Sentence examples for without function from inspiring English sources

This implies that the fornix and mammillary bodies form part of the same functional system, as lesions to one of these structures leaves the other without function.

Mainstream theatre has become a form without function.

These repeats, though apparently without function, are useful in tracking human variation, and are also the elements used in DNA forensic tests of identity.

Yet it does us good, for it is a citadel of beauty, the building as a flamboyant work of art, without function or respect for place, soaring away on a magic carpet of Arabian Nights escapism.

"The most important lesson I learned while studying the immense archives," Mr. Giornetti said, "is that for Salvatore, beauty did not exist without function".

It seems unlikely, however, that any apparently fortuitous coloration could long escape the process of natural selection and thus remain totally without function.

Once a prestigious southern African institution, today it is without functioning sewers or running water.

The residents had lived in great deprivation without functioning hospitals and with little electricity and water in freezing winter conditions.

Now aging baby boomers, never quiet about anything, can spend as many years without functioning ovaries as with them.

"Some are stranded on high floors of buildings without functioning elevators.

Nothing says apocalypse, apparently, like a city without functioning A.T.M.'s.