Instead they were as stale and stubborn as old arguments, molds for long dissolved souls, churlish hoardings of useless matter".
Counting the number of regulations is useless, what matters is whether the objectives of regulation are being achieved.
Tons of useless organic matter has been left to lie in unbelievably rank and septic pools.
All the record-setting buildings seem to have been equally useless, no matter how seductive their architecture.
Depression makes you feel like a useless fuck-up no matter what you do, but techno can transport you to a deeply vibrant place no matter where you experience it.
The everyday tasks, no matter how useless in "Les Veilleurs" add up to reality, to life.
Hoarders acquire a lot of things, but even more, they have terrible anxiety about getting rid of anything, no matter how useless it appears to be.
Nick Rowe once beautifully illustrated the flaw in the theory that public works projects, no matter how useless (such as digging holes and filling them in) were an effective form of stimulus in a liqudity trap.
Despite the many hecklers calling out "take it easy mate!", "live a little" or "run Forrest!" from the sidelines of my almost daily training routes, I realised that though my personal achievement was irrelevant and mostly unimportant to anyone else it was my own private project, no matter how useless it seemed.
While the law provides an avenue for "unreasonable" subpoenas to be "quashed," this safety fuse is all but useless as a practical matter.
