In religion, for example, it would render suspect the statement that God exists, which, being metaphysical, would be strictly speaking meaningless.
A distinct philosophical school appeared to be emerging, one that was dedicated to ending the previous disputes of philosophical schools by dismissing them, controversially, as strictly speaking meaningless.
I was looking for direction and found the political-speak meaningless and unhelpful.
Debuting on BBC2 as the imperious anchor of The Day Today in 1994, he mercilessly demolished the whole lexicon of TV news-speak (meaningless slogans, tortuous links and all).
Joaquin Phoenix's bizarre 2009 Letterman appearance, in which he donned sunglasses and an unruly beard and spoke in meaningless non-answers, turned out to be quote-unquote performance art in connection with his movie "I'm Still Here".
They go to the same biennales; speak the same meaningless art language; and control the art world from within by privileging their creativity ahead of the artist's.
Mr. Golts, addressing the Russian defense industry's capacities, has been quoted as saying, "It is simply meaningless to speak of the missile defense system on equal terms".
Or it may be sheer competitive spirit that compelled him to the space he now occupies as the undisputed king of meaningless corporate speak.
This horror has so welded past and present that it is virtually impossible and certainly meaningless to speak of it as occurring in time".
"I'd like to think I'm different, that I've grown up a bit and developed, maybe not in the way I thought would be the case four years ago," said Wilkinson, helplessly trapped as usual between full-scale confessional mode and meaningless therapy speak.
Or else, minima are always bundled in such large quantities that it is meaningless to speak of an odd or even number of minima between atoms; the Stoics, at all events, held that whether the number of stars, for example, is odd or even is absolutely or naturally non-evident (kathapax adela, Sextus Empiricus Outline of Pyrrhonism = PH 2.97, M 8.147; physei adela, M 8.317 18).
