Word: useless
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Like Liebowitz, Sperry asks too much of science and the scientific method for solving problems. The successes of science have so blinded him to the importance of irrational ethics and traditional practice that he finds them useless. Instead, he asks science to take over their proper roles...
Perhaps the Yard is only another symptom of over-expansion: might it not be that the University has become the Cosmopolis of Spengler, a huge petrifact, whose inhabitants view it exclusively as the instrument of their individual advancement or pleasure? In that event, it would be useless to expect anyone to concern himself with a matter so marginal as the beauty of the institution itself. John Bovey...
...hrer confided in me that after this renewed attack of pain the trembling in his leg and hands was much more violent." Pulitzer-Prizewinning Historian John Toland concurred with Irving's disbelief. Said Toland: "Witnesses refer to 'Hitler's right hand, which is useless...
Many divestment proponents criticized Bok's statement in interviews yesterday, maintaining that Harvard's shareholder votes have been useless in effecting change in South Africa's apartheid regime...
Some of Vaillant's most important, and controversial, conclusions about treating an alcoholic came as a surprise even to the author. Traditional psychiatric approaches may be helpful for treating accompanying symptoms, such as despair, paranoia or anxiety, he believes, but they are nearly useless in dealing with the underlying nature of alcoholism itself. In his book, he ruefully describes his own disillusionment with his profession's ability to cope with the disease. "I was working for the most exciting alcohol program in the world," he says. But the results at the clinic were no better than...