The story of a war orphan on Hitler's eastern front, Ivan's Childhood depicts not only random, useless acts of wartime violence but also the general miasma of violence its mental anguish, its sour boredom that war less spectacularly engenders.
Becoming an artist really was a useless but indispensable act of spiritual preservation for her, and that is the work's ultimate lesson.
Even specific action items are useless unless someone acts on them.
For his part, Douglas P. Heller, a real estate partner at Herrick, Feinstein, said he thought the federal disclosure act was useless when it came to New York real estate.
Food markets in Beverly Hills close.... Government certifies the donut crumb as a vegetable for schoolkids....Congress passes The 2010 Say Something Act, whereby useless phrases are taken to the woodshed: "Sounds Good," "Booyah!" and "No Problem" are first.
It's useless for the United States to act on climate change, when we don't know what China will do.
After all, once it had finished its purpose of childbearing it was a useless organ whose only final act could be malignant transformation.
It could as well be called Squarebash as Whiplash, so often does the relationship between JK Simmons's unforgiving professor and Miles Teller's whimpering pupil resemble that between R Lee Ermey's splenetic Marine Corps drill instructor and Vincent D'Onofrio's useless grunt in the opening act of Full Metal Jacket, or John Wayne and his raw recruits in Sands Of Iwo Jima.
On the right, after all, taking money from the government, and dismissing the government as useless, is seen as an act of patriotic rebellion.
Siobhan, Sara, Keren – I should never have compared your tribute acts to that useless bunch of lying sellouts, the Lib Dems and I'm sorry".
