How To Use Purposeless In A Sentence
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This planned spontaneity might sound like a paradox, but I usually find that chaotic and purposeless free time is not worth a great deal.
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With such a meaningless and purposeless outlook on life - no wonder Johnny, given certain background inclinations and pressures, sometimes sees nothing wrong in deciding to shoot his fellow students.
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This planned spontaneity might sound like a paradox, but I usually find that chaotic and purposeless free time is not worth a great deal.
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I was right about that bit of silly purposeless fence.
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Otherwise, scrap these purposeless ministries and start over with meaning.
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Surely my existence cannot be so purposeless?
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I lay still like this for a long time, sometimes opening my eyes to gaze purposelessly upon the passing shadows on the ceiling, but most of the time, I just shut my eyes.
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He could feel them weighing down his gut, making the world turn gray and purposeless.
T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
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Self-reporting in these matters is hard, but I am pretty sure “no end” can only mean “extensively” to me, while “to no end” * could* be used to express either “extensively” or “purposelessly” though I believe I favor the latter.
Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar
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An alienated and fearful public is the flip side of an isolated and purposeless elite.
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Symptoms occur within 15 minutes to 38 hours post ingestion of filter feeding shellfish (mussels, clams) from endemic areas. 8,10 Neurotoxic findings of ASP include mutism, hemiparesis, memory loss, purposeless chewing, coma and seizures.
Fish poisonings and envenomations
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Time may also be wasted in purposeless meetings.
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Approached in the dark the bulbs looked lonely and purposeless.
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This time last year, Bevy was throwing me a party in her Marpole penthouse, I hadn't moved home yet, I was lonely, disillusioned, depressed, purposeless, empty, angry, and unfulfilled.
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The problem of how meaningful or semantic information can emerge spontaneously from a collection of mindless molecules subject to blind and purposeless forces presents a deep conceptual challenge.
Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
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The son of former partisans and communist militants, he leads a purposeless existence, unable to develop any meaningful relationships.
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By nurturing my bitterness, I thought I was punishing my abusers, but I was only punishing myself, spinning my wheels purposelessly for years.
Recovering From Religious Abuse
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Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove their need for the power process or make them ‘sublimate’ their drive for power into some harmless hobby.
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He keeps introducing characters who have no bearing on the story, and there are far too many purposeless scenes (including some flashbacks to Stone's youth).
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Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove their need for the power process or make them "sublimate" their drive for power into some harmless hobby.
Information Liberation
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The evening deteriorated into a purposeless clutter of sensations: flutes shrilling; a shower of violets from the ceiling; a charlatan vomiting flames.
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Symptoms occur within 15 minutes to 38 hours post ingestion of filter feeding shellfish (mussels, clams) from endemic areas. 8,10 Neurotoxic findings of ASP include mutism, hemiparesis, memory loss, purposeless chewing, coma and seizures.
Fish poisonings and envenomations
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It leaves a disconcerting sense of loneliness and purposeless to things.
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And I don't think of interstitiality is a kind of artistic multi-tasking, although I can see how that might be a useful metaphor for those who can actually multi-task without its devolving into mere purposeless frittering, which is inevitably what happens to me.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak on Interfictions 2
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Let's also have the nerve to push over the unattractive sandstone façade standing, purposeless, in Ingram Street.
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In striking opposition to this reality, ARDUF had set out to battle the Isaias Afwerki regime in Asmara, which is purposeless as long as the colonial relic Abyssinia exists.
American Chronicle
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Shot in North Korea, it features Western actors running purposelessly through a B-movie story about eugenics.
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The ancient centre had been "purposelessly destroyed" by Flying Fortresses 18 months earlier.
Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
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[Page 373] for this, often results in inadequacy in practical life, in that lack of poise which causes so many individuals to waste their energies in purposeless effort.
The Montessori Method
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This hyperkinetic disorder is characterized by involuntary, sudden, frequent, and purposeless jerks of the extremities, head, and trunk associated with facial grimaces.
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This, for those who have embraced his philosophy, and that is most of our contemporaries, makes the world and human life meaningless and purposeless.
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Approached in the dark, the lights looked lonely and purposeless.
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Sydenham's chorea is characterized by abrupt, purposeless, nonrhythmic, involuntary movements; muscular weakness; and emotional disturbances.
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If the Absolute first made higher beings, and then caused them to "devolute" into lower and lower forms, then the whole process would be a cruel, purposeless thing, worthy only of some of the base conceptions of Deity conceived of by men in their ignorance.
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga
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At the site of the EXPO2000 in Hannover, I once sat in the middle of a vast concrete plaza, surrounded by enormous purposeless architecture, watching a F1 race with 4 other people and a beer vendor.
Heavy Load-Exerting Concrete Body and Other Structural Near-Analogues
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Without them you have not got a society at all, you have purposeless anarchy.
