Word: motiveless
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Much Ado About Nothing (by William Shakespeare) has a contemptible hero, a motiveless villain, a tediously improbable main plot. Happily, what academics term the subplot-the prickly-pear romance of Benedick and Beatrice-is one of the most delightful things in all Shakespeare. And it can never have seemed more a delight than when John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton are swapping insults and moving blindfolded toward the altar...
...temporarily and partially lost consciousness and suffered a kind of personality detachment. This jibed with Thomas' own statement: "I knew I was doing it, but it didn't seem like me. It was like watching myself doing it." In three other cases of sudden and apparently motiveless murder, the Topeka researchers got the same story of men blacking out and then seeming to be spectators at their own crimes...
...rateur André (The Counterfeiters) Gide, 81, motored to the Comédie Française to sit in a red velvet seat and mastermind every rehearsal of the first stage adaptation of one of his novels, Lafcadio's Adventures, written 36 years ago. A satire about a motiveless murder, the play is due to open next week...
...least, in spite of the duality of his character, Iago has a dynamic part in the play. He is the center of all the action; he is the force which is allowed to run freely through the characters in the play, tying them in inextricable knots as his "motiveless malignity" see fit. But Othello must stand as an object great enough for his fall to shock the audience. That is almost calling for the superhuman. And it's debatable whether Robeson is quite such a superman...
...order to put the reins for guiding affairs firmly in undergraduate hands, a chairman has been chosen for the Union Committee, which in the past was motiveless, without a head. With a class fund of $150 to support its plans, the Committee is in a position to promote worthwhile activities and interests, hobbies, such as stamp-collecting and the like, which contribute to the enjoyment of college life. Thus many men of similar bents, who often find the Yard a cold and disillusioning experience, can be drawn together by bonds of mutual interest. With other minor improvements in machinery, like...