Sentence examples for obvious utility from inspiring English sources

Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country, by Robert V. Camuto (University of Nebraska Press, $24.95), is a slender volume with little obvious utility.

Their daily rituals, their child-rearing practices, and even their folktales reinforce these values, which have an obvious utility for subsistence farmers.

In addition to transporting objects and water, there is the more obvious utility of animal skins in protecting against night chills, rain, and strong sunshine.

If you are wondering who would spend $1,500 for a walking PC with no obvious utility, you're not alone; Aibo is clearly a polarizing product, inspiring in every observer either overwhelming desire or utter befuddlement.

Yet the book is a corrective to what he considers the modern desire to seek purpose and obvious utility out of every experience, even of a walk in the woods.

Don't think warmer temperatures will chase the hats away: SpiritHoods have also been spotted indoors at clubs and live-music shows, environments in which they have no obvious utility.

Despite the obvious utilities and benefits of autopsies, some concerns need to be mentioned.

Many observers, including Wall Street analysts, said the 150-page audit of Southern California Edison that was released on Monday did little more than restate the obvious: that utility, too, is running out of cash and cannot borrow more.

Maybe you took a small part of that Wall Street firm's profits that would otherwise have gone into year-end bonuses and diverted them into a project with more obvious social utility.

Yet they just kept on growing, along with the sums of money that they doled out to 26-year-olds to perform tasks of no obvious social utility.

In this setting, analysis of p53 phosphorylation did not appear to have obvious clinical utility.