unmeaning

“Substance has yielded to form, the religion of the heart to the observance of unmeaning forms and ceremonies.”

The old woman, wrinkled, dirty, clothed in an ill-sewn sack of sealskin, pointed at the little silken dress and at herself, and smiled: a sweet, unmeaning smile, like a baby’s.

Immigrant voters were "corrupting the ballot box - that great palladium of our liberty - into an unmeaning mockery", he fumed.

“It aims at the palatial and attains the sham-palatial,” the anonymous reviewer wrote, describing the projecting cornice as “huge, umbrageous, unmeaning, irrelevant” and characteristic “of the cheapest and vulgarest kind of tenement houses.”

They dropped like the stones I’d throw in Catclaw Creek or fluttered spastically and panickedly up whereupon I took more tenacious aim— much more difficult now because they moved —not me, frozen as if in a camera’s flash— troubling the tyranny of the ordinary as if a wave of meaning or unmeaning went rippling like heat through the yard.