For the other 99percentt of us, relationships are, at best, useful economic bargains and, if we're lucky, successful sexual transactions -- better than the alternative, which has long been close to social death.
At the end of the day, the real issue is how we understand the meaning of the relevant texts in which case the hyperbolic-literal and dead-live distinctions are, at their best, useful tools: they're there to help but needn't bind us unneccessarily or interfere with our efforts to determine meaning.
This suggests that the therapy is, at best, useful only in a restricted set of circumstances.
The bad news here is for the believers, who, to my mind, must conclude that gods are, at best, useful fictions, and don't exist in reality.
is, at the very best, useful adjunct information and, at worst, a diverting crutch that has become far too easily accessed and upon which we, healthcare providers, have become too accustomed to rely.
As he wrote to his brother, he would rather "be mad with truth than sane with lies" and the idea that morality was largely composed of lies or a best useful fictions would have been too much to bear (see Pigden (ed).
According to the report, first published by the Washington Post and the New York Times, the privacy board found that the mass phone data collection was at best marginally useful for US counter-terrorism, a finding that went further than similar assessments by a federal judge and Obama's own surveillance advisory board.
But if Trump is, at best, a "useful idiot" for the Kremlin, what does that make Trump's useful idiots?
In a June, 1968, letter to Cohen in which he fretted, again, about properly defining or explaining the quality and tone of the music he'd recorded Bowles wrote, "The nearest one of us can approach to such a subject is by the using the suggestibility supplied by kif … a self-induced trance at best, but useful for determining the hypnotic potential of a given musical element.
Your appendix – that bit of people always say is of no use – is actually made entirely of immune tissue and is a veritable larder of the best, most useful bacteria for the gut.
