Sentences with phrase «by aimless»

Our favourite way to explore a city (or best of all, an Italian hilltown) is by aimless wandering with frequent breaks for eating.

The simple thrust of the story gets muddled by aimless meetings with the deceased's acquaintances.

SUMMARY OF THOUGHTS: This is 40 features good acting and a few hilarious moments, but the film is crippled by aimless moments and a long running time.

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Viewed as a distraction for the flaky or a self - indulgent form of procrastination by many, even science has ganged up on daydreaming, with previous research showing aimless mind wandering tends to make you unhappy.

Bigger Thomas stands on a Chicago street corner watching airplanes flown by white men racing against the sun and «Goddamn» he says, the bitterness bubbling up like blood, remembering a million indignities, the terrible, rat - infested house, the humiliation of home - relief, the intense, aimless, ugly bickering, hating it; hatred smolders through these pages like sulphur fire.

The postulate that life originates purely by chance out of mindless and aimless shuffling of atoms and molecules is all part of our central question here concerning the logic of an emergent view of nature.

1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not REDEEMED with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying: «You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have REDEEMED us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, Revelation 14:3 They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty - four thousand who were REDEEMED from the earth.

Thus, on the one band, the analysis of what an occasion is qua subject requires a reference to what the same occasion will be qua superject; for the subject is not an aimless, creative process, but is guided instead by its ideal of what the superject or outcome of that process is to be (PR 130).

«Good» is the movement in the direction of home, «evil» is the aimless whirl of human potentialities without which nothing can be achieved and by which, if they take no direction but remain trapped in themselves, everything goes awry.

Walt says science tells us that the universe is just particles in aimless movement, but Walt is haunted by the astronomical odds of choosing to do something so out of character as going to a bar and then striking up a conversation with Jane's father.

The third goal was a high ball into the box, an aimless header by Benteke that found Allen who made a rare and exceptional finish.

A high ball into the penalty box, an aimless header by Benteke, and a rare exceptional finish by Joe Allen, that is what happens to give justice to an entertaining match and committed performance from two teams.

But then it doesn't explain the awful onfield displays by a dispirited and hopelessly aimless bunch of players.When you clearly have enough firepower to win the game and you do nt?

By blocking the full - backs» runs Poznan also managed to split the back six from the front four, resulting in a lot of aimless passing between them then a long ball upfield that would gift possession to Poznan.

Instead of patiently unraveling life's secrets gene by gene, we can now read them at breakneck speed — thanks in great part to an ingenious, admired, despised, once aimless and now wealthy biologist named Craig Venter.

Sobered by his widowed mother's wedding to her brother - in - law Danno, an aimless young man decides to hitchhike from Seattle to his home in San Francisco and ends up accepting a ride from two apparently brain - damaged twins who keep him alternately puzzled and entertained for most of the journey.

No doubt though, Willis fans won't feel too disappointed by his trademark creation of aimless, uninspired carnage even though they know his better days are far behind him.

Or, at least, that seems to be what it's after, as Richard J. Lewis's lengthy but aimless saga generally goes about its funny - serious business without a guiding purpose, detailing the ups and downs of Barney's matrimonial days and nights with so little verve or intention — and with so little of the unreliable - narrator ambiguity implied by its title and flashback structure — that the effect is like reading a dead man's day calendar.

But now the piper has come for payment, and the price is the manifold shortcomings of Green Lantern: a woefully underdeveloped script; dubious casting (I don't care how many billion galaxies are out there: in none of them is Tim Robbins the father of Peter Sarsgaard); slack, aimless direction by Martin Campbell; and a set of decidedly uneven performances.

A menace of a different sort shadows the aimless heroin addicts of Heaven Knows What (which, unlike Pasolini, quickly acquired U.S. distribution, by Weinstein's RADiUS shingle).

By contrast, The Interrupters feels redundant and aimless.

Lee Daniels captures the relentless pursuit of pleasure by almost every notable character; it's at once aimless and acutely aware of its overt campiness.

Although Burton did give his audience some grief by thinning his second act into a somewhat aimless walkabout (Mr. Melin had plenty to say about this in his review), the overall result was fairly true to Lewis Carroll's story.

by Walter Chaw Borrowing heavily from Disney's aimless and laggard Dinosaur, Fox and Blue Sky Animation's Ice Age is burdened from the outset by the vaguely disturbing reality that the titular epoch spells doom for most of the heroes of this animated mistake.

Those less excited by the prospect of nerding out on social theory and wryly barbed situational humor may find themselves checking their watches — but even when it seems aimless, The Square is compulsively watchable.

