Sentence examples for meaningless details from inspiring English sources

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"It's all tacked up with meaningless details".

Fifty meaningless details become one telling detail, that sort of thing.

It was she who fed and brought up their children, she who was in charge of the "ordinary and meaningless" details that allowed them all to survive.

Until then, he had always thought of high-end cooking as overly obsessed with what seemed like meaningless details, but now, from the inside, he saw things differently.

Often we get aggregation, not investigation: too many meaningless details piled one on top of the other like an old Sunday Times "Insight" story run riot.

Writing in The Chicago Sun-Times, the team's former public relations director Ken Valdiserri, called the book "a self-serving, profit-mongering effort to sensationalize meaningless details of a complex person".

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With their relaxed pace, obsessions about seemingly meaningless detail and contempt for the very concept of plotting, Jarmusch's films are very much a context of their own.

The conflict, the profanity, the yelling: it's the sort of vivid, if ultimately meaningless, detail that provides books like "Renegade," "Game Change," and, now, "The Obamas" with their lurid and irresistible zing.

My boss, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, reviewing Jodi Kantor's book on the Obama marriage in this week's issue, refers to the "vivid, if ultimately meaningless, detail that provides books like 'Renegade," 'Game Change,' and, now, 'The Obamas' with their lurid and irresistible zing.

Why should the personal life of a private citizen be torn apart just to provide one more meaningless detail to feed the mass hysteria?

But the psychotherapist says it's cause for alarm when a couple can't stop bickering over the budget or meaningless planning details. "What should be the focus -- their future together -- is eclipsed by a one-day event which has little or no bearing on what's in store for them as a married couple," she said.

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