senselessness

And not only had they found nothing, but they had plainly acknowledged that the very thing which made me despair -- namely the senselessness of life -- is the one indubitable thing man can know.

A Confession 1887

Nay! my son was passing fair, and when thou sawest him thy fancy straight became thy Cypris; for every sensual act that men commit, they lay upon this goddess, and rightly does her name of Aphrodite begin the word for "senselessness"; so when thou didst catch sight of him in gorgeous foreign garb, ablaze with gold, thy senses utterly forsook thee.

The Trojan Women 2008

Nay! my son was passing fair, and when thou sawest him thy fancy straight became thy Cypris; for every sensual act that men commit, they lay upon this goddess, and rightly does her name of Aphrodite begin the word for "senselessness"; so when thou didst catch sight of him in gorgeous foreign garb, ablaze with gold, thy senses utterly forsook thee.

The Trojan Women 2008

It may have been senseless by our standards, but it was a kind of senselessness that we have to expect from people like them.

The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

Why, he thought, pleased as an overtired child with the fancy, in a sense they were always alone, shut up in a kind of senselessness -- just like us all.

The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

All that kind of senselessness is doing is serving to make Harris more sympathetic.

MVN 2008

"senselessness" of those entrusted with its affairs, as threatening

Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Charles Wentworth Upham 1838

His mother called me several times and I was very affected by her story and the senselessness of having a man spend a quarter of a century in prison for theft of a cheap television.

The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

Is it right to use these great historical events as triggers for personal development, or is it right to leave them in their senselessness and waste?

Moral Universes « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Increasingly, a new majority of American voters were energized and angered not just by the senselessness of U.S. actions in Iraq, but by a government that was largely alone among our allies in ignoring the well-established science on man-made global warming, or the lack of sanity in the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policies toward homosexuals.

Will Bunch: Sanity, Iraq, and Jon Stewart's "View From Nowhere" Will Bunch 2010