Smith's pieces rescue the detritus of modern life from meaninglessness.
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This audio emphasizes the importance or meaninglessness of a player's choices.
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They are all doused by the irrational meaninglessness of our lives.
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The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty could fray to the point of meaninglessness.
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Ugleholdt's experience with PPD was marked by sudden feelings of meaninglessness.
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The receipts stayed in there, usually too long, sometimes fading to meaninglessness.
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But meaninglessness is hard to transcend, and people can't live on affect alone.
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Initiative can be especially lacking if your depression includes a feeling of meaninglessness.
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Except for all that stuff about death and the meaninglessness of life, anyway.
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It is not a maelstrom of meaninglessness that will lead us into insanity.
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And yet, all along, a feeling of voicelessness and meaninglessness crept beside me.
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The word is at once suggestively specific and vague to the point of meaninglessness.
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The overarching theme was Vietnam's meaninglessness and what it did to Americans and America.
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Dadaism, for example, flirted with the anarchic meaninglessness of language in the early-20th century.
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The feeling meaninglessness can give you is scary but interesting, a funny cold-sweat feeling.
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Meaninglessness is terrible, which is why the recourse to meaning-making is automatic, even addictive.
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Life is much easier in Europe, where the regulations are pliable to the point of meaninglessness.
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Instead, we're left with an exercise in total futility that finds only meaninglessness in the pain.
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The message summons both meaninglessness and hope; the rest is up to the audience to decipher.
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And it is authentic, but still somehow detached, displaced, disorientated by the meaninglessness of its backdrop.
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But it's natural I would be obsessed with philosophy and the problem of meaning versus meaninglessness.
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He looks, glassy eyed, at the barren cityscape before him, pondering the essential meaninglessness of it all.
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The start-ups' frippery intends to distract workers from the meaninglessness and inherent insecurity of their work.
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"Total Recall" presages a world in which pleasure and violence are mediated to the point of meaninglessness.
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Wiener, perfecting that New York–nourished millennial mode, can't find new meaning, only evidence, everywhere, of meaninglessness.
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"I want to be rich to overcome the meaninglessness of life," he said in his four-minute talk.
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So, who better to munch her way through 100 grams of shiny, sugary meaninglessness, I hear you ask?
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How, I wondered, to drop experience into a poem without forcing a superficial narrative or succumbing to meaninglessness?
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Instead, he made art about how the meaninglessness of life is freeing—that it opens, rather than closes possibilities.
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With a careful balance of meaninglessness and irrelevance, Cheeto Harambe embodies the internet at its least funny and interesting.
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He doesn't often argue out his opinions, and once in a while his critical discourse veers close to meaninglessness.
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There are times when, like the 17th-century thinker Blaise Pascal, I feel trapped between two infinities of meaninglessness.
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Little surprise that internet users have created tools to give their writing the gesture, playfulness and even meaninglessness of chitchat.
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Jake, a depressed writer in New York City, is increasingly fed up with his life and the meaninglessness of art.
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And so the absurd existential dread—we realized we both felt this similar feeling, not depression so much as meaninglessness.
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But it also comes across as a (perhaps unintended) commentary on the meaninglessness of existence in an apocalyptic survival scenario.
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I hate to use the word "immersive" because it's been over-marketed into meaninglessness, but that's the word for the screen.
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Now, whenever my brain feels crippled by a honking traffic jam of urgent meaninglessness, I put it on and go places.
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It will be a wall of noise, with endless comment threads making it blend into the meaninglessness of most internet content.
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The favored phrase of the Obama administration in addressing this scourge — "violent extremism" — is vague to the point of evasive meaninglessness.
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The upside is we haven't blown ourselves up; the downside is we live in a world of normlessness, meaninglessness and chaos.
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She approaches the great existential subjects — emptiness, loneliness, meaninglessness, death and boyfriends — as if they were a collection of bad habits.
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Without those social bonds, they enter into a state of what he called "anomie" — or meaninglessness — which drives them to despair.
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It makes a biting statement about the meaninglessness of most 9-5 work and office life, while also being breathless fun.
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Set in Xenia, Ohio—a Midwestern American town recently devastated by a tornado (which actually happened)—Gummo is an examination of meaninglessness.
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I suppose there's a philosophical lesson in there about the meaninglessness of material goods, but I haven't quite grasped it just yet.
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Other times it's the scare of suspense, or the looming sense of dread, or worst of all, the meaninglessness of the void.
