Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. |
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The story of men clinging to power long after they have outlived their uselessness is as old as the hills and just as obvious. |
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He emphasises the uselessness of formulae, even while providing us with several very useful schematics illustrating common narrative techniques. |
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It beautifully illustrates culture shock and the utter uselessness of guide books. |
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He wrote an article in which he said there was a striking uselessness of the council, and he added even more criticism at his press conference. |
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Most users click the 'Skip the Introduction' link, further validating the uselessness of flash screens. |
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He was a nice old chap who tried desperately to make up for the uselessness of his subordinates. |
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With her carelessly piled long blond hair, she looked the perfect image of uselessness. |
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He returns home from the tour, his mother cranky at his domestic uselessness. |
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Seeing what he had to do because of my own uselessness, he lifted me to my feet and told me to stay behind him. |
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The uselessness of the Metro Rail system will be clearly visible once the honeymoon period is over. |
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Even useless hacks may come, perversely enough, to be valued for the purity of their uselessness. |
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Later still, Darwinists suggested the ready dispensability of the appendix proved its uselessness. |
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But you can't open a paper these days without seeing stories about the uselessness of boys. |
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The Romans always recognized the uselessness of mercenary and auxiliary troops. |
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For starters, it has an unlikable protagonist, a man who lies, steals, womanizes, drinks, daydreams and generally epitomizes uselessness. |
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In personal terms, a period of unemployment leads to a feeling of uselessness and to stress, which can have serious medical consequences. |
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The events prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the ineffective uselessness of the long gun registry in protecting our society. |
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is to uselessness what Henry Ford was to the automobile. |
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The uselessness of these missiles was determined by the commission created by decree of the Chief of General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces. |
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Nevertheless, they do not prove the uselessness of video surveillance systems, either. |
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The Stinger's uselessness when confronted with this threat, and the absence of any form of defence reinforced this feeling. |
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When one completes the novel, the dominating feeling is not one of despair and hopelessness but of utter clarity about the uselessness of violence. |
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Rather than scrap the scheme, the government has diluted it to the point of uselessness. |
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Even though I've been looking after the house, our daughter and a few chores, the last week gripped me with an overwhelming feeling of uselessness. |
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If dead trees are not harvested within 10 to 15 years of being killed, they will have rotted or burned to the point of uselessness. |
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He is proof that autism is a spectrum disorder of huge diversity and that the individual idiosyncrasies of each child reveal the utter uselessness of the label. |
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Today it is proving its complete uselessness, since it is the states that are acting and reacting. |
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They calm the feelings of helplessness and uselessness that arise as the person grows weaker and perhaps less alert. |
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For girls with mental disabilities, vulnerability to abuse, the assumption of uselessness and the education barriers is far greater. |
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A vast incoherent patchwork that seems to have no purpose other than to convince itself of its uselessness on a Community scale? |
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I am using this ironic analogy to characterize certain columnists who are shouting themselves hoarse in an attempt to convince John Doe about the uselessness of unions. |
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By the time people with disabilities reach the Appeal Tribunals, they are often dispirited, lacking in self-esteem and harboring feelings of both helplessness and uselessness. |
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Where the meaning of ritual remains hidden and unrealised, there must be as a consequence be demonstrated a spirit of deadness, of uselessness and of weariness over forms and ceremonies. |
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The uselessness of politicians is the number one topic for the British public, the survey by minicab booking firm Wheely found. |
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Louis interrupts them both to inform Fab that the fat, useless bloke is also one of his security chiefs and that his fatness and uselessness are part of his disguise. |
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For all his radioactive uselessness, you do get a very real sense that Nick could still somehow be sitting there in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse. |
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I have written a lot making good use of the time of uselessness. |
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A major reason for the ultimate uselessness of the existing performance evaluation system is that no one has ever truly been in charge of determining whether it was functioning effectively. |
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Some participants pointed to the poor quality and lack of reliability of most data, statistics and evidence gathered in these fields today and, therefore, to their uselessness as political supports. |
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Dejected, disorientated, with a sense of uselessness and of being unable to govern their own lives, the responsibility for themselves and for their families runs through their fingers like sand. |
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It encourages modesty and industry in its readers and attacks the uselessness of the aristocracy. |
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The assembly of materials, whacked-out scejarios, and sly political undertow mocks the seeming coherence and uselessness of the work. |
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This uselessness bestows on art a certain autonomy from the grim dealings in shopworn slogans and infoporn that characterize all other domains of the spectacle. |
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Of all the professions a young college graduate could choose for herself, that of a modern dance choreographer would win the grand prize for uselessness. |
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