This confusion of casual violence, dirt-black comedy, and bitter misapprehension is typical of Jones's movie, the effect — and, I suspect, the purpose — of which is to leave us both wistful and soured.
Darwin's theory of sexual selection has disquieted and irritated many otherwise sympathetic evolutionary theorists because, I suspect, it allows purposes and intentions back into evolution through an unlocked side door.
Scott Shane, a member of that team, said in an email that it's "very tricky to abstain from even marginally newsworthy stuff because of a suspected sinister purpose on the part of the hacker or leaker".
It's hard not to suspect their primary purpose is to decorate the room, unobtrusively, when it gets pressed into service for private functions.
It's hard not to suspect rushing for political purposes; perhaps there was a "unique level of stakeholder involvement" on the part of the Gore campaign.
Western powers say they suspect Iran's real purpose in uranium enrichment is to develop the ability to make nuclear weapons.
The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany are scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss sweetening incentives they offered Iran in 2006 to curb its nuclear program, which they suspect has a military purpose.
If he fails either to bring them in or to prosecute them, Nigerians will suspect that the chief purpose of the panel is to embarrass Mr Obasanjo's political rivals.
Its effect here is to saddle us with two Mr. Spocks, one from the vulnerable present and one from the comforting future, and its main purpose, I suspect, is to drag in Leonard Nimoy, who these days makes Bela Lugosi look like Zac Efron, and thus insure that all the "Star Trek" scholars in the audience will have to hurry home and change their underwear.
