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Can we imagine that being is devoid of life and mind, and exists in awful unmeaningness an everlasting fixture?

From Sophist by Plato

The cold, glazed, fixed unmeaningness of them chilled and frightened him—they did really speak of the tomb.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 by Chambers, William

No one has equally raised the human mind above the trivialities of the common logic and the unmeaningness of 'mere' abstractions, and above imaginary possibilities, which, as he truly says, have no place in philosophy.

From Sophist by Plato

And, though the undergraduates in the gallery roared "Mouth, sir; mouth!" till they were hoarse, the Angelic Doctor never perceived the unmeaningness of his proverb.

From Collections and Recollections by Russell, George William Erskine

Its unmeaningness was ghastly, and the ghastlier for the greatness of its bald and lifeless stare.

From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)