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How to use purposeless in a sentence

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Prominent Darwinists from Stephen Gould to Richard Dawkins to John Maynard Smith insist that evolution is unguided and purposeless.
It is easy to forget that prior to the terrorist attacks, the president appeared purposeless and adrift.
This planned spontaneity might sound like a paradox, but I usually find that chaotic and purposeless free time is not worth a great deal.
Scientists continue to find order and purpose in an orderless and purposeless universe which can nonetheless produce structures of great beauty.
For those who want to be more spoon-fed, long takes of the two leads walking will probably seem purposeless.
Insomnia, Nolan's entrance into major studio film-making, was an empty and purposeless work, again, nearly all posturing.
Many scientists believe the dogma that the blind, purposeless forces of evolution created all the genetic information in plants.
It is however for the Board itself to protect its prestige and reputation by not being misled into purposeless action.
They organize the missions not as a purposeless manifestation of despair but to attain a certain political aim.
Many there are now convinced of what they have lost in the last half a century due to purposeless confrontation.
It is true that I despise purposeless killing, and regard it as an act of vandalism deserving the severest condemnation.
It is purposeless drama and disappointing as this came from the hands of noted director Krishna Vamsee.
But this matchless capacity for purposeless lies has proven a drain on the charm resources of both.
He keeps introducing characters who have no bearing on the story, and there are far too many purposeless scenes.
Wilful, purposeless, ambivalent cruelty seems to have been a major theme of the rudderless summer government.
Without them you have not got a society at all, you have purposeless anarchy.
An alienated and fearful public is the flip side of an isolated and purposeless elite.
The son of former partisans and communist militants, he leads a purposeless existence, unable to develop any meaningful relationships.
In the face of such opprobrium the reader senses a personal derision, of meaningless and seemingly purposeless lives turned in on themselves.
It leaves a disconcerting sense of loneliness and purposeless to things.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In the monotony of a purposeless existence, most humans do no more than that.
I am not a purposeless bit of jetsam flung out on the ocean of time to be tossed about helplessly.
It seems to be a habit of Munich trains to start off in this purposeless way.
Chicago is leaderless, purposeless, slovenly, down at the heels.
To take to the mountains would have been a purposeless folly.
And that universal gesture seemed as vain as it was vast, as vain as if that wind were whistling about some unpeopled and purposeless planet.
She led a blameless, unoccupied, and apparently purposeless life.
It would there have seemed purposeless, degrading and truly monstrous.
A tasteless and barbaric display, a vulgar generosity, an ignorant and purposeless prodigality.
Without him life would be stagnant, energy and virtue purposeless.
Another item had been added to that constant and apparently purposeless series of small mysteries which had succeeded each other so rapidly.
It is possible for action to be at once intentional and purposeless.
Our dip into the early history of South Africa is not purposeless.
He went as slowly as we, with an indescribable, purposeless gait.
For indeed such clumsy forwardness is not only unseemly, not only useless and purposeless, but it does harm to art and to the spread of true taste.
By apparently careless and purposeless questioning I learned from my gossipy landlady that the young woman's bedroom adjoined my own, a party-wall between.
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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