directionless

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Hurt made her film debut in Woody Allen’s 1978 drama, “Interiors,” where she portrayed the directionless would-be artist Joey opposite her more successful siblings Renata and Flyn, played by Diane Keaton and Kristin Griffith, respectively.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Still, Phillip Nova analyst Priyanka Sachdeva says the market feels “thin and directionless ahead of the OPEC+ meeting and the U.S. Thanksgiving lull.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

On Monday, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an independent economic think-tank, said that the chancellor should avoid "directionless tinkering and half-baked fixes" when trying to boost the government's tax take in the Budget.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2025

It cultivates urgency, but only in a directionless flail.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2024

Normally I’d wait for Otto to wander back, but I was feeling antsy and directionless, so I followed him, ambling after him into the undergrowth.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer