Through this letter, we learn of the despair of Jim and his children at Kate's death, and of the subsequent meaninglessness of their lives.

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In recent decades, the term has spiraled inexorably toward meaninglessness.

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Whether Mr Baudrillard's world was utter nonsense, or whether it was a profound critique of a consumerist civilisation drowning in its own meaninglessness, was a matter for lively debate.

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Bejan is showing that one need not resort to randomness (and their corollaries meaninglessness and nihilism) in order to remove the science of evolution from the aesthetic grip of religion.

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The Whole Gritty City is an intimate and unflinching look at these kids as they struggle to create a reality that transcends the violence, drugs, and meaninglessness that swirls around them.

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Lovecraft story, who has seen suddenly through the veil of glamour of this world to the meaninglessness which lies on the other side of the mingled memory and desire that usually prop up collecting and connoisseurship.

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Nihilism is essentially a philosophy of meaninglessness.

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Put aside the meaninglessness of the trade balance as a measure of economic health or sickness--the U.S., after all, has had a trade deficit with the rest of the world for 350 years out of the last 400.

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And what is really galling is that in the huge so-called stimulus bill, a provision that made certain that AIG executives wouldn't get outlandish bonuses was watered down to the point of pure meaninglessness by the Treasury Department (which right now is staffed by Mr. Geithner and seemingly nobody else) and by Chris Dodd, the Connecticut senator.

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