purposelessness

• “Inspiration in a Cup & Fresh Moab Coffee! which fills me up to a large extent and quells any feeling of purposelessness, which is always good.”

  Progressive Bloggers

• “I demur, therefore, to the inference of "purposelessness" which I gather that Professor Haeckel draws from these organs.”

  Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin

• “The results of all this, as even a fool could have predicted, were ruined families and shattered lives, a sense of purposelessness and ennui, and to top it off, some rather embarrassing infections.”

  Virus

• “Ever since his passing nine years ago, I believe she has been feeling a bit lost and possibly a sense of purposelessness and some unhappiness.”

  The Huffington Post: Dennis Merritt Jones: How to Make Yourself a Better Person, and the World a Better Place

• “Everything in the facility is so automated that they can't stop working despite the purposelessness of the tasks.”

  The Huffington Post: Matt Cohen: Playing Games at Work: A Look at 5 Video Games with Corporate Settings

• “Yet there remains a vague purpose to his purposelessness, a low-simmering desire to recognize himself in his surroundings: "I wanted to find the line that connected me to my own part in these stories.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Roaming on Urban Streets

• “The last time a cohort of young people expressed comparable frustration at the emptiness of their lives and the dispiriting purposelessness of their world was in the 1920s: it is not by chance that historians speak of a “lost generation.””

  Behold, the Mother of All Saturday Linkdumps! « Gerry Canavan

• “Priming the economic pump by giving unemployed Americans jobs, and incidentally creating some of the 20th century's great works of art, literature and architecture, was a way to stimulate the economy from the bottom up, and simultaneously quell that great demon of purposelessness that is the root of so much social instability in any society.”

  The Huffington Post: Aemilia Scott: Your Conservative Friend Is Actually a Big Pinko. Or: How We Got Out of the Great Depression.

• “It is about a loss of connection with precisely the natural world that we are so relentlessly destroying; it is about a gnawing sense of purposelessness and aloneness that arises directly from our divorce from nature.”

  The Huffington Post: Arthur Rosenfeld: Evolving to Survive: What We Must Do

• “It is just this purposelessness that makes art so compelling, and I suppose for some, infuriating or confusing.”

  The Huffington Post: Annie Buckley: On Seeing: An Internet Exhibition

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