How To Use Mindless In A Sentence

And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
To academic historians they were ‘mere entertainment’ - just mindless pap for gormless morons.
Why do mindless vandals frequently ruin our beautiful parks and public buildings?
Our goal is be independent, but we will never be at peace through mindless violence - the blood of those killed in riots and fires are forever on our hands.
I spent many hours mindlessly banging a tennis ball against the wall.

The almost desperate character of the effort to silence or drown out antiwar protests suggests that something more than mindless flag-waving is going on here.
They have no hope, merely a mindless shriek of hatred they believe might bring down destruction on all so they can scavage the corpses. Obama Discusses Wright Controversy In New Web Video
Mindless bots, driven not to dominate but to sell, sign up for thousands of free email accounts every minute, sending millions of spam messages from them.
Obviously, being one of the most famous Indians in the world didn't help Naipaul curry favour with Indian babudom bent on mindless application of rules. The Times of India
If you don't take scripts which mean something you just become a kind of mindless floater.
Charles Darwin's core claim is that the apparent design we intuitively observe in nature is an illusion that can be explained by mindless, purposeless, mechanistic and accidental processes.
Colleague: He does everything so mindlessly that he is going to drive me crazy.
While your legends may beg to differ, we are not mindless, ravening creatures.
ANd the likelyhood that the GOP, the party of greed and commercialism, will do something to prevent the mindless commercialism is naive. Think Progress » POLL: Only 3 Percent Say Homosexuality is America’s ‘Most Serious Moral Crisis’
They would have been remembered not as forward-thinking reformers - but as mindless cultural vandals.
I abhor beauty pageants; whoever thought of those stupid, mindless activities was out of his mind.
Lisa's heart soared as they stopped dancing and she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back, mindless of the fact that they were in the middle of the dance floor.
This demolition is not simply mindless cultural violence. Times, Sunday Times
Mindless and dangerous vandalism at a social housing property has been condemned by police.
The fort was built in 1793 under John Simcoe and was Toronto's main defence against an army of mindless marauders in 1812.
These characters frequently bear expressions of mindless petulance, as if adult emotions of rage and frustration were seething beneath their all too kawaii surface.
The first, vastly enjoyable sign that Alicia is something other than mindlessly supportive comes after the requisite press conference, when she gives him the kind of roundhouse slap such husbands so richly deserve. Julianna Margulies marries strength, smarts in 'Good Wife'
The level of mindless vandalism around the centre is an indicator that we need to do a lot of work there.
Shops upon shops upon shops so that the people can mindlessly indulge their never-ending quest for consumer goods.
It may be true that, according to Freddoso, Obama dismissed the slogan “Yes we can” as “vapid and mindless” when it was first proposed to him, in 2004, but he liked it well enough in 2008, and then came the null emptiness of the phrase — the audacity of hope — that he annexed from a windy sermon by Jeremiah Wright. Cool Cat
all day long, he mindlessly filled out forms
I was leaning against the wall, mindlessly strumming my guitar, my fingers clutching a bright green pick, my hair falling into my eyes.
He represented himself as a hard - working, self - made small businessman victimized by mindless, bullying bureaucracy.
This was taken as a mindless act of vandalism. The Sun
As soon as he let the charm go, he would regress, go back to being a mindless servant. ABHORSEN
But no facts could alter the thinking of mindless sycophants.
The stone throwers seemed more like mindless teenage thugs than anything else.
The scent of blood cloyed as revenants mindlessly cleaned up the matching body. Kiss of a Demon King
There is no excuse for mindlessly destroying public property.
It seems that the attack was a gratuitous/random/mindless act of violence.
As for all of you Hillary supporters who threaten to stay home or vote for McCain, again immature and mindless because your anger will hurt all of us – grow up! Poll: Obama has edge over McCain
The man is clearly a mindless thug and should have been jailed for his appalling attack on others. The Sun
It's been intoned mindlessly so many times since that no one ever stops to consider the utter ignorance of the statement.
