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.

Examples of sound and fury in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Then, after Adams nails this rant of maternal sound and fury, signifying that the kids may be all right but the matriarchs of the world are anything but, Heller rewinds and resets the moment. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024

Erivo can go big, filling up a frame with sound and fury when needed. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024

This is just a lot of sound and fury signifying what’s really inside this overly busy attempt at blowing your mind: nothing. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024

In all this sound and fury, what is the real news here? —George Calhoun, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024

Against this violent backdrop, composer Tom Holkenborg delivers another primal rock opera of sound and fury from metal and synths. —Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2024

Yet the sound and fury has done little to slow the Silicon Valley wealth machine. —Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022

And the right has just said that the revival of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the Maryland House of Delegates was mere virtue signaling and sound and fury on the part of some, because women have arrived and don’t need legal protection. —Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024

All the sound and fury directed at Gelfond that day stemmed from a battle that had recently erupted in Hollywood between two top talents. —Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024