"Most expensive, most prodigal, wasteful, senseless, I mean really insensitive in terms of what people live on in this country," Soyinka continued.
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.
It could mean "senseless; impractical; totally unsound" like when I didn't know if I could afford having cancer and purchased a new bedroom set anyway.
Since then visits to Mystery & Imagination have been for my wife Amanda and me a consistent crossing from the mundane world of external grating noise, senseless blather, and mean speaking, to a unique universe of internal voices, thoughts, adventures, revelations, reflections, and various forms of sanity.
As the night progressed, the room grew more inebriated, and more beers meant more senseless cheers.
"And although we wish we had good news for the folks who do, some large and powerful states still insist on blocking the majority's desire to decriminalize, which means that this senseless war on people will continue".
Countless books have been written and movies made where the idea is put forth that maybe, just maybe, it is more desirable to be constantly taken care of from cradle to grave, never saddled with trying to make sense of a senseless world even if it means that you spend your life (blissfully) unaware or unconcerned about anything that doesn't have to do with spaghetti and meatballs.
Consider the development of airpower as a form of more flexible weaponry meant to replace the "senseless slaughter" of trench warfare.
On this view, it is senseless to call something good unless this means that it is good for someone or in some respect or for some use or at some activity or as an instance of some kind.
It didn't take long for the young men coming back from the war to bring with them a kind of silly surrealism as their only means of making sense of the senseless acts they had witnessed.
