Information om | Engelska ordet POINTLESSNESS

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• The initial reception of Finnegans Wake was largely negative, ranging from bafflement at its radical reworking of language to open hostility towards its seeming pointlessness and lack of respect for literary conventions.
• The story concerns a middle-aged middle manager, Reginald "Reggie" Perrin, who is revealed in the first series to be aged 46, and is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts.
• Williamson became disgusted with what he considered to be the pointlessness of the war, blaming its causation on greed and bigotry.
• Vanitas (Latin for 'vanity', in this context meaning pointlessness, or futility, not to be confused with the other definition of vanity) is a genre of art which uses symbolism to show the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly desires.
• The novel also deals with broader anti-war themes: essentially a series of absurdly comic episodes, it explores the pointlessness and futility of conflict in general and of military discipline, Austrian military discipline in particular.
• Recurring themes are pointlessness and powerlessness, where good and bad meet in an ungraspable and sometimes deliberately incomprehensible greyscale.
• Parry-Williams wrote a somewhat different poem with the same title in Welsh, stressing his eccentricity and the pointlessness of his learning, since he never appears to have used any of his languages, but concludes: "Chwarae-teg i Dic – nid yw pawb yn gwirioni'r un fath" (Fair play to Dic – not everybody is silly in the same way).
• In specialized usage, absurdity is related to extremes in bad reasoning or pointlessness in reasoning; ridiculousness is related to extremes of incongruous juxtaposition, laughter, and ridicule; and nonsense is related to a lack of meaningfulness.
• Realizing the pointlessness of the impermanent material world, the two friends set out as ascetics to search for an end to rebirth.
• Matthau and Lemmon put in their usual faultless turns, but cannot lift a pervading air of pointlessness.
• He runs a number of scans to raise funds for his grand endeavour - transforming street children into plastic toys to sell cheap, capturing souls in magical devices to build a workforce of mindless slaves - but when he meets Awn the Blink, he is convinced by the unmechanic of the pointlessness of his scheme, which breaks his mechanical heart.
• Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe wrote that it "becomes a unswerving revenge tale that's awkwardly cut with whimsical humor and reverberates with echoes of pointlessness".

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