objectless
Example Sentences
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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 Literature
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 Literature
She said of “Hyperion”: “It is desultory, objectless, a thing of shreds and patches like the Author’s mind.”
From New York Times
Sonja’s is an objectless yearning, deeper than nostalgia.
From New York Times
In the early pages of her book, Witt writes of turning 30, and of conceiving of her singleness as an interim state; she describes a condition of objectless longing, a special form of loneliness that can only be generated by the technologies of connection.
From Slate
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
