(1) Cameron: We must not be deflected from our sense of aimlessness.
(2) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
(3) I hope these works are not buried in the museum's basement aimlessly.
(4) Alan Pardew's side have forgotten how to win at home and, resorting to too many aimless long, high balls, could find no way beyond the excellent James Collins and his fellow West Ham United defenders.
(5) I watched as a class of listless 10-year-olds struggled with an aimless lesson in creationism.
(6) Self-analysing but also self-deluding, strongly driven but curiously aimless, Sanders is an early version of a character-type that recurs throughout Ballard's fiction.
(7) Intense and long lasting pains in opioid abstinence, mainly located in the chest and in the hip, also have all the characteristics of aimless pain.
(8) Aimless wandering in the quagmire of imaging techniques is very expensive and nonproductive.
(9) Fourier famously predicted work could become play – its qualities could absorb the qualities of aimlessness, humour, even eroticism.
(10) There aren't many options for him, though, and his cross is aimless.
(11) 10.06pm BST ET 18 min: Gabi foolishly gifts Real possession as he trots upfield aimlessly.
(12) Slovakia v Paraguay in Bloem: another drab spectacle with the Slovakians managing to run around aimlessly for 90 minutes.
(13) The rebels moved through holes dug between walls and took pot shots at government soldiers while the tank, unable to manoeuvre in the narrow road, fired shell after shell apparently aimlessly, sometimes striking close enough to the fighters to shower them with glass and plaster.
(14) The rover Curiosity touched down on the red planet about seven months ago and since then has been doing the usual tourist things: wandering aimlessly, shooting photos and bitching about the exchange rate encountering unexpected tech glitches .
(15) O'Shea heads aimlessly behind, unless he was deliberately going for a spot 20 feet right of the target, in which case he's got that bang on.
(16) You don't inspire public confidence by aimlessly drifting around in vans in north London saying: 'By the way, can you please go home please'."
(17) The values that Hong Kongers hold so dear – equality, freedom and justice – have all been ebbed away and destroyed … we have no other way when facing a broken government but to let go our bodily desires.” The decision was greeted with mixed feelings: while many cheered at the announcement, others worried that it might end with Joshua Wong taken to hospital, and with the movement as aimless as before.
(18) when countless crosses were pinged in ( see this video of crosses *), not aimless but deliberately aimed towards a front three of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Cesc Fabregas.
(19) At all levels of the game, most of the time, technique and good ball players will triumph above nebulous concepts like 'bottle' and 'guts', and agricultural concepts like high, aimless long balls.
(20) On the other hand, in the hyperkinetic phase of catatonic schizophrenia, in which the patient performs sequences of incoherent aimless movements without any relation to the current situation and environment, these structures are supposedly altered.
Airless
Definition:
(a.) Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microscopically, lungs were airless and congested with hyaline membrane formation in patent terminal airways.
(2) Various types of high-pressure equipment, including airless paint sprayers, hydraulic apparatus and grease guns, are used in industry, in farming and in the home.
(3) When we meet in her small, airless office in the headquarters of the Assemblée Nationale in Paris, her hair is swept back in a ponytail, her clothes are fashionable but discreet: a black top with zip detailing at the shoulders, tailored beige trousers, boots with a sensible heel.
(4) Using vegetable or livestock waste to generate biogas is now common and growing fast as cattle farmers and food companies in Europe and the US are encouraged with subsidies to set up anaerobic, or airless, digesters like Ta Quang Nha’s rudimentary one.
(5) They’re like the sort of expat communities JG Ballard writes about: airless and sanitised pockets of a home country in a foreign land.
(6) Looking back now I would have started out with far less optimism had I known how many hours I would spend in airless rooms, how many animated discussions, how many sleepless nights mulling over the pros and cons of settling the case.
(7) This is an evil place, as airless and soulless as the inside of Pamela Geller’s head.
(8) The airless paint gun delivers paint at pressures approximating 3,000 psi.
(9) Then human rights activists gathered horrific stories of torture - with former inmates describing being held in airless cells, or in dark mud pits dug out from the ground, often knee-deep in water.
(10) In between, there is lots of interesting and illuminating stuff, particularly when Wood talks about why he left "airless" literary London, sickened by his monitoring of "who's up, who's down"; at another point, Messud offers that only one of them can work in the house at a time, otherwise they run short of air.
(11) We can’t have the windows open because of the fumes so in the summer the house feels pretty airless.
(12) High pressure injection equipment such as airless paint sprayers, high pressure grease guns, and fuel injection apparatus constitute a serious safety hazard resulting in significant morbidity.
(13) It therefore has no idea whether the projected £300m spending reduction in its own budget is outweighed by additional costs elsewhere.” *** Another day in court, and a different litigant in person is sitting in a small airless room just off the main lobby.
(14) We are in a bland, airless meeting room at the London offices of Baby Cow, Steve Coogan's production company (which is behind Gavin & Stacey).
(15) Specifically, two new airless polyurethane foam tires (circular and tapered cross-section) were compared to both a molded polyisoprene tire and a rubber pneumatic tire.
(16) It was sweaty and airless, buzzing with mosquitoes, and it was here his emotions came to the surface.
(17) Given the slightest chance, they will squeeze themselves into cars and airless lorries.
(18) Boarding passes in hand, the three men climbed the stairs to the second floor, an airless hall lined with newsagents, coffee shops and souvenir stores.
(19) In Blackburn's new market, a strange, sanitised place in the airless basement of a shopping centre, Jack Straw is buying fresh fish for his dinner and I am trying hard not to feel too much like a spare part.
(20) For many, the so-called Fan Fests remain airless experiences.