After the teacher left the classroom, the students felt purposeless until they read the board for directions. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : to lead a purposeless existence. From Dictionary.com.
New vistas of life open up in the midst of this vast, overgrown, "purposeless," "dingy" city. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
By the time Weinberg unveiled his gloomy view, the notion of a purposeless, meaningless universe was already on a roll in science. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Larry Dossey: Do We Live in a Meaningful Universe?] Reference
'Rational ignorance' and psychological bias are perfectly compatible; it has to be understood that rationality itself is 'purposeless', it makes no commands, demands nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Why Are the Agreeable Anti-Market?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Roy Hodgson shipping out 'purposeless' players from Liverpool. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"purposeless" strike, workers would have to wait much longer for their increases. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But God's windings are never wasteful and purposeless. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
And thus I led an invertebrate, purposeless existence. From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
A woman of impulse, she set off in purposeless pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Mere courage is restless, impatient, purposeless: but the. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Better to be removed from the misery of a purposeless life. From Wordnik.com. [French Vanilla Death - Seconda Parte] Reference
To take to the mountains would have been a purposeless folly. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
He had been on a purposeless errand to this place once that day. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
I found time during my purposeless running to and fro to learn that. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
The world is full of purposeless people, and such people come to nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
Nor was the recovery we sought merely a purposeless whirring of machinery. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
One of the criticisms of Sharon's military operation is that it is purposeless. From Wordnik.com. [Secretary Of State Sharon] Reference
These people see the United States as a bull -- purposeless, enraged and lethal. From Wordnik.com. [A Winnable War?] Reference
These people see the United States as a bull — purposeless, enraged and lethal. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan Is Vietnam: A Valid Analogy?] Reference
So ended a beastly, tiring, and, for all we ever learned, quite purposeless expedition. From Wordnik.com. [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference
The man started again, and Samson began once more his purposeless wanderings about the yard. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
It was rather a rambling and purposeless affair, but the best he could do under the circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor] Reference
The whole appears so purposeless, such waste of energy, such unintelligible and irrational self-sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
Russia, had the faintest chance of success: of once more setting those purposeless feet on the upward path?. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Constant and purposeless digressions, in reading no less than in talk, are just as injurious as interruptions. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Mankind was no longer the culmination of life but merely part of it; creation was mechanistic and purposeless. From Wordnik.com. [Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?] Reference
He knew the loveliness in a profile, he saw always the evanescences of light upon light and purposeless things. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Dr. Stuart Brown, founder of The National Institute for Play, points out that in its purest form, "play is purposeless.". From Wordnik.com. [Darell Hammond: How to Restore American Creativity: Bring Imagination Back to Play] Reference
I think of looking at art as conversing with an inanimate object, not just any object but an essentially purposeless one. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Buckley: On Seeing: An Internet Exhibition] Reference
Such habits have not been formed independently of his will, and yet they may appear to be purposeless, or even detrimental. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
A lot of people feel unsatisfied with their job, purposeless in the office, watching the clock 'til it reaches 5 p.m. every day. From Wordnik.com. [Bridget Nielsen: Career Lessons From 'Generation Y'] Reference
They would be quite purposeless as such; for they entirely omit all topics which would especially interest any subsequent age. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
And long before you had finished what you had to say I began to see the motive for what looked like a purposeless and cruel crime. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
She felt as if her life were finished, as though all the days and years that lay ahead of her were entirely empty and purposeless. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
The purposeless and aimless life of any number of effeminate and sickly young men, is to be distinctly attributed to these sins. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
What was the feel of the backalley and grassed lot in mid-evening, the purposeless search for something bright in the coming dusk?. From Wordnik.com. [To Be A Child (Part II of III)] Reference
The soul yearns for love and to love, and unless the desire is compensated human life is a blank and becomes a purposeless existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
To the feeble, the sluggish and purposeless, the happiest accidents will avail nothing -- they pass them by, seeing no meaning in them. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
This term is applied to a peculiar involuntary movement of one or both hind limbs that is characterized by a sudden, purposeless flexion of the hock-joint (Fig. 45). From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
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