With breathtaking insight, Unsworth lays out his portrait of Calchas as the ineffective intellectual who, although right, is also "powerless to act, unable to make himself understood, lost in useless speculation".
At the Almeida in 1997, Ralph Fiennes, in a moment of revelation for British theatre, finally played the part the way the author wanted, revealing Ivanov not as a landowner lost in useless introspection, but a man who found the whole Russian tradition of introspection and self-pity humiliating, a man fighting with all his willpower not to surrender to stereotype.
Without it I would feel so lost and useless on this planet!
Without it I would feel so lost and useless on this planet!" Call me the grinch but "Christmas" always makes me feel deeply sad.
Dr Evan Harris, Associate Director of Hacked Off said: "The large media corporations were never going to like losing their useless and obedient PCC model and have tried to scapegoat Hacked Off because we have given an effective voice for the first time to the ordinary victims of press abuse.
In an economic system that scrambles extreme scarcity (of resources and public cohesion) and extreme abundance (of images and entertainments), individual action can seem disempowered or useless, lost in the churn of financial transactions.
Hundreds of episodes with "Who's That Pokémon?" have trained me well and I'm excited to show off that long lost and quite useless knowledge.
School materials such as desks and textbooks are lost or rendered useless during natural disasters.
These examples support the hypothesis of a link between the convergent erosion of three xylem-invading Xanthomonadaceae and the adaptation to a same restricted environment (the xylem) in which these lost functions are useless.
That exciting debate over movies as art waned for reasons similar to those that Mr. Kimmelman believes currently plague museums -- as the definitions of art grew increasingly useless, critics lost the cultural authority to spark debates.
