Sentence examples for a meaningless task from inspiring English sources

A meaningless task, but somehow it felt important.

In the context of a meaningless task, military protocol and discipline seem like some exotic absurdist religion.

Going to class was a major chore, a meaningless task I sometimes skipped altogether in order to culturally enrich myself in more fulfilling ways: a Lena Dunham book signing, going to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Listing a number of indicators for which there is no reliable source to verify became a meaningless task and deprived the consultant from verifying whether expected outcomes, let alone impacts, are in fact obtained or likely to be obtained.

To be fair, some people are allowed to neglect their education, compromise on their work, and even skip television while devoting six or more hours a day to some repetitive and essentially meaningless task.

Each time, the students were given one of three tasks: look at a photo of their partner, look at a photo of an equally attractive acquaintance, or perform a meaningless distraction task, such as thinking about sports.

In one case, Jung showed that a patient who for 50 years had been fixated on the apparently meaningless task of making illusory shoes, had been abandoned by a lover who was a cobbler.

Calmly accept the fact that your new child boss may well find it necessary to invent a variety of meaningless tasks to occupy your time and keep you off his back.

When Lauveng is institutionalised, we also get a vivid idea of her initial resistance to much of the treatment: the morning workouts, the confinement to an isolation ward, the meaningless tasks that, at one point, involve her in routinely rolling earplugs.

The result was "Hakobune" (Ark), which depicts dead-end, part-time workers performing meaningless tasks at an anonymous factory.

Paul Vixie, senior vice president of Internet services for AboveNet, a network service provider whose clients include eBay and CNet, said the attackers appeared to have installed widely available software that, when secretly planted on other people's computers, flood a target site with instructions to perform meaningless tasks.