These ideals are doubly potent because people desired them for their own sake as well as for their utility in achieving prosperity.
Qualities are valued either for their utility or for their agreeableness, in each case either to their owners or to others.
If someone is getting all their benefits paid on to one card at the start of each month, it makes perfect sense that they might want to set up standing orders for their utility bills, for example.
It was raining hard outside, and Day-Lewis, who has the look of an elegant vagabond, was wearing clothes seemingly chosen many years ago for their utility and subtle details.
In the event, Leveson called my bluff and asked for the delivery of said guidelines (see below) and he writes in the report that they are "commendable for their utility as well as their succinctness".
"In the past year, when the price of food, milk, rent and transit has gone up, New Yorkers can ill afford yet another price increase for their utility bills," Mr. Gioia added.
It wasn't uncommon to see big displays of hair metal bands in urban outlets where they couldn't sell a single stick but the labels had paid for their utility, so up they went.
"When everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody"; and the popularity of "positional goods" - acquired not for their utility but to reflect status - shows how attractive demonstrations of social superiority can be.
Decorative art, any of those arts that are concerned with the design and decoration of objects that are chiefly prized for their utility, rather than for their purely aesthetic qualities.
A number of biological mechanoreceptors used by flying animals are explored for their utility in MAVs.
They are included here for their utility, entertainment value and impact on the Android ecosystem.
