unmeaning

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Antonioni's point is unmistakable: his hero, like Orpheus, has entered Hades, the contemporary hell of unmeaning materialism� will he find there the love, the soul, the vital core of meaning he has lost?

From Time Magazine Archive

He sings in a doubtful falsetto and his movements are unmeaning, and frequently absurd.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: Admiral Anderson has a worthy predecessor in his war on profanity, one who was equally adamant about "that unmeaning and abominable custom, swearing."

From Time Magazine Archive

He wrote: "That unmeaning and abominable custom �swearing."

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin