1. 12 Gave a vapid and unmeaning response to a difficult query.

2. Cogency of argument is almost invariably lost in the vehemence of declamation and in the utterance of unmeaning patter

3. ‘The article expresses a horror at the 'Barbarity' of the 'unmeaning mummeries, dishonest debt, profuse waste, and bad example in an utter oblivion of responsibility'.’ ‘According to Wong, the aestheticization of Chinese history makes it palatable, along with reinforcing the Orientalist binary opposition between eastern Barbarity and

4. When the gloom the light Appalleth When no tear‐dew ever falleth Downward silently When the tired heart, from languor Of Life’s poor unmeaning clangour, Droopeth wearily When the day, in its uprising, Bringeth nought that’s worth the prizing, And the night, all dark and lonely, No star showeth, but clouds only I think of thee.