Sentence examples for is purposeless from inspiring English sources

Yet my protest on their behalf is purposeless.

"Play," wrote the German theorist Carl Diem, "is purposeless activity, for its own sake, the opposite of work".

But the very idea of evolution is that nature has no "ends": evolution is purposeless and without design.

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.

The more than eleven thousand participating athletes represent two hundred and six countries, which duke it out over sixteen days in a ritualized display of prowess that is as pricey as it is purposeless.

Or is the difference between Ms. Abramovic and Mr. Blaine just a matter of setting, one appearing at MoMA the other boosting ratings on daytime TV? "Art, by definition, is purposeless," said Klaus Biesenbach, the director of MoMa P.S. 1 and a guest at the dinner party.

Critics proclaimed that it had lost its energy; it was purposeless, over.

Friday, asked whether state tests might be purposeless for Scarsdale, Dr. Mills said: "I can't ignore what they did.

Exercises purporting to "strengthen" the lens muscles are purposeless, Dr. Koretz said, since the muscles are already strong: it is their position and fibrous attachments that may hamper their ability to move.

That is generally reasonable: you cannot punish someone for disseminating information that is legally published first, because that would be purposeless as it is already available and second, because if the initial publication is legal the further dissemination cannot be illegal.

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.