sound and fury

noun

: loud and angry words that attract a lot of attention but do nothing useful
The town meeting created lots of sound and fury, but no resolution.

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Everything else, no matter how massive in scale or painstakingly rendered, is just sound and fury, not the master nor commander of anything. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 June 2026 On winter days when the tide was high and the ocean rose up in massive waves, people would gather on the Pacifica Pier just to experience the sound and fury under their feet. — John Ramos, CBS News, 7 June 2026 Three decades after reaching their pinnacle, their sound and fury is still in style. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 7 May 2026 Branding and marketing executives have always loved nothing more than seizing the latest, abstraction that can somehow bend the ever-changing Zeitgeist to their favor and tell a tale, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. — Bruce Stockler, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sound and fury

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“Sound and fury.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sound%20and%20fury. Accessed 12 Jul. 2026.

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