mindlessness
Example Sentences
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All our knowledge-seeking will be for naught, because everything we have learned will be forgotten as the universe lapses into utter, irreversible mindlessness.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2021
Some conservative faculty at Yale welcomed Hill as a superior antidote to such civic mindlessness and as the embodiment of an older social discipline and sense of duty on which Yale had been founded.
From Salon ● May 8, 2021
The appeal of latch hook is mostly its process—the blissful, repetitive, mindlessness of it all.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2020
There, he alternates between mowing the lawn and writing — the mindlessness of operating a push mower helps him come up with creative ways to transition out of difficult scenes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019
Montag's hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
