Word: aimlessness
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Most of the show's faults are minor. If Munger's blocking sometimes seems aimless, if Allman is a bit stiff and Popovich a little unsteady, the production washes over it all with a wave of unselfconscious exuberance. The audience has only to lean back and laugh...
...these poems, as in Grass's novels, irony comes tinged with terror, and terror reflects a tenderness for all things that live enshelled in illusion, controlled by forces they cannot control. At times he intones a still sad music of aimless modernity...
...even when Dr. James Fritz, a prominent heart surgeon, came in to report his two daughters missing in August 1965. In Tucson, a boom town with an unusually high proportion of transient residents, more than 50 runaway minors are reported each month. Propelled by the same aimless itch, unrestrained by permissive parents, hundreds of teenagers haunt the Speedway. They were easy bait for Smitty, who was older, more sophisticated and, as they said admiringly, "different." His foster parents, owners of a nursing home, had given him $300 a month since he was 16, and furnished him with his own cottage...
...November Advocate closes with an aimless apologia which shrilly proclaims that young writers exist in the world, admits they don't go to Harvard, and wishes they would get in touch with the Advocate. The editors complain that: (1) potential contributors would rather shoot for big money from national magazines than write for local audiences, and (2) talent, like nature, can't be forced -- no one can squeeze pieces out of writers when they're doing things like picketing the White House...
...acute eyes. But abruptly the quality of vision changes; instead of saying, "Look, deep within this character is a flaw," Novelist Frame begins to say, in effect, "how opaque is the soul, how futile to examine its surface." From this point the novel becomes a series of aimless events and objectless soliloquies. Although no one seems insane, the tensions of madness, which have preoccupied the author in her earlier writing, are injected in a mechanical and unconvincing way. Son Alwyn murders an Italian farm laborer he has never seen before, for no reason except to be in the spirit...