Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.
My work is purely autobiographical. . . It is about myself and my surroundings.
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.
If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.
If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.
It felt, like, so far from - or far enough from the reality of things that we can enjoy it purely as entertainment. And now it feels a little bit too in alignment, honestly, but yeah - so we'll see how season five [House of Cards] goes over there.
Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.
We are born by accident into a purely random universe.
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?
When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
You've given it some thought, you've tried to prepare as well as you can, but you're reacting to what you see so you can't really prepare that much. It's purely live broadcasting which is very nerve-wracking but hugely rewarding. The game finishes and eventually, maybe an hour later, you're all finished.
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.