Perhaps the senselessness has gained some comic currency over time.
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I, too, feel the senselessness of the war in Afghanistan.
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Certainly, the senselessness of bloodshed may be Mr. Power's point.
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A child's joy The senselessness of war destroyed her city.
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"It's yet another reminder of the senselessness of gun violence," he said.
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However, making sense of this senselessness, well, that's what I'm currently struggling with.
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IT IS COMMONPLACE for boxing fans to bemoan the senselessness of world titles.
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The senselessness of such cuts is obvious if you understand some basic concepts.
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The Holocaust was unique in its scale and its senselessness, she used to say.
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Suddenly, as Tzara and Ball predicted, we're confronted with the subjectivity of truth and senselessness.
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Policy makers increasingly recognize the senselessness of preventing doctors and drug companies from sharing data.
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Instead, Trump has used broader language to acknowledge the anxiety and senselessness surrounding the attack.
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That we often do draw such conclusions reflects our need to find meaning in senselessness.
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They often replay the senselessness or violence of their loss over and over in their mind.
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And just last week, the same senselessness claimed a 4-year-old girl in the community.
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Chueca's walls, much like this presidential election season, make visible the cyclical nature of our senselessness.
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This award-winning shot of a dead, dehorned black rhino captures the brutality and senselessness of poaching.
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Fantasy and sci-fi authors have always obsessed over war, both for its dynamism and its senselessness.
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It's the moment when sense peeks through the senselessness, and the look on his face is priceless.
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What lingered in significance, however, was the complete senselessness of his denial that he had ever touched Fields.
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These days, the sacrifice and courage of those who died are remembered more than the senselessness of their deaths.
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It rewards those who can make sense out of senselessness, connecting the dots between childhood troubles and adult crimes.
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It portrays the way parents attempt to help their kids make sense of the senselessness life often has in store.
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"These days, the sacrifice and courage of those who died are remembered more than the senselessness of their deaths," Mr. Smith wrote.
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The latest example of Seattle senselessness is the Council's costly and deeply flawed efforts to get more people riding public transportation and bicycles.
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As PM, she's governed with all the same senselessness and caprice as her colleague across the pond, driven by the same ideological fanaticism.
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Her yen for unpretentious chaos, she says, was sparked by reading about the Dada movement following World War I, when senselessness made perfect sense.
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Religion has for centuries functioned, in part, to help us process these feelings, allowing us to make meaning from the apparent senselessness of death.
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In this wise and darkly amusing look at one elderly man's descent into senselessness, the audience can't help but identify with his slackening grip on reality.
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But the senselessness of these murders is too often rewritten as something decidedly juicier and more cinematic: Manson's diabolical revenge on a Hollywood that rejected him.
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A combination of frenetic cutting, "Saving Private Ryan"-style hand-held camerawork and driving drum 'n' bass music amount to a disorienting facsimile of war's senselessness.
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The campaign, the news release said, is intended to "shine a light on the senselessness of gun violence" and provide people with tools to push for change.
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It's a source of comfort—a ritual that, despite ostensibly signifying panic, provides a day-to-day buffer from the intrinsic senselessness of the world around us.
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Hope for a miracle rescue faded as the names of the six dead became known, and those left living grappled with the senselessness, the suddenness of it.
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Trying to find out what happened to Kim, in hopes of finding meaning in the senselessness of her death, is a selfish act, designed to serve the living.
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It was similar to what he'd just told the investigators: the senselessness and sloppiness of what he'd done was so obvious that it became evidence of his innocence.
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I am proud of the Parkland students for finally demanding a response to the senselessness and lack of accountability for what pass as gun laws in this country.
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My favorite of the theme entries I discovered was SENSELESSNESS, but as you can imagine, there aren't exactly a ton of 14-letter words that use just four letters.
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Dayton mass shooting We all went to bed Saturday night trying to process the senselessness of the Texas shooting, only to wake up to another horror: another mass shooting.
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The California Street shooting seemed uniquely random, but in the wake of every mass killing, there's always a feeling of senselessness, of people being killed for no reason at all.
