Sentence examples similar to worthless pursuits from inspiring English sources

[TRANSLATION] It is said in the theatre lobby that it is not noble for authors to write for the worthless pursuit of money, they who pride themselves on their claim to fame.

Our language betrays our fear that this is all worthless, this pursuit of technology at all costs.

When the state supports valuable pursuits over worthless ones, it no more denies the equal moral status of those who reject its action than when it enforces a sound conception of justice that is in dispute.

Until one achieves a permanent change in the will's orientation in this respect, a revolution in which moral righteousness is the nonnegotiable condition of any of one's pursuits, all of one's actions that are in accordance with duty are nevertheless morally worthless, no matter what else may be said of them.

Yes, worthless.

Absolutely worthless.

Probably worthless.

But worthless?

"These are completely worthless.

They're worthless.

It rapidly became worthless.