• In damp conditions, there was no real pattern in the opening half, and both sides struggled to gain a foothold amid dropped passes, aimless kicks and a general lack of urgency.

    BBC: Munster 11-15 Ospreys

  • It was an uninspiring game, peppered with aimless kicking and a paucity of attacking invention, and Lawson's sin-binning - Gloucester's fifth of the season - seemed par for the course.

    BBC: Saracens 19-16 Gloucester

  • After graduating with honours, he set out on a journey across the US - a somewhat aimless journey at that, in search of wilderness and self.

    BBC: Call of the wild

  • Carter fielded an aimless clearance and popped a simple ball to Muliaina on the scissors, allowing the full-back to race through almost untouched for an unconverted try.

    BBC: Wales 25-37 New Zealand

  • The result does further damage to boss Rafael Benitez's public guarantee that Liverpool will definitely finish in the top four, with Anfield totally subdued at the final whistle as Arsenal dealt comfortably with a succession of aimless long balls.

    BBC: Liverpool 1-2 Arsenal

  • Once I'd got used to the handset, turned it to use the right set of co-ordinates and worked out which direction the cache was in, it took quite a bit of aimless wandering before I got to the exact location.

    BBC: How to play hide-and-seek by satellite

  • Unlike most of the Clintonistas he had seen war up close, observing the desperate, aimless crowds in ruined Japan as a naval ensign in 1945.

    ECONOMIST: Warren Christopher

  • The typical landscape of a Newman film was the raw sidestreets of a city or the empty plains, in which a man would try to get a grip on an aimless, violent life.

    ECONOMIST: Paul Newman

  • In particular, at the crucial flashback when Willy's teenage son Biff (Andrew Garfield) discovers his father's marital infidelity, the shock and disillusionment are supposed to explain the long-held mystery of why he turned from a star athlete into an aimless layabout.

    ECONOMIST: Arthur Miller��s classic play feels more relevant than ever

  • He was angry, and the anger made him recognizable in a way that an hour of aimless chatter (mostly hers, it was true) had not: he was new to New York.

    NEWYORKER: Found Objects

  • Will CDP be able to balance story and open-world in a way that keeps us interested rather than aimless?

    FORBES: 'The Witcher 3' Keeps Looking Better And Better: No QTEs, Amazing Screenshots, And Overhauled Combat

  • But the movie tidied and glossed over the deeply tragic undercurrent of Capote's story: an aimless bachelorette who uses sugar daddies as her income and a crutch to avoid the pain of her past.

    WSJ: Why Bway's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' has no tiaras

  • Once Glasgow got some momentum into their game, they showed that with the two Richies, Gray and Vernon, and Rob Hurley following the lead of John Barclay, they could restrict Toulouse to a kicking game which was at times as aimless as it was fruitless.

    BBC: Glasgow Warriors 16-28 Toulouse

  • There were few chances late on, although McCormack came close with a terrific volley which flew just over following an aimless attempted clearing header by McCracken.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Scottish Premier | Dundee United 0-0 Motherwell

  • Commander Crews and his wife Sarah gave their heart and soul and a fortune in private education to raising two daughters and a son, now in their thirties, but still aimless and expert only at complaining about their lot.

    FORBES: Christmas Chill As A Family Feud Goes Viral

  • There is a sort of meeting of opposites between Mr Muldoon's pointed, intricate prestidigitations and the aimless yet alert shamblings of the veteran New York School poet, John Ashbery.

    ECONOMIST: Modern poetry can be plaintive or richly idiomatic, or both

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