Word: uselessness
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...that doing something is fulfilling. If we, as students, spend all of our time running from activity to activity, we fail to see where our true passions lie. Moreover, we run the risk of burning out by the time we reach graduation, rendering our time here at Harvard useless...
...many of Janie’s engagements are useless for proving stability; she said they can’t be documented in a manner acceptable for consideration by the Board...
...ideas that have been the foundation of theatre-making for over a century. Mamet seems to have no problem unabashedly denouncing his predecessors, but Stanislavsky unequivocally bears most of the criticism in Mamet’s book. “Stanislavsky’s trilogy is a bunch of useless gack,” he writes, “Brecht’s gibberish about the alienation effect is, as proved by a lot of Joe Papp’s oeuvre in the seventies, unimplementable...
...initially said he tended toward a more didactic account, he ultimately decided to produce works that gave viewers little or no direction in interpretation. “The more I thought about being direct,” Lehyt said, “the more I thought that was useless because there is a subjective aspect [or] connection to art that I thought was more useful than saying things directly...
...Copenhagen As a European with Pakistani roots, your article both offended and angered me. When will U.S. journalists understand that Europeans in 1950 decided to cooperate instead of bash each other over the head? The result was peace, prosperity and progress. Europe has no desire to get involved in useless faraway wars just to prove that it is a superpower. Power comes through good policies, respect for the integrity of other countries and not through the barrel of a gun or acting as an elephant on the world stage. (Read: "Europeans Cry Foul Over a Defense Contract...