Word: uselessness
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...adolescence, your life gets so much bigger so fast; not just your hands and feet but your thoughts, temper, moods, doubts, and so all your relationships are vastly more complicated than in the days of playground tag. Melodrama comes so naturally: friendships dissolve into feuds, rivalries ripen, parents are useless, nothing goes according to plan, temptation is everywhere. These stories throw all that normal teenage drama into such high relief that the picture is suddenly clearer. The stakes in Edward and Bella's world really are life or death; if things go wrong, your heart could get broken - or your...
...memo viewed the legal thinking behind it as flawed. Then Navy general counsel Alberto Mora identified it as a "dangerous document" that "spots some of the legal trees, but misses the constitutional forest. Because it identifies no boundaries to action - more, it alleges there are none - it is virtually useless as guidance." What particularly troubled Mora and other critics of the memo was that, as a document from the Office of Legal Counsel, its opinions were binding as the Administration's interpretation...
...Dick," he writes. Readers can get behind that feeling, and as a witty and likable writer, he makes a good companion for this quixotic journey. But it's a far cry from chasing white whales, even if both stories explore the pursuit of elusive goals. "How did a fairly useless device hold such power over their imaginations?" Montandon wonders of his subjects. For his purposes, the more pertinent question is whether a full-length meditation into an invention that never really materialized will pack enough gas to satisfy readers who don't spend weekends re-watching The Rocketeer...
...Product placement on the TV or movie screen is generally useless (unless you are selling it). Viewers tune it out like white noise. It works only when the product is fundamental to the story line...
...supreme, though they favor recordings prior to his most recent tour—a much more subdued affair than is apparent on a rousing 2002 cut of “Lonesome Day Blues.”To a certain extent, any release from the Bootleg Series is useless to all but the serious Dylan fan. Over the years, Dylan’s studio albums have evolved into institutions of their own—even that commercial joke and critical gaff, 1970’s “Self Portrait,” looms mythic in the catalogues of completists?...