Sentence examples for much of a purpose from inspiring English sources

People were interested in six-figure salaries and they viewed the C.I.A. as not having much of a purpose".

There's no problem with adding strings, but they didn't serve much of a purpose here, other than adding a patina of European concert music.

But to hear the band members tell it, they never had much of a purpose for recording the shows in the first place, and hardly listened to them at the time.

But there's also a crime boss (David Hayman) who demands 50 per cent of the duo's ill-gotten gains, a surgeon (Tim Curry) who hates Dr Knox, and various other characters who don't serve much of a purpose – and that's even before we get to cameos by William Wordsworth and an anachronistic Greyfriars Bobby.

This volley of names is a more cute than a spinning beachball or turning hourglass, but in the end it doesn't serve much of a purpose.

The ultra-high accuracy rate touted by Google in its FaceNet paper doesn't survive past 10,000 distractors, and by the time there are a million, despite a hefty lead, it's not accurate enough to serve much of a purpose.

Bellow wrote to Trilling to say (disingenuously) that he had written the novel without much of a moral purpose in mind.

It also never had much of a business purpose outside of state-of-the-art video arcades.

Advocates of these programs, like "The Croatian Half-Hour," "Cosmos FM Greek Radio" and "Haitian Perspective," argued that they served a community function, but not even they suggested that they served much of an educational purpose.

You'd be amazed at how normal this will make you feel and how much of a sense of purpose it creates in your mind".

Their protesting, he noted, may be born as much of a need for purpose as the conviction that they can change the system.