Sentence examples for senseless contradictions from inspiring English sources

I've seen productions that laid more stress on the play's senseless contradictions.

John Wood, one of my favourite modern actors, was also a brilliant Lear in a 1990 Nicholas Hytner RSC production: when Wood, having cursed Goneril with sterility, rushed to embrace her, I got a startling vision of the senseless contradictions that inform both Lear's character and the play itself.

He might mourn his young daughter's premature death and reunite a slave family; he might dream of panthers (the panther becomes his totem), but he can never transcend his contradictions: that of the kindly slave-trader (itself an oxymoron) who deplores senseless killing and yet says "war ain't got no goddamn rules" and bloodies the rivers with the corpses of young men.

And senseless.

"These killings were senseless.

Its senseless, cold drag.

They're knocked senseless.

Boycott senseless bigotry!

– knocks them senseless.

It becomes senseless.

But that's senseless.