What on earth the referee had done to incur such mindless, moronic abuse, one can only hazard a guess.
these temples were mindlessly destroyed by the Red Guards
His Batman rasps his lines in a voice that's deeper and hammier than ever, and when Bruce Wayne has to pretend to be a mindlessly hedonistic playboy, his smirk carries a trace of Dubya entitlement. Undefined
Enforcement agencies and wildlife groups have formed a special unit to track down poisoners responsible for the ‘mindless killing’ of red kites following their re-introduction in Yorkshire.
Experience tells me, though, that learners certainly opt out of various media when they're poorly chosen (inappropriate for the learning), poorly implemented (talking down, lecturing, fatuous), or poorly administered (mindless administrivia, useless recordkeeping, or mandatory sheep-dip). Same old story
To throw items at buses carrying members of the public is just mindless.
All you have are pat answers and glib retorts that turn out, on ten seconds' worth of thought, to be mindless platitudes.
Then to top it all, my son who works hard, stays off the street corners and is a responsible adult, paid for a car, taxed and insured it and then mindless vandals covered his beloved car with eggs and flour and let the tyres down.
Part of the blame for the mindless "emotivism," as MacIntyre calls it, can be attributed to the more extreme elements in the pro-life movement, who have stifled reasoned argument with their cries of "Murder! On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
Self-preservation demands for worker bees an existence of mindless uniformity.
Highbrow journals like the Antioch Review and the Partisan Review condemned the middlebrows who controlled the mass media for fostering anti-intellectualism and mindless conformity.
Is it mindless thuggery or as mentally demanding as a game of chess? Times, Sunday Times
If Moniz, Jack's best friend and confidant, was begging and pleading with his best friend to slow down and stop driving like a mindless animal.
Often the reality of the connection of these landscapes is not fully realized, as many experience the transition between urban and rural settings within Mexico gradually; there is an intermediate stop along the way, or the transition is so harsh that instead of focused awe it begets mindless staring out of a car or bus window. Landscapes Of Mexico, Landscapes Of The Self
Swinging chaotically between mindless lethargy and eruptions of unbridled emotion, he is barely able to think rationally or arrive at any sort of decision.
It was with motherly affection and worry that she mindlessly tucked her daughter in tighter, trying to get the creases out of the sheets and plumping up the pillows.
The parochial provincialism of mindless Eurocentrism has distorted the history of civilization as originating in Greece while summing up India's contribution in a line or two.
Beyond the use of the word "dangerous" and "African American" in such close proximity, it's hard to understand the combo of cultural concern and pro-life authorship without considering how the billboard -- this one installed a half-mile from Planned Parenthood on Bleeker Street in Manhattan -- activates the stereotype of the young black women asmindless baby-making machine. Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Pro-Life Billboard: Saving (Those Baby-Dropping) Black Women From the Abortionist
He had heard it said that her innocent demeanour combined with her intelligent mind made her a refreshing change from mindlessly demure damsels.
This is mindless, action-packed fun. The Sun
The military, masochism, bullyism, a persecution complex, mindless jingoism ... hey, that sounds like somebody else we know! Goliath was faking
Beyond the use of the word "dangerous" and "African American" in such close proximity, it's hard to understand the combo of cultural concern and pro-life authorship without considering how the billboard -- this one installed a half-mile from Planned Parenthood on Bleeker Street in Manhattan -- activates the stereotype of the young black women asÂmindless baby-making machine. Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Pro-Life Billboard: Saving (Those Baby-Dropping) Black Women From the Abortionist
As a result, we have writers who range from those who produce what can most charitably described as “mindless entertainment” to those who write books that are so involuted and complex that often a single book is all that they ever publish. April « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
We should be able to disagree with a certain level of civility, but I do not agree that we are obligated to become a passive melded blob of single opinioned, mindless butt-kissers. Leave the political S*** somewhere else!!!
Then, at a time like this our councillors have the mindless effrontery to propose a 16 per cent tax increase.
She became mindless and stupid and desperate and the thought of having that big, hard body of his pumping in and out of hers made her belly and thighs clench and her sex tingle and slicken. The Specialist
mindless dissipation of natural resources
He's a boyband superstar that sings mindless pap, right?
Previous female superheroes have been masculine or androgynous cyphers played by a female leads in manga-like, sexless action sequences that reduce them almost to mindless puppets.
Or, conversely, they may become "desensitized" to the opt-in process, mindlessly agreeing to every user consent agreement page, as do consumers when it comes to software license agreement forms. Ars Technica
People weary of Vista's mindless restrictions should not hesitate to upgrade.
Practice 3: Minimize all the unnecessary or uninspired sound vibrations in your life—gossip, mindless television, talk radio, unharmonious music. Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar
I tried to amuse him with my astounding mindlessness and my sad, fading It-girl proclivities, but he didn't seem as charmed as I would have liked. With No One as Witness
He must be so scared that he scrolls immediately to the bottom where he posts his mindless, callous, cold-hearted one-liners. Think Progress » Corporate Front Group Funded By Coal Industry Scorns Widow Of Mine Disaster: ‘Everyone Wants Free Money’ (Updated)
This will help you break from mindless activity and be conscious of the time, allowing you to focus on your priority - staying on schedule.
A little red Volkswagen had situated itself to drive behind them, but the driver was mindless, having a blinking light on his car indicating he was turning left.
We need support to win this battle and mindless acts of vandalism and violence are not going to win us any friends. Times, Sunday Times
He said: "Obviously, the repeated vandalism of the statue is of great concern and hopefully the mindless hooligans responsible will be caught."
The mindless vandals then caused extensive damage to the playing surface.
This was the most appalling act of mindless evil in the epidemic of rioting last summer that still shames Britain. The Sun
The peaceful majority should never again have to suffer at the hands of mindless thugs.
The beautiful game is already in danger from mindless thugs. The Sun
Then Mach understood: this was a self-willed machine masquer - ading as a mindless one. Robot Adept
He had given up work in disgust at the sheer banality of everyday life - this mindless activity just to get your old age pension.
Sitting glassy-eyed on the couch creates the perfect trap for mindlessly chowing down on junk food.
Inspired by the alarming numbers of mindless bimbos at my school who have begun wearing yellow ribbons in support of Schapelle ‘I didn't do it!’
If they hadn’t mindlessly shilled for Bush and made total asses of themselves in railing against Gore and Kerry for turning out to be right about the main arguments of the day, then maybe they’d be taken more seriously. Matthew Yglesias » More Condescension Needed
It's a crying shame that police have to put up with these mindless attacks.
The film is full of mindless violence.
And if so, why are bees so thoroughly mindless in other contexts?
After reading all the mindless cutesier slash-dot comments, just to get a bonus point. Techdirt
Happiness is not senseless, mindless, silly, stupid, corny, cheesy or unimportant.
Being mere insiders, uncritically, may often result in the production of mindless celebratory writing, rhetorical flourishes, and populist clichés - so easy to imbibe and so banal.
The doctrine of mere-matter, mere-mindless and feelingless stuff puts limits to things with which we can empathize. The ecological model of the universe
As soon as he let the charm go, he would regress, go back to being a mindless servant. ABHORSEN
But the truth is that at home at this time, the children would be huddled by the telly while Nev and I grab a moment to catch up after work, and later Nev would be channel-hopping while I mindlessly flick around the internet or read beside him. Powerless to resist: a no-tech break on the Isle of Wight
Her glasses had been forgotten; she was still mindlessly cleaning the lenses with her shirt tail.
DeMott (“The Age of Overkill,” New York Times Mag - azine, May 19, 1968) has called “the mindless cycle of super taunts” so characteristic of our own time of SATIRE
Mindless vandals have desecrated the grave of a stillborn baby for the fourth time in less than five months.
A moment of mindless violence snuffed out his life.
The assassinations seemed indiscriminate, unconscionable, and wild, but they were never mindless.
Regressing into a trance-like state as I threw myself back into the mindless world of typing numbers, I began to feel a little woozy at the monotony of it all.
In truth, the thugs merely use football as their excuse to indulge their mania for mindless violence.
Fast food companies have long hired teenagers to perform mindless and interchangeable tasks that do little to teach job skills or build self esteem.
Strenger interprets the quest for various forms of celebrity as a worldwide escapist flight from human finitude and the tragic dimension of human existence into mindless, inauthentic delusions of omnipotence. Robert D. Stolorow: Review of The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-first Century by Carlo Strenger
Until his accident, Rodrigo was the boom of 2000, provider of happy, slightly mindless dance music.
Gluttony amongst the foodie world isn't right -- but to fallaciously suggest that all foodies are devoted to "the same mindless, sweating gluttony" is a deliberate mischaracterization. Ethan Kahn: Taking Down B.R. Myers: 'This Is A Cold Person Indeed'
Decent young people would feel outraged that they were having to suffer because of a mindless minority. The Sun
What really makes them heartsick these days, however, is that they also have to fend off mindless attacks from their scientific colleagues, particularly in Europe.
There's no place for this mindless hooliganism in football. The Sun
Thank goodness for mindless tasks that (sort of) need to get done.
Besides, this is no mindless celebrity coupling. Times, Sunday Times
World history, as I remember it P.L. (pre-Lepler), was a mindless regurgitation of war facts and dates coupled with names of white men in powdered wigs who ordered the murder of thousands of people in the name of progress. Nancy Cronk: Education Reform: Back to the Future?
Adele hummed along to the mindless pop song playing along on the radio as she tapped her fingers on the steering wheel in time to the synthesized drum beats, waiting patiently at a stop light.
Then it was destroyed by mindless thuggery. Times, Sunday Times
Then you go back to work and suddenly the day is so dense with activity you feel as if you've done three or four days' worth of mindless tearing around in a few hours.
No one wants to think that they are the product of blind chance and mindless selection.
As a deterrent to boatpeople, the mindless sabre-rattling by the Australian government is utterly futile.
There is so much mindless golf jabber on TV that I would welcome a season-long commentator lockout.
In what must be every 40-something guy's fantasy, he shacks up with an airheaded aerobic instructor who is happy to watch mindless films with him.
The tasks are mindless - find the little girl's lost teddy bear - and you're forced to make small talk with villagers who sound like Pam Ayres.
Rather than indulging in what they regard as navel-gazing they intend to pursue a mindless pragmatism instead, regardless of what many of their members may think.
mindless violence
Marietta turned her horse around and galloped off, mindless that she was riding side-saddle; when she reached the clinic, she was out-of-breath and excited.
They are mindless senseless yobs with no respect for anybody else.
Thus the actual idea behind what they were doing was lost and what remained was mindless gibberish in an alien language.
This film is for those undiscriminating movie-goers who want nothing more from a trip to the multiplex than loud, raucous, mindless entertainment.
Certainly anyone with a brain the size of a desicated pea would be able to understand that this Latina Woman has demonstrated beyond any doubt that she would be a far better judge than any of the seven Republican senators who have repetedly demonstrated mindless bias, intolerance, and simple, muddleheaded stupidity this past week. Leahy wants committee confirmation vote next week
‘Humans are mindless,’ Mya grunted, drinking half of the bottle in three swigs.
The tireless enthusiast for the Middle Ages thus unwittingly confessed to an act of mindless vandalism.
The mindless embolus that had claimed Elisabeth's brain seemed almost humane by comparison. DO NO HARM
When writing a script it is far more entertaining to use wit and humour than mindless violence. Times, Sunday Times
It's a sad, sad thing, but often mindless trash trumps artistic merit.
But it is a place where we perform a relatively mindless and simple activity.
After some mindless email jibber-jabber, we agreed to meet.
It shows the reasons for what would seem at first sight to be mindless vandalism, but are in fact little acts of rebellion.
It is a very short step from institutionalised demonstrations of national loyalty to a mindless cult of ‘my country right or wrong’.
Is it mindless thuggery or as mentally demanding as a game of chess? Times, Sunday Times
It seems that the attack was a gratuitous/random/mindless act of violence.
