Sentence examples for of doubtful utility from inspiring English sources

Like something advertised in the Sharper Image catalog, Mr. Scott's new movie is a sleek, expensive-looking gizmo of doubtful utility.

Many of Tony Scott's movies -- "Top Gun," "Crimson Tide," "Enemy of the State," and now "Spy Game" -- are like gadgets in the Sharper Image catalog: sleek, expensive handsome gizmos of doubtful utility.

That way, anybody ever tries to make you do something you don't want to do, you can tell 'em, 'Fuck you.' " Since at the time I was making a hundred and twenty-five dollars a week and had zero in my bank account, Lazar's advice seemed of doubtful utility, though it clearly represented a deeply felt credo on his part.

They regarded the contention that historical understanding presupposes an allegedly direct identification with the mental processes of past human agents as representing at best a heuristic recommendation of doubtful utility, at worst an obscurantist doctrine that transparently fails to provide an objective criterion whereby divergent historical interpretations can be evaluated.

Boffetta et al. (2008) appear to relegate it to the role of a futile exercise producing scientific papers of doubtful utility, whose results should be regarded with such skepticism that they can be comfortably exempted from policy and practice implications and decisions.

Before the Civil War, the cutoff point for this study, the average American had little reason to go to the expense and trouble of acquiring, mastering and maintaining a tool of such doubtful utility as a gun.

These larger units are of doubtful validity and restricted utility.

(Recall the role of doubtful irrelevant proposita in a positio).

The Internet contains a large amount of useful information on many subjects, but also information of doubtful quality.

Biologist Nicole Duplaix calls the division of "doubtful value".

As emphasized in a recent IOM report, future trials should consider partially-blinded factorial designs to evaluate the utility of adherence interventions to inform planning of future studies and forestall investments of time, effort, and funding of approaches that are of doubtful yield [ 10].