Sentence examples for meaningless tic from inspiring English sources
It's a meaningless tic, Paul Steiger insists.
Kierkegaard[3] believes both that Abraham's life is supremely meaningful (it is not simply a matter of some immediate desire or meaningless tic that overcomes Abraham's ethical consciousness; on the contrary, doing the moral thing is itself in this case his tempting inclination) and that philosophy cannot understand it, thus condemning it in the name of ethics.
It used to be placed at the end of sentences, in a "cute" and utterly meaningless verbal tic popularised by the TV series Friends.
"Did you send flowers to Mom?" some acquaintance or stranger will ask — a meaningless conversation filler, a verbal tic — and you won't give the right or full answer, because no offense was intended, and none was taken.
A meaningless assemblage of RSHP's stylistic tics, without their usual crispness of detail.
So in clamping down on its overuse, which was in danger of turning the word into a meaningless expletive, nothing more than a verbal tic, the recent wave of moral indignation may unwittingly have helped us preserve its unique flavour and power, not least its power to shock.
Collinsworth needs to drop a verbal tic that leads him to start sentences with the meaningless, "I'll tell you what" or "I'll be honest with you".
These terms of endearment are vocal "tics" that people "just do," as involuntary as blinks or sneezes, and just as meaningless.
