uselessness

For all its protestations of a global reach and its prating about the ascendancy of "soft power", when the chips are down, its utter uselessness is so evident that even that does not warrant comment.

What on earth is happening in West Africa? Richard 2006

Huxley declares that the sense of uselessness is the severest shock which the human system can sustain, and that if persistently sustained, it results in atrophy of function.

Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

You who have dedicated your powers of mind and fortune to the benefit of your species, shall you so misdirect your exertions, as to support in uselessness the strong, healthy, and capable?

I.5 1826

In writing about the conflict, I could be a good lefty and give you my bleeding heart liberal chat about absolute disgust for the death tolls and devastation, for the cultural hardening on both sides that these conflicts incur and how that is the real damage, and why, regardless of the long-term uselessness of an immediate ceasefire with little else achieved, we nonetheless must demand a ceasefire.

The Moderate Voice 2009

In writing about the conflict, I could be a good lefty and give you my bleeding heart liberal chat about absolute disgust for the death tolls and devastation, for the cultural hardening on both sides that these conflicts incur and how that is the real damage, and why, regardless of the long-term uselessness of an immediate ceasefire with little else achieved, we nonetheless must demand a ceasefire.

The Moderate Voice 2009

In writing about the conflict, I could be a good lefty and give you my bleeding heart liberal chat about absolute disgust for the death tolls and devastation, for the cultural hardening on both sides that these conflicts incur and how that is the real damage, and why, regardless of the long-term uselessness of an immediate ceasefire with little else achieved, we nonetheless must demand a ceasefire.

The Moderate Voice 2009

CAFFERTY: Lake Superior State University thinks that these words ought to be banished from the queen's English for misuse, overuse and general uselessness, which is why they belong in the File.

CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2005 2005

See also: Defying the notion of uselessness as a sign of authenticity; ‘Saints, Soldiers’: Searing authenticity

Black Market Kidneys » Sincerity vs. Authenticity 2005

But the sheer hatred of what I came to call the uselessness of war gnawed at my soul.

The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

She gave me news of the world, our old world of idle uselessness, which is now one of solid work.

Man and Maid Elinor Glyn 1903