3. In all cultures and subcultures, a sizable percentage of nonreflecting individuals mindlessly follow the Herd, aping its dress, speech, mannerisms and values, whatever their content, equating status with conformity. Cultural and Personal Damage
I needed a mindless displacement activity. Times, Sunday Times
Many were built in an era when mindless damage was not a problem, and are therefore unprotected against it.
You're wordier than Arnold, but demonstrate the same mindless worship of simplistic assumptions about the rationality of people and markets. Nobel Prize-Winner Makes Intermediate Error, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I was annoyed with myself for having so quickly and mindlessly lost thirty dollars.
Pagan influences on Christmas have been totally assimilated and defanged, and likewise the Christian spiritual essence of the season has been all but gobbled up by something called commercialism, which, as far as I can tell, means the mindless production and proliferation of spiritually devastating, aesthetically offensive, shoddily-manufactured junk. A State of the Season Address
General Petraus and Ambassador Crocker will ostensibly report in September to President Bush, not the American people, that we are gaining ground, that “benchmarks”, that word parroted in stumbling appearances again and again by our mindless, gibbering, on-message Simian in Chief, are being met and that if we will only commit to six more months and thousands more troops Iraq will bloom into a burgeoning democracy in the middle east, a willing donor of crude oil to the free world. The insidious reason this abominable war does not stop
Sometimes I felt a mindless, uncontrollable rage, a consumption that ran through my chest to my hands.
In her view we are destroying the planet through mindless and unnecessary overconsumption. Times, Sunday Times
Over the weekend, some mindless vandal sprayed a lot of road signs around the City of York with pro-hunting graffiti.
It is neither smart nor attractive for liberals, the self-professed champions of the little people, to scorn the vast majority of their fellow citizens as mindless yahoos.
Now that it has contrived a major transformation, it is accused of mindless vandalism. Times, Sunday Times
Marietta turned her horse around and galloped off, mindless that she was riding side-saddle; when she reached the clinic, she was out-of-breath and excited.
I've said all the negative things I'm going to say, and I refuse to find anything positive about this irritatingly mindless tripe.
It was a mindless and moronic act of political naivete and crass immaturity.
They have shown that the great white shark is not a mindless killer, and its positive profile is now higher than ever.
The mindless violence of male purple emperor butterflies is astounding. Times, Sunday Times
The question of the day was whether this would be another Gilmore Girls, or some mindless throwaway.
When writing a script it is far more entertaining to use wit and humour than mindless violence. Times, Sunday Times
What Searle is saying is, in effect, is that proponents of strong AI have ipso facto asserted that it is impossible – they affirmatively know and have confirmed it is not possible - for a mindless, unconscious entity to reproduce the behavior of an entity with consciousness. Perils of pop philosophy
Oh, you're right, they do sound like mindless drones when they greet you, Toni!
But, to be fair, my class mainly consisted of mindless jocks, cheerleaders, and druggies.
Every once in a while, my brain would clear enough to do some mindless chore, like fill the water pots or fold the blankets, but otherwise, I felt numb.
I'm afraid it's fairly mindless work - opening mail and keying data into a computer.
So, you just mindlessly kill all sorcerers and sorceresses?
Those recalling the narcotized climate of the early Obama administration won't be surprised that these other warnings were never heard underneath the waving of pom-poms and the mindless chanting of the mantra "It's not the personnel, it's the policy. CounterPunch
A mindless, momentary decision to steal a pair of Primark trainers could leave some offenders with no chance or wish to be part of society, predicts Joy Warmington of brap, a local equalities think-tank. The Economist: Daily news and views
Errr…This a big distinction between criticism, mindless bashing, and mindless bashing in which you call your critic a pedophile. Think Progress » Journalist Critical Of Climate Skeptic Michael Crichton Written Into Crichton Novel As Child Rapist
On one hand, it provides a platform for mindless thuggery and serious criminality. Times, Sunday Times
Somebody goes and does something mindless like that and just destroys everything for you.
