Assertion: busyness | /r/CapableOf | serve no purpose
Facets:
value: for a time
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: How can people be happy being busy, if that busyness serves no purpose?
text: To be clear, busyness served a purpose for a time and, in some cases, was truly worth the extra hard work.
text: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 17 (ii), She moved back to the table, and her busyness expressed her purpose but also perhaps hid some sort of regret at the news.
text: We advocate a third kind of busyness: futile busyness, namely, busyness serving no purpose other than to prevent idleness.