purposelessness

Examples of purposeless

purposeless
Before coma supervenes behaviour may be overactive and purposeless (delirium).
One innovation followed another to infinitude, just like mindless and purposeless emergent products.
The second assumption is that somewhere out there one can find enough innocent, purposeless money, money with no political goals or interests behind it.
The involuntary, purposeless, non-repetitive movement characteristic of this disorder usually permits a rapid diagnosis.
The argument that has been more or less accepted is that such questions seek to elicit short, restricted student responses and are therefore purposeless in the classroom setting.
Kant claimed that 'the beautiful' is by definition that which is 'purposeless'.
Sennett's term drift, which he sees as the passive and purposeless going along with the times, also applies after a working life.
Sydenham's chorea is a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by emotional instability, muscular weakness, and purposeless but conscious movements.
Why should we seek guidance from a purely purposeless nature in which the name of the game seems to be the dominance of the mightiest, until they, too, must die?
Is it surprising that we are creating a desperately unhappy, purposeless, valueless underclass when we pay youngsters to do nothing?
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