end in view

They had begun to act upon their dreams, not their reality — to hold an end in view and figure out the means along the way.

The study of dragon-lore thus leads us back to some of the most primitive workings of the human mind, and embraces many subjects which at first sight seem to have little connection with the end in view.

They were the only flowers in the room, and I wondered if there was some purpose in it, whether the room had been arranged originally with this one end in view, for nowhere else in the house did the rhododendrons obtrude.

He praised Mr. El-Dabh’s score, which fused orchestral lines with half-sung chanting, as “enormously effective,” adding, “For once a composer has had no end in view for his music beyond making it an inseparable element in a theatrical collaboration.”

Slowly, messily and, apparently with no clear end in view, it is building a new one.