Sentence examples for of those useful from inspiring English sources

To pretend that everyone does do is one of those useful lies that makes society work better: it is part of the secularist myths of English education.

Baseball is one of those useful, useless obsessions, a beautiful diversion into which we fans pour our free-floating anxieties, dreams and frustrations.

But it is one of those useful garments wherein the architectural design would conceal, or at least distract from, most of the structural flaws of the person beneath, including advanced pregnancy or appliance shoplifting.

In the 1960s, he visited Communist China ("one of those useful idiots") to extol the virtues of Mao's brutal regime in book and film.Mr Lewis has succeeded in his stated aim, to prevent the book from being "lopsided", "yet another biography of Graham Greene".

TripIt was just one of those useful ideas that made you wonder why someone hadn't thought of that before.

But since the North Koreans were polite enough to hold their test below ground — thus avoiding spewing fallout everywhere — all of those useful radioactive clues are trapped deep within the Earth.

They induce two kinds of effects: those useful for treatment and those non-relevant to this aim and unintended.

It's a lot of content to juggle, especially when those useful nuggets of necessary information are drowned by small talk and common courtesy.

He got to know the family details of international leaders - those useful conversation points.

Already pared down to a catalogue of lightweight, sophisticated components rendered from carbon fibre, magnesium and aluminium, the XL1 lacks those useful pieces of hardware that attentive drivers know as mirrors.

Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well.