Or, more sadistically, the author had specified their age (often in a roundabout way) without providing me with a usable quote: although it is possible to work out, from the various dates given in Lolita, that Humbert Humbert, for example, is 37, at no point does Nabokov actually state this.
It wasn't much, but it was the most usable quote I got that day.
This reviewer hopes and trusts — if only to secure her own safety — she has given Heller a usable pull-quote or two for the jacket.
Jane Tylus, a professor of Italian who coördinates N.Y.U.'s quote-gathering, says she was instructed to find quotes that are "compelling" and "usable," a mandate that has, on occasion, kept her up till 2 A.M. thumbing through old copies of Herodotus and Thucydides.
Recycled materials are not generally included in the quoted examples because they are usable in nearly all applications if there is no limitation concerning the considered article to be manufactured in the countries of production, commercialization, and use.
Glycosyltransferases currently underachieve to a large extent their often-quoted high potential as synthetically usable glycosylation catalysts.
A new panel of judges will be sworn in, but the man who will head it, Judge Franco Castellano, was quoted this week as saying that most of the evidence already admitted was "fully valid and usable".Last November, Mr Berlusconi's former lawyer, Cesare Previti, was cleared of one of the charges levelled at Mr Berlusconi.
The quotes "worse than waterboarding" and "I loved it – clear evidence of serious brain damage" aren't really usable for marketing purposes, even coming from so discredited a source.
3. Usable reading lights.
