Erpenbeck's novel is usefully prosaic, written in a slightly uninviting, almost managerial present tense, which keeps overt emotion at bay.
More usefully, Antonia wrote in to suggest Yamaha's Junior Music Courses (see www.yamaha-europe.com) for details of your nearest school.
Small coffins, decorated with grisly photographs of dead babies and their ages - 'three days', 'four days', written usefully for the English-speaking media - are paraded through the streets of Baghdad on the roofs of taxis, the procession led by a throng of official mourners.
In more than a dozen books, Elizabeth Drew has written seriously and usefully about the American political process, especially about the pernicious role of big money in elections.
Malm observed that Japanese players within a group could not usefully predict one another using written notation, and instead did so through listening.
But for those of us writing about philosophical ideas, where there is rarely anything genuinely new under the sun, it is well worth considering what our books can usefully add to the reams already written.
"I have no idea if this notion can be usefully dispensed with," he writes, "or at least I don't know of any productive work in this regard".
All these previous points raise the need for usefully critical research and writing.
Computational linguistics is the scientific and engineering discipline concerned with understanding written and spoken language from a computational perspective, and building artifacts that usefully process and produce language, either in bulk or in a dialogue setting.
Cunningham writes: "The stutter remained usefully on call all his life, helping in his dedication to an appearance of agreeable buffoonery.
