the figurative trappings and modes of expression which are certainly present would be meaningless there.

And not only this, but that they have recognized that the very thing which was leading me to despair — the meaningless absurdity of life — is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.»

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....

In which case I see three choices: get on with the party and live it up because this is it, blow your brains out since your life is meaningless, or try to be the fittest and decimate those around you (One with the most toys wins).

By being a part of the past, these distinctions all become meaningless, for that which is completely past has no present to which it may attach itself.

If this is true, then the identity politics around which much of the secular left has refashioned itself become as meaningless as the sense of self materialism suggests is illusory.

«God» is a meaningless 3 - character emotive utterance which denotes nothing ontologically real.