objectless
Example Sentences
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Sonja’s is an objectless yearning, deeper than nostalgia.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2018
From this point the novel becomes a series of aimless events and objectless soliloquies.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the same vehicle whence, a year ago, I had alighted one summer evening on this very spot—how desolate, and hopeless, and objectless!
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Yet a chance traveller might pass by; and I wish no eye to see me now: strangers would wonder what I am doing, lingering here at the sign-post, evidently objectless and lost.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vague and objectless longings—the cold lights of mere fancy, are the characteristics of those writers.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
