It was a hauntingly prescient look at the senselessness of war, released just as the country was learning how senseless it could be.
In both Europe and in Canada the war that was fought from August 1914 to November 1918 is the Great War, whose barbarity and senselessness were felt to set a high-water mark for all the wars that followed.
In part, this is because of the sheer scale and apparent senselessness of the conflict; in part it because the victorious powers saddled Germany with the blame in the "war guilt" clause of the treaty of Versailles, a claim the Germans naturally resented.One suspects that the blame for the credit crunch will also be debated endlessly.
OUTSIDE the burns unit of Safdarjung hospital in Delhi, a family of grim-faced mourners encapsulates the particular senselessness of war on the subcontinent.
A recurring factor, besides senselessness, was gang membership.How many young people belong to gangs?
Lispector has been compared to Jean-Paul Sartre, for her sense of life's senselessness, and to Franz Kafka.
Nothing makes sense in the heat of battle and it takes another few generations to begin to steer the senselessness into some kind of narrative.
She had forgotten what it was like to be young and unburdened by worries about future health and happiness, and the more she banged on about responsibility and the senselessness of hangovers, the more you wanted her to chill out, knock back a sambuca and put on her dancing shoes.
Black humour, also called black comedy, writing that juxtaposes morbid or ghastly elements with comical ones that underscore the senselessness or futility of life.
Johnson himself had spent time in debtors' prison — twice, once for a debt of five pounds — and had pointed out the senselessness of it.
If only Borges's librarians had written code, one can't help thinking, they could have made the senselessness of infinity approachable.
