He said that, at the time, he felt fat, unloved, "passionless" and purposeless.
It is depressing to think that life is purposeless and that evolution has no higher destination.This criticism applies to many believers in evolution who are not actually workers in the field, as well as those who reject the theory.
Yet whereas her premiership was controversial in pursuit of a transformative goal, his has been a study in purposeless unpopularity.Meanwhile David Cameron, the current Conservative leader, is in one sense the first post-Thatcherite holder of that office; only now have the clefts in the party left by her ousting healed.
The slaughter appears in that light almost purposeless and, save in partisan memory, without lasting effects.Fear and anger, in short, seem to have taken charge.
Why is the common perception of his government that it is drifting and purposeless?
Other symptoms of rheumatic fever include nodules beneath the skin and skin rashes, the most typical of which is erythema marginatum; Sydenham chorea, a nervous system manifestation marked by emotional instability and purposeless, involuntary movements of the arms and legs; abdominal pain; nosebleeds; weakness; and loss of appetite and body weight.
The fall of the empire gave him, from 1815 to 1818, a time of uninterrupted study at the Pension Cordier and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, after which he graduated from the law faculty at Paris, where his studies seem to have been purposeless and irregular.
The ridiculous, purposeless behaviour and talk give the plays a sometimes dazzling comic surface, but there is an underlying serious message of metaphysical distress.
The stories (lithographed in little oblong albums containing up to 100 pages) are purposefully purposeless, flow with calculated non sequiturs, and make digression a narrative principle.
Athetosis, slow, purposeless, and involuntary movements of the hands, feet, face, tongue, and neck (as well as other muscle groups).
"Play," wrote the German theorist Carl Diem, "is purposeless activity, for its own sake, the opposite of work".
