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“Mother Mary” is as hair-raising as it is eyebrow-raising, all spectral senselessness until, out of nowhere, the eeriness gives way to a startling profundity as the film explores remorse with biblical repercussions.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

Maybe if French philosopher Albert Camus had a TikTok, he could explain it, given how well he understood repetitive cycles of senselessness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

For 35 years now, the retired detective has been reflecting on the case, and the senselessness at its core.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

The other was the tantalizing idea that society had learned from the war and could build a better tomorrow, freed from the senselessness of war, through new institutions such as the League of Nations.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, moulding its senselessness into forms.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald