Sentence examples for empty of significance from inspiring English sources

A lot has been said and written just recently about the ever-increasing volume of international rugby, and depending on where you sit, cross-hemisphere matches between teams at the start of their season and opponents at the end of theirs are either full of importance or empty of significance.

Like the logical principle of non-contradiction which controls all rational thought, it expresses, one might say, the pressure of reason and is so far from being empty of significance and force that its form may be regarded as the frame, and its normativity the source, for all the normativity of the substantive first principles and of the moral principles which are inferable from them.

"It's a pretty dull tool, emptied of significance by overuse, like crying wolf," said Yaron Ezrahi, a political scientist at Hebrew University.

In his 1936 speech when presented with the RIBA's Royal Gold Medal, Holden defined his position: "It was not so much a matter of creating a new style, as of discarding those incrustations which counted for style ... surface embroidery empty of structural significance".

This abstraction, by impoverishing human relationships, "leaves everything standing but cunningly empties it of significance".

It's a process that empties faith of significance because it turns symbols into signs: symbols transmit an immediate experience that addresses the soul, whereas signs just point to facts.

Blogs, to paraphrase Kierkegaard, left everything standing but cunningly emptied them of significance.

But Mr Putin has emptied the law of significance, by warping reality to mean whatever he chooses.

His face is covered in sores, his gaze is empty; the significance of the moment doesn't get through to him.

Many critics at the premiere found the film, purportedly a modern incarnation of the Orpheus myth, both too full of Luhrmann's trademark cinematic pyrotechnics and empty of true passion or significance.

Surfaces are so incredibly fragile and fleeting, and ultimately empty of the deepest existential meaning or significance.