If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them. I couldn't make them happy; I couldn't make them sad, I would be entirely useless as a moral agent.
There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.
Some of the scripts I hear are completely useless. Sometimes, they're copies of very bad Hollywood films.
The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.
A lot of multinationals have long, drawn-out processes and are pretty useless at putting products on the shelves quickly.
Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.