Example Sentences

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Our "ideas" may be rather as Woolf imagined consciousness, a flicker of different and self-annulling impressions and convictions.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2011

The two primary styles of live spectating--the self-aggrandizing preening of the ringside celebrity and the self-annulling ecstasy of the anonymous face-painted fan--will soon be relics of the past, available only in dioramas in sports museums.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so, given my longing for an irretrievable past, I think insularity and exile are the ambient notes to strive for this year, as opposed to your mindless, self-annulling, Leni Riefenstahl-style euphoria.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adj. absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-contradictory; macaronic†, punning. foolish &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark