Word: functionless
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...When the hero goes for a walk, the film bits you with a feeling of life and action, of the vitality of all the people on the street, quite at odds with the deadness of his apartment and Hemingway's villa, both of which are choked by memories and functionless objects. And that's as far as the film goes. It fails to think beyond its evocation of a middle-class man's moods...
...hundreds of Communist-run stores, building firms and other cooperatives in the region's eight provinces flows first into the coffers of the party and its myriad youth groups, women's auxiliaries and other fronts, and then into the pockets of the legions of hacks and functionless functionaries on party payrolls...
...will take quite a while to bring relief to the long-neglected Russian consumer. Women who seek the services of the top hairdressing shops in Moscow must queue up at dawn if they expect to get in. Moscow's new glass-steel "skyscrapers" (of modest height) became functionless in last summer's heat as broken air conditioners remained unfixed...
...Business, said Galbraith, has freed itself from a lot besides marketplace chance-taking. For one thing, owners can rarely bother the managers. Ownership is so broad that the individual stockholder is a "passive and functionless figure." Even bankers can be held at arm's length, because corporations, to an ever-increasing degree, can finance themselves through retained earnings...
...nation grows, so grows the Capitol building. But for every hand raised to make it truly workable, a thousand protests rise from preservationists who feel that the monument should be as immutable and functionless as the Statue of Liberty...