Word: useless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Artwork in Adams House Tunnels: I'll bet they don't have tunnels like these back in York, Maine. Adams House gives new meaning to Oscar Wilde's famous dictum that all art is quite useless...
...Saigon, its rotors whirring and its engine aroar, while behind a barred gate a throng of dependents, informers, helpers and hangers-on howl to be rescued. Among them is the title character, Kim, a peasant virgin turned bar girl turned soldier's wife-to-be, forlornly waving the now useless paper that says she is entitled to join the soldier far away. That moment shapes Kim's life and drives the story toward its tragic reunion. When at last she sees the father of her toddler son, he is married to another woman. In a desperate moment, Kim does...
...course, but a favorite pastime, a walk on the beach, is impossible. The seaside fortifications built by the Iraqis -- four separate lines of trenches and obstacles -- "look like Normandy from the air," says a U.S. Army general. Mines are everywhere, and the minefield maps Baghdad provided the coalition are "useless," says U.S. Ambassador Edward Gnehm. The city is rocked by explosions several times a day as U.S. Army experts detonate Iraq's abandoned ordnance. Sporadic gunfire is heard throughout the day -- celebratory rounds discharged mainly by Saudi soldiers. (It is the Americans, however, who are in demand for pictures...
REAL DEPARTMENTS here will try to teach you facts. But nowadays, everyone knows that facts and ideas are useless. Ergo, the Core...
Some people believe that protesting is useless, since the war has already started, and few believe that Bush will stop the war because of protests back home. But protest could help by making Bush think twice before he rejects a possible settlement or considers calling for a draft or a suspension of civil liberties...