objectless
Example Sentences
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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
At 41, she is one of three younger Merriam editors with a word-nerd cult following thanks to their tweets about objectless prepositions, the history of scuttlebutt, and why people were looking up satire last week, as well as videos on flat adverbs and weird plurals.
From Slate
He strove to make “objectless art”, because he intended his art to become reality in its own right.
From Forbes
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
