Word: purposelessly
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When I shakily re-entered the stream of humanity, or perhaps inhumanity, I noticed things I hadn’t before. The New York walk, for instance, filled with purpose, but purposeless. The faces that looked unwaveringly ahead yet saw nothing. The way that people avoided eye contact at all costs on the subway. The fact that middle seats are almost never taken on even the most crowded rush hour train—people would rather stand. Why is it that when taking public transportation—one of the last places that all segments of society come into close...
Public sentiment following the incident has been, quite frankly, disturbingly callous. All the newspaper and magazine articles I’ve read on the subject have adopted tones of condescension and disgust that someone who supposedly “has everything” would stoop to a seemingly purposeless crime. The Crimson didn’t even cover the story. I have yet to find one sensitive source that shares my opinion that Ryder deserves our sympathy...
...lynch-mob politics, the government of Vajpayee in New Delhi failed, while the BJP administration in Gujarat could barely conceal its support for those mobs. Paradoxically, Muslim fundamentalists, like the hectoring, acid-tongued Syed Shahabuddin, created a platform for the Hindu resurgence in the 1980s with their virulent and purposeless rhetoric. Their successors in 2002 have provided Hindu fanaticism with another cause célèbre. Sadly, in the darker shades of India's patchwork history still lie the present and perhaps the future...
...brilliant flamethrower to the New Yorker magazine. Adler is a scrupulous, usefully unsettling critic, not to be yoked with casual hit men. She eviscerates so elegantly that her corpses remain standing. But her book and its overheated reception invoke the whole delightful genre of vengeful, venomous, and ultimately purposeless, literary assaults...
...idea, as ever, is to make people feel that they have to have purposeless merchandise they do not want. In a restaurant, a waiter will giddily announce, "We have mahi-mahi!" A sensible person would say, "So what?" America says, "I'll take...