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Depressed people may just be lacking that crucial optimism that helps us power through a life full of heartache, meaninglessness, and death.
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The stark, inhospitable desert serves as an ideal backdrop for the lone trooper as he contemplates the meaninglessness of his own existence.
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Maybe the real purpose of art is to wrestle with the relationship between meaning and meaninglessness and how they transform each other.
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Beckett included copious stage directions alongside the gnomic dialogue as the characters discuss, with dark humor, the meaninglessness of the human condition.
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Or drink it as you catch up on episodes of The Bachelor and ponder the meaninglessness of love in the age of capitalism.
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Naturally, this order proceeds from a chronic sense of meaninglessness, detachment, and distress, which always, with Didion, swallows up any longing for respite.
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Barthes was only 64, his international reputation immense; it was the kind of death so often called senseless, poignant for its cruel meaninglessness.
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We have to remember that in order for women to be taken seriously when they are abused, we can't constantly redefine victimhood to meaninglessness.
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How frustrating, then, that the big ideas are condensed to the point of meaninglessness — amended to a film when they should be the film.
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It is a baffling tale seemingly tailor-made for these baffling times, just some meaningless shit gaining popularly based solely on its inherent meaninglessness.
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That's what Hatred got wrong—it was so grimly bleak that it was completely boring, its shock value receding to meaninglessness eight kills deep.
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Some look at the sculptures of Anne Truitt and see daunting expanses of emptiness, clean and sleek reflections of the essential meaninglessness of existence.
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In another, a different bunny is sliding its way down a massive spike, and I offer platitudes as it ruminates on the meaninglessness of life.
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We had a particularly fruitful chat about the tendency for liberals and leftists to overuse words like "problematic" or "gaslighting" to the point of meaninglessness.
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By death, I don't mean the big one, but little daily deaths: the meaninglessness, nothingness, and feelings of disintegration that are symptoms of my depression.
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Sometimes I still create little missions via obsession in order to distract myself from the wide-open expanse of meaninglessness that spreads out before me.
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Siena's attention to detail coupled with his intensity of focus has lifted his repetitive acts into a celebration of meaninglessness, shot through with rapturous pleasure.
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For the life of me I'll never understand why it has the trappings of a territory-control game when territory and geography are abstracted into meaninglessness.
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Penalties for violating consumer trust and privacy are often either non-existent, or—as the FTC's Equifax settlement made clear last year—surreal in their meaninglessness.
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Again, none of this really matters, because space, Earth, and all things are meaningless and time is just our effort trying to add meaning to the meaninglessness.
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In our idleness we intuit a cosmic meaninglessness, which comes along with the realization that, with every action, we get only more entangled in the universal farce.
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Curran makes it clear that long stretches, particularly of the beautifully rendered plates, which celebrate obsolete technologies and crafts, now have a Surrealist edge of particularized meaninglessness.
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Berenger (Luzer Twersky), a bleary newspaperman, is nursing a hangover and bleating about the meaninglessness of life when his morning pastis is interrupted by a rampaging beast.
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As a teenager, I lived in an anonymous suburb full of long, winding sidewalks where nobody ever walked—the perfect venue for pondering the meaninglessness of life.
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It's not just that those who "departed" aren't forgotten, but that they, in a sense, remain to taunt the "leftovers" with the meaninglessness of their own grief.
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Much of the fulsome effect of contemplating Williams's adroit paintings has to do with their meaninglessness: their refusal to offer up a useful narrative of historical significance.
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A framework and an openness to meet some of the demands of billionaires' critics, yes, but one that easily could melt to meaninglessness when it comes to specifics.
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The consumer is left stranded in a sea of meaninglessness, paralyzed by the arcane metaphysics of the branding, and wishing for a simpler time when words meant something.
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What we find cool or aesthetically pleasing will be absolutely rinsed to the point of over-saturation and meaninglessness, and then we'll find something else to nick from.
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They're imposing order where there is no order, and when it doesn't take the shape they expect, then they have to deal with their own meaninglessness and purposelessness.
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In Mr. Douthat's estimation, the plague of meaninglessness afflicting the country is in all likelihood a product of profound, interlocking social deficiencies that will resist targeted, technocratic cures.
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She declines his offer, however, and gifts Harry with wisdom about the meaninglessness of worldly possessions and the assurance that everything always turns out right in the end.
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Chekhov's discussions about the meaning — and meaninglessness — of life have accordingly been expanded to embrace subjects like the evils of British neocolonialism and the erasure of cultural history.
