Word: purposeless
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...Prize. But only the most loyal of her admirers were likely to struggle through the long, tedious, devout series of novels laid in the 20th Century (The Burning Bush, The Wild Orchid) that followed. Sigrid Undset's antique figures might come to violent ends, but her unprincipled and purposeless moderns never come to life...
...dramatic critic, was on the staff of London House and Garden when, in 1921, he published his first novel, Crome Yellow. The dominant note of that book, as of Antic Hay and Those Barren Leaves which followed it, was one of unamiable cynicism over the prevailing moods and purposeless behavior of post-War English intellectuals. In Huxley's characters purpose was always identified with hypocrisy, devotion to any ideal with ineffectuality or self-deception. Between long highbrow talks, usually on science or art, his characters suffered from boredom, made love or deliberately created trouble to avoid it, were about...
Undisciplined, purposeless, irresponsible, the great names in "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age careen from vulgarity to greater vulgarity, while poseurs prey on ignorance and snobbishness, social climbers spend fortunes trying to get accepted. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr fell in love, waited until after her mother's death to plan her divorce. Then her lover died. Harry Lehr had quieted down, showed symptoms of acute melancholia before the War, which finally put an end to his way of life. He grew more & more morose; his mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife...
There are some who look askance at the consistency with which the views of Hearst, Long, and Coughlin coincide. Stout Republicans and staunch Democrats possess insidious forebodings that such a powerful triumvirate may not be as harmless and as purposeless as it seems, with the 1936 elections looming not so far ahead. It will be remembered that the Hearst Syndicate was solidly behind Honest John Garner and solidly opposed to Roosevelt until the latter's nomination seemed a foregone conclusion in the Democratic convention. It must be realized that the good Father's flock of some millions...
...nothing left. The present is a thing dead--an automatic force that drags me along. The future--it doesn't exist. How can it? You were the future. All my high ambitions, our golden plans together, were twined around you. You cut the bonds--they crumpled into a purposeless heap...