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"They have to face hostility and derision and threats sometimes, simply because they want to make something sensible out of the senselessness and the loss they feel," Mr. Koskoff said.
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Again, we want to stress we do not intend to offend anyone, and are only preserving a part of history that should remind us all of the senselessness of racial prejudice.
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The recent terrorist killings of an elderly priest in France and of innocent civilians in Belgium, Nice, Munich and elsewhere stun us all because of the seeming senselessness of the attacks.
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But what sets the case of Mr. Esteves — who built and led the investment bank BTG Pactual — apart from those of the other accused men and women is its apparent senselessness.
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He sends letters to people on both sides of the Atlantic seeking artistic contributions to a magnum opus for the anti-movement that turned the senselessness of world war into something convulsive.
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Nor can I think of a reviewer less likely to be informative than one who refers to "the ineffectual senselessness of punishment" without the slightest nod to the specific deterrence effects of imprisonment.
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Over the course of the eighteenth century, the optimism of Enlightenment social and political thought gave birth to a new idea of revolution that stood in stark contrast to the seeming senselessness of civil war.
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" Co-chair of the organization Carl Takei's grandmother was interned while her husband fought in Europe for the United States, which he said "speaks to the senselessness of rounding up and incarcerating an entire community.
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If the pre-Trump age permitted the president's trademark cruelty, stupidity, and senselessness to hide in plain sight, these ugly features of our common life are now rudely thrust in our face at every turn.
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Maybe now, disenfranchised young people on the precipice of taking over the responsibilities of society cope with the rampant senselessness of the modern era by sharing memes, or angrily tweeting, or taking lab-engineered derivatives of ecstasy.
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And that's what makes it great, that's what makes you hopeful that we can do this, that we can move from senselessness, absurdity that's like a Camus novel, to something that has redemption and hope in it.
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Mr. Ijames, who has said his play is inspired by the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a Cleveland police officer three years ago, shows his characters trying to find the logic in the senselessness.
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Some in the audience during a screening in Sarajevo said the three men were brave to talk openly about the senselessness of war at a time when reconciliation was being put on the back burner in Bosnia.
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The milkman's youngest brother, Phil Lucivero, 84, said this very aspect — "that he went through hell in the war, and to think he died on his milk route" — only added to the senselessness of Mr. Lucivero's death.
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Because of Biehl's skin colour, nationality and idealism, her death attracted the world's attention in a way that the daily toll of black deaths had not, and came to represent the senselessness of political violence in South Africa.
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Instead of Cavalera's unmistakable roars, "Manifest" showcases a radio-style depiction of the Carandiru Massacre with accompanying commentary about the senselessness of the violence, and how the police of São Paolo have become power-obsessed and out of control.
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Yet, as I struggle to make sense out of senselessness, one point of clarity emerges for me — that's a call for courage from white co-conspirators and comrades (who understand that their freedom is inextricably connected with ours) to step up.
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It may seem like politics is so over-the-top that there's no need to make up plots, but when considering the role of fiction, the overall senselessness of the Trump chaos is far more important than the outlandishness of any one element.
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This Wall Street comedy is set in the 1980s, and the era itself is one of the jokes of the show — the senselessness, the cocaine, the hairdos, the stupid TV shows, the cellphones the size of cinder blocks, the sexism, the racism, the lack of introspection.
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In that case, the public forgiveness expressed toward Roof served to intensify the grotesque senselessness of his crimes: Roof sought to prove his self-appointed superiority over people of color, only to receive kindness and dignity from members of the community he had hurt the most.
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It might not be possible: If the nature of the experience is utter mental chaos, then to choose any word or offer any metaphor — even "mental hurricane" — in an effort to convey something about it is to break faith with the truth of it, a violation of its sheer senselessness.
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Having to make sense of this stream absurd senselessness has been difficult, but we've tried our best, publishing stories that spanned subjects as diverse as the blatant erosion of civil rights under the Trump administration, to art and pop culture, to witchcraft, to very cool women and non-binary people making important change, to that one tenacious lizard from Planet Earth 2.
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Deák's mother was among the victims. "The randomness and senselessness of the operation were evident especially by the fact that it hit not one single functionary of the Yugoslav Communist Party," the historian Krisztián Ungváry writes.
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Onegin arrives with his manservant Guillot. Both Lensky and Onegin are reluctant to go ahead with the duel, reflecting on the senselessness of their sudden enmity. But it is too late; neither man has the courage to stop the duel. Zaretsky gives them the signal and Onegin shoots Lensky.
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"The utter senselessness of Jewish life in the Diaspora stood palpably before my eyes", she wrote. After that she strove incessantly to save the Jewish youth of Germany. The difficulties which Recha Freier faced were immense. Jewish organizations and parents were skeptical about the plan to send children alone to a distant country.
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In retrospect, he describes his childhood and youth as very religious, but he left this belief behind in the course of his career. He also talks about an increasing feeling of senselessness despite the success. He attributes his devotion to Christianity to apparitions of the Virgin Mary. He counts the Carthusian priest Marcellin Theeuwes among his Christian teachers.
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In Sevastopol in May, Tolstoy examines the senselessness and vanity of war. The story examines many aspects of the psychology of war, heroism, and the misleading presence of humanism in truces (misleading because countries continuously go to war with one another, despite past truces). Tolstoy concludes by declaring that the only hero of his story is truth.
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Colvin is at the scene when a child is accidentally shot during a turf war, appalled at the senselessness of the killing. When ordered to crack down on the area, his second in command, Dennis Mello, states that they waited too long to make the arrests they had. Colvin begins to question what it is they are really doing on their job.
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Funk artists imbued their work with a sense of humor, senselessness, confrontation, vulgar sexuality, and autobiographical references. In their pieces, Funk artists are sometimes self-deprecating and ironic. Although the artworks may be humorous, they may also convey a more serious undertone at times. Since many of the pieces lacked a clear meaning, Funk art often contains a sense of ambiguity.
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She sends Madness to drive Herakles to murder his wife and progeny. Madness herself sees the irrationality and senselessness in Hera's vengeance. The story, it seems, does an odd job of explaining the faith that the mainstream culture has. Herakles does not believe but has been to Hades and has seen the dog Cerberus and the dead souls of others.
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After Zhou arrived in Jiangxi in December 1931, he criticized Mao's campaigns for being directed more against anti-Maoists than legitimate threats to the Party, for the campaign's general senselessness, and for the widespread use of torture to extract confessions. During 1932, following Zhou's efforts to end Mao's ideological persecutions, the campaigns gradually subsided.Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen. Zhou Enlai: A Political Life.
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For that, the child is often penalized with deprivation of love – another layer gets built, again: The layer of adaption, whose characteristics are boredom, weariness, senselessness and depression. If a person wants to regain his ability to be happy or be happier, he had to work his way through these layers. Widmer used legal psycholytic substances to support this way to the inner core.
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There they witness Diomedes successfully seducing Cressida after taking Troilus' sleeve from her. The young Trojan struggles with what his eyes and ears tell him, wishing not to believe it. Having previously considered abandoning the senselessness of war in favour of his role of lover and having then sought to reconcile love and knightly conduct, he is now left with war as his only role.
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Reaction to The Biologic Show upon its release was mixed. One of the few contemporaneous reviews of issue #0 in the comics press dismissed it as "an array of senselessness. Themes are inane or non-existent and none seem to progress any sense of story."Aliberti, Vincent. Review of The Biologic Show No. 0. Crash: The Quarterly Comic Book Review Volume 1 #2, Winter 1995, 62.
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Its pitiless descriptions of battle and the failures of the German military leadership indicts Hitler's megalomania and illustrates the senselessness of war. The two main characters in Stalingrad are the Panzer commander Vilshofen and Gnotke, NCO of a Strafbattalion (penal battalion). Both men come from different backgrounds and experience the war differently. The Colonel is a convinced soldier who obeys orders and cares for his men.
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Mohamad Omran: he was born in 1979 in Syria and graduated from Damascus Faculty of Fine Arts. He also graduated in 2009 in history of the contemporary art from Université Lyon 2, where he now lives. In 2003, he received the Grand Prize of the biennale Al Mahaba in Latakia, Syria. He dwells with the topic of Syrian revolution with irony and sarcasm to "reveal senselessness".
