Once Gulliver worked out that the quickest way out of this was to accept he was a fairly useless person, Hodge lost interest and turned her attentions to Chris Meares, the man who had been in charge of HSBC's private banking arm while industrial-scale tax evasion and money laundering was taking place.
"The public interest" is a useless concept, he says, because "there is nothing which is best literally for the whole people".
The improved mental health of someone who once believed they were useless at everything; their increased interest in their child's education; that child's improved sense of themselves, in turn, as a learner and their parent's ability to help when school gets difficult.
By means of Wittgenstein's "immensely important" 'investigation' (LFM 103), we will find, Wittgenstein expects, that set theory is uninteresting (e.g., that the non-enumerability of "the reals" is uninteresting and useless) and that our entire interest in it lies in the 'charm' of the mistaken prose interpretation of its proofs (LFM 16).
I need an editor or someone of artistic bent to shape my useless existence into something that would interest other people.
Furthermore, restriction endonucleases used for these procedures may not be compatible with the gene of interest and render it useless for recombinant protein expression.
But their ideas, while perhaps attractive to voters, as well as to special-interest constituents, are probably useless in practice.
The basic idea is that Art affords us an extremely pure pleasure, unmixed by any self-interest, because Art is useless.
The Australian maneuver had the effect of converting a mostly useless capital loss deduction into a valuable interest deduction.
Although an error exists in the output molecule, it wouldn't be regarded as a totally useless one if chemically significant features-of-interests are well-recognized.
If you have to build a lot, you're usually left with a whole bunch of useless structures for sports that are only of interest during the Olympics.
