meaninglessnesses

Best of all, this play is SF; or, if you prefer, it's a comic fantasia spun from an eloquently metaphorical extrapolation of the present world: a metaphor that makes manifest the hidden passivity, studied rhetorical emptiness and conventional meaninglessnesses of contemporary life, political and personal.

Rebellato/McLean/Macmillan, And So Say All Of Us ... (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

Best of all, this play is SF; or, if you prefer, it's a comic fantasia spun from an eloquently metaphorical extrapolation of the present world: a metaphor that makes manifest the hidden passivity, studied rhetorical emptiness and conventional meaninglessnesses of contemporary life, political and personal.

Archive 2010-05-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Let's say that the way to deal with ontological despair, with the mind-crushing inevitability of our personal and species extinctions, with the meaninglessnesses of existence, with the echoing horror and so forth, is simply not to think about it all too much.

Avoiding angst Adam Roberts Project 2007

Let's say that the way to deal with ontological despair, with the mind-crushing inevitability of our personal and species extinctions, with the meaninglessnesses of existence, with the echoing horror and so forth, is simply not to think about it all too much.

Archive 2007-09-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

To escape from these tropical brilliancies and meaninglessnesses.

The Plumed Serpent 2003