Insofar as he could, he filled their days with tedious and largely meaningless activities.
They're also not usually interested in meaningless activity, such as doing entertaining tricks.
Nothing but meaningless activity and a desperate filling of the hours.
She had got to a place where she was out of the stream of meaningless activity and undirected effort.
Unless you have some touchstone rule to go by you will waste your efforts and drive yourself nuts with meaningless activity.
The loop continued for a few more minutes, as the attendants went through a mumbo-jumbo of nonsensical, meaningless activities.
For a few seconds there had been a flurry of frantic but meaningless activity, but now the immediate crisis seemed to be over.
Yet he had observed all the almost meaningless activity of the people swarming around the ship and around him.
If Tarru was keeping himself informed about all this meaningless activity, the identity of that last visitor might have warned him what was happening.
Until the present time she had spent her life in trivial and meaningless activity.