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The changed perspective of world politics after 9/11, the violence of the unfair Iraq War and the realization that mothers were the main victims of the war led to Jolly's work on the female reproductive system and on the topic of motherhood; the senselessness of bringing new life into a world made unfit for living and women's lack of choice in the matter prompted her to work on the embryo.
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Winstead is from El Paso, Texas, where he first began playing guitar. Winstead and Joules Scott-Key (drummer for Metric and Bang Lime) both went to the University of North Texas, where they played in a number of bands together starting in 1991. One of these bands was 53 Large Men,"A Moment With METRIC's Josh Winstead" Retrieved Feb 2, 2014. who released an album titled Period of Senselessness.
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A bit dirtier. Equally rocking." In 2013 they recorded a new album first called Xul Solar inspiring the songs "Constellation Freedom", "Seven Crimes" and "Trails of Senselessness" and finally named Solar Secrets, produced by legendary producer Tony Visconti, who'd just completed David Bowie's powerful comeback album The Next Day. The album included the song "Blind" that was premiered by Rolling Stone Magazine and Chicago Tribune. The album had great reviews described as a "garage-glam heaven on a platter" and "a dynamic compression of the Who, the Cramps and Sonic Youth in a high tide of psychedelia (long echo, watery tremolo, massed spires of treble guitar) that makes “Riverside of Love” and “Trails of Senselessness” sound like a fresh afterburn of the ’67 Pretty Things and an acid-charged X. Capsula playing 53 shows in the United States presenting the album touring together with influential Brazilian psychedelic rock Os Mutantes and 57 shows in Europe.
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Private Peaceful is a novel for older children by Michael Morpurgo, first published in 2003. It is about a soldier called Thomas "Tommo" Peaceful, who is looking back on his life from the trenches of World War I in France. Structurally, each chapter of the book brings the reader closer to the present until the story turns to present tense. The story especially underlines the senselessness of war and ineptitude of the commanding officer.
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The senselessness of his arrest and the torture he and other prisoners endure drive Mustafa to see Hussein's Iraq as a place where "being free only meant one thing: imminent arrest." The novel is based on the true experience of Saeed's experiences as a political prisoner in Iraq. The book has been received well by critics, one of which called Saeed's novel "... bracingly convincing ... a simply beautiful, though inevitably harrowing, tale." Amazon.
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Vice-President Lyndon Johnson had been slated to give the address, but due to the assassination of President Kennedy just 3 days prior, Johnson cancelled. The event became a vigil for those gathered in remembrance of the slain leader. In his stead, Bernstein spoke of shock, shame and despair, ignorance and hatred, and “rage at the senselessness of the crime.” Bernstein wrote the address just before being commissioned to compose his famous Chichester Psalms.
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The poem is made up of short lines using a simple rhyme scheme and everyday language. These format choices make the poem almost like a nursery rhyme in its simplicity, providing an ironic contrast to its unpleasant subject. The heavy irony of terms compared to the events narrated in the poem contrast in purposeful ways that emphasize the senselessness of how war seems. The poem's form is a dramatic monologue in the voice of a returned soldier.
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The war ended in Grassau on May 8. Zinoviev recalled that the flights were enjoyable: I liked to feel like the owner of a combat vehicle, drop bombs, shoot cannons and machine guns; the fear of perishing was relieved by the realization that "this is only once". After the war, he served a year on the territory of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria. Zinoviev was frustrated by the senselessness of military service, repeatedly tried to quit, but failed.
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In a chance encounter, Kasinathan learns of the cause of death of his elder brother as planned murder perpetrated by Gounder, DYSP and Shankar Das. This unleashes the beast within him and true to his name, Kasinathan trounces on the hapless Gounder and Shankar Das to a vegetative life death end. Dasappan Gounder is lured to a barn and is thrashed to senselessness by Kasinathan. Meanwhile, Shankar Das is on a self-imposed pilgrimage to gather strength for a showdown with Kasinathan.
