All the while, I kept a close eye on all the points I was accumulating, and took meaningless satisfaction in watching my ranking among Memrise users inch up day by day.
Those who remain are forced, like Nelson's mother, into a kind of shadow play: "reading the newspapers; serving as unwilling participant-observers in a stupid war; voting in one meaningless election after another; watching the currency collapse, stabilize and collapse again".
What do you say?" I wanted to say that I had no place for the thing, that I didn't want a cat of any kind or even a guinea pig or a fish in a bowl and that the ten dollars was meaningless, but everyone was watching me and I couldn't back out without feeling the shame rise to my face — and there was Daria to consider, because she was watching me, too.
The biggest issue I have with Bill Walton is that he makes the game you are watching feel meaningless.
For those who think not, let me know if you'll be watching a meaningless Suns-Trail Blazers game at 10 45 at night next year, with the Blazers up by 10 points and one second on the clock hoping that the last guy on the Portland bench misses or makes a free throw.
Just as cricket was forced to face up to the fact that a meaningless county match watched by two men and a dog could be more of a security risk than a Test if there was an in play market on it, so tennis must do the same.
You might think this is just a pile of meaningless hardware, but watch "Vatican Vibes" and you'll be brought into the light.
The title is rendered especially meaningless when you watch the accompanying YouTube clip; quite clearly whatever happens in Vegas will not stay in Vegas, it will be laboriously documented by Chuckie's poor cameraman and hastily edited into a five minute video before being broadcast to the world.
Applying transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to the motor cortex has revealed systematic changes in corticospinal excitability (CSE) while subjects watched meaningless finger movements [23] [25], object oriented actions [26] and a hand performing pantomimes and meaningful hand signs [27].
I also watched meaningless soaps and the news, which is just depressing.
They were told that they will have to move their hands with meaningless gestures and will watch a library of meaningless movements that will give them some examples.
