meaningless action

Mysterious agents, meaningless actions, infiltration, and finally an irresistible attack from nowhere.

The monotone came again: "We approve of futile, pointless, and meaningless actions.

No frantic frenzies of meaningless action!

The narrator and "you" see human life as an absurd collection of meaningless events, but "your" suicide gives previously meaningless actions meaning.

In some art films, the director uses a depiction of absurd or seemingly meaningless actions to express a philosophical viewpoint such as existentialism.

It was done imperceptibly, step by step, individual meaningless actions being built into the habit pattern, demanding compliance, until 'the final act .

These include unethical manipulation, empty or meaningless actions, omnipresence, divisions, and unexpected interpretations (Harris & Nelson 2008, p. 239).

Something has gone awry, though, when prisoners have greater access to the courts than law-abiding citizens - and when they use that access to pursue costly, meaningless actions.

It had been as if she had spent most of her life in a whirlpool, performing such meaningless actions as piloting a ship, opening airlocks, making equations on pads that flowed away from her and disappeared.

For instance, putting a piece of paper in a box might be considered a meaningless action unless put in the context of democratic elections, and the action of putting a ballot paper in a box.

Absurdist fiction is a genre of literature, most often employed in novels, plays or poems, that focuses on the experiences of characters in a situation where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events.