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The word is now so pervasive that the #relatable hashtag has become a kind of winking gesture at its own utter meaninglessness as a form of social connection.
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As big proponents of the utter agony, fallibility, and meaninglessness of human existence, both Rick and Morty and Tesla mogul Musk share a lot of the same nihilistic philosophies.
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I felt tormented by the meaninglessness of human existence, and the utter collapse of meaning—the signifier "pasta" tumbling about in the void of consciousness, signifying nothing and everything.
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As a behavioral scientist who studies basic psychological needs, including the need for meaning, I am convinced that our nation's suicide crisis is in part a crisis of meaninglessness.
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He assumed, as I did, that a bare handful of the usual search-for-meaning suspects would be straining minutiae while still clinging to the meaninglessness of it all.
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Check out the below video to see how the term has been overused, and misused, to attack everything from the New York Times to fruitcake, to the point of meaninglessness.
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And, perhaps unsurprisingly coming from a man whose idea of connecting with reality is a carefully managed 50-state photo op, his words were polished to the point of meaninglessness.
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It's Sunday morning, which means it's time to set aside all the woes in your world (work, acne, general meaninglessness of your existence) and indulge in some designated relaxation time.
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"Nostalgia compensates for uncomfortable states, for example, people with feelings of meaninglessness or a discontinuity between past and present," Dr. Tim Wildschut, a senior researcher at Southampton University, told The Guardian.
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Among the odes to their allure is a fear of "the ultimate meaninglessness of the birds", and "how little they care about the men who pin their hopes on mere song".
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Yet this mishmash of hype and science is undoubtedly familiar to anyone working on distributed databases, a field where the term "blockchain" has been diluted to the point of near meaninglessness.
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"The price is doubled as a way to remark on the randomness and meaninglessness of the of the sums being paid in the current art world economic bubble," Bentel told Hyperallergic.
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Within the strict textual limits of the game Bernard comes off as little more than an unmotivated evil, making grandiose speeches about the meaninglessness of existence and transcending the human form.
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Compare this with David's inability to picture his late father's face — a failure of memory that's heavy with meaning — and the meaninglessness of the Eye's out-of-focus features is obvious.
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Indeed, all of Siena's Nihilisms — all discursive proclamations of the meaninglessness of the universe — are belied by the excessively energetic letters of their hand-drawn script (never has nothingness looked so exuberant).
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We're getting to the point where the regular season is so close, most guys are just ready to play for real, and these exhibition games reach a whole new level of meaninglessness.
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It can be specific (say, the company Chrysler) or vague to the point of meaninglessness (what they're doing with certain countries) or ominous-sounding to stoke fear (what's happening in our country).
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Sandler's at his best when he taps his roots as a schmuck who somehow dirty joked his way out of a meaninglessness—when his desperation brings frustration, rage, and urgency to the fore.
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Just as the conversation around fake news reached a fever pitch, Trump decided that all writing and public speech he didn't agree with was also "fake news," and the phrase spiraled into utter meaninglessness.
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Mr. McCafferty is writing about the tightening noose that comes with desire and lust, his quartet connected not just by sex — or the absence thereof — but by a gathering surrender to meaninglessness and rage.
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Here, at present, it's the unhappy ending version of Lost: It's what would have happened if Fake Locke extinguished the light of The Island and escaped into the world and jacked it up with meaninglessness.
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Humanity's need to incessantly document our captivity on Earth gives me introspection into my own absolute meaninglessness within the universe and the beautiful randomness of our planet which grew our exuberant purposeful species into existence.
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While this has become something of a running joke amongst their followers, Sky are not the only outlet who push breaking news to its conceptual limits, nor are they alone responsible for its increasing meaninglessness.
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Over the past several months, it has become clear that it is far more likely that Supreme Court justices will undermine the landmark 1973 decision to the point of meaninglessness rather than overturn it outright.
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A write-up on Retro Gamer's website calls the game "around a billion times better than every Zelda", which is hyperbole taken to the absolute zenith of meaninglessness, but nevertheless implies, at least, it was good.
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And so, this past year, I generally spent a lot of idle time sitting around feeling vaguely melancholy as agents of the bad news machine did their best to stir up more meaninglessness in the world.
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In "The New Me," Millie, the self-hating, rage-filled narrator (whose rants would make Dostoyevsky's Underground Man beam), surveys the scope of society's strivings and finds them not just lacking, but proof of life's meaninglessness.
