Sentence examples for useless work from inspiring English sources

Although this kind of seemingly useless work happens in the sciences, the burden of uselessness falls with greater weight on the arts and humanities in a world that increasingly values usefulness.

"I must have in a long life ground through between 150,000 and 200,000 hours of perfectly useless work".

"I think I make a very useless work and I'm very proud of it," he says, again.

Recalling him as smart and focused, Mr. Finnegan added that he "seemed to have a great dislike for useless work".

Searching to describe the mesmerizing effect of a man playing "Amazing Grace" on a saw, he fixes on "the exact, useless work of hands".

Less exceptional poems may include well-observed moments: a poet is "like a weather vane, a rooster / soldered to his useless work".

They include "Macchine Inutili" (Useless Works) and an album of 27 plates known as "Cantastoria Campari" (Campari Street Singer).

"I'm useless at work in the fall".

It didn't kill me, but it rendered me useless to work for the rest of my life.

Christians apparently believed that it was useless to work because the end of the world was close at hand.

He plays stagehand, doing useless busy work with a purpose as he piles objects in the center of the stage.