Example Sentences

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There are, it may be said, two great schools which hold respectively the doctrines which may be not unfitly described as the significance and the insignificance, or rather, non-significance of ethics.

From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by Sullivan, W. R. Washington

Instead of proving that premonitions mean anything, the rarity of their fulfillment proves the rule of their non-significance and demonstrates that they are merely coincidences.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

What I mean to insinuate, and to assert, is that beneath this enjoyment is the disconcerting and distressing conviction of unreality, of non-significance, of exaggerated and even false sentiment.

From The Feast of St. Friend by Bennett, Arnold