Example Sentences
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In this planlessness and confusion of purposes lay the seeds of Iraq's present chaos.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But most of it is due to blind competitive planlessness and waste.
From The Coming of Coal by Robert W. Bruere
Such planless indeterminate lives, plebeian lives, mere lives, fill the world, and the spectacle of whole nations, our whole civilization, seems to me to re-echo this planlessness, this indeterminate confusion of purpose.
From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It was the planlessness, the flimsy temporariness of the buildings, their faded unpleasant colors.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
To make all this distincter I will show the planlessness of certain contemporary things, of two main sets of human interests in fact, and explain what inferences a Socialist draws in these matters.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells