But I don't believe that purpose is a meaningless construct.
Try saying: "Thank you for understanding that time is a meaningless construct".
The phrase, "Molecular Gastronomy" is a meaningless construct.
Just as Harry Smith did a half century ago with his revolutionary "American Folk Music Anthology," Burnett shows up musical boundaries for the meaningless marketing constructs they are.
Even so, few among the arbitrary constructs adopted by the West as a result of 19th-century colonial attitudes can beat the meaningless concept of "Islamic art".
By George Packer August 31, 2010 What President Obama called the end of the combat mission in Iraq is a meaningless milestone, constructed almost entirely out of thin air, and his second Oval Office speech marks a rare moment of dishonesty and disingenuousness on the part of a politician who usually resorts to rare candor at important moments.
What President Obama called the end of the combat mission in Iraq is a meaningless milestone, constructed almost entirely out of thin air, and his second Oval Office speech marks a rare moment of dishonesty and disingenuousness on the part of a politician who usually resorts to rare candor at important moments.
The first category consists of 122 few-hit genes, which were meaningless to construct the phylogenetic trees (Fewer than 5 genes in one phylogeny).
The real issue for me around grades is that students have no other intrinsic motivation that some socially constructed meaningless label assigned at the end of the semester.
We don't try to eliminate race (despite evidence that the construct is meaningless, at best, or even invented).
But the days when gender constructs became virtually meaningless, when brains and coolness and sex appeal weren't incompatible, when mass popular culture transcended humble origins to become something profound, subversive and greater than itself … those days are gone.
