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

The long walk to the Manpower Directorate, the sheer mindlessness of compiling names and addresses day after day, exhausted him, she knew, yet he came home each day with lit-up eyes.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie