6 sentences with 'meaningless'

Example sentences and phrases with the word meaningless and other words derived from it.

« The long-term pattern was that, especially after the Treaty of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648 made the political structure of the Holy Roman Empire virtually meaningless, "Habsburg" meaning "Austrian". »
« The one position that all the major Enlightenment thinkers agreed on regarding religion was that "revealed" religion - religion whose authority was based on miracles - was meaningless. »
« Needless to say, Gobineau's claims were meaningless in terms of actual scientific reality, but by using the language of science, Gobineau's grandiose celebration of racial hierarchy served to support the authority and wealth of those already in power behind a façade of "neutral" analysis. »
« Theorists such as Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida (both French) argued that the author's intention in writing was meaningless, because the text was completely separated from the author at the moment of writing. They also both worked to demonstrate that texts themselves were nothing more or less than elaborate word games, with any implied 'meaning' simply an illusion in the mind of a reader. »
« At its extreme, postmodernism was a step beyond existentialism: not only was life intrinsically meaningless, but even a person's intentions and actions (the only source of meaning from the existential perspective) meant nothing. »
« Politically, Eastern European governments were so corrupt that it was basically meaningless to distinguish between normal 'politics' and 'corruption' - every political decision was governed by personal networks of corrupt politicians who traded political favours and controlled access to creature comforts (such as the coveted dachas - holiday homes - in the USSR). »

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