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While unashamedly discussing the gender issues inherent in some of the songs, the band also describe the samples they play between as "all about death and the meaninglessness of life"—normal gothic concerns, outside a Trump dynasty.
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Article continues below But if the game design is entirely about the meaninglessness of human will in the face of digital era warfare, the story of World in Conflict is entirely about the importance of our own frailty.
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But as seen in other depictions of the time, like the relentlessly hard-R "Wolf of Wall Street," in practice the difference between parodying a world and indulging in its abuses can be slim to the point of meaninglessness.
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He envisions an America in which a variety of legal and constitutional rights don't apply to millions of minorities—a regime constructed for the enrichment and safeguarding of white people, where the principle of equal protection is eroded into meaninglessness.
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Alonso Duralde, The Wrap: An object example of how a film can be entertaining and even exhilarating without being particularly good, "Bohemian Rhapsody" has the driving energy of a stadium anthem and the fizzy meaninglessness of a bubblegum pop song.
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After years of listening to politicians carefully parse their public statements into smaller and smaller bits of meaninglessness, folks were ready to loosen their guard and their girdles and revel in some plain speaking -- even if sometimes it bordered on plain nonsense.
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It is not just his outright lies that degrade our discourse; it is also his use of language that muddles to the point of meaninglessness, language that rejects exactitude, language that elevates imprecision as a device to avoid being discovered in his deceit.
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There are many things about the world today that might have seemed unfathomable in 2011, but what my colleague Vanessa Friedman described in this column as the dilution of "Black Friday" to the point of utter meaninglessness is not one of them.
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This is a handshake buried under the weight of its own meaninglessness, a black hole of metacommentary in a world where sense sloshes chaotically across a flat surface of signifiers unmoored from any attachment to truth or reason or even an orderly presentation of images.
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While millionaire stock traders complain about the meaninglessness of their work, there are a thousand people in Phoenix going through repeated emotional trauma at work to keep videos of murder and violent sex off of Facebook, as Casey Newton recently reported for The Verge.
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I would argue, in fact, that while these passions share the persistence despite consequences that characterizes addiction—no one could manage to raise a child if they couldn't push through some seriously rough experiences—the term addiction dissolves into meaninglessness if they are labeled as such.
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Nevertheless, she entered adulthood haunted by a very Generation X sense of meaninglessness and despair, largely due to the crippling depression that she recounted in excruciating detail over the course of 303 pages in "Prozac Nation," the 1994 memoir that made her a star at 27.
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During this week of all-beef meaninglessness, the NFL's multi-platform noisemaking apparatus—imagine a jet engine blasting gales of Buffalo wing breath at you, except it also sounds like a Kid Rock song; imagine this goes on every hour of every day for five months—roared on as usual.
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But it also reeks of being a fable for fuckboys and party girls to add meaning to meaninglessness—a hyperbolic and self-deprecating meme, opposite to that of being "forever alone," so that the drama of a spring breakup can be fuel for Instagram captions in the summer to come.
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But the sheer meaninglessness of bad data visualization really came to the forefront on election night when The New York Times' election predictor dial -- the one that swung back and forth and changed in unpredictable intervals -- underscored the extent to which we had become addicted to easy, clickable data journalism for answers.
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Wade—which could get overturned completely, or undermined to the point of meaninglessness—more people are going to take matters into their own hands: A study from the Guttmacher Institute found that in a 30-day period in spring 2017, there were more than 200,000 U.S. Google searches for at-home abortions.
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But on another, there is also a creeping sense of meaninglessness, a suspicion that so many of the things we used to cherish—reading a novel, going to work—are not quite as important as we once thought, especially when compared to the national disaster that encompasses our lives and threatens to upend them.
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As they zero in on Ali's whereabouts, the characters speak again and again about the absurdity of a war in which "carpet-bombing" is "followed by dry rations and craft classes for the refugees," a war that has dragged on so long that the language of PTSD and cultural sensitivity has ossified into meaninglessness.
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He presided over an era in which television and movies grappled with the meaning and meaninglessness of race, whether to laugh at it or take it seriously or ignore it altogether, whether the idea of a so-called postracial America was ever possible, as though electing a black man for eight years erases the traumas of 400.
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Whether it's pondering "Oh I can't tell what's worse: The meaninglessness or the negative meaning" on recent single "Every Time the Feeling" or "The things I have I don't need / And the things I want, what's good in them?" on 2016 LP Thought Rock Fish Scale highlight "Mixer," Chapman is consistently turning his songwriting inward, asking existential questions and having trouble coming up with the answers.
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