But its usefulness made it beautiful, he went on: "There is a deeply intuitive connection between beauty, function and purpose, especially when we are thinking about the beauty of nature".
The main reason Mercator's projection became so popular was because of its navigational usefulness; in his map, straight lines represent lines of constant compass bearing.
It will also be interesting to see how the highly promising Nabil Bentaleb fares if deployed from the start and, perhaps, make another assessment of the usefulness of Lukas Podolski in the centre-forward role.
Fair enough to expand one's repertoire, but none of these seems likely to replace, in terms of usefulness, the Von Furstenberg jersey wrap dress.
In a competition between a chocolate fireguard and an assistant referee, those peculiarly impotent additions vociferously promoted by Michel Platini as an alternative to video technology, the former would surely triumph when it came to usefulness.
We will discuss the usefulness and relevance of this method to your own work.
The article takes a fairly detailed look at the state of the regime's weaponry and its likely usefulness in the conflict.
Less easy to dismiss are those who insist the movement has outlived its usefulness.
iPhone Workflow (£1.99) It's hard to describe Workflow – even its App Store listing's "personal automation tool" phrase doesn't quite get its potential usefulness across.
His growing weakness reduces his usefulness still further.
The inconvenience is not often remarked on in discussions of the digital universe.No one denies the marvel of digital texts, but libraries are forgetting the usefulness of, and the need for, bound books in codex form.
