It is a purposeful blurring of the line between operations that are planned and carried out by the terror group's core fighters and those carried out by its sympathizers.
Meant to be Dadaist or surreal, it's the kind of show that consciously walks the line between purposeful wit and meaningless idiocy, that wants to make you laugh at its zany nonsense and reflect upon it philosophically as well.
But Mr. Twombly, a tall, rangy Virginian who once practiced drawing in the dark to make his lines less purposeful, steadfastly followed his own program and looked to his own muses: often literary ones like Catullus, Rumi, Pound and Rilke.
Kate Winslet proclaims the line with a purposeful clarity.
Down the line went the purposeful Ms. Jolie.
For anyone who has ever been even slightly moved by the image of a tall mast, purposeful hull or sweeping sheer line, the view of the fleet assembled at the docks and mooring field that adjoin this salty town is simply staggering.
We still have a fight-or-flight response, "but it's not purposeful when you're standing in line waiting for the clerk to hurry up".
The more our thoughts and actions are in line with our most passionate and purposeful vision for our lives, the more we activate our higher being, and the faster we manifest the "all" in our lives.
But Van Sant, sticking to the main story line, maintains an upbeat tempo and a purposeful mood.
The line fits with other famous lines of purposeful deception, such as Obi-Wan Kenobi's "These aren't the droids you're looking for" in "Star Wars: A New Hope," and the Wizard of Oz's admonition, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain".
