President Eisenhower was sufficiently worried about the national aimlessness to commission a study of "Goals for Americans".
Another drama executive, Nick Elliott, also scuttled back to ITV after a stint at the BBC, where he found "complete aimlessness" in the top ranks.
Léon and his friends have their aimlessness, sexual and existential.
Afterwards, Mr Hanh and 20 brown-robed brethren led a "walking meditation" through Washington though since the traffic police did not show up, the quiet contemplation was marred by the not-so-Zen honking of angry drivers.Mr Hanh says he believes in "the power of aimlessness" and thinks civilisation is threatened by "voracious" economic growth.
Spotting the danger, Mrs Merkel has countered with what amounts to a soft relaunch of her government.Voters are angered by the coalition's in-fighting and what they see as its aimlessness.
In his view, even Austrian artists have succumbed now to "aimlessness" [Ziellosigkeit], because they are under such pressure to produce something new and original.
Many voted yes in the simple hope that the document would bring stability, ending the short-lived interim governments and, with them, the aimlessness afflicting the country.Among the Sunni Arabs, the opposite was true.
The conversion to a superb study of aimlessness in a rural manor house took place some time between 1890 and 1896; the play was published in 1897.
He greeted the war with enthusiasm, as a great relief from the frustration and aimlessness of civilian life.
The quantity and the quality of his work show that this legendary description of him cannot be accurate: for at least 40 years La Fontaine, in spite of his apparent aimlessness, was an ambitious and diligent literary craftsman of subtle intelligence and meticulous conscientiousness.
All this adulation is a bit much, reckons Eleanor Doughty Eleanor Doughty is dismayed at the news that some universities and colleges are offering rewards like fee reductions or laptops to students with good grades Columnist Eleanor Doughty discusses the aimlessness of the summer vacs In the long summer days Eleanor Doughty has discovered a new way to pass the time.
