"It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?" She pauses for me to catch up, but I must have betrayed my incomprehension.
"It doesn't make any sense to divide that market into fragments, each protected by meaningless regulatory barriers to trade .But meaninglessness is in the eye of the beholder.
Meaninglessness, endlessly deferred, is our bread and butter.
It's a great example of what it is and the meaninglessness of the lyrics doesn't bother me now because they are just sung in a brilliant way.
Then, in 1999, the title track of Pink Moon was featured in a commercial for the Volkswagen Cabrio: young trendsetters on a night-time joyride, scored with the chronically depressed singer's lyrics about the meaninglessness of life.
After all, one of the habitual recognitions of academics, at least in its more critical disciplines, is that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding can so quickly dissipate into meaninglessness.
Its language wavers between jargon and meaninglessness.
Some of those countries had harsh planned economies; others had their own version of "goulash communism" (Hungary) or "self-managed socialism" (Yugoslavia).Already unreliable in 1989, the label has stretched to meaninglessness as those countries' fortunes have diverged since the collapse of communism.
The prime minister's refusal to join combat has set the tone for the whole campaign; from the walkabouts stage-managed into meaninglessness to his desperate attempts to avoid debating Mr Miliband one-on-one and his refusal, last weekend, to share with Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, the very Marr Show sofa on which the Labour leader and Mr Johnson this morning perched.
And even if proposals become bills, many could go the way of a much-needed postal reform plan, which was watered down to near meaninglessness by the time it passed the Diet on July 24th.
Through this letter, we learn of the despair of Jim and his children at Kate's death, and of the subsequent meaninglessness of their lives.
