"It is premature and unwise to assert, as the majority essentially does, that the thousands of same-sex weddings performed in San Francisco were empty and meaningless ceremonies in the eyes of the law," Justice Kennard wrote.
We do not attend for a mere memorial or to play with dead symbols in meaningless ceremonies, but we identify with Christ in his Passion, and we identify with those who killed him for whom he prays when he is held aloft on the cross that they would be forgiven.
As Britain long ago realized, the First Family is a job for specialists who can devote their full time and attention to meaningless public ceremonies and riveting private dramas.
Chafe and other critics remain unimpressed, and argue that the rash of meaningless signing ceremonies is simply more evidence of a White House that cannot figure out a way to get what it wants ― and maybe cannot even figure out what exactly it does want ― and so settles on PR stunts.
For his rapturous gazes at Trump in every meaningless White House meeting and ceremony.
As always, VP Pence makes the list for his rapturous gazes at Trump at every meaningless White House meeting and ceremony, and for generally working to validate this disgraceful president.
With such financial uncertainty, "the groundbreaking ceremony is absolutely meaningless," Gardner says - except perhaps as a diversion from the real issue: Freedom Tower just isn't very popular.
One of the loudest rounds of applause for the night went to the man who described the Oscars ceremony as a "meaningless, self-serving meat parade": George C Scott, who died last year, appeared in the In Memoriam spot which honours film business people who have moved on.
Her legal team argued that her chosen wedding ceremony would be "legally meaningless" without court intervention.
The Age of Enlightenment and various revolutions of the last three centuries all helped to further this trend, until the religious dimension of the ceremony has become relatively meaningless in all but a few kingdoms (mostly in Asia and Oceania).
