"The only reason I like girls," Amis wrote in a letter to Larkin in 1953, "is that I want to fuck them, which is adolescent, cheap, irresponsible, not worth doing, a waste of time, not much fun anyway really, a needless distraction from my real vocation, destructive of any real power of understanding women which as a novelist HOOHOO should be important to me..
"The only reason I like girls," Amis wrote in a letter to Larkin in 1953, "is that I want to fuck them, which is adolescent, cheap, irresponsible, not worth doing, a waste of time, not much fun anyway really, a needless distraction from my real vocation, destructive of any real power of understanding women which as a novelist HOOHOO should be important to me...
That was a waste of our time and, much more important, of the advertiser's dollars.
In this situation, the DT scheme may cause a waste of network resources as much as the FT scheme does.
Overall, improving the sound quality from headsets with built-in mics is a noble pursuit, and never a waste of time given how much people use these things instead of actually holding a phone to their face these days.
Too many people seemed to accept that the stimulus was a waste of money and that much less should have been spent.
The evening isn't so much a waste of time as a waste of talent.
Once we are too old to maintain economic productivity, society's default logic is that it is a waste of resources to spend too much on us.
Offering his thoughts on the airport capacity squeeze facing the capital, Mr O'Leary declared the current official review "pretty much a waste of time" while scoffing at the idea of a "Boris Island " airport in the Thames.
David: I suppose the one new thing these days is the way President Obama is breaking bread with members of Congress (even Republicans!) while White House staffers tell reporters that the whole exercise is pretty much a waste of time.
