Timothy Bromage at NYU College of Dentistry agrees, but he says just because the chin didn't evolve for some grand purpose doesn't make it valueless. (discovermagazine.com)
When the Genesis spacecraft crash - landed on a Utah salt flat on September 8, its grand purpose — to collect atoms that would help explain our solar system's origin — seemed lost. (discovermagazine.com)
The boring battles and their tortured aftermath — the roll calls of the noble dead — the reiterations of the grand purpose — and the multiple scenes of Katniss hugging people while staring over their shoulders with an expression of perfect misery — all these can become not just bearable but reasonably amusing, if you just allow three words into your mind: «This is funny.» (sfchronicle.com)