Sentence examples for lost purpose from inspiring English sources

At the Home Office, he seemed to personify that department's curious mixture of casual authoritarianism, well-meaning liberalism and administrative fallibility.His charge that the prime minister has lost purpose and direction is also a bit unconvincing.

I remember my relatives calling my parents, lamenting that I had lost purpose in life and pretty much giving their condolences.

Muriel reveals that she was once housekeeper to a family who had her train her younger replacement and now, having been forced out of the home and into retirement, she feels that she has lost purpose in her life.

But there are others who stay out of fear — fear that they will grow old alone, fear of penury and homelessness, fear of losing purpose.

Without the admiration of others, her pain loses purpose; while rooted in the delusion of control, her addiction is exposed as something very much out of control; obsessive; devoid of reason or justification.

It takes an enormous amount of discipline to hold steadfastly to a notion of technology as valuable only in the proper context, outside of which it loses purpose.

I, nevertheless, realized that it lead me slowly lose purpose.

Like any person with ambition and a vision, if you can't grow, you lose purpose".

Without desire, people do not go out and do things they used to do, they lose connection with others, they lose purpose and their symptoms increase, sometimes immobilizing them.

The main difference is that explorers get lost on purpose, with purpose.

Purposeful existence was sustained when it had lost all purpose.