"aimless life" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
Example sentence: His aimless life was filled with days of monotony and little joy.
Noel's aimless life is sharply exposed when David and his girlfriend visit the house in Vermont.
In "A Very Close Conspiracy," we're in the woods with Hiron as he recalls his aimless life and makes his last mistake.
His first published work, the novella El pozo (1939; The Pit), treats the aimless life of a man lost within a city where he is unable to communicate with others.
People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening.... " Back and forth he moves between his aimless life at home and his joyless affair at the hotel, and each time the cuts are invisible, driven by the music.
His discovery of the nearly drowned Val makes him a hero, but also sheds an unwanted light on his aimless life, a good portion of which is spent at a dive called the Dockyard, drinking with denizens like Dirty Dan and Irish Mikey, not to mention Fireman Paulie, who happens to be Val's protective father.
I read it at the same time as Andrew Holleran's Grief (Hyperion), a novel which - haunted by reflections on Henry Adams as a widower and Mary Lincoln's aimless life after her husband's assassination - deals calmly and wisely, in exquisite pellucid prose, with some fundamental truths.
Such is the dilemma of Julia, a 26-year-old former competitive swimmer from Texas, now living an aimless yuppie life in a miserable office job and a miserable apartment near Washington, D.C.
The typical landscape of a Newman film was the raw sidestreets of a city or the empty plains, in which a man would try to get a grip on an aimless, violent life.
Mr. Mac himself plays Kelly, the open-hearted Dorothy of the gang, a post-adolescent gay man yearning for escape from his aimless Midwestern life and finding new purpose in joining the march.
"It's hard to reconstruct just how aimless one's life was," says Mr. Varnedoe with a smile as he connects the dots that led him from a genteel childhood in Savannah, Ga., to the New York art world.
The horrifying absurdity of dying young infects this story, and it serves less as a background than as a foreground to the lives of Reents's other characters, whose existences are suffused with self-absorption, romantic grasping and all the other aimless banalities of life in the 20s.
