Meaningless words. In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art
criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long
passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. Words like
romantic, plastic, values, human, dead, sentimental, natural,
vitality , as used in art criticism, are strictly meaningless, in
the sense that they not only do not point to any discoverable object,
but are hardly ever expected to do so by the reader.
-- George Orwell.
"Politics and the English Language." (1946)