Sentence examples for seemingly useless from inspiring English sources

Although this kind of seemingly useless work happens in the sciences, the burden of uselessness falls with greater weight on the arts and humanities in a world that increasingly values usefulness.

Her film is pieced together from these seemingly useless bits.

This gives deep psychological reasons for why we hold onto seemingly useless or worthless items.

The British, the guidebook says, are devoted to hoarding seemingly useless objects.

Then there are works that don't fit categories at all, trading in seemingly useless facts.

Humans are aesthetic animals that spend vast amounts of time and resources on seemingly useless aesthetic activities.

Because the rhinoceros' range encompasses many areas of poverty, it has been difficult to convince local people not to kill a seemingly (otherwise) useless animal which could be sold for a large sum of money.

What really got their collaborative career going, however, was a continuing series of sculptural projects they inaugurated in 1997 as "Powerless Structures": seemingly authentic objects they rendered useless or ridiculous, like a diving board that jutted through a window over the Baltic Sea; a public urinal with clear glass walls; an art gallery sunk into the ground.

(Yes, the "big deal" is the strange and useless strategy that seemingly force us to pour money into a hole in the Hindu Kush and set it aflame).

The Heat Wave series creates imaginative, new and ultimately useless objects by combining seemingly unrelated things, like a cactus and an ice cream cone.

Lost is the seemingly obvious fact that the machines are useless without a guiding intelligence, better known as a teacher.