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She begins talking to Gwynivere about her worries and her own senselessness. This softens Gwynivere towards Elaine and she admits her own personal worries and jealousy. As the two women spend more time in the camp they overhear the Saxons planning a surprise attack on Arthur, which prompts them to begin planning their escape. They escape by digging their way out of their prison and Elaine decides to serve as a distraction for Gwynivere, who runs off to warn Arthur.
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In 1991 Castellanos Moya returned to El Salvador to write for a monthly cultural magazine, Tendencias. In 1995 he contributed to the founding of the weekly publication Primera Plana and worked there until 1996. Over the next few years he wrote and published several novels, including Senselessness, The She-Devil in the Mirror, and Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador. The protagonist in Revulsion is a Thomas Bernhard-esque character who returns to El Salvador after eighteen years to deliver a 119-page diatribe against the country.
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The term "Kafkaesque" is used to describe concepts and situations reminiscent of his work, particularly (The Trial) and Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis). Examples include instances in which bureaucracies overpower people, often in a surreal, nightmarish milieu which evokes feelings of senselessness, disorientation, and helplessness. Characters in a Kafkaesque setting often lack a clear course of action to escape a labyrinthine situation. Kafkaesque elements often appear in existential works, but the term has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.
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In this context, Dietrich's near refusal to spare Laurin must appear very negative, as must Dietrich and his heroes' newfound respect for Laurin once they discover he has kidnapped Künhilt. Laurin himself indicates that he considers the destruction of his rose garden a breech of law, by which Witege especially is placed in a bad light. The poem can be seen to deal with the senselessness of such knightly adventure. Nevertheless, Laurin's characterization becomes increasingly negative as the poem progresses, although he is never shown to be entirely evil.
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This decision to not pursue charges also applied to Roy Arnold. Adamson stated that the decision was one of the hardest announcements he had to make due to Santos' age and the senselessness of his death. Ruben Bonilla, Texas state director of LULAC, called the decision unjustifiable and irresponsible, predicting that Carter would lose the election primaries if challenged by Jerry Brown or Ted Kennedy due to being incapable of securing the Chicano vote. Bonilla also saw Carter's attempts at securing rights for Russian dissidents while ignoring Mexican-American rights in Texas as hypocritical.
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He began to doubt everything, and in 1928 joined the Communist Party of Austria: > As if struck by a blow, one suddenly recognizes the scientific futility, the > biological senselessness, and the social noxiousness of views and > institutions, which until that moment had seemed altogether natural and > self-evident. It is a kind of eschatological experience so frequently > encountered in a pathological form in schizophrenics. I might even voice the > belief that the schizophrenic form of psychic illness is regularly > accompanied by illuminating insight into the irrationalism of social and > political mores.Turner 2011, p.
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Viktor Mitic is a Serbian-born Canadian painter and sculptor living in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known for incorporating firearms in his art, a skill he acquired during national service in his native Yugoslavia. Because art and violence coexist in an inexplicable way, Mitic says his art highlights the absurdity and senselessness of gun violence, but at the same time he transforms these acts into art. One of his most notable works, the Blasted Beaverbrook, was commissioned for exhibition in 2009 by New Brunswick's provincial gallery, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
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The district attorney stressed, in his closing arguments, the senselessness of the killings, the violence displayed by the defendant, and the innocence of the victims. The jury convicted him of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder and a related charge. At the sentencing phase, the judge allowed both the public defender to adduce mitigating testimony from the defendant's friends and family, and the district attorney (DA) to introduce evidence from the grandmother/mother of the victims. Payne appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court, and then asked for a writ of certiorari from the United States Supreme Court.
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Princess Grace's body was taken by a funeral cortege led by her husband, Prince Rainer, and her children, Prince Albert and Princess Caroline though the streets of Monaco- Ville from the palace to the cathedral. Her other daughter, Princess Stéphanie, was unable to attend as she had been a passenger in the car with her mother and was still recovering from her injuries. The homily was delivered by Charles Amarin Brand, the Archbishop of Monaco. Brand said in his homily that people were "united in pain" and emphasised the "senselessness and inexplicable nature" of "the rupture of the destiny of this humanly exceptional, religiously exceptional person".