Stanfield plays Cassius «Cash» Green, an aimless young man who finds he has a gift for making sales over the phone when he uses his «white voice,» which in the movie is provided by David Cross.

The often impossibly tedious narrative is compounded by stilted dialogue that rarely sounds authentic or even plausible (ie it's as if everything's been translated into English directly from another language), while the total lack of tension ensures that the movie's second half, ostensibly designed to operate as a suspenseful thriller, feels even more aimless and irrelevant than anything preceding it.

The camera lopingly observes Boris through these exploits, frequently forcing us to identify with his stultifying nervousness by mimicking his immobility and aimless turns of the head via stable eye line shots and unhurried pans.

Language: Bengali Genre: Drama MPAA rating: PG Director: Satyajit Ray Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Alok Chakravarty, Sharmila Tagore Plot: Apu is an aimless young man is invited to a wedding by an old college friend.

As always with Hong's films, Oki's Movie goes through stretches where it seems aimless and self - indulgent, followed by stretches where it's sharp, funny, and poetic.

For Duncan (a reclusive teenager played by Liam James), his enlightenment arrives at a waterpark run by Owen (a juvenile, aimless adult played by Sam Rockwell).

Chris O'Dowd stars as an aimless young man who's inspired by the death of a great aunt to explore his roots.

This joyless and interminable soul - searching comedy squanders a wealth of talent and taxes your patience with aimless, unappealing storytelling that's bogged down by muddled contemporary social commentary.

After arresting work as an aimless skinhead in Mike Leigh's Meantime, he delivered two of the most humane, indelible performances of that decade, both as doomed real - life figures: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, one of the most searching films in all of British cinema, and the impish playwright Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (directed by Frears and written by Alan Bennett).

Directed by Nima Nourizadeh and written by Max Landis, the action - comedy stars Eisenberg as an aimless stoner who's secretly a highly trained operative.

Aimless Love by Billy Collins Collins» popularity rests on his accessible, witty verse that offers both subtle observation and a gentle chuckle.

The day goes by, with seemingly aimless exploring and delights, as the pair get closer and closer to their goal.

(Hell, much as I love the Harry Potter series beginning to end, there are still large chunks of the latter books that I wish an editor had stepped in and said «Look, we need to pare this down...» Or had told her «Break your rule about only one POV, because frankly, what's going on with the student rebellion at Hogwarts would be WAY more interesting than pages and pages of aimless wandering / camping by Harry and co.»)

Words commonly used by owners in describing this problem are dazed, confusion, disorientation, forgetful of past learning and pleasures, trapped in corners, spacey, aimless wandering, less playful, more irritable.

It was the perfect place to indulge our favourite slow travel activity of aimless wandering, and it's easy to get pleasantly lost in the cobblestone lanes that climb steeply from the centre, turning a corner to find yet another tiny plaza with locals chatting on benches shaded by manicured trees.

A tired, awkwardly - paced and awfully - written campaign is held feebly aloft by a scaffold of quick - time events, aimless (and enforced) swooning over graphical fidelity and shooting gallery sequences of distinct mediocrity.

Unflinching in their loyalty but aimless without direction, these multicolored munchkins will follow in formation behind the player and will perform a variety of contextual actions when directed by the player - usually by being thrown to the target, although a whistle command will also send out the entire horde at once to the designated target.

I wound up taking on quite a few quests simply to add direction to my aimless sailing, though I still found myself sidetracked by new discoveries.

But the new setting proves utterly compelling — those who derived the most joy from Far Cry games by simply bimbling around its map, exploring and hunting in a deliciously aimless manner will absolutely love Primal.

People here are really missing the point of this series, it is really not about power ups, character progression or a vertical platforms, it's about getting lost in a maze and ending up enjoying the aimless wandering more than the reaching of your destination, and that is something mostly missing in modern games where it is unconceivable to leave the player cluelessly exploring without a defined objective (even in Metroid Prime there was a hint system ON by default to avoid ADD sufferers from abandoning the game).

The epic slowness of the Medusa episode, survivors drifting for days on an aimless raft, has been replaced by the instant, matter - of - fact presence of the wreck: an almost too perfect illustration of philosopher Paul Virilio's intuition of the accident as the ultimate aim of speed.

The British works look aimless and trivial compared with the pieces here by Pistoletto, Merz and Giuseppe Penone.

The capacitive keys of the normal S5 have been replaced by three physical buttons that remove the aimless fingerprint sensor from before and are much easier to find and press on the run.