How To Use Rudderless In A Sentence

  • He admits he was sometimes a boofhead but he was exposed, rudderless.
  • Fans have talked of a team that is rudderless and lacking coherence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two indecisive general elections left Britain rudderless. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fans have talked of a team that is rudderless and lacking coherence. Times, Sunday Times
  • The country was politically rudderless for almost three months.
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  • He was chartless and rudderless, and he had no port to make, while drifting involved the least living, and it was living that hurt. Chapter 41
  • Perhaps we appreciate that poll-driven politics is insecure, rudderless, inconsequential and lacking in coherency, so we direct our attention inward to find meaning.
  • It is that lack of self-confidence, this deep cultural malaise, that serves to have us in a constant muddle, running around, rudderless, like headless chickens, always going backwards instead of forward.
  • A bit rudderless and uncertain about his future prospects, Saleem falls under the influence of fundamentalist agitators, who operate under the patronage of the local landlord.
  • It exasperated his grandmother to see this forceful spirit drifting like a rudderless boat, directed neither to work nor to leisure.
  • In the meantime the country will remain rudderless as it faces high inflation, power shortages and increasing violence in its northern tribal areas. Times, Sunday Times
  • At 16, Christopher felt rudderless and profoundly unwelcome in his family's Virginia home.
  • The team have looked progressively more rudderless since January. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said certain people wanted to "decapitate" him and "render the organisation rudderless". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • His retreat over a hotly contested plan to impose a carbon tax on lorries left him to fend off accusations that he is leading a rudderless Government. Times, Sunday Times
  • His retreat over a hotly contested plan to impose a carbon tax on lorries left him to fend off accusations that he is leading a rudderless Government. Times, Sunday Times
  • Entering their thirties, the men are stuck in adolescence, rudderless, jobless, and harboring dreams of escaping their small town - dreams they never act on.
  • You know where you stand with George and, in today's world, that's much better than rudderless leaders who drift with the prevailing wind.
  • She was thoroughly conscious that she had a will of her own and would like a chance to exercise it, still, she knew that in many cases without her stepmother she would be like a rudderless ship, a guideless traveller. Marcia Schuyler
  • Perhaps predictably, the Daily Telegraph has led the media assault against the chavs, with James Delingpole caricaturing their offspring as "rudderless urchins… downing alcopops and cans of super-strong lager". Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones – review
  • His government often looks rudderless and incompetent. The Sun
  • But doesn't all this leave us dangerously rudderless, drifting on relativistic seas?
  • In the process he has managed to make himself look clueless in international negotiations, to make his proposed Cabinet look incompetent and to look rudderless in policy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two indecisive general elections left Britain rudderless. Times, Sunday Times
  • One is left compassless, rudderless, chartless on a sea of ideas. CHAPTER XX
  • And they looked rudderless in the 5-1 horror show at Crawley. The Sun
  • His retreat over a hotly contested plan to impose a carbon tax on lorries left him to fend off accusations that he is leading a rudderless Government. Times, Sunday Times
  • The government has been directionless and rudderless.
  • A rudderless boat must be perfectly balanced if it is to follow a straight course.
  • It had been forced to run before another violent storm until, dismasted and rudderless, it too had struck the huge rock at the mouth of Farnescombe Bay.
  • The government seems rudderless, stumbling around looking for an agenda.
  • You have the picture of a party that is rudderless and adrift, with no clear-cut strategies of providing principled opposition on issues.
  • The responsibility for unrelenting global crisis and hardship lies more appropriately with a rudderless global financial system drifting hopelessly without a solid anchor.
  • Out of all the nations that make up the Union of Great Britain, England, at times, shows the most self-deprecating, wimpish and rudderless sense of national pride one could imagine.
  • Kicking him out too early, leaving the ship rudderless, would make things worse quickly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Natasha's trying to make sense of the new, rudderless Russia.
  • You are like a rudderless ship; you go round and round in circles.
  • The Balto outfit looked rudderless, lacking direction, which to a certain degree they were.
  • India had been rocked by the match-fixing episode and the team was rudderless.
  • I think a goalless life is a rudderless boat.
  • Readers will likely find the book's practical advice as rudderless as its ethical principles.
  • Flying insects have absolutely no tail, and so drift along like a rudderless vessel, and beat against anything they happen upon; and this applies equally to sharded insects, like the scarab-beetle and the chafer, and to unsharded, like bees and wasps. On the Gait of Animals
  • Yet he cannot even run his own department; while the captain of the ship squabbles with his crew below deck, the vessel is adrift and rudderless.
  • Wilful, purposeless, ambivalent cruelty seems to have been a major theme of the rudderless summer government.
  • But it is not entirely clear who is in charge - the whole project appears rudderless.
  • And a rudderless ship is ill suited to the task. Times, Sunday Times
  • As well as leaving the country rudderless, it's also playing havoc with office allocation. Times, Sunday Times
  • For Thailand, a medium-sized country - whose destiny is closely tied up with the global economy and liberal democracy - drifting along rudderless in the tumultuous current of world events is not an option.
  • In the meantime the country will remain rudderless as it faces high inflation, power shortages and increasing violence in its northern tribal areas. Times, Sunday Times
  • His retreat over a hotly contested plan to impose a carbon tax on lorries left him to fend off accusations that he is leading a rudderless Government. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet, even in those who are rudderless and "planless," I see the beautiful and innate joy of life (the joie de vivre) which God has implanted in all human beings. Catholic Analysis
  • Neither side had the cohesion or the confidence to take control of a rudderless contest.
  • In the process he has managed to make himself look clueless in international negotiations, to make his proposed Cabinet look incompetent and to look rudderless in policy. Times, Sunday Times
  • It seems to me that some parties support a rudderless approach both to tertiary education and to the nation in general.
  • More than to any one of the master's scherzos, the name capriccio would be suitable to his third "Scherzo," Op. 39, with its capricious starts and changes, its rudderless drifting. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
  • Larry Phillips, the East German-style commissar of the King County Politburo, is untroubled by a rudderless elections department [Phillips] had confidence in the elections office because it has successfully conducted several elections since the 2004 governor's election In Phillips 'world, apparently, a successful election is one where dozens or hundreds of ballots disappear. Sound Politics: "Interim elections chief elects to go on vacation for three weeks"
  • All attempts by the director and the screenwriter to avoid convention and cliché leave the film rudderless, floundering until it becomes downright disturbing.
  • Two indecisive general elections left Britain rudderless. Times, Sunday Times
  • We are a rudderless ship. The Sun
  • Or to welcome in the new manager and see for themselves just how he intended to right the rudderless ship. The Sun

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