1Lacking a rudder.

1. 1.1 Lacking a clear sense of one's aims or principles.
   today's leadership is rudderless

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Readers will likely find the book's practical advice as rudderless as its ethical principles.
   • Perhaps we appreciate that poll-driven politics is insecure, rudderless, inconsequential and lacking in coherency, so we direct our attention inward to find meaning.
   • But it is not entirely clear who is in charge - the whole project appears rudderless.
   • At 16, Christopher felt rudderless and profoundly unwelcome in his family's Virginia home after telling a friend at his evangelical Christian high school that he thought he might be gay.
   • It seems to me that some parties support a rudderless approach both to tertiary education and to the nation in general.
   • You have the picture of a party that is rudderless and adrift, with no clear-cut strategies of providing principled opposition on issues.
   • The government seems rudderless, stumbling around looking for an agenda.
   • The government has been directionless and rudderless.
   • Natasha's trying to make sense of the new, rudderless Russia.
   • A bit rudderless and uncertain about his future prospects, Saleem falls under the influence of fundamentalist agitators, who operate under the patronage of the local landlord.
   • Neither side had the cohesion or the confidence to take control of a rudderless contest.
   • It is that lack of self-confidence, this deep cultural malaise, that serves to have us in a constant muddle, running around, rudderless, like headless chickens, always going backwards instead of forward.
   • Entering their thirties, the men are stuck in adolescence, rudderless, jobless, and harboring dreams of escaping their small town - dreams they never act on.
   • All attempts by the director and the screenwriter to avoid convention and cliché leave the film rudderless, floundering until it becomes downright disturbing.
   • You know where you stand with George and, in today's world, that's much better than rudderless leaders who drift with the prevailing wind.
   • But doesn't all this leave us dangerously rudderless, drifting on relativistic seas?
   • The responsibility for unrelenting global crisis and hardship lies more appropriately with a rudderless global financial system drifting hopelessly without a solid anchor.
   • Out of all the nations that make up the Union of Great Britain, England, at times, shows the most self-deprecating, wimpish and rudderless sense of national pride one could imagine.
   • For Thailand, a medium-sized country - whose destiny is closely tied up with the global economy and liberal democracy - drifting along rudderless in the tumultuous current of world events is not an option.
   • The Balto outfit looked rudderless, lacking direction, which to a certain degree they were.