| 单词 | purposelessness |
| 例句 | As he looked out at the rows of men welcoming him, he felt the old shame of poverty, failure, and purposelessness melt away. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad and Boys are surrounded by mom-wife’s belongings, and Dad is stunned by their new lack of purpose, and his own feeling of purposelessness. Max Porter's debut 'Grief Is the Thing With Feathers' soars with complexity 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z To be a bit “death-ish” is to be aware of possible purposelessness and to try to learn to bear it instead of filling it up with all manner of things. Review | Can a woman find true love with a handsome fish? 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The Romantic vision, on the other hand, celebrates the purposelessness of play along with the innate gifts of the child. Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z Elisabeth is whisper thin, but something other than vanity and social mores is eating away at her — boredom, despair, a sense of purposelessness — sending uneasy ripples through her life. ‘Corsage’ Review: A Queen in Quiet Rebellion 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Chekhov’s characters cavort in dachas, while Beckett’s take up residence in trash cans — but they all feel the stifling dread and purposelessness of existence. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Let arbitrary be our co-pilot and purposelessness our destination.” Watch List: ‘Up to Speed,’ With Timothy Levitch, on Hulu 2012-08-10T23:47:45Z The new attitudes seem to have arisen out of a growing sense of the war’s purposelessness, leading to broad disenchantment. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z “The last time a cohort of young people expressed comparable frustration at the emptiness of their lives and the dispiriting purposelessness of their world was in the 1920s,” he writes. Books of The Times: A Call for the Commonweal: Tony Judt?s ?Ill Fares the Land? 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z Famous fans like Stewart Lee have hymned the show's odd profundity: Jackson's ideology throws into relief the purposelessness of our supposedly meaningful lives. Will Adamsdale: the guru of nonsense 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z An echoing sense of frustration and purposelessness haunts the lives of everyone around them. | 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises)': ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:06Z “They gave a sense of purpose to purposelessness,” he said. Capturing the Anarchy in the Sex Pistols 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z The pain at the center of this study of human purposelessness can be hard to take for someone unprepared for the bright glare of Beckett’s unbounded bleakness. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The chaos that ensued from the fall of the Soviet Union only exacerbated the situation of widespread and untreated post-traumatic stress and an overall sense of purposelessness experienced by thousands of ex-soldiers. Russia sends soldiers to war but ignores mental trauma they bring home 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z While religious participation has decreased, depression and anxiety, fueled by a sensation of purposelessness and lack of meaning, are on the rise. Opinion | From the founders of SoulCycle, a new (flawed) kind of church 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z It might haunt you, but it has no bearing on the purposelessness of your current existence. The dark brilliance of Bret Easton Ellis, by Ottessa Moshfegh 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Although Fisherian selection was certainly not ignored, it was ultimately overshadowed by a series of hypotheses that seemed to rescue beauty from purposelessness. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z He falls into the gaps between huge concepts: youth and age, purpose and purposelessness, progress and stasis. New Sentences: From Keith Gessen’s ‘A Terrible Country’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Experts at the time expressed wariness about the new leisure and worried that its apparent emptiness, its purposelessness, would harm health. In Defense of the Not-So-Busy Retirement 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Reasons for this devastating number include isolation and purposelessness. Opinion | Veterans, be thankful for your service 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z What was going on: The same alienation and purposelessness that once defined his life had come to characterize that of so many others. The road to hate: For six young men, Charlottesville is only the beginning 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Yet he is unlikely to suffer from boredom or a sense of purposelessness. The meaning of life in a world without work 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z This is exactly the point of apparent purposelessness: that we can go and enjoy our urban landscape without recourse to purchase or online activity, the digital umbilical cord disconnected at least for a while. 'When streets become supernatural': the joy of walking in cities at night 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z I timed my walks between morning and evening rush hours – working people walked so fast and with such purpose that it highlights your own meandering purposelessness. ‘Ireland is becoming no place for the young… we need brave people willing to be bad citizens’ 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z We may at times suffer from poor relationships or experience insignificance, disempowerment, or purposelessness. How Mentors Shape Moguls, CEOs, Celebrities, And The Next Generation Of Leaders 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z With the purposelessness of the exercise hanging in the air, Park said, “I just had a sick idea.” An Adaptation From ‘Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,’ by Michael Lewis 2014-03-31T09:00:22Z There's definitely a charm to that, that we've retained, where there seems to be this purposelessness for your fighting. E3 2012: Frank O'Connor on Halo 4 – 'Spartan Ops could run for years' 2012-06-04T15:51:00Z The three infantrymen in the wagon were obviously amazed, not so much at being ordered about by a Uhlan, as at the apparent purposelessness of the command. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z C, a thoroughly characteristic example;—characteristic alike in its definiteness, its purposelessness, its isolated unintelligibility. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z You stand too proudly and firmly before me for me to be able to believe so implicitly in the purposelessness of your enthusiasm. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z This is a deed which in its horror and wicked purposelessness stuns the world and cries to heaven for vengeance. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z So either we have to accept that a centralised body will frequently be pessimistic to the point of purposelessness or we have to let go of the idea of a centralised body altogether. The great flu conspiracy 2010-04-07T20:30:00Z It is true she had seen his weakness, she had heard him express the purposelessness of his life; but she had also seen in him another Radford Leicester which was great and strong. The Man Who Rose Again I believe what you call the meaninglessness and purposelessness—the arbitrariness, one may say, of modern experiences of the kind are the surest proofs of their authenticity. Four Ghost Stories The theme would expand as the purposelessness of colonizing still more and more worlds became wider known. Eight Keys to Eden Human words—the words of the most crack-brained among us—take to themselves a weight and dignity from the presence behind them of this cosmic purposelessness. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Branwell's brilliant purposelessness, Celtic gaiety, love of amusement and light heart made him the most charming playfellow, but a very anxious charge. Emily Brontë It was her words, long before her sorrows began, which rendered me conscious of the inert purposelessness of my own existence. Fairy Fingers A Novel I demur, therefore, to the inference of "purposelessness" which I gather that Professor Haeckel draws from these organs. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Until man, defeated by purposelessness, sank back in apathy, lost the very willingness to live—and so died? Eight Keys to Eden There are moments when, as it has been said, "every one is an atheist, from archbishops downwards," when a sense of the purposelessness and futility of perpetual combat seizes the most ardent. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles It means the selecting and simplifying of essentials into an ideal shape; and therefore it implies the absence of all superfluity, incongruousness, bombast, extravagance or purposelessness. Platform Monologues Also I had noticed the curious purposelessness of their salvage, as though in trying to save everything they succeeded in saving nothing that was of any consequence. Leaves from a Field Note-Book The hush of the mountains, the silence of the plain, the vastness, the emptiness, the seeming purposelessness of it all, irritated and oppressed her spirit. The Iron Furrow Within purposelessness, disorientation, and futility in lifeOs wanderings his was the global experience of the majority. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America A second cause for our uncertainty lies in the almost universal human habit of purposelessness. Analyzing Character He brought out, sharply cut and certain, the immense effect of purposelessness in London that I was already indistinctly feeling. Tono Bungay The tentacles swayed and struck like living arms, and, save for the helpless purposelessness of these movements, it was as if some wounded thing were struggling for its life amid the waves. The War of the Worlds Eliminate selection of detail and personal vision, and art becomes not only coextensive with life, but shares its confusion and its apparent purposelessness. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I He's a quiet soul, who ponders on the purposelessness of nature. The Road to Damascus And, indeed, in his imagination, her spirit seemed to flutter over them in the solid, solemn room, reassuring through its very lightness and purposelessness. A Fountain Sealed For years and years Mr. Darrow has been whimsically deflating the illusions in which man hides from the purposelessness of the cosmos. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago When he had been taken from her, the foundations had been shaken, and she found herself crippled by a horrible sense of emptiness and purposelessness. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People Next it must be protested that the smallness and particularity of the questions upon which historical discussion rages are no proof either of its general purposelessness nor of their insignificance. First and Last They must march fear and disorder and purposelessness away. Marching Men What wears the soul out is not the work of life itself—it is its drudgery, its monotony, its blind vagueness, its apparent purposelessness. The Warriors Professor Haeckel has invented a new and convenient name "Dysteleology," for the study of the "purposelessnesses" which are observable in living organisms—such as the multitudinous cases of rudimentary and apparently useless structures. Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 And if beneath the surface there lay hidden the dangerous flaw of purposelessness, no one knew—at least, so she believed. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People The problem of immigration here reveals that purposelessness that exists in the affairs of Canada even more than those of other nations. Letters from America From sheer purposelessness he wandered back again into the hall, and here came his first gleam of returning sensation. The Evil Shepherd But it is not strange that the purposelessness of the commander should result in half-hearted work by the subordinates. The Campaign of Chancellorsville A chill sense of loneliness, of purposelessness, numbed her being. The Old Wives' Tale The whole thing seemed a mysterious mixture of purposelessness and contentment. The Altar Fire The young man entered the room with the quick strides but the mechanical purposelessness of embarrassment. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's His purposelessness and his love for Robert alone kept him where he was. Robert Falconer He resolved that for him there would be no more drifting, no more purposelessness. Betty Zane The finding of him is salvation from the purposelessness of life. God the Invisible King Now there is nothing to bear, except a blank purposelessness which eats the heart out of me. The Altar Fire |
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