Sentence examples for useless speech from inspiring English sources
They sometimes talk about "expressive conduct," which can seem like another way of saying "useless speech": utterances that do little more than disclose a point of view.
Traditionally, such behaviors are divided into three categories: physical actions, such as killing, stealing, and abusive sexual behavior; activities of speech, such as lying, slander, harsh words, and frivolous or what is sometimes called "useless" speech; and mental or emotional tendencies, which include greed and malice.
It isn't just the mostly useless speeches, but the exhaustion and valuable time we lost from productive work.
That's not a debate; that's a boring, fairly useless, series of mini-speeches.
If a number of people meet in the same room, speech technology is useless.
You don't have to cut down dramatically on your speech, but do cut useless banter.
Language is a useless but irresistible tool, and Beckett's monologists spend long passages reducing speech to its physical mechanics.
This language is useless.
Lord Mandelson described Mr Miliband's famous "predators vs producers" speech on the economy as creating "useless labels".
The main point of the speech is like a tabletop: it's useless unless it's held up by the table legs of the examples, supporting points, argument, logic, and any research that holds up the main idea.
