Word: useless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Purple Hair. Anger does not always work. It is useless against playmates who taunt the child of divorce as different, strange or even sinful. But Gardner trusts the child's sense of his own worth to sustain him. "You are what you are, not necessarily what people say you are," he writes. "If someone were to say that your hair was purple and your skin green, this would not make your hair purple and your skin green...
...used to be so effective that mosquito-control agencies permitted farmers to forgo installing drainage facilities to reduce the insect's breeding grounds. As a result, the Central Valley's heavily irrigated crop lands have become huge hatcheries for Aëdes nigromaculus. Now that insecticides are useless, farmers are being ordered to drain their fields-a costly process that may force many small operators out of business...
...such well-known figures as Leonard Bernstein and Eugene Ormandy, and conducted elaborate advertising campaigns for their records. The company seemed to record less of Szell than of its more popular conductors, and to make less effort to bring the Cleveland orchestra to a larger market. It is useless to speculate at this point how much of this is true, but it certainly seems that Columbia made less of an effort with Szell than with its bigger moneymakers...
...critic was gilded by that special political impotence which academia has always cherished as a positive value. The university exists, we suppose, to say what a better world would look like. The "wisdom" of scholars rests with their appreciation that working for ideals in a non-theoretical way is useless. Or as Pusey says, "regard for individuals as opposed to masses of people, and a restraining awareness of the dubiety of all human ends." This cynical elitism fuels the enterprise of scholarship...
...truce went into effect on Aug. 8, the U.S. was unable to get its U-2 reconnaissance planes over Suez until noon on Aug. 9. Then the pilot of the first U-2 botched the job, allowing the brilliant sunlight to get in the camera and render his photos useless. Thus the first worthwhile flight was not made until Monday, almost three days after the cease-fire began...