Sentence examples for The worthlessness from inspiring English sources

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The worthlessness

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The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.

  • 1905 This sort of fat instead of indicating health points to disease. This general teaching as to the worthlessness of alcohol as a food had been set forth by the leaders in medical profession, and accepted largely by the rank and file of practitioners for about twenty-five years. — Carry Nation, The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, Chapter 28.

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The worthlessness of integration is evident in this respect.

The worthlessness of the agreement was highlighted last October, when, in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Gladys Kessler ruled that Lotfi bin Ali "cannot be sent to Tunisia because he could suffer 'irreparable harm' that the US courts would be powerless to reverse".

The two subjects of conversation were the superiority of entrepreneurship and the worthlessness of higher education.

Around the time that Hornes was discovering the worthlessness of his degree, Hillary Clinton was preparing to launch her campaign for President.

Louise's rebelliousness, well researched by Moriarty, helps midwife Cora's reversal by demonstrating the worthlessness of the conservative virtues Cora holds dear.

While I know such chores may be the glue that keeps family life intact, they take me to a meditation on futility that drifts all too easily toward thoughts about the worthlessness of human enterprise.

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Ifans may have been unusually boorish, but the episode serves to illustrate the essential worthlessness of the celebrity interview.

If you watched the event to completion, you saw what was perhaps Gervais's most aggressive monologue yet, which included jabs at Caitlyn Jenner's transition, celebrity drug addiction, and the inherent worthlessness of the Golden Globe award.

And with oil inching past $90, combined with the near worthlessness of the US dollar, that can only be a good thing.

Because of the perceived worthlessness of the Upper Peninsula's remote wilderness, a September 1836 special convention in Ann Arbor, Michigan, rejected the offer.

I'm talking about the inherent worthlessness of everything and the inherent absurdity of the universe in which we live.

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