Sentences with word «aimlessness»

Colleges and universities face ethical difficulties primarily because they are reflections of the moral aimlessness of our society as a whole.

You're telling me you're not driven by aimlessness?

«Permanent Midnight,» set in Los Angeles with an eye toward grit and a sense of aimlessness in paradise, is frequently painful to watch.

In short, colleges and universities face ethical difficulties primarily because they are reflections of the moral aimlessness of our society as a whole.

An exception to the general aimlessness is Adam Gellin, a scholarship student who, by following all the rules and acing every test, hopes to ride a Rhodes scholarship to the top of the capitalist heap.

Thus, when the universe is «explained» in terms of these peculiar contrivances the apparent aimlessness and lack of mentality that we read out of rocks and grains of sand is read back into the universe as a whole and into its constituent occasions.

His debut album, American Teen, can best be described as a millennial anthem of shrugging aimlessness.

As the tidal ambiances of the people's wills meander about in varigrated aimlessness, the waves of progressiveness rise higher and higher.

Lobby hacks either shrivel up into aimlessness during the recess or wander around media offices desperately looking for something to do.

Retardation to momentum is further well - secured by unevenness to pacing, because, at 106 minutes, this film's seemingly tight runtime is achieved through a combination of thinning and bloating, placing little attention to exposition, and plenty of attention to repetitious, almost episodic filler, which wear down momentum until aimlessness sets in, slowly, but surely wearing down dramatic bite.

If you're willing to go along with the show's carefully conceived aimlessness, it has the pull of a book of inter-connected short stories.

Garden State may not define an entire generation, but it has a sharp eye for the passive aimlessness that can take hold when young adults realize there's no handbook on how to find purpose and meaning in life.

But there comes a point at which the film's aimlessness becomes far more evident than one would like, as Pink - working from Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, and Mark Perez's screenplay - places the emphasis on the plotless exploits of the various characters (and while some of this stuff is admittedly quite funny, the majority of it is just irredeemably silly).

Martin McDonagh rebounds from the cheeky aimlessness of Seven Psychopaths with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the finest balance yet of his bleak sense of humor and offbeat moral sincerity.

With such aimlessness, the characters are often lost and many moments are strained.

Admittedly, I did chuckle a lot throughout the film, but the self - indulgent aimlessness of the film's «plot» always had me asking the question «what is the point?»

She still suffers from the same kind of aimlessness found in Girls and countless «mumblecore» films, but there's never any pretense going on with her.

Perhaps the best way to approach All These Sleepless Nights, then, is not as documentary or even as drama, but as an abstract feature - length snapshot of youth in transition from the devil - may - care aimlessness of adolescence, to the initial agonized stirrings of adulthood.

She's wracked with survivor's guilt, depression, and the kind of can't - get - out - of - bed aimlessness that makes holding down a job difficult.

James White (played by Christopher Abbott) is a 21 - year - old whose life is in a kind of disarray that's sometimes indistinguishable, at least from the outset, from typical millenial aimlessness.

David Thompson parroted these claims in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film when he stated that Wise's «better credits are only the haphazard products of artistic aimlessness given rare guidance» and complained that his filmography was merely a «restless, dispiriting search among subject areas.»

Unlike Garden State, where love interests of relative quirkiness are paired together in ways that solely accentuate said quirks, the relationship that develops between Roger and Florence is something like a mating dance of the life - incapable, it is actually in its own way kind of beautiful in its start - stop aimlessness.

A great deal of this thriller from actor / writer / director Joel Edgerton works, sometimes impeccably so, but a combination of plot holes and a slight aimlessness do weigh it down.

If, like me, that makes you cringe at the potential hours of minecraft - style aimlessness that lie ahead, worry you not about that either.

Shot with 16 mm black and white film, the narrative unfolds beautifully with provocative angles bringing to life the characters of his iconic photographic series documenting the drugs, sex and youthful aimlessness of Clark's hometown.

Unfortunately, implementation of cleaner technologies has been thwarted by federal aimlessness.

Setting a written meeting agenda with time allocations to specific topics avoids aimlessness and unhelpful tangents.

Many lack self - control and are increasingly prone to alienation, drug use, violence and a general aimlessness.

This is to say that human life, in spite of its suffering, turmoil, and sometimes its apparent aimlessness, is still meaningful.

, can best be described as a millennial anthem of shrugging aimlessness.

Much emptiness and aimlessness in prayer could be avoided by a better understanding of its structure.

What we need to engage in are acts of imagination that penetrate the apparent opacity and aimlessness of the historical present, and reveal how persons and institutions are accomplishing their destinies in relation to the sovereign God of history.

«Aimlessness is advisable.»

I was given «aimlessness,» «neglect» and «oversight.»

Those who have their «heads hidden in the sand - piles of uneasiness» are deemed as os - trac - ized lemmings blindly running to and leaping off the cliffs of «dutied» aimlessness.

Aquinas thought of curiositas as largely caused by acedia — i.e. spiritual laziness or aimlessness.

In spite of what some contemporary scientific skeptics have written about the aimlessness of evolution, it is hard to miss the generic sort of directionality (toward more intensely organized complexity) that the cosmic story has followed thus far.

We see this in both the aimlessness of popular culture and the actively managed withdrawal of American international influence.

I recognize the formlessness, the aimlessness, and the disunity implicit in my own insignificance, my mortality, my ultimate dissolution....

It is sadly true that the «best» are slowly withdrawing their commitment to an increasingly philistine academic culture and its institutional forms, filling merely the outward requirements of their roles and suffering the malaise of aimlessness and false consciousness.

Faculty and students continue to operate in a spiritual climate where even the best are filling merely the outward requirements of their roles and suffering the malaise of aimlessness and false consciousness.

What can be better for Lisa and me than to be among these lunatics, laughing with them, teasing them, affirming them in their beauty and aimlessness, and receiving their reckless affection?

Such groups can resist the aimlessness produced by the end of utopias suffered after the «collapse» of socialism.

There is also this sense of aimlessness that I get in summer.

But that kind of aimlessness could end up being counterproductive.