Sentence examples for meaningless descriptions from inspiring English sources

To the editor: This article contains the uber-balanced and thus ultimately meaningless descriptions: "cease-fire dissolved into chaos," "new round of fighting," "outbreak of violence" and "flare-up of hostilities".

A well-known satirical magazine recently launched a mini-feature called "National Treasure" in which it gathers together instances of this most hackneyed and meaningless of descriptions of a certain kind of public figure.

In many ways, the festival's welcoming of the weird carries the torch of the original Lollapalooza festival from the early 1990s when alternative rock was not a meaningless brand but a description of an actual movement of music several steps outside mainstream radio.

In such cases, a fraction of a molecule is meaningless and a discrete description of the species' molecular count is essential.

The descriptions were floridly meaningless.

The first paragraph of the first book she ever wrote, "Claudine at School," is devoted to an argument between the description of her native village in a geography book, and what was really there: "To me, those descriptions are totally meaningless!" writes Claudine angrily.

We would never think of referring to Christians in a similar way because we are aware that the catch-all description is virtually meaningless.

Clare Whitmell, Guardian contributor and qualified business communication trainer: "Generic buzzwords confuse everyone – they're not helpful on a job description and almost meaningless on a CV if unsubstantiated.

I found that many companies have statements of their boards' functions, but that the boards' job descriptions are generally broad, vague, meaningless, and usually unknown to the members of the board.

But without names or descriptions, the icons are almost meaningless, except for ones whose graphics you recognize, and in that case you probably already know about the app.

To look for any deeper description of the world is meaningless.