Like fat cells clinging to a body, they want to eat, too, despite their uselessness.

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It seems unnecessarily churlish to focus on the uselessness of the British monarchy during a royal wedding.

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Likewise, the uselessness of the authorities has also lead people to take the law in their own hands.

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Some of the questions they pose show pressures to weaken the rule even further, to the point of total uselessness.

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Dr Weston visits him nightly through the week it takes him to die, not knowing what to say, mortified by her uselessness as a doctor and companion.

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In that way, he created an alternate economy based on an equivalence between money and art: the inherent uselessness of both that makes the value of each arbitrary.

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Granted, the rulers of the Friuli region in the Alps, deciding that enough is enough, axed a small department of the local government whose manifest uselessness had become an embarrassment.

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The third strand is the uselessness of the government.

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To outsiders, the cacophony underlines the profession's uselessness.

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Through my experience as a financial planner and a doctor, the people who stop being engaged get old quickly and their brains seem to slip away into uselessness much faster than those who keep working.

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