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Yates is unemployed, having lost his job at a gun shop during his deployment. His father pushes him towards the police academy, but Yates, witnessing the self-destruction of Aiken, who had become frustrated and angry at being denied VA benefits for his back injury and the rejection of his girlfriend, walks out of the academy's entrance exam. Marsh begins to slip into self-destructive behavior as his son, angry about the senselessness of the war and what it's done to his family, gets into trouble at school. Drunk on Thanksgiving Day, Marsh brings home three yard workers for dinner to the dismay of his family.
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The prop earrings were on display at the Franco-London-Film production studios for many years. The film's script became considerably different from de Vilmorin's short novel, and Ophüls stated that "besides the earrings, there's very little of the novel left in the film...[just] the senselessness of that woman's life." Ophüls spoke privately with Danielle Darrieux between takes throughout the shooting and told her to portray the emptiness of her character. At first Ophüls was too embarrassed to give direction to Vittorio De Sica out of respect for De Sica's work as a director, but the two became friends during the film's production.
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The condition of the woman is treated throughout the novel both on the individual level (in the lives of Rose-Anna and her daughter, Florentine) and universally when Rose-Anna identifies with women across the world who are affected by the senselessness of war. Feminist undertones can be found in the way Roy describes Rose-Anna's role in the family. Rose-Anna is, in some ways, a victim of circumstance with a husband who has no work, poverty that causes her to go searching for new lodging every spring, and her Catholic faith that does not allow her to use birth control and results in many pregnancies which take their toll on her both physically and emotionally.
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During the Japanese Occupation, the buildings were turned into garrison and headquarters. The structures suffered from the senselessness of both the Philippine-American War and the World War II Reconstruction of the entire Philippines, particularly its infrastructures, started at the end of World War II in 1945. During those time, authorities of the Archdiocese of Manila then started to find resources to reconstruct old edifices, particularly the Manila Cathedral. Since the Augustinians sold (or lend) one of its holdings in Metro Manila, particularly the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Shrine (formerly known), the Archdiocese of Manila took initiative to use the old stones of the old monastery to be taken to Intramuros for the rehabilitation of the Manila Cathedral.
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The ladybug street tile is a symbol against "senseless violence" in the Netherlands and is often placed on the sites of deadly crimes. Senseless violence or zinloos geweld (Dutch) is a term frequently used by among others the media, politicians and NGOs to define the nature of several shocking events in Belgium and the Netherlands in recent years. The use of the term is politically charged and may not reflect any unique elements of any particular crime given that label. The term expresses the perceived senselessness of the occurred acts of violence; the perpetrator and the victim do not know each other, the violence seems not to be motivated by greed or other common factors.
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He pushed them into a corner and stood between them and the bomb. A chunk of metal from a locker was blasted into the back of his head and he died on the operating table two hours later. As his and other bodies were carried out Irish Republican supporters clapped, jeered and sang rebel songs to the disbelief of other soldiers and police.Michael Willetts Harvey Andrews was so struck by the incident that he wrote the song to highlight the senselessness of violence and to make the point that soldiers, too, are human, and that Sgt Willetts had laid down his life for people who considered British soldiers to be nothing more than "murderers".
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It has been claimed that his report might be the earliest report of such an argument in For example, in his Memorabilia 1.4.8, he describes Socrates asking a friend sceptical of religion, "Are you, then, of the opinion that intelligence (nous) alone exists nowhere and that you by some good chance seized hold of it, while—as you think—those surpassingly large and infinitely numerous things [all the earth and water] are in such orderly condition through some senselessness?" Later in the same discussion he compares the nous, which directs each person's body, to the good sense (phronēsis) of the god, which is in everything, arranging things to its pleasure (1.4.17).The translation quoted is from Amy Bonnette.
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Tolentino's satire, which made him particularly known, and set him apart from his contemporaries (in fact, he did not belong to any of the Arcádian literary societies, but was one of the "Dissidents"), is directed at the pettiness of tradition, the fakery of appearances, and the senselessness of certain social groups and behaviors, with a humor that was both ironic and amusing. The poet includes himself amongst the cooperators of this mediocrity, resigning himself to his own small-mindedness—some of his poems are homages to great people of the time, whose protection and help he needed. Tolentino presents himself as living in misery, and declares himself, both ironically and conscientiously, as a character in the human comedy that he caricatured.
