Sentence examples for meaningless form from inspiring English sources

By now it's crystal clear to just about everyone that the password is a weak and frankly meaningless form of authentication, yet most of us still live under the tyranny of the password.

I remember being very struck by Dostoyevsky, who was in a Russian prison camp, and he said if you really want to destroy someone psychologically, much worse than through physical torture, just make up a completely meaningless form of work.

A solution to the first pressure is combinatoriality — the recombination of a few basic meaningless forms to express an infinite number of meanings.

Elsewhere, in an empty viewing room, a screen shows meaningless forms in faded colors — what Mr. Gréaud calls a "story that doesn't reveal itself" — shot on super-16-millimeter film he discovered in the basement of the Palais de Tokyo (formerly a cinémathèque) and then used to make a scripted movie without telling the actors or crew that the film stock had expired.

Viewed as a meaningless phonological form, doubling is dispreferred irrespective of its kind (i.e., trafraf is as bad as traftaf, even though the latter violates a morphological constraint on contiguity).

Like, when you stare at an object for a long time on acid and it starts looking so weird and unreal, or when you repeat the same word until it sounds like a meaningless pure form".

Let us call the thesis that all metaphysical statements are meaningless "the strong form" of the thesis that metaphysics is impossible.

If the rule is not changed as Russell demands, Sanders' proposal is probably meaningless in the form of a reasonable request, as Sanders presents it.

Mies wrote that for most buildings, "when the outer walls are put in place, the structural system, which is the basis of all artistic design, is hidden by a chaos of meaningless and trivial forms".

He estimates that, in 2012, the number of American voters disenfranchised by this mapmaking — that is, the number of voters whose ballots were effectively rendered meaningless by various forms of stuffing Republican majorities into safe districts — was in the neighborhood of four million.

These lists test against worms and viruses in a stagnant environment and are now largely meaningless against new forms of malware.