BRAVE MEN ALWAYS READY Dr. Relsner Declares the Crash Showed Egotism Leads Men to Build Valueless Things.
Everything of value was stolen my passport, computer, phone, and seemingly valueless things like my belt and a pair of cheap sneakers.
The dialogue is made up largely of clichés, arranged in dazzling series of non sequiturs; misplaced fancy locutions (Vic favors "inasmuch"), brand names and precise and valueless descriptions of things like the placemat (a souvenir of Stratford-Upon-Avon) with which Melanie-Jane recalls once being hit.
"If there's fraud involved and that wasn't found during due diligence, the whole thing could be valueless," she said.
That suggests that Mr. Marcoux's legal claim was valueless as an economic matter.
Other money went, as the mother might put it, into the hands of petty charlatans who didn't make it into law or medical school and whose parents, with their valueless American values, never taught them anything, poor things, actually, poor things.
Because of its experience as to confiscation, as to working systems within the camps, and as to transportation, the Office West was able to reorganize their entire working system and thus to succeed in providing for the use in Germany of even things which appeared to be valueless such as scrap paper, rags, salvage, etc. * * *" (L-188).
The praetors, however, devised procedural methods of protecting B's possession in such a way that A's title became valueless, and B was said to own the thing in bonis.
His own fondness is for "the mute, meager, practically valueless object.... What I like is the potency of the impotent thing, the renewed and adorable life I find in the dead and despised object".
I guess in our country, today, yes, those are the things that are so satisfying". They are empty, vapid, valueless, Ellis is saying: "And I guess that is why there is so much disappointment and disillusionment". Ellis has lived some of the life he writes about.