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The book emphatically proclaims that all the actions of human beings are inherently hevel, meaning "vapor" or "breath", but often interpreted as "insubstantial", "vain", or "futile", since the lives of both wise and foolish people all end in death. While Qoheleth clearly endorses wisdom as a means for a well-lived earthly life, he is unable to ascribe eternal meaning to it. In light of this perceived senselessness, he suggests that human beings should enjoy the simple pleasures of daily life, such as eating, drinking, and taking enjoyment in one's work, which are gifts from the hand of God. The book concludes with the injunction to "Fear God, and keep his commandments; for that is the whole duty of everyone".
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In the introduction to The Bachman Books, King stated: "I think it was an effort to make some sense of my mother's painful death the year before - a lingering cancer had taken her off inch by painful inch. Following this death I was left both grieving and shaken by the apparent senselessness of it all... Roadwork tries so hard to be good and find some answers to the conundrum of human pain." King also described his disappointment with the work, and stated that he was of two minds about having it reprinted, but decided to in the end in order to give readers an insight into his personality at the time. In a new introduction to the second edition of The Bachman Books, King stated that he had changed his mind and that Roadwork had become his favorite of the early books.
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Sahir wrote, :"मैं पल दो पल का शायर हूँ, पल दो पल मेरी कहानी है :पल दो पल मेरी हस्ती है, पल दो पल मेरी जवानी है :मुझसे पहले कितने शायर, आए और आकर चले गए, :कुछ आहें भरकर लौट गए, कुछ नग़मे गाकर चले गए :वो भी एक पल का किस्सा थे, मै भी एक पल का किस्सा हूँ :कल तुमसे जुदा हो जाऊँगा, जो आज तुम्हारा हिस्सा हूँ" Sahir was different from his contemporaries in that he did not praise Khuda (God), Husn (beauty) or Jaam (wine). Instead, he wrote bitter yet sensitive lyrics about the declining values of society; the senselessness of war and politics; and the domination of consumerism over love. His love songs, tinged with sorrow, expressed his realisation that there were other, starker concepts more important than love. Sahir might be called the "bard for the underdog".
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A conflicting report published the next day claimed that the BBC confessed the entire programme had been a hoax. It was revealed that the piece had been produced by Hans Keller and Susan Bradshaw at the BBC. By striking randomly and with deliberate senselessness at a collection of percussion instruments, the two (as "Tessier" and "Schmidt") had produced a strenuously meaningless twelve-minute "work" of superficially "avant-garde" character; this was completed by the addition of a selection of human whistling sounds (evidently meant to represent the "tape"), and with the resulting chaos being edited into some kind of whole by BBC technicians. Revealing the true nature of the work was itself apparently part of the publicity for the BBC broadcast of a radio documentary, The Strange Case of Piotr Zak, first aired on 13 August 1961, in which Keller discussed his hoax with music critics Jeremy Noble and Donald Mitchell.
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A cornerstone of Brull's poetry is the word as sound material.Brull. Obras. p. xxvii. This interest in sound can be found in the efforts of Mallarmé and Valéry to achieve pure poetry but also in the neo-popular romances of the Spanish poetic tradition—a source that attracted other poets writing in Spanish, most famously García Lorca.Brull. Poesía. ed. Müller-Bergh. p.56. Similar experiments involving playing with the sounds of words were to be found in Italian, German and English literature of the 1920s and before. Brull. Poesía. p.58. Brull's creativity involving the use of sounds, through tongue-twisters and various phonetic experiments, could create a world of “magical enchantment.”Brull. Poesía. pp.56-57. These sounds and lexicological permutations combined, at times, to reach a level of senselessness which resulted in poetry that has come to be known as “jitanjáfora” after the use of this word in Brull's poem “Filiflama…”, a poem entirely made up of invented words.
