senselessness

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That you may not suffer for your own senselessness, and may not harm others by your folly.

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  • This vapor produced a senselessness which lasted lengths of time varying from a few minutes to many hours, depending on its strength Doc carried it in thin-walled glass balls, some spheres holding weak solutions, others strong ones. —  018 - The Squeaking Goblin
  • His eyes were closed in senselessness, but it was evident that they must be very large. —  065 - The Giggling Ghosts
  • His works portray opposing concepts such as logic and senselessness, male and female, reason and emotion.
  • All that kind of senselessness is doing is serving to make Harris more sympathetic. —  MVN
  • Most important of all, the senselessness will be repeated over the next 18 years unless our labour leaders and our politicians at every level recognize that for economic, environmental and cultural reasons, Canada needs a long immigration breather. —  BC Bloggers
 

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