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But the planlessness of average human nature was of course the measure of his opportunity; and he smiled to think that every purposeless face he met was a guarantee of his own advancement, a rung in the ladder he meant to climb.
The Blond Beast
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Many scientists believe the dogma that the blind, purposeless forces of evolution (random mutations and natural selection) created all the genetic information in plants.
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In the past two months I have kicked smoking, hopefully for good, redefined my the meaning of my existence fit a new purposeless endeavour, now I need another distraction.
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a life essentially purposeless
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Now, although he remained an MP, he suddenly faced the prospect of empty, purposeless days - and all because of his involvement with a married woman.
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Wilful, purposeless, ambivalent cruelty seems to have been a major theme of the rudderless summer government.
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let's not purposelessly dispense the aid
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He has cerebral palsy affecting his whole body with spastic, continuous purposeless movements.
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It is true that I despise purposeless killing, and regard it as an act of vandalism deserving the severest condemnation.
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Didn't we all, every one of us, waste hours -- days, even -- aimlessly, purposelessly clicking links from one site to the next, not knowing where we would go and then not knowing where our hours went?
Jeff Jarvis: The Distraction Trope
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It is fitting that the oleaginous politicians who so wrapped themselves in the expected glory of this purposeless structure have seen their carefully crafted images begin to fade as quickly as their Dome's delights.
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Surely my existence cannot be so purposeless?
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He was in no mood for his own work and by eleven he wandered unconsoled and purposeless towards the blackened ruins of the burned-out shed.
Cargo of Eagles
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Repeated, purposeless motions-what zoo professionals call "stereotypic behavior"-is a pretty clear sign of a troubled animal.
Slate Magazine
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It is however for the Board itself to protect its prestige and reputation by not being misled into purposeless action.
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Many there are now convinced of what they have lost in the last half a century due to purposeless confrontation.
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Rational Review
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Ellen entered a dress shop housed in a blue velvet capsule adorned by odd lights and displays while Henry strayed purposelessly into the bookstore.
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They organize the missions not as a purposeless manifestation of despair but to attain a certain political aim.
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Returning to Montreal in '93, his pro hockey days behind him, a disheartened Jere worked in the exciting and fulfilling world of home renovations, but nevertheless felt empty and purposeless.
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But in this present world we have entire nations that see the woman, her nature, and her femininity as worthless, unimportant, purposeless, and unproductive. Women must ask whose thinking is that?
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Charles Darwin's core claim is that the apparent design we intuitively observe in nature is an illusion that can be explained by mindless, purposeless, mechanistic and accidental processes.
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The chief effect is to highlight the horror of the desolate and pre-human world of purposeless suffering.
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(Yuasa, 1993) In this connection, Zen also speaks of Zen's free action as a purposeless purpose, as an actionless action, for neither the purpose nor the action arises from the everyday consciousness which sets up a purpose or a goal for action.
Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy
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An efficient editor will not allow the volume of its journal go on swelling purposelessly.
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It would seem a purposeless and even cruel task to recount in some five hundred pages the cranks and crotchets of a great mind, but there is the personal Russell to be chronicled.
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The faded, wildered, washed-out look, the uncertain, purposeless bearing which had come from her secluded life and subjection to her sister had vanished from her.
He Knew He Was Right
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The theistic evolutionist properly so-called affirms this, but instead of speaking of "purposeless natural processes" speaks of God's skill in designing and maintaining a world which has within itself the capacities to develop the diversity of life (e.g. Howard Van Till of Calvin College).
Reasons to Believe -
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The discomfort from having to stand so purposelessly on the street corner has them doubly animate in recounting tales and goss.
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It is purposeless drama and disappointing as this came from the hands of noted director Krishna Vamsee.
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What Amory did that year from early September to late in the spring was so purposeless and inconsecutive that it seems scarcely worth recording.
This Side of Paradise
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The discomfort from having to stand so purposelessly on the street corner has them doubly animate in recounting tales and goss.
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If the traditional image of the empty-nester is dowdy, sad and purposeless, she could not be further from it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Insomnia, Nolan's entrance into major studio film-making, was an empty and purposeless work, again, nearly all posturing.
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But this matchless capacity for purposeless lies has proven a drain on the charm resources of both.
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How could a culture not be stagnant, not feel purposeless, when a large middle class has been granted the luxury of materiality, which is swallowed in conformity as a measure of the expanse of life itself?
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The old idea of the universe as purposeless has been replaced by a new physics… of things being drawn towards ends or goals… and now we see that the whole cosmos is in creative evolution.
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He could feel them weighing down his gut, making the world turn gray and purposeless.
T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
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It just expends your energy wastefully—purposelessly.
Recovering From Religious Abuse
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For those who want to be more spoon-fed (or at least given some hint that there is a purpose), long takes of the two leads (both referred to as Gerry) walking will probably seem purposeless.
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Time may also be wasted in purposeless meetings.
