Word: useless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know we're all fed up with useless wars and racial strife
...pointless to worry about whether Suez is a shapely and coherent play. It isn't. Useless characters clutter the stage, scenes balloon or shrink out of proportion, and at the final curtain the plot snaps shut arbitrarily as native soldiers run onstage shooting. Osborne's anger still glints and cuts, but it cannot draw blood from such straw men as critics, in-laws and American tourists...
THREE weeks ago, a table was sold at auction in London. It had been made in France somewhere around 1780, probably by a craftsman named Martin Carlin: a spindly, exquisite and useless object, all tulipwood and Sevres porcelain plaques, the very epitome of the court taste of Louis XVI. An Iranian oilman named Henri Sabet paid $415,800 for it and so became the owner of the most expensive piece of furniture in history...
After its task is done, the bicycle leaves behind an unsightly metal frame and useless rubber tires. The horse, on the other hand, leaves a healthy lump of fertilizer...
...Doctors are not trained to consider costs because they must protect themselves and the hospitals against ruinous malpractice suits. Therefore they order many more tests than needed for diagnosis. If awards were paid by the state after hearings by an appointed board, the savings from irrelevant tests, useless records, costly litigation and insurer overhead would be enormous. There might then be more money for the real victims of avoidable mistakes, and surely less cost for the average patient...