I feel sorry for my utter uselessness as a human being, as a son, as a man; but, when I dream, I am happy.
He who offers to the gods his evil desires will see the uselessness of slaughtering animals at the altar.
It is good sometimes to impress upon the Boers the uselessness of their efforts.
And if there comes another doctor to our door, now--" she shrugged; and her shrug seemed to indicate the uselessness of all doctors.
Knowing the futility--the uselessness of it--she began to struggle.
His triplicity, a quite elementary scholastic division, he thus explained: a soul that wills, a soul that knows the uselessness of willing, a soul that watches the struggle of the other two and writes the Iliad of it.
Perceiving the utter uselessness of remaining, and the great danger he ran of being cut off, the governor now commenced a retreat to his boats.
Betts knew too well the uselessness of throwing over his kedge to attempt anchoring.
Too sick at heart for tears, too despairingly conscious of the uselessness of any attempt at reconciliation, Nancy began to dress in a miserable silence.
He gave them a very long discourse on the value of a scientific education for everybody, and from that veered off into a heated tirade against the uselessness of modern education, anyway.
One of them, I remember, was especially severe on the uselessness of the studies in which I took pleasure.
So Grace found herself condemned touselessness almost as complete as Ermine's.
But he realised the uselessness of it all, and abandoned the impulse.
And the lumberman realised the uselessness of further protest.
Only the uselessness of driving his wife to subterfuges that were no longer necessary.
Being philosophically uncreative, it descended into the sloth of those who believe, without exercise of reason or will, in the uselessness of effort.
He remained in Mecca virtually on sufferance, and rapidly recognised the uselessness of attempting any further conversions.
This fact, in connection with the general uselessness or superfluousness of this structure, has led pathologists to characterize the vermiform process with the significant appellation of a death-trap.
The few pages which Brucker has given to Lully do not render his art very intelligible;[624] but they seem sufficient to show its uselessness for the discovery of truth.
Precisely the reverse stares one in the face: the suppression of the lucky cases, the reversion to average, the uselessness of the more highly constituted types, the inevitable mastery of the mediocre.
He is, and must be, useless in the ship: but his uselessness is the fault of the crew and not his own.
Side-note: The uselessness of the true philosopher is the fault of the citizen, who will not invoke his guidance.
Convinced of the uselessness of his efforts to save her life, the maître had solicited one last favor of the tribunal.
The ship-wrecked men rowed with nervous desperation; then they lay down inert, recognizing the uselessness of their efforts, lost in the great immensity.
Many physicians have recognized more or less distinctly the uselessness and harmfulness of "Old School" medical treatment.
If you knew her as well as I do, you would appreciate the uselessness of trying to persuade her to do anything.
How differently I would have invested that fortune, which proved our common ruin, and doomed three lives to uselessness and woe.
Of the secret drinking it is not necessary to say much; for it no more proves the uselessness of prohibition than the existence of illicit stills in Scotland and Ireland proves the impracticableness of our licensing system.
Many times we have been surprised by an observation or a wish from one who, to all outward appearance, was entirely devoted to a life of uselessness and gaiety, without a thought beyond.
This sudden apprehension of a tremendous historical fact was rather disconcerting in the way it brought home to him the uselessness of all the information that he had for years absorbed without any real response of recognition.
Haven't you got any scheme on hand for teaching the democracy to find out the uselessness of your order?
He rubbed his brow, and recognised the uselessnessof worrying them with such palpably unreal cheerfulness.
She recognised the uselessness of calling injunctions after fast-disappearing and obviously obstinate backs.
They did not disguise the uselessness of violent measures against the general excitement of spirits.
