Aimless hours pass, thoughts drift.
We'd scribble solipsistically in diaries; we'd lie on our twin beds listening to mind-bending music that would become seemingly integral to our newly forming identities; we'd spend aimless hours just hanging with friends, driving around or smoking pot or doing nothing at all.
The boys and I would gather on our street in Tripoli during the aimless afternoon hours.
After an hour of aimless wandering, I found myself in the Spices Souk, where the young merchant demanded to know if I was an American.
He was angry, and the anger made him recognizable in a way that an hour of aimless chatter (mostly hers, it was true) had not: he was new to New York.
Here, based on uncounted hours of aimless Web surfing, are some good, bad or ugly -- but mostly offbeat -- sites devoted to topics related to automobiles and driving.
As the Ohio, one of Off Off Broadway's most distinctive and best-loved spaces, prepares to close at the end of the month, Mr. Lyons has transformed those hours of aimless gazing into inspiration for a play.
Given hours of aimless footage — let's call that life itself — marketing services around the country now produce minifilms in which, to the tune of "Dream On" or "Whoomp!
Bruce Wiener, an American who capped off a family holiday with a day on the set of a Bollywood remake of "Stepmom," described hours of aimless waiting followed by a brief stint sitting in a school auditorium far from the camera's lens.
By R. Butterfield and Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, April 8, 1939 P. 11 The Segal Keyless Roller Skate Company has equipped its product with a sort of pedometer "so that roller skating will no longer mean hours of aimless gliding until aching muscles tell us to stop".
