senselessness

Example Sentences

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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

Four Black men find themselves in a waiting room in the afterlife, struggling to make sense of the senselessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

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

I would instead spend days brooding over my helplessness and the senselessness of the unbroken cycle of pain and suffering searing my mind and sapping my strength day after day.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane