It's used, uselessly, to encompass everything from Colombian cumbia to Nigerian highlife to the throat singing of Huun-Huur-Tu, a band from the Republic of Tuva that's been making spectacularly strange music for almost two decades.
Our world is endlessly and uselessly using the word digital.
David, our editor, was plugged in for about four hours while the rest of us loitered around uselessly.
I could not lift my arms or use my hands, which were uselessly curled up into loose fists by atrophying muscles and tightening ligaments".
For that matter, how many available car-hours per day are actually used for driving, as opposed to uselessly occupying valuable real estate?
The bonsai's uselessly autotelic function can seem uncomfortably close to that of the novel.
With only one Chron-o-John pod left, Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne use it to pursue the tentacles to the previous day, while Dr. Fred uselessly tries to warn them of using the pod together, referencing the film The Fly. Upon arriving, the trio exit the pod only to discover that they have been turned into a three-headed monster, their bodies merging into one during the transfer.
Thus, using 225Ac the same dose could be administered with a fraction of the applied 213Bi activity, thereby increasing therapeutic efficiency and making a much more economic use of 225Ac, which would otherwise release the energy of three α-particles of 19.2 MeV uselessly in the columns of an 225Ac/213Bi generator.
Ponchos, we'd learned, have a distressing tendency to flap around in gusts, and most 'travel raincoats' are sorry affairs that cling uselessly to one's limbs". This is the introduction the folks at the Banana Republic use to describe their waterproof travel coat that folds into a compact envelope.
"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness," he tells us.
I think this makes it into a much more versatile tool, and I plan to use it more extensively now that I don't have to worry about my PC desktop contaminating my Mac laptop with uselessly synced OS-specific junk, and vice versa.
