unintention

Example Sentences

• "The frameup is an unconscious (occasionally semiconscious) mechanism. An unconscious mechanism is a kink in the mind that makes people do something without knowing why they do it, and often without knowing that they are doing it. It is the sub-rational act of a group, serving in this case, through a series of pointed unintentions, the ends of a governing class."
• "Inconsequence has a way of becoming consequential, and the most illogical sequences may lose their irrationality by merely becoming familiar. Thus, new unintentions emerge from an original lack of intent, and the process may continue indefinitely, with the same eyes never regarding the same film."
• "But the cold, rational spirit of Constructivist sculpture was certainly not the goal of the Baroque penetration—its destruction, really—of classical mass and frontality. The sculptural void—more sympathetically developed by Moore, Hepworth (fig. 7–56), and Arp (fig. 7–5)—is better understood as an instance of the law of unintended consequences. Happily, the history of art records many such unintentions."
• "The Unintentions of a Framer / The story of George Washington’s role in the founding of our constitutional traditions is not one of unrelenting success. As President he aspired to much that went unfulfilled during his two terms in office. In several significant ways, in fact, constitutional practices developed quite differently from what he had envisioned. But even here, Washington’s role in the development of new and important constitutional forms was substantial, albeit unintended."
• "What culpable innocence, for now we see / The point is poetry’s unreadability / Where unintentions couple and produce / Meanings unmeant and monsters on the loose / Less rational than that of Frankenstein / Who wished to be understood."
• "Living honestly with yourself under all circumstances is a major key in true happiness. And fate is the exactitude of unintentions."