Word: worthlessness
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...discover that Tracy’s ex is still on the loose. Johnson, however, was least thankful to learn all of this after sleeping with Tracy and making her finally realize — four times — that her ex-husband was a “worthless, impotent sack of shit” that she would “never, ever get back together with under any circumstances— ever...
...lightly armed group to go head-to-head with an armored column riding shotgun on a consignment of banknotes does suggest, however, that the insurgents may be anticipating liquidity problems next January when the new dinar is introduced and the old Saddam banknotes hoarded in huge sums become worthless...
...however, many students in need of care fail to seek help and suffer in silence, often with severely negative consequences. Why is this? Sometimes it is the malign effects of the illness itself. A person who is depressed may feel too hopeless to seek treatment or might feel so worthless as not to merit help. But more often the failure to get help reflects the continuing stigmatization of mental illness—even in a sophisticated community like ours. A person suffering with depression might feel inappropriate shame at not being able to control symptoms through...
Even when the U.N. does act, such as in Bosnia, it does so with weak resolve and with mandates so vague that terms like “safe area,” ostensibly implying the protection of said area by U.N. troops, become worthless, as happened in 1995’s terrifying massacre at Srebrenica. When shots are fired, U.N. blue helmets have a nasty habit of staying inside the barracks, a symptom of a fuzzy, multinational chain of command and bizarre diplomatic doublespeak...
...process of rebuilding our country. Many Iraqis believe Baathists and Saddam Hussein loyalists were responsible. These criminals were created by Saddam. He picked them from Iraq's worst social class and gave them money, high positions in his regime and weaponry. Now they have sunk back to their worthless status, and they want to make life in Iraq miserable for all. We will not let them. Ahmad H. Kasim Mosul...