But even then, at moments of weakness as he had accounted them, his mind had penetrated to those distances and he had there seen the same pettiness, worldliness, and
senselessness. Now, however, he had learned to see the great, eternal, and infinite in everything, and therefore- to see it and enjoy its contemplation- he naturally threw away the telescope through which he had till now gazed over men's heads, and gladly regarded the ever-changing, eternally great, unfathomable, and infinite life around him.
Mercy on us, the
senselessness in the world!" he cried suddenly.
The attack must have all the shocking
senselessness of gratuitous blasphemy.
Open their bleared lids and look on your own accursed
senselessness! It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
On a perfect day, when the sky seemed blue porcelain, and the waves of the discreet little bay beat gentlest of tattoos upon the sand, Margaret hurried up through the rhododendrons, confronted again by the
senselessness of Death.
But you let loose bullets out of
senselessness. Truly, you are beyond evil.
''The sheer
senselessness of this case outraged people from Millburn to Newark,'' Murray said, referring to towns in Essex County, whose borders encompass crime-plagued Newark to the east as well as Millburn, Short Hills and other affluent suburbs to the west.
As if to highlight the
senselessness of some of the looting, Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene Almendras recalled spotting a man carrying a McDonald's "drive-thru" sign.
Zafar Iqbal Jhagra speaking on the occasion termed Mastung and Akhtarabad incidents as anti human and said party would play its role to expose suppression of Hazara people and
senselessness of the government.
I never knew him but I am mourning as deeply as anyone can for the complete
senselessness of it all - his life cut short on his own home turf and his son will never know his father.
This is surely total
senselessness with no redeeming sensefulness.
At the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, Lord Hodge told Drysdale: "You're aware of the
senselessness of the death you caused and the pain it's caused."