The meaninglessgibberish of a juggler--no reference to 'hoc est corpus.
The meaningless practice only originated in England with William II.
Even should this entail their being labelled with the silly and meaningless term of "reactionary," I do not imagine that their equanimity is much upset by it.
I was a long time in discovering that this meaningless euphonic name was but the memory of the Isle aux Galets--the island of the pebbles.
It pleased the sprightly lady to involve a rough soldier in a labyrinth of nonsense, commonplaces, and meaningless talk, in which he manoeuvred, in military language, as Prince Charles might have done at close quarters with Napoleon.
The symbols of nervous symptoms and of dreams are a "secret code," understood by the sender but meaningless to the censoring conscience, which passes them as harmless.
The first of these clues is nothing else than so despised a phenomenon as the patient's own night-dreams, which turn out to be not meaningless jargon, as we have supposed, but significant utterances of the inner man.
To begin with, such an expression as English art is a meaningless expression.
And then look at the depressing, monotonous appearance of any modern city, the sombre dress of men and women, the meaningless and barren architecture, the colourless and dreadful surroundings.
I found meaningless chandeliers and machine-made furniture, generally of rosewood, which creaked dismally under the weight of the ubiquitous interviewer.
Mark Twain found so many of the "masterpieces of the world" utterly unimpressive and meaningless to him, that he actually began to distrust the validity of his own impressions.
For example, the precept "Support the tone," is absolutely meaningless as a principle of mechanical vocal action.
That these directions are utterly meaningless in the mechanical sense does not alter the fact; nobody has ever found any other connection in which they would take on a definite meaning.
In spite of this hatred of the theologians, which is pathological in character, like his meaningless punctuation, his critical analyses are always exceedingly acute.
He argues that Jesus cannot have used it as a mere meaningless expression, a periphrasis for the simple I.
All law's bad enough in the way of odd words, but commend me to Scotch law for utter andmeaningless incomprehensibility.
Progenitor say if only he saw me in the midst of these meaningless aristocratic orgies.
They're the very breath of life to this sort of meaningless writing.
Or should he try to put her off a little with somemeaningless explanatory platitudes?
All animals then go by the name of cheweh, a meaningless word which is believed not to be understood by the creatures to whom it refers.
Abruptly, then, the voice came again, and he struggled to file for future reference sound patterns which, although meaningless to him, his selector circuits no longer disregarded.
You are not often concerned about economy," said Strudwarden, "and in any case the trip of Vienna won't cost a bit more than the rather meaningless luncheon parties we usually give to quite meaningless acquaintances at Brighton.
The set that she gathered round her at Brighton and other South Coast resorts was composed of individuals who might be dull and meaningless in themselves, but who understood the art of flattering Mrs. Strudwarden.
As a person he lacked sweetness and winsomeness; as a writer he was at times given to a meaningless exaggeration.
His forced and meaningless analogies come out in such a comparison as this: "Most poems, like the fruits, are sweetest toward the blossom end.
Yet we can, if we will, treat this pressure also as no more than a meaningless occurrence, and not as evidencing the trans-subjective reality which it seems to indicate.
Experience as trying involves change, but change is meaningless transition unless it is consciously connected with the return wave of consequences which flow from it.
The first is that such terms as the individual and the social conceptions of education are quite meaningless taken at large, or apart from their context.
The real remedy is to make nature study a study of nature, not of fragments made meaningless through complete removal from the situations in which they are produced and in which they operate.
If we have no concern or interest, the waving of the arms is asmeaningless to us as the gyrations of the arms of a windmill.
The sound h-a-t would remain as meaningless as a sound in Choctaw, a seemingly inarticulate grunt, if it were not uttered in connection with an action which is participated in by a number of people.
A constant repetition of false notes, wrong phrasing, irregular accents, faulty rhythms and a meaningless jumble of notes dulls the outer ear and deadens the inner tone-sense.
Those certainly are corrupters of music who use the piano solely for meaningless technical feats.
