Sentence examples similar to worked to no purpose from inspiring English sources

"They're works to a purpose," Harrison said.

This frustration can lead to a lack of engagement when people feel that they are working for no purpose.

Sixteen players had worked hard for nearly three hours to no purpose whatever.

We connect our daily work to our purpose.

They had moved from making objects merely for physical use, such as stone axes, and had begun to create works that had no purpose other than to reflect the patterns and sights they were experiencing around them.

The failure-to-disperse law was no longer going to work for that purpose.

Thus, their difficult technological work has no purpose.

Some works are reconfigured to no great purpose.

They come to work with a purpose and have clarity.

And in "Miller's Crossing" (1990), a willfully somber look, indebted to "The Godfather" and 1930's gangster pictures, does little to illuminate a needlessly complicated yarn that lifts moods and motifs from the work of Dashiell Hammett to no emotional purpose.

"They refuse to work on purpose.