A tiny bit of soul is apparently of greater significance to the Almighty than infinite amounts of mindless body.
Kitsumi ranted, walking back and forth silently and mindlessly along the sidewalk.
Depending on how much I'm distracted from the mindless task in hand, it remains there for a period of anything up to six hours (although I do take breaks).
Jacques, baby, you sure make it hard for your friends to denounce mindless France bashing when you pull stuff like this.
Geraghty's professors are by and large men timid in scholarship, locked into mindless routines and shy to the point of cold rudeness in personal dealings.
So, while the media was mindlessly parroting that information over and over again, these viewers already understood that it most likely was not true.
He took my face in his hands and kissed me, silencing my endless stream of mindless babble.
But as they go on mindlessly, menacing, mumbling the propaganda prayer: "remember 9/11 -- murder every moslem residing in THEIR land atop OUR oil" -- we begin to see that lie is all they're living for, self-consumed inside the myth of false reality, and we can only feel the saddest lonely sorry for them in neurotic hell, in heads and lives a hollow shell of empty television, nine-eleven nightmares, and their Bush betraying them. Straight from the top (Jack Bog's Blog)
Drug addiction reduces a man to a mindless and ridiculous thing, and creates social parasites and criminals. Dr T.P.Chia
She plays field hockey; watches "mindless" her word teen television favorites Moving the Chains
I was leaning against the wall, mindlessly strumming my guitar, my fingers clutching a bright green pick, my hair falling into my eyes.
It was a mindless and moronic act of political naivete and crass immaturity.
Her education, week after week, consisted of mindless memorization of big words like "batholith" and "saprophyte" - words that an average Ph.D. scientist wouldn't know. Why My Kids Hate Science
While the first works better as a serious anti-war film, this one is a rip-roaring action-adventure, which at the very least works as a great example of mindless blockbuster entertainment.
A dozen men and women clad in furs were polishing axes and broadswords monotonously, mindlessly.
As a deterrent to boatpeople, the mindless sabre-rattling by the Australian government is utterly futile.
But when the hands come up, that means shut up with mindless jive.
Lemmings, small rodents of the arctic and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, have long been a byword for mass mindlessness and mass suicide.
Conservatives were seen as mindless defenders of privilege, unthinking status quo-ists-in short, caricatured versions of Monty Python's Upper Class Twits. The Times of India
Depending on what values are placed on music, disco can be construed as mindless, repetitive, simple music.
What journalists mean by ‘objectivity’ is: relentlessly attacking your own country while engaging in mindless boosterism of the enemy.
I hope she's not thinking at all - that she's mindlessly looking for the house keys or gathering up her sweater and pocketbook.
We have allowed mindless noise to be officially sanctioned. Times, Sunday Times
The very notion of 'mindless materiality' is a confusion. The Times Literary Supplement
I guess the real mindless ones are the liberals working their blogs in mommies basement. Tea Party Express unveils 'heroes,' 'targets'
Mindlessly memorizing from the beginning of a phrase or section without analytical awareness of the cadence yields a lack of harmonic direction and resolution.
Purane Es is half mindless, vengeful jerk and half romantic poet who is forced to obey his father’s wishes. Archive 2009-04-01
The union's general-secretary Graham Rowan said earlier the protest was aimed at drawing attention to what he described as savage attacks on SBV members by mindless gangs. ANC Daily News Briefing
His infidelities were a convenient excuse to stay out of his bed? where she couldn't hide or pretend, but where she became what she truly was: worse than a whore? an animal, mindless, maddened, begging for more. Captives Of The Night
‘The vast majority of the passengers were behaving themselves but it was the mindless minority that were responsible for this disorder,’ he said.
Choosing one 500-calorie dessert or burger with all the fixings is a very different decision than mindlessly adding 100 calories here or there with mayonnaise, soft drinks, and whole-milk lattes. The Flex Diet
A city council spokesman said the appearance of the mosaics, which are grouted on to walls, amounted to ‘mindless vandalism’.
He discusses the mutation of punk's angry energy into something more thuggish and mindless.

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