Sentence examples for a useless man from inspiring English sources

Next up was Maxim Gorky, "The Life of a Useless Man".

He and some fellow-students had started the Junction Avenue Theatre Company in 1975, while they were still in school; they performed in Johannesburg, doing Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" and other experimental workshop productions, one of which, "The Fantastical History of a Useless Man," was about "what it felt like to be white and useless in South Africa".

A virgin is a useless man, isn't it?

I even keep a regular diary of my life with Nana because I want other people to know that a useless man like me exists.

Mboniswa: They view him as a useless man.

When a doctor's image did appear, he was generally depicted as a ponderous, bearded creature, with the depressed mien of an utterly useless man.

John Adams dryly noted "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress".

Her home is something of a base for everyone, and that includes the lost mechanic William Billy Crudupp), a good guy, but also exhibit A in how to be a distant and somewhat useless man.

What was it that Thomas Jefferson said I believe "One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress". Give more funding to NASA and stop spending it on useless ear marks and then coplaining that there is no money.

Good God, Sir, was that fair?" Later he laments, "I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!" But the Tea Partiers and Glenn Becks of America who scorn government and who have tried turning the Founding Fathers into libertarian deities will find little comfort in 1776.

In 1932, Austin wrote in The Daily Mail of London that tennis would have to take second place to business in his future plans because he did not want to be "a useless old man living in a one-roomed flat".