What is "usefulness"

Usage examples of "usefulness".

But an abstemious life will drag even the old body along to centenarian limits in a tolerable state of preservation and usefulness.

This means the whole idea can become Parent, impairing its usefulness as a tool in producing Adult-Adult transactions in the home.

The theory of morals and its usefulness through the life of man can be compared to the advantage derived by running over the index of a book before reading it when we have perused that index we know nothing but the subject of the work.

She does not regard humans as tools, to be measured by their usefulness to her ends of the moment, but rather as flowers to be nurtured in a garden.

Given its usefulness for those arguing in favor of a separationist Christology, there can be little question why.

Whether, now that our children are growing up, and our income is doubling and trebling year by year, we ought to widen our circle of usefulness, or close it up permanently within the quiet bound of little Longfield.

There the Latinist and sophister and every unlearned writer tries the fitness of his pen, a practice that we have frequently seen injuring the usefulness and value of the most beautiful books.

That was a signal to you that Blane had outlived his usefulness, that he was becoming a liability.

The idea that an ally was manipulatable warranted its usefulness in the achievement of pragmatic goals, and the manipulatory techniques were the procedures that supposedly rendered the ally usable.

The miracle lost some of its usefulness from the fact that Dora wrote the same day postponing the date of her visit, but, at any rate, Clovis holds the record as the only human being who ever hustled Jane Martlet out of the time-table of her migrations.

The shells of unfortunate mollusks bled calcium until they deteriorated beyond usefulness.

Thus, because of authenticated results and her own reading, Celia was not only convinced of the safety of Montayne, but enthusiastic about its usefulness and commercial possibilities.

And she had outgrown any usefulness she might once have had when Sybil had won a shrill argument with Lord and Lady Barrie a few months before and been officially released from the schoolroom.

We are led to understand that, alike in lecture-room and laboratory, everything is carried on with spirit, decorum, and order, and that what with the efficiency of the prelections and examinations, aided as these are by a profusion of admirably executed pictorial illustrations, many of them drawn by the lecturer himself, the place is, in point of usefulness, outstripped by no anatomical theatre anywhere, whether at home or abroad.

It is important, therefore, to realize that the validity and competence of forensic pathologic information that is provided to the criminal profiler will not be uniform, and that further inquiry must be made to improve the quality and usefulness of these important data.