The natural light in the reading room is diffuse anddirectionlessand, like the overcast sky, the light source is never seen directly.
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This laneway was clearly not, as the slummer genre would have it, an unstable mishmash of listless anddirectionlessdeviants.
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The loss of time is also the loss of memory, where the unusual lyrical use of the hexameter exchanges strife on land for adirectionlessbobbing about at sea.
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In the process of arriving at that intact version of the tune, fragments drift through the instrumental fabric, coming in and out of focus, surrounded by tremolos anddirectionlessharmonies.
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They are drifting, powerless, rudderless, inert anddirectionlesstowards their inevitable dissolution.
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We see across the country these greatdirectionlessmonsters, sliding out of control with many moving remorselessly towards bankruptcy.
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Tiki-taka is associated with flair, creativity, and touch, but can also be taken to a slow,directionlessextreme that sacrifices effectiveness for aesthetics.
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The other three forms aredirectionlesschange, stasis, and decline.
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Yorke would later attribute this behavior his frustrations with the band's perceiveddirectionlessin defining themselves.
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The first phase, which was marked by rioting, he referred to as the unorganized anddirectionlessphase.
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After this was resolved in 1897, his government became increasinglydirectionless.
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It is a scalar field in three-space: adirectionlessvalue (scalar) that depends only on its location.
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She feelsdirectionlessin her new normal life and has nightmares about losing her powers.
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Holden is at various times disaffected, disgruntled, alienated, isolated,directionless, and sarcastic.
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Missing his fiancee and the excitement of the war, he feltdirectionless; he dreaded going back to work in an office and considered himself a sportsman rather than a businessman.
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