The exterior remains very Bauhaus: strong and purposeful but beautifully detailed and very respectful of the site, which looks across the ski slopes to a densely wooded mountainside.
Still, it seems sad and strange that 10 years of audacious design at Dior has come down to a gray suit whose homely fit betrays a purposeful lack of attention to detail.
Darwin, however, went on to explain in detail how seemingly "purposeful" structures, such as the placement of pollen and stigmatic surface of flowers for self-fertilization, evolved through the retention of slight heritable variations that promoted survival and reproduction.
The strings are not deep-pile and sonorous, but refined and pliant; the brass is neither butch nor aggressive, but projects a purposeful directness; the woodwind is perfectly detailed.
Atwood's mix of poetry and sharply observed social detail is devastating, and purposeful, too: a stark warning of what waits in the wings when a quasi-religious government has power over women's bodies.
It was a simple yet purposeful routine that drained the day of details and complications.
In the following section, the details of the women's purposeful or deliberate acts, which describe the core category, are discussed.
The studio space is striped back and has a purposeful industrial feel - without compromising on the smaller details - like the L A Bruket candles wafting from the reception desk.
The rest of the discussion is either detail, which we can resolve, or purposeful delay, which we should not tolerate.
It's smeary, with little pictorial beauty or detail, but its anti-aesthetic is purposeful and, after your eyes stop hurting, watchable and persuasive.
