Think how great store His love sets by the poor beginnings of the little ones, clumsy and unmeaning as they may be to others.
Shrink from conformity to the world, its vain fashions, unmeaning etiquette.
Dancing is not necessarily associated with dramatic music; the dances of nations in a low degree of civilization are, however, often representations of desires or events rather than unmeaning jumps and evolutions.
Now, in music, though there may sometimes be occasion for giving the instruments the ascendancy over the voices, yet never should the song-parts be unmeaning or inexpressive, much less coarse or ordinary.
Lear introduces his unmeaning words and his amorphous creatures not with the pomp of reason, but with the romantic prelude of rich hues and haunting rhythms.
Thus the picture of an unmeaning passion, of a crime without an issue, does not appear to our romantic apprehension as the sorry farce it is, but rather as a true tragedy.
As religion is deflected from its course when it is confused with a record of facts or of natural laws, so poetry is arrested in its development if it remains an unmeaning play of fancy without relevance to the ideals and purposes of life.
But it is unmeaning to call such an exercise heaven, or to talk of being "with God" in such a life, in any sense in which we are not with God already and under all circumstances.
No, no, madam, you shall throw away no more sums on such unmeaning luxury.
And there are some, whom a thirst Ardent, unquenchable, fires, Not with the crowd to be spent, Not without aim to go round In an eddy of purposeless dust Effort unmeaning and vain.
The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge, or the most insignificant name, than for the most important principle.
I cried, and I ran along the gallery to his door, followed by Mary Quince, whose white face I shall never forget, though her entreaties only sounded like unmeaning noises in my ears.
On the trunk of one of these I sat down to rest, Mary Quince meanwhile pattering about in unmeaning explorations.
No more of this unmeaning rage, But hear, my friends, the words of age.
If so, then would everything be dream and delusion, and it would not be worth the trouble to have lived and to have taken part in this ever-recurring, aimless, and unmeaning game.
Nature and natural consequences in the destinies and actions of free beings, in view of thee, are empty, unmeaning words.
We should be insane were we openly to exchange such a diplomacy for unmeaning and partial alliances with even the most legitimate parties in the countries which surround us.
There was talking at these meetings, it is true, but the term business can scarcely be applied to the verbose and unmeaning speeches in which the orators indulged.
The address, which was moved in the upper house by the Duke of Ancaster, and seconded by Lord Dun-more, was as general and unmeaning as the king's speech.
Rennell had discovered that it owed its origin to Popery, his wisdom had detected its source, artfully lurking in the 'unmeaning combinations' of a pack of cards.
And so on of others, fragments of old catches and popular songs being constantly traced in the apparentlyunmeaning rhymes of the nursery.
And remember that I every day set you an example; for I never, to please for the moment, pay unmeaning compliments, or permit any words to drop from my tongue, that my heart does not dictate.
But Will did not think the questionunmeaning or insulting.
After that evening Walters came seldom to his friend's castle; and when he did he never stayed, but went away again almost immediately with a few unmeaning words.
You have surrendered to the unmeaning fear that drives a herd of swine over a precipice.
He paused at the Brooklyn Bridge and stood in silence while the black torrent of unmeaning faces, whose expression this morning was distinctly inhuman, rolled past and spread out into the square and streets.
Driscoll looked fixedly at her for a second or two, and gradually the expression of his face settled down into its habitual cast of unmeaning imbecility, while he merely muttered to himself, "No evidence; throw out the bills.
It grew with his years, and vague and unmeaning as it appeared, it had the force of an instinct.
Thus no language can be ugly to those who speak it well, no religion unmeaning to those who have learned to pour their life into its moulds.
If in referring to the ideal we were not thus analyzing the real, the ideal would be an irrelevant and unmeaning thing.
It is unmeaningto say that what is beautiful to one man ought to be beautiful to another.
A beautiful voice will redeem a vulgar song, a beautiful colour and texture an unmeaning composition.
The price of an object is an algebraic symbol, it is a conventional term, invented to facilitate our operations, which remains arid and unmeaning if we stop with it and forget to translate it again at the end into its concrete equivalent.
It expects an elevation in poetry, and demands a degree of importance superior to the caprices of unmeaning accident.
The French translator, contrary to the original, ascribes this terror to the ghost of only one prince, by which this stroke of Camoens, in the spirit of Shakespeare, is reduced to a piece of unmeaning frippery.
