baselessness

And if so, was not that a proof of its baselessness?

Those who work in schools and colleges can suffer from a sense of inadequacy or guilt which is quite absurd in its baselessness.

"Despite their apparent baselessness, Mr. Glenn's accusations will be fully reviewed and carefully considered by the Department of Justice."

Esther and her cousin Mordecai succeeded in revealing the baselessness of Haman's contention, thereby saving Persia's Jews.

As Ms. Cirino noted recently: "Eva's surprise at learning that Nathanael is Jewish shows the baselessness of prejudice.

"Our displeasure with counsel's performance," the draft opinion said, was based on the dismissed lawyers' "overt strategy to litigate every conceivable claim, despite the utter baselessness of many of them."

"The vituperativeness, viciousness and baselessness of the charges alienated large numbers of people," said Victor Kovner, the former Corporation Counsel, who has backed her in the past.

Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign, said Friday: "Today's attacks are rooted in the same type of baselessness that characterizes most of John Kerry's political attacks.

The oatcake of deviousness that is spreading over the quorum of finite requisites is alarmingly beaten by the dutch elm disease pulsing into the tupperware bottle of baselessness.

In the last act, when Tristan falsely imagines Isolde coming to him, his delusion is expressed by the violins' effervescence and its baselessness by the inactivity of the double basses, declining to participate.

Mr. Gradgrind usually improved these occasions by remarking, when she was gone, that if Jupe had been properly trained from an early age she would have remonstrated to herself on sound principles the baselessness of these fantastic hopes.

It remained so until 1969, when Pope Lucius's feast was moved in the Roman Martyrology to the day of his death and omitted from the General Calendar, partly because of the baselessness of the title of "martyr" with which he had previously been honoured.

The wording of the lyrics, "a cane / That sailed through the air and came down through the room", either describe the arc of the cane's descent, or assert that the cane was thrown, or is a metaphor for the baselessness of the attack and its impact on society.

It was Saring who would benefit an actor without a stage, a young man without an occupation, a fortunehunter, in short, whose marriage was being opposed with what must have seemed to him particularly galling baselessness; for once the old man's mind was suspect, his opposition to his daughter's marriage would be suspect, too.

Again, it was evidently for political reasons that the appeal of Winter's father to the superior court (Oberlandesgericht) of Marienwerder was considered sufficiently well founded to be made the basis of a trial, which was held June 4, 1902, and which proved the baselessness of all the accusations against the Jews.

But this ascent was not always smooth or without hardships, as he was once sued because of all the calumnies that his political opponents promoted and he was suspended from all his functions in 1864, but the verdict of discharge from the following year proved the baselessness of all the accusation against him.