How To Use futureless In A Sentence
- Not a particularly attractive town, it's the kind of town whose motto might as well be "Get me outta Dodge," not unlike those desperate and bleakly futureless burgs of the Midwest whose economies are fueled by methamphetamine factories in rusted trailers and the promise of a new prison. Crossing Over: A Mexican Family On The Migrant Trail
- Gibreel Farishta was never told why the Babasaheb had decided to take pity on him and pluck him from the futurelessness of the streets, but after a while he began to have an idea. The Satanic Verses
- To arrive at the point where the world can be truthfully named in its relation to God involves some grasp of the world as object of pointless, 'futureless' love; it must therefore involve levels of bewilderment, deep emotional confusion and frustration in the process, even a blurring of the boundaries between love and rejection (since we are frightened of replacing ordinary human affection with this radical and disabling love). Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 3: 'Flannery O'Connor: Proper Names'
- In actual fact, what we have here are irremediably sick and futureless mass-men, whose ideal is amorphousness, whose ethos is formlessness and who hate nothing so much as discipline, form, definition.
- Yet without the breakthrough to the level of hunger and 'futureless' passion, there is no forgiveness. Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 3: 'Flannery O'Connor: Proper Names'
- They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. Archive 2008-02-01
- The bleak outlook on life and sense of "futurelessness" of young offenders has been shaped by some of their earliest memories and reinforced by other people in their lives and the witnessing of violence, Topalli said. RedOrbit News - Technology
- Still, it can be said that Hiroshima is veverywhere in postwar and contemporary fiction -- in its themes of futurelessness and absurdity, and its predilection for violent orengeful behavior by heroes and anti-heroes alike. Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age
- I've seen it claimed on CiF threads that Red Riding's primary subject matter is the futurelessness of seventies life in West Yorkshire mining communities and even the Thatcherite destruction of working class community in the decade that followed - always a favourite with Guardianistas. 1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)
- Young Tarwater is hungry for more than the world can supply; Rayber suffers from the drag of a 'futureless' love that wants and needs only itself as love and seeks no outcome. Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 3: 'Flannery O'Connor: Proper Names'