To those not in the know, "track five" is a meaningless phrase.
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Odd that a meaningless phrase can be used so meaningfully by so many people.
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Although "diversity" often feels like a thin and meaningless phrase, that is exactly what the LGBTQ+ dads of TV need right now.
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Critics of the law describe this disclaimer as the "quack Miranda warning"—a meaningless phrase invoked automatically to mask a range of unsupported medical claims.
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"Forget About Life" by Alvvays: Do whatever you want, it's New Year's Eve, which was already a meaningless phrase but now sounds like total gibberish to me.
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He was influenced by blues singers such as John Lee Hooker, who frequently turned a brief, meaningless phrase into a driving rhythmic mantra, stripping the words of meaning.
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And so the argument that Pruitt is "an opponent of the EPA" is as wrongheaded as it gets, even apart from the sloppiness inherent in that meaningless phrase.
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One friend group wore matching buttons which read, "SHE WHO DARES WINS" — a meaningless phrase I am fully confident will one day become a slogan for a feminist smoothie shop.
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In 2016, Elizabeth Garbee wrote a comprehensive takedown of the meaningless phrase, which has been continuously invoked for 75 years as a new phase that is just around the corner.
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The hardest part of all is likely to be restoring faith in our economic policy after the "long-term economic plan" has become an essentially meaningless phrase, little more than a joke.
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"Drug death" is a meaningless phrase out of context, and one that is used over and over, by tabloids and politicians, to silence the arguments of people trying to enact a positive change.
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The most sanctimonious on the right believe that cultural appropriation is a meaningless phrase that willfully ignores intent; that people should have the right to celebrate what they find beautiful without criticism or abuse.
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These laws permitted manufacturers to dictate prices for their products in a state (which is where that now-meaningless phrase "manufacturer's suggested retail price" comes from); if a manufacturer had a price agreement with even one retailer in a state, other stores in the state could not discount that product.
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On the Russian talk show Пусть говорят, which aired on Channel One Russia just after the final of the contest, a native Mongolian speaker explained that the phrase "Lasha Tumbai" does not exist in the Mongolian language. Serduchka later stated that "Lasha Tumbai" was a meaningless phrase meant to rhyme with other lyrics.
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"Acid rock" has often been loosely defined, especially in its early history. In 1969, as the genre was still solidifying, rock journalist Nik Cohn called it a "fairly meaningless phrase that got applied to any group, no matter what its style". It was originally used to describe the background music for acid trips in underground parties in the 1960s (e.g. the Merry Pranksters' "Acid Tests") and as a catchall term for the more eclectic Haight- Ashbury bands in San Francisco.
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The song includes a famous reference to athlete Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees, one of Simon's favorite baseball teams. It also features an explicit homage to the Beatles, with Simon uttering the meaningless phrase "coo-coo-ca-choo" that John Lennon sings in "I Am the Walrus". "A Hazy Shade of Winter" is an older track that dates back to Simon's days in England in 1965. The song follows a hopeless poet, with "manuscripts of unpublished rhyme", unsure of his achievements in life.
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10-11 The Journal of the American Medical Association, noted in 1918: > In brief, the case against the so-called Swoboda System may be summed up by > saying that "Conscious Evolution" is a meaningless phrase whose apparent use > is to obtain money by misleading and deceiving the public, that the Swoboda > exercises are new or original; that the entire Swoboda scheme is quackery of > the "physical culture" type.Anonymous. (1918). Swoboda's "Conscious > Evolution": Quackery and Pseudo-Science of the Physical Culture Type. > Journal of the American Medical Association 70 (1): 799-802.
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In the notation, variables are ambiguous in denotation, preserve a recognizable identity appearing in various places in logical statements within a given context, and have a range of possible determination between any two variables which is the same or different. When the possible determination is the same for both variables, then one implies the other; otherwise, the possible determination of one given to the other produces a meaningless phrase. The alphabetic symbol set for variables includes the lower and upper case Roman letters as well as many from the Greek alphabet.
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" Wittfogel "does not write of Chinese government and society as a historian; the reader does not sense any awareness of the steadily cumulative development through the centuries which gave each age its own character." The Song dynasty emperors, for instance, had great power but did not use it despotically; Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty, took advantage of accidents and timing to become absolute ruler. Mote was especially concerned to explain the limits of power and the limits of terror, which he believed Wittfogel did not appreciate. Thus "total power," Mote wrote, "while not a meaningless phrase, must be understood in the context of a complex historical situation.
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Zhi Hu Zhe Ye () is the 1982 debut album of Taiwanese singer Lo Ta-yu.Topics 1997 - Volume 27, Issues 6-10 - Page 24 "Another Taiwanese with a pan-Chinese vision has been Lo Ta-yu, who began his career with a rebellious album in 1982. The title of the ground-breaking Chih Hu Che Yeh" The title of the album consists of a meaningless phrase made solely of four grammatical Chinese particles from Classical Chinese. The phrase functions as an adjective; if someone's Chinese is "Zhi hu zhe ye", it means it is stale and archaic.Mobo C. F. Gao Mandarin Chinese: An Introduction 2000 p.
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The underlying music is J.S. Bach's first prelude from The Well-Tempered Clavier, but at double the normal speed, with each phrase repeated interminably in a minimalist manner that parodies Glass. On top of this mind-numbing structure is added everything from jazz phrases to snoring to heavily harmonized versions of "Three Blind Mice" to the chanting of a meaningless phrase ("Koy Hotsy-Totsy," alluding to the art film Koyaanisqatsi for which Glass wrote the score). Through all these mutilations, the piece never deviates from Bach's original harmonic structure. The humor in P. D. Q. Bach music often derives from violation of audience expectations, such as repeating a tune more than the usual number of times, resolving a musical chord later than usual or not at all, unusual key changes, excessive dissonance, or sudden switches from high art to low art.
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