Not really, of course, but that's the kind of meaningless remark from which Mr. Eno derives both humor and twinges of quiet feeling.
Every nervous giggle, coy look, awkward silence and meaningless remark is captured, rather prettily, by the film's director, cinematographer and co-writer, Conrad Jackson.
In a speech in Phoenix, Dewey asserted: "America's future, like yours in Arizona, is still ahead of us". Truman chided Dewey for making this meaningless remark.
Other meaningless, nervous remarks, but even so, he was getting other information from me.
Hence his remark, meaningless except to insiders, about capital punishment's being "a great deterrent to monologues"; and so much for de Cordova's description of Carson as a supreme "self-editor" who never needed censorship).
In response last month to Barber's initial comments, Scott emphasized that Barber doesn't know him personally and called the remark "meaningless rhetoric" that didn't warrant a direct response.
Just as Representative Todd Akin made a meaningless distinction in his remarks about "legitimate rape," Mr. Ryan's distinction among different kinds of conception is meaningless and willfully deceptive.
Ironically, this has been the most common defense I've seen of Sanders' statements -- it was just a meaningless, off-the-cuff remark that might betray his generation's less-than-punctilious approach to language.
Time is suspended". But other remarks are campy or close to meaningless: "The pain!
But other remarks are campy or close to meaningless: "The pain!
Prior to this, as Bohr remarked, spectra seemed as beautiful and meaningless as butterflies' wings, but now, in the words of another great pioneer, Arnold Sommerfeld, they were revealed as "a true atomic music of the spheres".
