Word: purposelessness
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...insisted that before anything else could be done, Gemayel must abrogate his agreement with Israel. So he went off to Washington to seek support from the Reagan Administration. The agreement was not really of any use to anybody, but the Israelis treasured it as their only souvenir of a purposeless war. The Administration did not even consider helping Gemayel in his crisis. It urged him to try a little harder and sent him home...
...treatment of sexuality, whether heterosexual or homosexual, at times insults the audience's sense of propriety Kevin Jennings as the foppish Autolycus is particularly confusing: appearing out of nowhere. Autolycus' frenzied gesticulations, night-clubbish singing of Shakespeare's brilliant poetry and sexual rapport with several characters seem unnecessary and purposeless...
...Crimea: "Am I to tell these things or hold my tongue?" He asked the question of the trade. Today one normally expects that journalists will not hold their tongues, perhaps because Russell and others did not, or perhaps because it is common now to regard war as inglorious, even purposeless. In a sense, journalists always have been the enemies of war. From a tactical viewpoint, one almost might say it lies in the interests of the participants to kill them off, since inevitably they hold the enterprise up to the light...
...bumbling French detective, transplanted entirely intact from the Pink Panther films, discovers the truth about Victoria's gender, but not before several broadly comic mishaps. The detective shares Inspector Clouseau's inescapable fate, as his opponents discredit him without much trouble before the film ends; his brief appearance is purposeless but amusing...
...lecturing on adult education. The assumption is that art can tangibly improve the quality of a person's life--stimulating and sharpening his imagination, so, in the words of British playwright Arnold Wesker, he can make "imaginative leaps of understanding and perception" without which he would be "insensitive, purposeless, charmless and finally, destructive...