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When he discovers the "senselessness" of the mock battle, he reproaches the emperor at length for alarming the palace; for setting a bad example; for his extravagances; his dislike of governance; and for being such a careless ruler that he didn't know that Ri Tōten was responsible for the famine by stealing rice from the Imperial storehouses and using his ill-got proceeds to bribe and corrupt people throughout the country; and last (but not least) for not recognizing that Ri Tōten gouging out his eye was a message to the Tartars that they had his complete backing and should invade. (Go Sankei "proves" this through use of yin and yang and analysis of ideographs.) The Emperor scorns Go Sankei's lecture but immediately an ancient plaque with the dynasty name on it shatters. With a great tumult, the former envoy breaks into the palace at the head of an irresistible enemy host. Go Sankei's forces are hopelessly outnumbered and cannot resist.
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The director also wanted to explore the senselessness of killings he had seen and heard about while staying in Los Angeles in 1980, and his feeling at the time that true horror came from those who wanted "to kill for nothing". Shot on location in Rome and at Elios Studios, Tenebrae utilized mostly modern-looking locations and sets to help Argento realize his intent that the film reflects a near-future with a diminished population; the director filmed none of the historical landmarks that usually featured in films set in Rome. Employing director of photography Luciano Tovoli, Argento also intended that the film simulate the stark, realistic lighting featured in television police shows at the time; production designer Giuseppe Bassan created supporting environments that were cold and austere, with sharp angles and modernistic spaces. Several former members of Italian rock band Goblin provided Tenebraes music, a synth- heavy score inspired by rock and disco music.
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Backwards words can be indicated by words like "climbing", "retreating", or "ascending" (depending on whether it is an across clue or a down clue) or by directional indicators such as "going North" (meaning upwards) or "West" (right-to-left); letters can be replaced or removed with indicators such as "nothing rather than excellence" (meaning replace E in a word with O); the letter I can be indicated by "me" or "one;" the letter O can be indicated by "nought", "nothing", "zero", or "a ring" (since it visually resembles one); the letter X might be clued as "a cross", or "ten" (as in the Roman numeral), or "an illiterate's signature", or "sounds like your old flame" (homophone for "ex"). "Senselessness" is solved by "e", because "e" is what remains after removing (less) "ness" from "sense". With the different types of wordplay and definition possibilities, the composer of a cryptic puzzle is presented with many different possible ways to clue a given answer. Most desirable are clues that are clean but deceptive, with a smooth surface reading (that is, the resulting clue looks as natural a phrase as possible).
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8 Xenophon describes Socrates asking a friend sceptical of religion "Are you, then, of the opinion that intelligence (nous) alone exists nowhere and that you by some good chance seized hold of it, while - as you think - those surpassingly large and infinitely numerous things [all the earth and water] are in such orderly condition through some senselessness?" and later in the same discussion he compares the nous which directs each person's body, to the good sense (phronēsis) of the god which is in everything, arranging things to its pleasure. (1.4.17). The translation quoted is from Amy Bonnette's translation: . Philebus 28d, uses the same words nous and phronēsis in the same way. Commentators such as Friedrich Schleiermacher have noted that "the initial question is by no means the only and perhaps not even the main tendency of the conversation" and Paul Friedländer notes further that the dialogue goes beyond not only the "simple question" but also its "simple answer (that the truly good and perfect is above both reason and pleasure, but thought and intelligence are incomparably closer to perfection than pleasure and enjoyment can ever be)".
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Theodore Porter argued in The Rise of Statistical Thinking that the effort to provide a synthetic social science is a matter of both administration and discovery combined, and that the rise of social science was, therefore, marked by both pragmatic needs as much as by theoretical purity. An example of this is the rise of the concept of Intelligence Quotient, or IQ. It is unclear precisely what is being measured by IQ, but the measurement is useful in that it predicts success in various endeavors. The rise of industrialism had created a series of social, economic, and political problems, particularly in managing supply and demand in their political economy, the management of resources for military and developmental use, the creation of mass education systems to train individuals in symbolic reasoning and problems in managing the effects of industrialization itself. The perceived senselessness of the "Great War" as it was then called, of 1914–18, now called World War I, based in what were perceived to be "emotional" and "irrational" decisions, provided an immediate impetus for a form of decision making that was more "scientific" and easier to manage.
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