I demur, therefore, to the inference of "purposelessness" which I gather that Professor Haeckel draws from these organs. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
Figuring out the Malone metaphor is hard because of his seeming purposelessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of Enemies] Reference
Let's understand desolation as a profound sense of hopelessness and purposelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatic Arguments for Belief in God] Reference
It was possible only at a time of generalized atheism, and purposelessness, and brute force. From Wordnik.com. [An Anti-Nazi Aristocrat on Nationalism] Reference
It was at this debate the error in Miller and Levine concerning purposelessness was discovered. From Wordnik.com. [Another really dumb poll question about evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Fighting feelings of uselessness and purposelessness and any other number of "nesses" isn't easy. From Wordnik.com. [nspblues Diary Entry] Reference
The latter was a deep realization of the purposelessness and profound indifference of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Night of the Soul, Part Two (Midnight). | Mind on Fire] Reference
He looked at me oddly, as if he were having second thoughts about the purposelessness of this visit. From Wordnik.com. [Puppet on a Chain]
Perhaps the weariness and the purposelessness of having no home, no place to go, made them continue to drift. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
It is just this purposelessness that makes art so compelling, and I suppose for some, infuriating or confusing. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Buckley: On Seeing: An Internet Exhibition] Reference
PZ does a fine job of manipulating words like “chance” and “randomness” to imply “purposelessness”. From Wordnik.com. [Chance and regularity in the development of the fly eye - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
So I guess I'll serve an unscientific purposelessness and see if they have room for another brother in the tribe. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
The purposelessness Zeigler points to is a real implication of one form of evolutionary theory, the naturalistic version. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?] Reference
As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is an oxymoron, something like “purposeful purposelessness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Whaaaaa? Spurious Paul Nelson quote in The Guardian - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Indeed, the purposelessness of the universe is very much the motivating factor behind my drive to purpose in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [More atheist proselytising « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
The purposelessness of these charges is that, yes, I have heard them 1,000,000 times, and, no, I can't do anything about either one. From Wordnik.com. [The worst kind of 'victory'] Reference
They must march fear and disorder and purposelessness away. From Wordnik.com. [Marching Men] Reference
He's a quiet soul, who ponders on the purposelessness of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Damascus] Reference
A chill sense of loneliness, of purposelessness, numbed her being. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
By day to day futility, do you mean the boredom or purposelessness?. From Wordnik.com. [[Help] Most Recent Posts] Reference
For Cage, the goal of music was to achieve a certain 'purposelessness.'. From Wordnik.com. [Austin360 - XL Headlines] Reference
No modern man could combine such purposelessness with so much vitality. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
'There is purposelessness'; not so, on account of the dependence on that. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
The whole thing seemed a mysterious mixture of purposelessness and contentment. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Fire] Reference
Now there is nothing to bear, except a blank purposelessness which eats the heart out of me. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Fire] Reference
Listen for expressions of anxiety, feeling trapped, purposelessness, hopelessness and anger. From Wordnik.com. [Law.com - Newswire] Reference
One of us shared the feeling of purposelessness in their job (thankfully that wasn't me ...). From Wordnik.com. [broken//stained//glass] Reference
Jackson's ideology throws into relief the purposelessness of our supposedly meaningful lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The young man entered the room with the quick strides but the mechanical purposelessness of embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
The theme would expand as the purposelessness of colonizing still more and more worlds became wider known. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Keys to Eden] Reference
Until man, defeated by purposelessness, sank back in apathy, lost the very willingness to live -- and so died?. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Keys to Eden] Reference
But it is not strange that the purposelessness of the commander should result in half-hearted work by the subordinates. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of Chancellorsville] Reference
And if beneath the surface there lay hidden the dangerous flaw of purposelessness, no one knew -- at least, so she believed. From Wordnik.com. [The Native Born or, the Rajah's People] Reference
He brought out, sharply cut and certain, the immense effect of purposelessness in London that I was already indistinctly feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
For years and years Mr. Darrow has been whimsically deflating the illusions in which man hides from the purposelessness of the cosmos. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
There was Martha, in comfortable, corsetless expansiveness -- an ideal illustration of the worthless idler fattening in purposelessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict] Reference
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