| 单词 | purposeless |
| 例句 | Seeing Miss Perumal again would be nice, but he would be in the same pickle as before: out of place among the other children, purposeless and lonely. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “One area in the heart of the city was just a desert of ruins. Only the street remained, running empty and purposeless between heaps of fallen masonry.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His father was a dear but somewhat purposeless fellow with the nickname of Bingo who seemed happiest shaking cocktails behind the bar. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She found herself facing the future with dread, seeing only “a long stretch of purposeless years with nothing to live for.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Like the “coloreds” in the years following emancipation, criminals today are deemed a characterless and purposeless people, deserving of our collective scorn and contempt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What they feared even more, Celia realized later, was that passion might spare them entirely, that they’d die conventionally, smug and purposeless, having never savored its blackness. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Approached in the dark the swaying bulbs looked lonely and purposeless. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The great mass of American citizens estimates us as being a characterless and purposeless people; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation’s scorn and contempt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z With their hoods up and their purposeless milling, Lazlo thought they looked like a pack of ghosts on coffee break. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z This attack was terrorism in its purest form, purposeless slaughter that is the trademark of ISIS. Don’t fall for ISIS’ trap: A French national pleads for tolerance 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z But that is not to say that fakes and forgeries cannot inform modern art; the fake work is not purposeless, but has palpable designs on us. Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age by Jonathon Keats – review 2013-06-28T07:00:00Z This one might be described as genre zombie-ism: the hysterical, brainless animation of dead clichés reduced to purposeless, compulsive killing. Movie Review: ‘Gangster Squad’ With Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone 2013-01-10T22:30:08Z The indirection is not purposeless; Edelman is building the service roads to his main argument. Review: A Jew and 16 ‘Nerf Nazis’ Meet Cute in ‘Just for Us’ 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z "We must look at weeping as an incidental result, as purposeless as the secretion of tears from a blow outside the eye," he wrote in 1872. Why do humans cry? A new reading of the old sob story 2013-04-13T23:05:11Z The sometimes strident insistence on purposeless suffering in his films of the last 20 years or so feels as though it springs from the fact that such suffering is a discovery to him. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Their movement often looked like purposeless movement, which was not to theatrical advantage. L.A. Phil gets theatrical with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The more the series focuses on Melissa and Josh’s conflicts, particularly on Josh’s sour avoidance, the more one longs for goofy elation and purposeless giggling. Review: ‘Schmigadoon!’ Has a Song in Its Heart, and Everywhere Else 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z War is rampant and seemingly purposeless in these lands; the natives are naïve barbarians mired in their own bafflement. The Book That Exposed the Cynical Politics of Donald Duck 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Instead their “Stunt Lab,” at Canal Park Playhouse, focuses on the completely purposeless — but intriguing, if you’re under 12 — endeavors in Guinness World Records. Spare Times for Children 2012-03-15T22:13:32Z On the Daily Telegraph website, journalist Catherine Scott said Mantel's speech was "an attack on how some parts of the media canonize royal women ... while also rendering them voiceless and purposeless." Tabloid slams novelist Mantel over Kate comments 2013-02-19T13:58:28Z “Real life is purposeless, anarchic, accidental, chaotic, unjust,” he said during a recent video call. The Shape-Shifting Sherlock Holmes, Now Playing the Villain 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Darwinism had disclosed a purposeless universe without human meaning; but purpose and meaning could be restored, if only science could show that the human mind carried on evolving after the death of the body. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z Fiction's most recent deathwatch began with David Shields' provocative 2010 book "Reality Hunger," in which he diagnosed the traditional novel as "predictable, tired, contrived and essentially purposeless." T.C. Boyle roams the American psyche in 'The Harder They Come' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z There are no easy answers to the problem of feeling purposeless. The beautiful bleakness of the "Toy Story" movies 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z It’s the slow death of purposeless walking as symptom of the slow death of democracy, of the human. Watching Writers Pace the Streets, and Seeing Symptoms of Social Ills 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Left to raise the baby is the hapless Noel, the baby's putative father and a purposeless alcoholic stuck in a dead-end job. Maeve Binchy's 'Minding Frankie': one motherless baby, many willing minders 2011-02-03T00:02:03Z Nearly 10 years ago, Camas Davis found herself depressed, heartbroken and purposeless, “feeling like such a failure.” In France, an American Woman Learns the Butcher’s Trade 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The slaughter appears in that light almost purposeless and, save in partisan memory, without lasting effects. Spring uprising 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z But she also offers two photographs of wooden docks that jut into dried-out lakes, the forlorn structures now purposeless. Review | In the galleries: At U-Md. space, “UN/Sustainable” contemplates the environment 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z As I huddled near the songbook, I felt the singular anxiety of being in a foreign bar, alone and purposeless. Karaoke Coast to Coast 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The royal family is at this point in history mostly just a set of wisdom teeth — vestigial, purposeless, most interesting when something painful happens or a removal is required. Why can't we quit the royals? CNN's new series "The Windsors" show why they rule 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Meanwhile Kendall has become, in every sense of the word, purposeless now that the competition has finished and he has lost. The millennial anxieties of "Succession" and how each of the Roys tried and failed to cope 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Even Stravinsky was not safe from condemnation for the “insufferable” faults and “purposeless automatism” of his Neoclassical works. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The opening shot is an extraordinary landscape composition with no visible human beings: A black Ferrari, which becomes the visual and auditory symbol of Johnny's purposeless existence, roars around a desert track. "Somewhere": Sofia Coppola's smart, stylish celebrity takedown 2010-12-21T02:02:00Z It appeared, to Goodall, reverent and seemingly purposeless. Do primates practice religion? 2013-06-04T15:43:00Z “All who want a job have one. She has healed and united us and given purpose to the purposeless.” Review | ‘Mrs. Davis’ will make your head explode 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z People who are depressed and suicidal feel helpless, powerless, useless, worthless, meaningless and purposeless. Dr. Mark Goulston on why Democrats keep losing: They're afraid of their own anger 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Schmidt also accused McCain of tarnishing her family name "for a shallow and purposeless celebrity where she trades on a famous name like a fourth generation wannabe clipping coupons while pretending to be an heir." "Rotten, entitled, spoiled": Meghan McCain utterly embarrassed on Twitter by father's former aide 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z In fact, he wrote the opposite: that smiles, frowns, eye widening and other physical expressions were “purposeless”—vestigial movements that no longer serve a function. Darwin Was Wrong: Your Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Your Emotions 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The loose, purposeless pocket of time she inhabits is at odds with the contrived and efficient time of the movies. Perspective | The freedom that comes with living our own stories Part Donald Trump and part Howard Beale, McCarthy seemed to think that what Republicans crave is rage — partisan, purposeless, inchoate and ungrammatical rage. Opinion | Kevin McCarthy wants you to know: He’s really, really angry 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z You feel helpless, powerless, useless, worthless, meaningless and purposeless. Dr. Mark Goulston on why Democrats keep losing: They're afraid of their own anger 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Some red tape is purposeless, but not all of it is. Why It’s So Hard to Cut Waste in Health Care 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z She told me that after she sent her younger children across the border, she felt depressed and purposeless. Clinging to hope of a life in America, these migrants in Mexico united to practice their own brand of democracy 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z In a crisis of this magnitude, finding the emotional space to care about a single death can feel purposeless, unnecessary. 'A deluge of death': how reading obituaries can humanise a crisis 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z At €300 per infraction, he said the penalties would be doubled if Greeks were found to be indulging in “purposeless movement” over the long weekend. Greece to use drones to stop crowds gathering for Orthodox Easter 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The backboards have a bare, blank, dead, purposeless look. Perspective | Watching kids play in the neighborhood buoys spirits the way sports once did 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z When President Abraham Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg, in the midst of so many fresh graves, he was making clear that those deaths were not random or purposeless. Opinion | We’ve officially witnessed the total failure of empathy in presidential leadership 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z In a televised address Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the measure will prohibit the circulation and movement of citizens deemed to be purposeless – the strictest restriction yet in the fight to contain coronavirus spreading further. Coronavirus: at a glance 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z “The King,” a movie about the dissolute youth and unlikely rise of English monarch Henry V, is a handsome, intriguing, strangely purposeless affair. Review | Timothée Chalamet stars in ‘The King,’ a handsome if dull take on English history 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Hegseth noted that the shootings are being carried out by "purposeless" young men in most cases. 'Fox & Friends' says Oprah is right about mass shootings, America missing 'core moral center' 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Kid sees themselves as something of an outcast, and somewhat stuck and purposeless at this point in their life. 198X is about the transformational escapism of 80’s arcades 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z They were asked to wait, needlessly, because of Trump’s pointless tactics, and now they’re being asked to wait some more because of a handful of House Republicans want to play purposeless games. Why Republican tactics on disaster relief funding matter 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Critics argue that storing a precautionary asset whose value would probably fall as you sold it is somewhat purposeless. Gold shines 20 years after Brown's big sale 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s hard to explain to people that if you get the punctuation wrong in a tweet, your world becomes a purposeless void. Opinion | To the Type-A Person Having a Meltdown 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Shame on those who further deepen these women’s anguish with purposeless incarceration. Opinion | Treating a Fetus as a Person 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Failing that, the right thing to do is spare Judge Kavanaugh and Ms. Ford an awful, purposeless hearing that cannot be anything but a disgrace to the Senate. Opinion | Sen. Feinstein, Clean Up Your Mess 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z To hold hearings without nailing down the knowable facts would be purposeless except to show respect for Ms. Ford’s accusations. Opinion | A Kavanaugh Hearing Without Facts Would Be a Sham 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Patients are plagued by jerky, purposeless movements called chorea. ‘I feel so much hope’—Is a new drug keeping this woman’s deadly Huntington disease at bay? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Forced from their communities into urban and industrial environments, modern men and women were left alienated and rootless, feeling powerless and purposeless in the new world. Neoliberalism is being rejected around the world: Can genuine progressives capitalize? 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z “So now the formerly purposeless meeting Trump and Putin had a meaning, right? It was time for Trump to put his foot down,” Noah said. Trevor Noah: ‘If your name is Vladimir Putin, this was a very good day’ 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Almost half the pages have a footnote that offers a superfluous fact or purposeless story. Review | Keith Hernandez’s hijinks in life and mastery on the baseball diamond 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Put simply, in Europe, a hundred years ago, war had become politically purposeless. Not so great wars — theirs and ours 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Real life wishes to be left to its own purposeless devices. Opinion | Baby Boomers Reach the End of Their To-Do List 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z He loves chaos—he brags about this—but it isn’t strategic chaos in pursuit of ends, it’s purposeless disorder for the fun of it. Over Trump, We’re as Divided as Ever 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z But they are outliers in a film predominantly made up of purposeless material. Lady Gaga gets personal in her new documentary 'Gaga: Five Foot Two,' but can't overcome clichés 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z It was a purposeless hurt, this September hike through New England, with the last peaches and the first apples on the trees, and the carousels sitting still in the little villages with witchy histories. Perspective | How do you walk from Boston to Maine? One step at a time. 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z For years, Gold’s itinerant eating seemed purposeless; then, suddenly, as with the hungry caterpillar in the Eric Carle book, there was a glorious, fully realized point to it. The Most Adventurous Eater in America 2009-11-01T04:00:00Z That the money raised this year is going towards digging a purposeless hole has garnered criticism, as the funds could have been used for much more beneficial purposes. Cards Against Humanity raises $100,000 to dig 'tremendous hole' 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Her kids were grown and doing well, her only grandchild just starting college, and I think she felt purposeless. When a Spouse Dies, Resilience Can Be Uneven 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z “A lot of people overlook why some of these seemingly purposeless breaches matter,” said Mr. Kanuck. Hackers Trawl User Data in Hopes a Small Target Will Lead to a Big One 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Football coaches have long tried to exact complete control over their players, filling the off-seasons with purposeless spring practices that exist solely to manipulate workout schedules and keep players in close sight. How one young coach is modernizing the NFL's most meaningless weekend 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Arguably, in fact, any such Israeli use, even as a residually default option, would be not only purposeless but also irrational. Israel, Playing the Role of 'Mad Dog' 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin once declared emotional tears “purposeless,” and nearly 150 years later, emotional crying remains one of the human body’s more confounding mysteries. The Science of Crying 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The court noted the chair inflicts “purposeless physical violence and needless mutilation,” noting its “specter of excruciating pain and its certainty of cooked brains and blistered bodies.” Virigina, don’t revive the electric chair 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The Islamic State group, he writes, "must come to perceive their banner as a magnet for purposeless death, not ordained glory." Views You Can Use: Is This War? 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The more we learn about the workings of the universe, the more purposeless it seems. All Scientists Should Be Militant Atheists 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z It is a collection of religious zealots whose purity of barbarism is the chief lure to anyone seeking purpose to a purposeless life. ‘Dribble’ doctrine won’t work against the Islamic State 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z "I refuse to subject myself and my family to purposeless, prolonged pain and suffering at the hands of an incurable disease." California bill that would allow assisted suicide passes Senate panel 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z “I refuse to subject myself and my family to purposeless, prolonged pain and suffering at the hands of an incurable disease.” Watch Brittany Maynard's Video in Support of Right-to-Die Legislation 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z More than 2,200 Americans died in a conflict reflecting little more than purposeless inertia. It’s High Time We Got Out of Afghanistan 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z More than 2200 Americans died in a conflict reflecting little more than purposeless inertia. Leave Afghanistan To The Afghans: Obama Administration Should Speed Military Withdrawal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z "It's very clear that trying to clean everything constantly is not only purposeless, it might be downright bad for us." Health focus shifts to gut microbiome and nurturing 'good' bacteria 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z By one estimate, 85 percent of polar bears in North American zoos engage in what’s called “stereotypic behavior” - actions that are repetitive and apparently purposeless. Captivity may stress polar bears, but Arctic poses problems 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z And the work may feel purposeless: as Ive had put it, “I don’t think the world needs another microwave oven.” Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z If someone feels that equal access to voting is wrong, that science-denial is justifiable, that shutting down the government as part of a purposeless plot makes sense, then that person does deserve disgust. Republican-Majority Senate Is Starting to Look Likelier 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The weights were used for Isaac’s stereotypic movements, which are movements that are repetitive and purposeless. W.Va. company makes tiny weights to help kids 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z When separated, the screen became an Android tablet and the usually purposeless keyboard, if connected to a TV or monitor, became a desktop PC. Asus Announces Transfomer Book Duet TD300 - Windows And Android, Together At Last. Wait, What? 2014-01-07T17:55:00Z This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery. Advice on Addiction in Boomers, Part 1 2013-08-21T11:58:54Z Her life had become purposeless and she was only in her early 40s. Murder in Mayfield 2013-05-17T06:14:56Z The Patient's Story The young woman lay on the stretcher, her eyes closed, body writhing in constant, purposeless movement. Well: Think Like a Doctor: The Girl in a Coma 2012-10-04T04:02:17Z It explained to him the existence of apparently purposeless creatures, as flies, frogs, mice, etc. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z And for the first time all this ceaseless turmoil and unending warfare seemed to him futile and purposeless. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z Remove the Incarnation and all remains dark, purposeless, unintelligible: grant the Incarnation, believe that in Jesus Christ the Supreme manifested Himself personally, and light is shed upon all that has been and is. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z There is no defect of invention, no superfluity of detail, no purposeless stroke. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z His visit had been purposeless and vain, and he would find his way back to the station. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z It was the question of the wonder of the beauty, the purposeless, inconsecutive beauty, that falls so strangely among the happenings and memories of life. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z A definition of conduct must exclude purposeless actions,—such, for instance, as those of an epileptic in a fit. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The room was quiet and I felt blank and purposeless. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Now, in Molothrus bonariensis we see just such a vague, purposeless habit as the imaginary one I have described. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z To the sluggish and the purposeless, the happiest opportunities avail nothing—they pass them by with indifference, seeing no meaning in them. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z So he attended the supper-parties sometimes in his purposeless way, and they permitted him to do so freely, despite the maxim that in troublous times half-friends are no friends. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z We saw that conduct is distinguished from the totality of actions by the exclusion of purposeless actions; but during evolution this distinction arises by degrees. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Life is very simple and very free from purposeless bothers. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z It reminded Jimmy of the sailing-ship days when he had set his teeth and borne what came to him—wet and cold, utter weariness, want of sleep, purposeless exactions, and brutal hazing. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z No sorrow is sent with purposeless aim, But each has its destined end to gain; He loves us so dearly, and shed His blood To lead us up to the throne of God. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Scope′ful, with a wide prospect; Scope′less, purposeless, useless. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The girl was left untouched; was, it is said, carried out of danger by Robert Emmet himself, who had vainly attempted to stop the purposeless slaughter. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z Compared with this wholly purposeless exile of the king, the account of the Hebrews seems far more credible—that Pharaoh did make the attempt to stop the migration, but that the attempt was without success. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The men had almost expected this, and the energy, which for want of direction now and then in such cases leads to purposeless and unreasoning scurry, had been washed out of them. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Davis, and the school of poets whom he led, indulged little in unpractical dreams and purposeless regrets. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z Sauntering down the narrow pavement on the opposite side of the way, in the purposeless manner that a hopeless man favours, I approached the book-stall. The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z Withal, there was about them a listless, unoccupied, purposeless air, as if they were only half alive. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z Who could that somebody have been? and what possible motive could he have had for such a horrible piece of purposeless brutality? Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z In his fifteenth year his only sister, a lovely, fragile flower, just blooming into womanhood, drooped and died, and life seemed purposeless to him again. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z He loved mysteries; was most active, energetic, and enterprising; and nothing would suit him better than to have imported into his rather purposeless life some such task as a search for me half over Europe. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z The condition of fear is in all cases purposeless and its lack of purpose is obvious when it reaches a higher level. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z He knew while he gazed down at her that he would miss her when she had gone, that life would seem emptier, more purposeless, than before. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z She looked down at the tassel pensively, and at the busy fingers fidgeting with it continually as though their purposeless occupation held an interest for her. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z Better to die in the strife, The hands with labor rife, Than to glide with the stream in an idle dream, And lead a purposeless life. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z My aunt was rubbing her hands together in a feeble, purposeless, undecided sort of way. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z The tjäder, though not a bird of passage, is migratory, or rather wandering in domicile, and appears to undertake very purposeless and absurd journeys. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Now that I had come, tardily enough, out of my fool's paradise of the past weeks, I had other things than purposeless anger to think of. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z There is, to be sure, a third group which unfortunately constitutes an overwhelming majority, the group made up of purposeless drifters who have no special ambitions and usually little native ability. Forging Ahead in Business 2011-11-06T02:00:11.883Z Wave they, beat they, to and fro, Never stillness may they know, Plunged by the wind and hurled and torn Anguished, purposeless, forlorn. Poems - First Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.917Z That sound isn't the discord of purposeless haste. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Some birds, too, deliberately bury seeds, not indeed with a foresight aiming directly at the propagation of the plant, but from apparently purposeless secretiveness, or as a mode of preserving food for future use. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Benton, little to his credit, was a leader in these purposeless conflicts. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z Her departures from the right line of true womanhood were so entirely purposeless that he could trace them to no logical starting-point. A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z That low, urgent whispering over Billy Izzard's screen ran in my head again, with the thought that I had made an inconvenient and apparently purposeless appointment for half-past ten. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z He was, however, not addicted to purposeless reflections, and the results of his cogitations as a rule became apparent in due time. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Perhaps there is nothing that, to the uninitiated, appears more stupid, insipid, and purposeless than the progress of that game. Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes 2011-09-18T02:00:30.783Z The conditions in which it is most frequently employed are convulsions, bronchitis, severe and purposeless coughing, myalgia or muscular pain, neuralgia and various vague forms of pain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Miracles are the necessary complement, then, of the truth of such announcements, which, without them, are purposeless and abortive, the unfinished fragments of a design which is nothing unless it is the whole. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z These tacks across stream look so purposeless, in a place where there are no men and all the water looks the same. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Attempting to rationalize that which cannot be rationalized is a cruel and purposeless task that shall not be mastered; it is like digging a foundation through unyielding stone with a paper shovel. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z Doubtless there is a good reason for their incessant movements, but to the ordinary observer these often seem to be purposeless and merely the result of restlessness and excess of energy. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z Even he was not willing to come to a blank, purposeless end. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z Who would lose, from whom would he take anything, if he cast off the burden of a hated, purposeless existence? A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z Action of any kind, even purposeless action, is a relief to men under strain. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z Were any effort to be made at explaining his strange and apparently purposeless predilection, perhaps one word would come as near to furnishing the explanation as five hundred others—excitement. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Wave they, beat they to and fro, Never stillness may they know, Plunged by the wind and hurled and torn Anguished, purposeless, forlorn. The Three Hills And other Poems 2011-07-07T02:00:25.437Z She bent over her sewing with a sense of anger and annoyance with herself for having entered into such a purposeless discussion. The Brute 2011-06-30T02:00:30.283Z Must we attribute to mere purposeless variability in the male all these appendages of hair or skin? The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z He found Lechmere reading an evening paper and smoking a long black cigar as if he were one of the most idle and purposeless men in the world. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z It also accounted for the seemingly purposeless reluctance to confine the prisoners in the hold instead of attempting to chloroform them in their cabin. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z As she thought of it, in all its terrible import, her own soul turned faint, and her fingers grew limp and purposeless. The Night Riders A Thrilling Story of Love, Hate and Adventure, Graphically Depicting the Tobacco Uprising in Kentucky 2011-06-23T02:00:24.513Z She continued the purposeless cutting of her food, until Isabel's patience was worn out, and she asked: "Shall I ring the bell, mother?" A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z For two weeks she led a dulled and purposeless existence. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z During his rapid walk he had noticed, as an accidental, and by no means an essential feature of the bleak landscape, the vast herds of crawling, purposeless cattle. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Be purposeless Wanting a million dollars shouldn’t be the sole motivation for building an app. 10 Ways to Screw Up Your Mobile App 2011-06-06T17:12:35Z Altogether, it seemed a purposeless sort of existence. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z Rotha studied it all and made these comparisons for a while, in a vague, purposeless reverie, while she was getting warm; but then her thoughts began to come to a point. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z How perfectly true to life, subsequently, is the rapid dégringolade of this passion under the gnawing curse of the homeless, workless, purposeless existence which little by little disunites the lovers! Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z The general result is, however, that having broken loose from their moral moorings, they drift as hopeless, purposeless wrecks on the sea of life. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z She had been conscious for years of a vague dissatisfaction, and of life’s seeming empty and purposeless. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Mildred listened with unwearied sympathy while Ethel dwelt pathetically on her lonely and purposeless life, with its jarring gaieties and absence of congenial fellowship. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z The faithful and speedy performance of this errand, Gaston, is worth the most sublime self-sacrifice, if this be purposeless. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z In fact the growth of emotional ties of this kind, with their purposeless beginnings, provides a much frequented pathway to sexual object-choice. Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego 2011-04-17T02:00:02.907Z Those of the Sin Verguenza who had remained appeared a trifle undecided, until Appleby, who had no desire to witness a purposeless piece of butchery, joined his comrade. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z Naturally, she did not any longer pursue her lover; and here is a dream which even Mr. Proctor will admit not to have been purposeless. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Look at my brother, look at Dr. Heriot, for example; they are no mere worldlings, leading purposeless existences; they are both hard workers and deep thinkers.' Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z The other was but an ignoble man; a purposeless parody of the real and true; and he, I thank God, exists no longer. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z If the necessity of actual occurrences is not ultimately traceable to the Fiat of an Intelligent Will—and mechanists deny that it can be so traced—it is rightly described as fatalistic, blind, purposeless, unintelligible.521.Cf. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z And in her vague, meaningless look might now be seen how purposeless and unguided were all her speculations. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z The white birds, with flapping wings, are the purposeless spirits of the air. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The title Macbetto is a very thin and seemingly purposeless disguise for Macbeth; and King Lear is generally called Cordelia, operatically. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z You don't know what they have been to me—desolate, empty, mournful, purposeless. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z You see it is wasted and purposeless work, that is what makes it so hard for the poor man.” Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z It seemed as if it were impossible to frame any conjecture or outline of a conjecture that would account for these hideous and, as it seemed, utterly purposeless crimes. The Terror A Mystery 2011-03-22T02:00:24.957Z The only purposeless life is the one that does not use its faculties. A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-14T03:01:04.693Z Does Christian charity command her to endure this ruthless, purposeless tearing open of her scarcely cicatrised wound? Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z She only knew that whereas her life had always seemed dull and purposeless, it had, since Jack Newcombe’s visit, grown utterly dreary and joyless. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z The checks and active duties of marriage are the best antidote, not only to an impure life, but to the dreaming and droning of a useless and purposeless one. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z The Army may not send the morale-deflating message to nonbelievers that they are lesser soldiers, much less imply they are somehow incomplete, purposeless or empty. The deity by any other name: Army resilience program gets a thumbs down from atheistsa 2011-03-09T23:45:07.257Z She was ready to be anything in the world except a commonplace matron, leading a dull purposeless life at Graybridge. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Under those circumstances, it will not be a purposeless proceeding to work out what is really required in the way of repairs on the various farms. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Strip God of these attributes and He is reduced to the atheists' "force;" to blind, purposeless force, that can sustain no possible personal relationship whatsoever to men or other things in the universe. Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse 2011-02-24T03:01:00.270Z In its primitive and fundamental form it is instinctive with children—well-nigh purposeless at first, uncontrolled and fantastic like the early activities of their imagination, but easily organized and directed toward a purpose. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z This flame that arises out of life, that redeems life from purposeless triviality, isn't life. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z In the enjoyment of a liberal income from his uncle, he gave himself over to a life wholly useless, purposeless, and by no means above reproach. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z He was conscious of a sudden and entirely purposeless feeling of anger, almost of fury. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Nothing on God's earth common or purposeless; everything chanting the great song of God's praise, "The morning stars singing together," as we say in the Dawn Service.' The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z But it was ready to go in any direction instantly, for it was more various and less intense, by no means purposeless, and never bound. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z "He did not send you here," Deane continued, "to beg for help—to waste my time in purposeless recriminations?" The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z The slaves who had not been enlisted in the Federal armies, were wandering, purposeless, about the country, in squads, thieving, famishing, and dying. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Groping—groping in the dark—a purposeless circle. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Ghosts of this sort are vague and purposeless in character, beyond a general blood-curdling office which in all ghosts doth dwell. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z There's a difference between purposeless venting and a thoughtful move to influence government. Turning Small Business Owners into Lobbyists 2010-06-25T16:13:00Z “The obstruction has become mindless, it’s become purposeless,” Mr. Levin said. After Health Vote, Democrats are Threatened 2010-03-25T00:14:00Z “But have you anything authentic you can tell me?” said Harry, who was wearied out with these many purposeless visits, the endless consultations, the trivial information demanded, and after all the small result. A Little World I had no will of my own, so I allowed myself to be carried onwards, and, at last, purposeless, reached the summit with them. Four Phases of Love To the music of these simple instruments the bodies of the dancers sway hither and thither in a singular and apparently purposeless manner. The Story of Malta I stopped before the door, as purposeless as I had just approached it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 The old, hopeless, purposeless past was forgotten; that night his history began anew. The Man Who Rose Again She was sick of trying to read, sick of the endless pacings and purposeless invention of needless tasks. The Valiants of Virginia He struck a light, and spoke not again, but turned over his papers mechanically, purposeless. Four Phases of Love Mr. Wild seemed singularly purposeless for a young man, and there was a half-veiled mockery in his speech that grated. The Gay Adventure A Romance The four individuals formed an awkward, purposeless group, and no one seemed able to think of anything to say. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Alas! we deemed him purposeless; the vinous smile that flickered up Across his glowing countenance was meaningless to us. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 26 1890 What good reason I afterwards had to remember that apparently purposeless' action! Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne Whenever I think that my life has been in vain; when it seems empty, purposeless, and bare, I look at my little girl, remember what she was, and find content. The Master's Violin It was a sort of pilgrimage which Macheson undertook during these restless nights, a walk seemingly purposeless, the sole luxury which he permitted himself. The Missioner Her room gained, she stood in the center of it as purposeless and dazed as a sleeper waking in strange surroundings. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Where the habit of mind has not been gained, the endeavour fluctuates and is relatively purposeless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Not absolutely purposeless, however, because nothing in the world is such, and the purpose here is simply the movement of matter towards its end. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy He will shoot whole days without a companion, or go for long purposeless rides across country, only to return at nightfall weary and sick at heart. Faith and Unfaith Does he mean anything by it all, or is he only an unreasoning, purposeless force? Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day Without it the rest would be but a chaos of stones and mortar—a Gehenna of purposeless machinery. The Book of This and That Tall, gaunt lads, just starting into men, went roaming about with wild eyes, purposeless, pipkin in hand, although hours must elapse before the meal would come. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. But if this series of means and ends goes on ad infinitum, then all desire and all action are futile and purposeless. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Work seemed suddenly dull and purposeless now that the proposed home had crumbled into ruins. What a Man Wills This I was not, and would not be, and above all, I was determined that my enemies and deriders should not have the triumph of seeing me the wreck of a fickle and purposeless existence. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Even so little as this gathering of wild rice, before the migrating ducks got it, was without meaning, if it were merely to stave off death from a purposeless existence. A Woman's Place His chief drew a packet of papers from a receptacle in his desk, forced a frown on to his smooth forehead, and buried himself in purposeless calculations. Jacob's Ladder The world-process was an endless stream of futile and purposeless events, "a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." A Critical History of Greek Philosophy And it was into this atmosphere of gloom and of purposeless misanthropy that Louisa Harris brought this morning the cheering sunshine of her own indomitable optimism. The Heart of a Woman In truth, he was following in rather a purposeless fashion, leaving much to chance, and making no plans. Anne They show forth a world of beastliness and bankruptcy; they picture life as a purposeless hell. Stepsons of Light I felt, besides, that such stupid, purposeless inventions corrupted and blunted the taste for graceful narrative, just in the same way that an undeserving recipient of charity offends the pleasure of real benevolence. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance But the change would be meaningless and purposeless. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy How completely was the colony riddled with unpredictable, purposeless characters like him? The Colonists Through Time's dark emptiness Some soul, that genius lit, goes, withered, wan, Its flame to blackness fallen, purposeless— The dead star wanders with the fire-spent man! The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. What meaning could these terms have for beings who had learnt that their own existence was purposeless? Religious Perplexities One lie alone remains, the splendid, purposeless lie, born of the joy of life. A Novelist on Novels A wanderer from Procyon or Sirius, entering the neighborhood of Sol, might well have suspected he had found nine lifeless spheres pursuing a futile and purposeless course about their flaming parent. Deepfreeze TWELFTH-NIGHT had come and gone, and life next morning seemed a trifle flat and purposeless. The Golden Age Physicians warned him that the results would be disastrous, yet he felt that nothing could do him more harm than an idle, purposeless life. The Book of Courage The way people were all held together in trivial things, that thin, seemingly purposeless web lightly holding them together was eternally throwing threads around her, keeping her from the one thing that counted. Fidelity A Novel This pedestal is particularly interesting because of the fact that the Vestal's name has been defaced, not, however, by an act of purposeless vandalism. Roman Women "Ay!" said the sick man, in a vague, purposeless tone; and Conway now took a seat at his side, and laid one of his hands over his. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Save for the furious inconsequent and almost purposeless fighting that was still raging far off to the left round Hougomont, the battle ceased. Waterloo He is, on the whole, happy,—as happy as any thinking being can be in this world of anomalies and purposeless pains. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June He stopped short in his purposeless walking and nodded and smiled to it. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories But what would have been purposeless in P. T. was important to Pope. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Jan now began to hang all day about Ragon Torr’s, and to make friends with men as purposeless as himself. Jan Vedder's Wife To them he went, upbraided them for their purposeless firing, and ordered them to cease. Rulers of India: Lord Clive If the speech of real life is broken and fragmentary, it is also impossibly wordy and purposeless. The Technique of Fiction Writing All were men of pleasure, and of that indolent, lounging, purposeless character so peculiarly unpleasing to those who have led active lives, and been always immersed in the cares and interests of business. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life There it lay, with a pair of light oars run under the thwarts, and its helm flapping to and fro, inert and purposeless, like myself! Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Doctor Sharpey, a strong advocate of vivisection, by the way, condemned it as a perfectly unjustifiable experiment, since "besides its atrocity, it was really purposeless." Vivisection The old men forgot the dignity of their age in a puerile leisure, and the young men were dissipated and purposeless. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. Then up the street they hurried like belated men; and David felt the urging of accustomed work, and a sense of delinquency in his purposeless hands. Prisoners of Conscience All his life at sea seemed to him to have been a mistaken, purposeless driving. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. Footnote 2: The history of the definition of the Proprium is an example of the tendency of distinctions to become more minute and at the same time more purposeless. Logic, Inductive and Deductive She brings forth not what is meaningless and purposeless, but in great preponderance what is full of meaning and purpose. Naturalism And Religion "Howdy," he said, with a tone of little encouragement, for he would much rather have continued watching the country than indulge in purposeless conversation. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro The grove is intersected with a maze of circling and purposeless paths. Minor Poems by Milton He rushed headlong from the temple, as if seeking escape from some suffocating atmosphere in the pure breezes of heaven, and hurried forward with confused and purposeless footsteps. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 Their patter is not purposeless: it is calculated to turn our eyes away from the movements of their nimble hands. Logic, Inductive and Deductive A month has gone by, and I would not weary readers your with a story so intricate and purposeless. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) At length we turned about in a purposeless way toward the open West Prairie. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Madame had had long years of patient endurance to train her in waiting; but the endurance had been passive and purposeless, rather than active, and with a well-defined object. The Blue Goose A wayward, careless lad, heedless of all responsibility, he seems purposeless and perplexing to the last degree, yet the profoundest meditations of his life moved his soul. Oliver Goldsmith But this is a purposeless repudiation of common meaning, which he cannot himself consistently adhere to. Logic, Inductive and Deductive In the latter case instinct has become senseless, purposeless. The Forerunners Though purposeless, as regarded any true purpose of speech, his voice was of silver and sweet to the ears. Lady Anna They did not pillage with any sort of method or reason—it seemed to be a mania, senseless and purposeless. History of Morgan's Cavalry The old angry, purposeless tears beset her and she felt that terrible dumbness settling over her. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon Her work done, she took up the long-neglected vigil at the windows, spending many quiet, and seemingly purposeless, hours there—all unmindful that the beaded belt lay dusty and unfinished on a shelf. The Plow-Woman So I am, from having lived a purposeless life these three months. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The result is that the only genuine ghosts are most unsatisfactory beings; they appear without purpose, and seem to be what, in fact, I believe they almost always are, irresponsible, purposeless will-o'-the-wisps. Four Ghost Stories The day was warm enough, but it blew a whole gale of wind; and the noise and the purposeless rude violence of it somehow irritated and depressed me. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) The laughter was gone; in its place was fear—pale, dumb fear; the hands which fumbled with the wrap were purposeless, with no direction. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist Even the wars which seem most arbitrary and, to the judgment of their contemporaries, purposeless, acquire, upon a deeper scrutiny and in after ages, a profound enough significance. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe In this capacity the laborious efforts of the show problem on the one hand and purposeless play of the other are both avoided. Primary Handwork With hands thrust in his pockets he took a purposeless half-turn in the room, then came back to her side. Aurora the Magnificent What could best be spared from the magazine are the vague jokes and cartoons, purposeless "fillers" of miscellaneous nature, and columns of idle gossip about things in general. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 They represent groups of people without permanent organization, held together by temporary advantage, with crude, purposeless customs, with the exercise of fitful social instinct. History of Human Society With Maria's seventh year perhaps, the tendency to play and purposeless dreaming, which is always bound with such lively, mobile phantasy, gave place, to the astonishment of all, to an exactly opposite tendency. Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study Beginners are apt to waste time in a purposeless smoothing of the clay, in mere tactual enjoyment. Primary Handwork Then, for months, he had been treated with what seemed to him utterly purposeless and reasonless cruelty and ferocity. Finn The Wolfhound True to type, it is ulaluminated with gorgeous reds and crimsons, vistas of stupendous distances, coined phrases, unusual words, and general touches of either mysticism or purposeless obscurity. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 In designing marble-mosaic floors, however, one may well fight shy of including that senseless, purposeless description which is nowadays so often employed as a filling-in between borders. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction It seems rather purposeless, but I’m afraid they’re going to win.” The Fifth-Dimension Tube Not that he was in any way averse to action; he simply saw no virtue in purposeless action. Fifty Per Cent Prophet All of his days before meeting her seemed base or trivial or purposeless. Money Magic A Novel Everything had happened too many times before—repetitive, palling and purposeless. DP If Bethlehem made no change in that personality, it was purposeless, and the import of the incarnation disappears. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology This shows the affective nature of the apparently purposeless muscular tension. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type It is possible for action to be at once intentional and purposeless. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications A few small flakes of snow were beginning to flit aimlessly about; their soft, wavering motion suggested nothing ruder than that same purposeless drift towards which Diana's whole soul was going out in yearning. Diana ReturnIt should perhaps be added that while the boy’s action is not consciously intelligent, it is by no means purposeless, and is therefore not quite parallel with the insect’s. The Industries of Animals A divine economy is traceable in God's dealings with men; there is nothing purposeless, nothing otiose in God's dispensation. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology It struck me that this was purposeless—and dangerous. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 When the test of a vital passion had come he had acted like any other inconsiderate, purposeless young man, like any one with a chaotic will-less past! The Man Who Wins A cynical, purposeless, brooding life he must live to his last day: there was no healing in all the world for his despair. The Cruise of the Shining Light He vaguely felt that it was incumbent on him to prove his manhood in this arduous grapple with Nature, and, after a purposeless life, to vindicate himself. The Greater Power He flicked the reins on Coaley’s satiny neck, and the horse broke at once into a springy, swift trot, following the purposeless winding of the cow path. Rim o' the World He was conscious of a purposeless temptation—unreasonable as that which he had felt at the edge of a precipice to throw himself over. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 His lower jaw hung down, giving a purposeless expression to the face and mouth. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Some are born dull-witted, conservative, insensitive, unimaginative—they cling passive to the old planet, content to be whirled round in the purposeless dance of the heavenly bodies. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war He was walking up and down in a moody, purposeless way, and it seemed to the Captain that he turned his head very often towards the Castle. Captain Dieppe We consider or deliberate with a view to action, while meditation may be quite purposeless. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Let us confess that books by their very multitude bewilder, and that careless and purposeless reading destroys the mind. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character Such moments do not come to men often—but to me for an hour, life was painfully purposeless. A Son of the Middle Border Without him life would be stagnant, energy and virtue purposeless. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war But the wonders differ from Natural Science in this—they are alike objectless, purposeless, puerile, frivolous. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories Roam and rove are often purposeless, and always without definite aim. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions It was with unsteady eyes that he watched a lantern crawling toward him: eyes to which it seemed to weave the tortuous course of a purposeless glow-worm. The Roof Tree It was rather a rambling and purposeless affair, but the best he could do under the circumstances. Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor Subjects started of themselves—in numbers somewhat like the little butterflies that roused out of the clover as the intruding feet came by,—about as airy, about as flitting, not quite so purposeless. Say and Seal, Volume II Mr. Dillwyn thought himself a happy man; content with himself and with life; yet life had reached something too like a dead level, and himself, he was conscious, led a purposeless sort of existence. Nobody The rabble is despicable, worthless, purposeless; a mob may have effective desperate purpose. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Now that she was gone for ever, even his riding and hunting became uninteresting and purposeless. In Brief Authority She had borrowed money for mommie's sickness, and she would have to repay it; and it was all so purposeless! The Ranch at the Wolverine Only, it did seem so purposeless, this writ of ejectment and violent expulsion, when he was quite ready to go, and wanted nothing but permission. Somehow Good And it occurs to me that man must have been made for somewhat else than such a purposeless circle. Nobody A reverie is a purposeless drifting of the mind when awake, under the influence of mental images; a day-dream that which passes before the mind in such condition. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Tall, gaunt lads, just starting into men, went roaming about with wild eyes, purposeless, pipkin in hand, although hours must elapse before the meal would come. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France She did not feel as though anything mattered much, but she must go on with life, no matter how purposeless it seemed. The Ranch at the Wolverine Such conduct could only lead to the purposeless sacrifice of men and horses, just as happened to the French Cavalry at Woerth and Sedan. Cavalry in Future Wars Equally purposeless to prolong the interview; and they turned toward the door, the daughter of Don Ignacio leading where she had before followed. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley How is faint a synonym of feeble or purposeless? of irresolute or timid? of dim, faded, or indistinct? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Outraged, hurt-maddened, he had flung away, as he believed, to outer darkness, and to a joyless, purposeless, colourless life. The Rhodesian Much time had been squandered in this purposeless pursuit. The Giraffe Hunters To complete his strange appearance, Captain Flint sat perched upon his shoulder and gabbled odds and ends of purposeless sea-talk. Treasure Island Port Hudson being less than twenty miles from Baton Rouge, the presence in the latter of a small garrison, which could undertake no offensive movement and which there were no troops to re-enforce, became purposeless. Admiral Farragut And there are some, whom a thirst Ardent, unquenchable, fires, Not with the crowd to be spent, Not without aim to go round In an eddy of purposeless dust, Effort unmeaning and vain. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold But do not imagine your life is over and its aims purposeless. The Rhodesian In the monotony of a purposeless existence, most humans do no more than that. Eight Keys to Eden 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. The Slave of Silence At present the avenue 88 intersected by Queen’s Road and St. Leonard’s Terrace is disjointed and purposeless. Chelsea The Fascination of London It should be added that this sensational forecast was no purposeless jeremiad. The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer The rose, purposeless, emits its sweet perfume to the breezes and thus it attracts insects for cross fertilization simply because its staminate and pistillate ancestors thus called the insect world for that purpose. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study He did not mind very much now ... he saw his aunt and uncle as two people suddenly grown effete, purposeless, incapable. The Wooden Horse For Conrad, while he finds nothing except meaningless and purposeless chance in the ways of Nature, is inspired by a splendid tenacity of courage in resisting any desperate betrayal of human joy. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations To-night, finding the seclusion of my study dispiriting, I went forth upon a long and purposeless walk beneath the stars. Fibble, D.D. The latters’ patience was almost gone, and the more fiery spirits were commencing to obstruct their leader’s schemes by individual retaliation and occasionally purposeless aggression. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter He could not lead the life of his little circle, purposeless and untrue; and yet he had not power to lead a life of his own. The Hero This is Nature’s Modulus, else the whole of human life is purposeless and meaningless. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology His Lordship paused in passionate surprise; indignantly wondering whether or not the Gentleman of the Jury, whose face appeared to be covered with purposeless pimples, had really intended his last remark to be ambiguous. The Tale of Lal A Fantasy His tale, wild and improbable as it was, was too consistent and elaborate for any schoolboy to have invented, and, besides, the imposture would have been so entirely purposeless. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers Hugo. boys would spend in idleness or purposeless pastime in learning the telegrapher’s code. The Girl Wanted Vague, purposeless aspirations, like disembodied spirits, haunted him by night and by day. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern She wore a black satin dress, a little shiny at the seams, a purposeless bow of white tulle at the back of her neck, and a huge chatelaine. Anna the Adventuress He arose with a purposeless air and went farther along the stockade wall. Children of the Desert Nothing could be more truly tragical than the utterly purposeless tenour of her day,—and of her whole life. The Vicar of Bullhampton Our dip into the early history of South Africa is not purposeless. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 When we separated for the night, I felt that my going to bed would be purposeless. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales They would be quite purposeless as such; for they entirely omit all topics which would especially interest any subsequent age.' The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 The soul yearns for love and to love, and unless the desire is compensated human life is a blank and becomes a purposeless existence. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Sometimes this takes place, but much more frequently vicious tastes or a simply idle or purposeless life are the result. The Map of Life Conduct and Character Her tongue was paralyzed; she couldn't say what she felt, and everything else seemed to her horribly purposeless and ineffectual. Virginia The old woman got up and began to move the chairs about with purposeless industry. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories This incident seemed to have deranged his plans a little for his movements during the next half hour were so purposeless as to suggest that he was merely putting in time. Simon The purposeless life you are leading must result badly. Vixen, Volume III. It was an idle purposeless existence for a young woman to lead, no doubt; but Violet Tempest knew of no better thing that life offered her to do. Vixen, Volume II. But, unlike the birds, they did not seem purposeless. A Poor Man's House It was too early yet for breakfast, and he sauntered about idle and purposeless. Sam's Chance And How He Improved It Slow of speech and movement, he has not yet acquired the exhausting, purposeless love of speed which devours the more modern cities. American Sketches 1908 You can't realize how utterly purposeless and idle and empty my life is. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters You may live such a life, and quote such poetry, but you don't believe that a man should flow on like a purposeless river. Duffels Brent was beginning to get sick of this new development: to him it seemed idle and purposeless. In the Mayor's Parlour I saw that the women of England were in the main a mass of useless, purposeless butterflies. "The Pomp of Yesterday" But so went forth Darnell, day by day, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity, and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings. The House of Souls Such homeless, aimless, purposeless, wandering individuals are rarely seen. A Confederate Girl's Diary She declared to herself that she was weak, impotent, purposeless; but she admitted, on the other hand, that he had displayed more of power than she had ever guessed at his possessing. An Old Man's Love The conversation was about nothing in particular—one of those empty, purposeless exchanges of banal thought and speech characteristic of such an occasion. The Man Who Knew Instead of being mere bridge-playing, gambling, purposeless things, finding their pleasures in all sorts of silly fads and foolishness, they've given themselves to service—loyal, noble service. "The Pomp of Yesterday" With the timid obstinacy peculiar to their race, they stuck to their point and refused to be enticed into purposeless extravagance. "Unto Caesar" General Grant attributed the small number of casualties our troops sustained in the attack to the rebels' surprise at its audacity, causing "confusion and purposeless aiming of their pieces." A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry Aunt, if ever by word, or look, or thought"— "Oh! it was all done in the most apparently artless, natural, purposeless manner! Fairy Fingers A Novel I continued on my purposeless voyage till I reached the swollen branch of the creek. Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants But it was a mighty battle while it lasted; a fight of the Titans with the gods; man opposed to nature; the material to the immaterial—self-reliant, well-husbanded, carefully-applied strength matched against purposeless force. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek With leaps and bounds that seemed erratic and purposeless, it gradually diminished the distance between itself and the running man. "Unto Caesar" But purposeless pain, if such really occur anywhere in the universe, is hard indeed to reconcile with the revelation of the Highest p. 111as Infinite and Eternal Love. Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 Continuing her almost purposeless search, Bertha now drew out the drawers of the bureau: they usually held Madeleine's linen; they were empty! Fairy Fingers A Novel No wonder this purposeless lullaby is satirised in the orthodox libretto of Punch's Opera or the Dominion of Fancy, for Punch, having sung it, throws the child out of the window. A History of Nursery Rhymes Then had followed a few days of sorrow and suspense, and then the gentle, harmless, helpless, purposeless life fluttered away. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike That which but a moment before had seemed like a wild, purposeless stampede had resolved itself into an unorganized but determined defensive. The Fifth Ace Pain here, at any rate, so far from being purposeless, owes its existence to the purpose which it subserves. Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 I am sure that the English soldiers, thoughtless though they may be, would not stoop to this sort of purposeless outrage. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Among a large number of works for the pipe-organ, few are so marked by that purposeless rambling organists are so prone to, as the "Fantaisie." Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions A merry-go-round was in full activity—wooden horses and most unseaworthy boats describing a jerky circle to the squeaking of tin whistles and purposeless thrumpings of a drum. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance As he passed the porch where Paul stood, one strong arm protectingly about Lydia, he looked up and the light from the open door struck full on a white, purposeless, vacant smile. The Squirrel-Cage But those who knew that Bill had the true fighter’s scorn for any purely purposeless conflict were more or less concerned and watchful of him. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly It wore on him, this machine-like existence, this blind, unquestioning obedience, days and nights of purposeless waiting, brightened by neither hope nor memory. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It was there in his kindly eyes, in the purposeless fashion in which he fingered his pipe. The Heart of Unaga The alternate purposeless energy and weariful weakness of fever, just as the alternate dry flush and trembling chill of it, distressed him. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Head on, with long legs rising, falling, rising again, striking the ground insanely, like needles taking terrible, impossible and purposeless stitches. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Blossom, my darling, blossom, be a rose Of roses unchidden and purposeless; a rose For rosiness only, without an ulterior motive; For me it is more than enough if the flower un- close. Look! We Have Come Through! They met and passed each other, hurrying, troubled, secretive; the servants stumbled and quarrelled in their purposeless haste. In The Valley Of The Shadow But God’s windings are never wasteful and purposeless. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year Mere courage is restless, impatient, purposeless: but the voyageur was content to remain wherever he could do good, tentative only in the cause of Christ, and distracted by no objects from his mission. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States A lot of what they say doesn't make sense—either bullying, or bragging, or purposeless swearing—but talk is their normal state; when they quiet down it means trouble. The Day of the Boomer Dukes He thought backward upon that which he had undergone; he thought forward upon the dreary purposeless prospect that stretched unendingly before him. From Place to Place He knew to the full how hard it was to hold one's faith in God in face of all that seems amiss and awry, purposeless, blind, and cruel in the world. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 The lugubrious picture of an utterly meaningless world, blind, purposeless, and heartless, which materialistic science reveals, is sufficient to wreck the equanimity of a sensitive and thoughtful mind. Human Traits and their Social Significance New vistas of life open up in the midst of this vast, overgrown, "purposeless," "dingy" city. Personality in Literature The man started again, and Samson began once more his purposeless wanderings about the yard. Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray To be encountered just outside the door were huge flying cockroaches that clung in his hair or buffeted him in the face as they blundered along on purposeless flights. From Place to Place That these should be followed by such terribly harassing flights, culminating in purposeless return to London, Paul's dreadful disorder and present helpless mazes seems direct sentence execution upon Pierre Lanier. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 "It is late," says Mr. Massereene to himself, examining his watch for the fifteenth time as he saunters in a purposeless fashion up and down before the hall door. Molly Bawn To take to the mountains would have been a purposeless folly. In Direst Peril Samson Mountain meanwhile wandered in the same purposeless fashion about the farm, and held dumb converse with himself. Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray The Tyro resumed his purposeless promenade, meditating cheerlessly upon buried hopes. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage The vindictiveness of a purposeless hell has, of course, failed ignominiously as a deterrent from crime. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles A great many people believe that the mind will become less effective, that life will become dull and purposeless, unless they are constantly thinking and planning and arranging their affairs. The Untroubled Mind The world is full of purposeless people, and such people come to nothing. Life and Conduct All her old philosophies seemed falling about her like shed leaves, and her old self seemed to her but a purposeless frivolous chilly creature. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Still sins bring shame to the conscience and tragic consequence to the life, and tiresome work, losing the buoyancy of its first inspiration, drags itself out into purposeless effort and bores us with its futility. Christianity and Progress Movements and contractions due to nervousness are entirely purposeless; they even defy the most earnest efforts at inhibition. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern After the wildness of youth came the deliberate transgressions of maturity, then the more flagrant, because purposeless sins which followed satiety. The Californians And thus I led an invertebrate, purposeless existence. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa I was vaguely ambitious to be great and splendid, and I was down on purposeless boys who didn't behave themselves. We Three I can account for this only on the theory that the enemy's surprise at the audacity of such a charge caused confusion and purposeless aiming of their pieces. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 A woman of impulse, she set off in purposeless pursuit. The Daughters of Danaus Life for him had been a silent, gloomy, and almost purposeless struggle. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen This has much encouraged me in the hope that you will, in time, settle down to business here; and not be contented to lead a purposeless and idle life. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) He turned his keen eyes upon the Clock Tower, and could see that during his purposeless reflections quite five minutes had passed. The Dictator "Listless triflers," "busy idlers," "purposeless busybodies," are seen everywhere. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power And then after a few days of purposeless and irresolute waiting, he made up his mind that he must go again to the West, and see his friend the old priest. Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset The debauches of those unfortunate people who live an unnatural, purposeless existence, affect such a small number that their laws need not be considered here. Civics and Health I don’t like for our visit to be purposeless.” Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle One or two of the daughters of folly went loungingly by—wandering, not altogether purposeless, among the open roads of the Park. The Dictator How hearty and natural he is in comparison with the city boy, who is tempted to turn night into day, to live an artificial, purposeless life. Pushing to the Front Talk was purposeless and commonplace at first, a painful waiting. The Eagle's Heart Their existence seemed shallow, purposeless, infantile, compared to his. Clayhanger You see, I’m feverishly restless by temperament, and accustomed to indulge in all kinds of petty, purposeless activities. The Gold Trail Surely nothing can be conceived more unmeaning, more wearisome in its monotony, more tragic in its joy, more purposeless in its efforts, than man's life, if the life of sense and time be all. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. He knew the loveliness in a profile, he saw always the evanescences of light upon light and purposeless things. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets In all, except a few personal habits, you were neglecting yourself; and this neglect came of your being content to live purposeless in this forgotten hole, and draw your pay without asking questions. Major Vigoureux Such duplicity passed Edwin’s comprehension; it seemed to him purposeless. Clayhanger There is a time in the life of every philosophic and unhappy soul when all human endeavor seems nothing more than the despairing, purposeless activity of an aggregation of puppets. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day The strong, steady, practised stroke, denoting the accomplished oarsman, with which he had urged the little boat through the water, had given way to an idle and purposeless drift. For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution To the feeble, the sluggish and purposeless, the happiest accidents will avail nothing—they pass them by, seeing no meaning in them. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success The whole appears so purposeless, such waste of energy, such unintelligible and irrational self-sacrifice. Letters to His Friends In a seemingly purposeless murder like this, a certain amount of suspicion gathers round the other members of the household. The Hand in the Dark So ended a beastly, tiring, and, for all we ever learned, quite purposeless expedition. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion Now early that morning, while it was yet dark, they were called up from their broken sleep to undertake what to them was another purposeless march. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo The effort to give us an ideally perfect character seems to stimulate his imagination, and leads to a certain intensity of realisation which we are apt to miss in the purposeless school of novelists. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Many people who are frantically trying to whip up their prayer life would do better to get up off their knees and go out and do something about their loveless, purposeless, and undevoted lives. Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships. To and fro, soundless and purposeless, swung the long pendulum. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Infernal machines would be hurled in an apparently purposeless fashion wherever there was a large gathering of people in street or square. The Hippodrome What had seemed to them a purposeless, ghastly march through the mud was now realized to be one of the most brilliant manoeuvres Napoleon had ever undertaken. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo The boy seemed unable to move, so intense was the concentration of his thoughts; his fingers stuck out stiffly in a purposeless, set gesture. While Caroline Was Growing "So have I," said I, turning round on my chair, and joining in the conversation, which seemed less purposeless after I began to take part in it. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son I was greatly relieved, on going out, to find that the warrior was too stupidly drunk, to be actuated by anything beyond an idle, purposeless curiosity. Border and Bastille Now Milly was drifting towards that dead sea of purposeless middle age, and instinctively feared her fate. One Woman's Life He felt himself robbed, distracted, all but purposeless, yet knew he must still go on with Dorothy's affairs, though the other man reap the reward. A Husband by Proxy She spent her days in purposeless loiterings in and out of the cottage, in long reveries and solitary walks. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel I don't think that honestly and deliberately you prefer an exotic, useless, purposeless, parasitic existence to the normal, wholesome life we happily planned. North of Fifty-Three Many women marry simply because they cannot endure an arid and purposeless future. The Fifth Wheel A Novel It all seemed so purposeless now in the broad light of day. The Forfeit The struggle of man, as he sees it, is more than impotent; it is gratuitous and purposeless. A Book of Prefaces Without a fall of man there is no possibility nor even a necessity of redemption; our entire Christian theology would be dealing with shadowy abstractions, unreasonable fears and hopes, and purposeless strivings. Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Still like an epic round, With beautifulness crowned, I read his memory, tenderer every year, Complete with graciousness, Gifted and purposeless, But to my heart as some grand Master dear. Bohemian Days Three American Tales His daily task seemed dull and purposeless, and he was galled by Truscomb's studied forbearance, under which he suspected a quickly accumulating store of animosity. The Fruit of the Tree But he kept up the strange and, to me, purposeless comedy when presently he spoke. The Devil Doctor So Harry went wandering about in a purposeless, disconsolate fashion for some time, till he found himself near Cecil. Sword and Gown A Novel A sense of insignificance fell heavily upon her, bearing down her high sufficiency, making her feel that she was a purposeless spectator on the outside of life. The Emigrant Trail It struck me that our chase was purposeless and dangerous. Brigands of the Moon Her hope of regaining Bessy's confidence had been deceived, and seeing herself definitely superseded, she chafed anew at her purposeless inactivity. The Fruit of the Tree The feasting ended, round the fires they gathered, Wise aged men telling anew their tales Of youth, sweet purposeless youth which dreams of stars The while it gathers weeds—of battles dire. The Rose of Dawn A Tale of the South Sea He rose—purposeless it seemed—sat down again—drew out his watch almost every minute, and answered remarks addressed to him in the wildest manner. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 In the excitement of the recent adventure, he had almost forgotten what had called him forth at that time of night, and now walked on, like one who wanders forth purposeless, into darkness and solitude. The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans Religion without business tends to dreamy, purposeless moral enervation; business without ideal ends and aims to grossness and materialism. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals Constant repinings, ceaseless irritations, purposeless discussions; they wearied my heart, but I could bring no salve nor remedy unless I would have agreed to make a marriage for money. Daisy in the Field Still, Maggie was not an altogether purposeless and thoughtless maiden; thoughts occasionally drifted her way; ideas, when once born in her heart, were slow to die. Polly A New-Fashioned Girl It seemed like the purposeless trick of a child, yet it had led to the presence of the cowled man—and to the presence of Mlle. The Golden Scorpion The sport is so mean, so trivial, so purposeless, that I should go a long way to avoid seeing it now that I know the subject well. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary You may lose your way in the narrow, crooked streets, as purposeless in their direction as the footsteps of the cows who first surveyed them. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches Even the student whose thoughts run on in a purposeless manner over his favourite subject, will merely revive old associations, or at best make a chance discovery of some new knowledge. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education After dinner Cara disappeared, and Benton wandered from room to room with a seemingly purposeless eye, keenly alert for a black gown, a red rose, and a girl whom he could not find. The Lighted Match At first the movements of the ants were extremely erratic and purposeless. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. And, finally, there is our inexperience, our own lack of comprehension, our own purposeless and formless lives. A Girl's Student Days and After He leads a melancholy and purposeless existence, and seems, as the years go on, to grow more morbid. Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence "I suppose this is another of your purposeless jokes," he said, stiffly, after a moment. Under Handicap A Novel But they differ in this from Normal Science—they are alike objectless, purposeless, puerile, frivolous. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural She lay there disconsolate, discouraged—a mere heap, it seemed to herself, weak, purposeless, a soul who had made a failure of life, with no power to alter it. Divers Women I was upon the street, alone, at night, purposeless, homeless, wandering aimlessly from place to place, weakened by hunger, stupefied by despair. Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune He felt, suddenly, that a dark and purposeless world had slipped behind him. The Courage of Marge O'Doone It is, of course, perfectly inconceivable that any reputable British daily could descend to this depth of purposeless and odious vulgarity. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin But in nature nothing is idle or purposeless. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Winston, his hand already grasping the latch of the door, paused and glanced around at her, a sudden revulsion of feeling leaving him unnerved and purposeless. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West Or was their meeting as purposeless as that of which some poet had once written—two pieces of plank-wood touching in mid-ocean and drifting eternally? The Parts Men Play There is no defect of invention, no superfluity of detail, no purposeless stroke in this "owre true tale." Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers I never remember dawdling along in so slow and apparently purposeless a manner as in crossing the arid deserts of Arizona—unless, indeed, it was in travelling by the Manchester and Milford line in Wales. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin Secondly, to be understood by us is not the end of separate substances: while only that is vain and purposeless, which fails to attain its end. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition But his Italian life was not altogether purposeless. Great Italian and French Composers Weary and dishevelled, I was crawling home, purposeless as ever, now vowing I would break with my brother, now quickening my steps that I might sooner wish him all the joy a brother should. The Soldier of the Valley She had answered that all words between them were purposeless, and that she hoped never to see his face again. The House of the Vampire "Mine is not a purposeless exile—nor altogether an unhappy one—now," I said. The Betrayal It does not follow, therefore, that immaterial substances are purposeless, even if they are not understood by us at all. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition It shows, in Macbeth's furious irritability and purposeless savagery, the internal reaction which accompanies the outward decline of his fortunes. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth If it should be argued in reply that the selection in the one case is obviously purposeless, while in the other it is as obviously purposive, I answer that this is pure assumption. Thoughts on Religion Smartness furnishes sufficient excuse for the impertinence of children, and with purposeless satire the daily papers deride the highest dignitaries of the land. Americans and Others Thus the Irish went on living a rude, turbulent life of perpetual purposeless war and bloodshed. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Indeed, all things created would seem, in a way, to be purposeless, if they lacked an operation proper to them; since the purpose of everything is its operation. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition But it was not the easy, idle, purposeless life she was now leading that brought the pretty English widow that strange, unacknowledged feeling of entire content with life. The Chink in the Armour They were not crowded, but they seemed to be moving about like black ants, only in a purposeless kind of way. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege After a dozen or so of purposeless kisses, she spoke— "What is it, my beloved?" Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Yet how curious to think that it was now quite purposeless, had no meaning or use! A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Nevertheless his local movement is not purposeless on that account: for he is not moved to a place for the purpose of acquiring knowledge, but for the purpose of operation. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition But though she had been right in that comparatively trifling matter, she knew that Chester would certainly disapprove of the kind of life—the idle, purposeless, frivolous life—she was now leading. The Chink in the Armour Strong feeling, mental or physical, being, then, the general cause of laughter, we have to note that the muscular actions constituting it are distinguished from most others by this, that they are purposeless. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library To Hal they seemed casual, purposeless; rather prankish, too, like a lot of urchins out on a lark. The Clarion There are florid devices inscribed on it; but now that the walls on each side are levelled, this patriarchal monument has but a ludicrous effect, for it is left standing alone, unsupported and purposeless. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg One is inclined to believe that there is a great deal of hopeless irremediable suffering in the world—suffering of a kind that seems wantonly inflicted, purposeless anguish.... Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College "There's some kind person in this house," thought she, yet lingering awhile in a purposeless manner, unwilling to walk alone into the school-room and face the strange children. Bluebell A Novel What was once thought mere purposeless action, or play, or mischief, as the case might be, is now recognised as the process of acquiring a knowledge on which all after-knowledge is based. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Then, abruptly, as he went, "the job" seemed purposeless. The Clarion |
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