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It was a hauntingly prescient look at the senselessness of war, released just as the country was learning how senseless it could be.
The former certainly looks like a prizefighter who has been battered senseless by a meaner, leaner opponent; the latter has endured an equally bruising encounter in the ring but has walked away bleeding badly but still standing after a 12-round points draw.
More broadly, this wire report succumbs to the senseless rehashing of celebrity stories about ghost writing.
It was awful, it was bloody and it was a senseless crime but just because something's a senseless crime doesn't make a person insane," Starnes said.
His father had not long died, his brother John had been jailed for kicking senseless a man who had suggested Sol was gay, he was at fault for two goals in a match against West Ham and the abuse was deafening.
The sparkling literary talent Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said: "If I had not grown up in Nigeria, if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I, too, would think Africa was a place of beautiful landscape, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and Aids, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner.
"We recall the centenary of that tragic event, that immense and senseless slaughter whose cruelty your forebears had to endure.
Did you warm up when you got in the pool or did you start just banging lengths out in a senseless kind of way?' Because whatever mistakes you made that got you to this point, if we go look back a little, we can learn a bit about your day and make some better decisions in the future".
1. Women of Africa want to live in a peaceful continent in which there are no widows as a result of senseless killings and war, a continent in which they are not sexually abused and violated and in which suffering is not caused by the self-interest of a few corrupt and power hungry leaders.
The robbers seized pedestrians and motorists and beat them senseless , telling them they would be shot, have their throats slit, eyes gouged out or be burned alive if they did not comply with their assailants' demands.
Obama, whose father was Kenyan, said America stood with the country's people in the face of the latest attack, which he said "underscores the degree to which all of us as an international community have to stand against the kind of senseless violence that these kind of groups represent".
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The word "senseless " functions primarily as an adjective . It modifies nouns to describe something lacking reason, purpose, or meaning. Ludwig highlights this usage in numerous examples, such as "senseless violence" or "senseless waste of money".
Expression frequency: Very common
