Sentence examples for practically valueless from inspiring English sources

His own fondness is for "the mute, meager, practically valueless object.... What I like is the potency of the impotent thing, the renewed and adorable life I find in the dead and despised object".

King, a professor at Santa Barbara, has spent decades collecting things that nobody else would want: food packages and labels (he has about eighteen thousand), illustrations snipped from old dictionaries (seven thousand), linings of "security" envelopes (eight hundred patterns), "the mute, meager, practically valueless object, like a sea-washed spigot, its mouth stoppered by a stone".

King believes that the impulse to collect comes "partly from a wound we feel deep inside this richest, most materialistic of all societies". But he also considers other possibilities—"It finds order in things, virtue in preservation, knowledge in obscurity, and above all it discovers and even creates value". His own fondness is for "the mute, meager, practically valueless object.

Modern music, which lacks melody, is valueless.

Without superior information, of course, frequent trading is valueless.

Their promises are valueless.

An irony of the critics' tacit patriotism is that both were disgusted by American culture generally, which Greenberg characterized, in a seminal essay in 1939, as an empire of kitsch, not merely valueless in itself but practically as dangerous to authentic values as Nazi or Soviet tyranny.

"MICRA made Cali's life valueless". Eventually Christopher B. Dolan, a San Francisco personal injury lawyer, agreed to take on the case practically pro bono.

Cheques would be valueless.

Fans want relatively valueless items.

Such a reputation is valueless.