Meanings of apparently purposeless in English

Ah, now you come to the object of this apparently purposeless journey.

Water-bugs skated hither and thither in apparently purposeless diagonals.

She led a blameless, unoccupied, and apparently purposeless life.

Definition is lacking; repose is replaced by an apparently purposeless activity; harmony vanishes in hubbub, form in disorder.

Like man himself, experience is feeble and apparently purposeless in its infancy, but acquires maturity and strength with age.

They hung in cones on the low front walls, and lumped on the hive-shelves in that apparently purposeless unrest that precedes creation.

Another item had been added to that constant and apparently purposeless series of small mysteries which had succeeded each other so rapidly.

As the thing engaged upon a continuous, relentless, mysterious pattern of apparently purposeless change, Jenny and the others edged back toward the windows.