Not only did I feel powerless and directionless, but I also kept having to read about my powerlessness and directionlessness in Time magazine, which was annoying.
That sparked speculation over this being the start of the next move higher for shares, after some directionless trading over recent weeks, said David Jones, chief market strategist at IG Index.
If that's the case, I'm pretty sure that everyone who saw Pulp Fiction – and there are millions of them – immediately went out and made their own cloth-eared, non-linear ensemble gangster movie of questionable worth, stuffed with hoary old has-been actors and endless, desperate, directionless patter.
He has stopped the country's directionless drift, consolidated its elite, given it an impetus westward and mobilised European politicians.
In the event he had to flee to Turkey, while his men were left directionless and disorganised.
People seem to agree that the rioters' only agenda was greed and directionless anger, and that parents and schools lack the authority to bring the young into line.
This means that like a traditional, round balloon and unlike the elongated dirigibles that have hitherto been used as serious modes of commercial transport the craft is "directionless".
Anybody earning more than 202,000 forints a month will have to pay a "temporary contribution".The government's economic policy is erratic and directionless, says Peter Duronelly of Budapest Investment Management, a fund manager.
Last month, for example, parliament's powerful finance standing committee issued a 48-page report attacking UID, calling it hasty, directionless, ill-conceived and saying it must be stopped.Headed by Yashwant Sinha, a stalwart of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, the committee was eager to throw all criticism possible at the scheme.
A cabinet minister, Salman Kurshid, bravely admitted the obvious this month, calling the government directionless.
To spectators on both sides her cautious middle course, with its many abrupt corrections, looks directionless, defensive and eventually doomed.
