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Example sentences for "worthlessness"

Lexicographically close words:
worthines; worthiness; worthinesse; worthless; worthlesse; worths; worthwhile; worthy; worthye; worts
  1. The utter worthlessness of Israel, both absolutely in the eyes of Jehovah and relatively in comparison with other nations, is asserted by him with a boldness and emphasis which at first startle us.

  2. The whole house of Israel has become dross, from which no precious metal can be extracted; and the object of the smelting is only the demonstration of the utter worthlessness of the people for the ends of God's kingdom.

  3. Its presence is therefore no indication of the worth or worthlessness of its possessor.

  4. Its worthlessness as a cause and value as an expression.

  5. The utility of pain is thus apparent only, and due to empirical haste in collating events that have no regular nor inward relation; and even this imputed utility pain has only in proportion to the worthlessness of those who need it.

  6. In my view, the worth or worthlessness of them has nothing to do with the question of fact.

  7. I am perfectly aware of the frivolity and worthlessness of much of the revealings purporting to come from spirits.

  8. Though his expeditions against them had been uniformly unsuccessful, he had taught Angria that the Company's trade could not be attacked with impunity, and his ill-success was entirely due to the worthlessness of his instruments.

  9. During the many years The Cluthe Rupture Institute was located in New York City, we had daily evidence of the utter worthlessness of all such trusses.

  10. Cluthe soon saw the utter worthlessness of all the trusses then in existence.

  11. It cultivates a Sense of the Worthlessness of Temporal Things.

  12. Buddhism is often labelled pessimistic, because its writings are full of attempts, such as these, to make men realise the suffering and the worthlessness of the life to which they cling.

  13. The personal incapacity and worthlessness of Archelaus were hardly needed, in addition, to make him impossible; a few years later (A.

  14. Nothing, but give her all the letters, and let her be at once satisfied of the worthlessness of him she loved.

  15. Then, with an apparent contradiction to what she had been thinking a few moments before regarding the worthlessness of life, she began to think that her unhappiness was possibly the result of her eccentric life.

  16. Besides the better class of locks made in South Staffordshire there are really trumpery locks made in abundance, and Willenhall enjoys an unenviable celebrity for the cheapness and worthlessness of its wares.

  17. On the other hand, I could cite dozens of instances where their worthlessness has been shown under real exposure to fire or the attempts of burglars.

  18. It is very necessary to bear this in mind, in order to appreciate the utter worthlessness of the stories told of our Saviour in the Talmud and the Toledoth Jeschu.

  19. The received text is thoroughly Pauline, inculcating the worthlessness of man's righteousness.

  20. If Mr. Mill's arguments to prove the worthlessness of Christianity are open to many objections, the reasons he offers for accepting his substitute, the Religion of Humanity, are utterly baseless and delusive.

  21. The illustrations, suggested first by Bentham, which Mr. Mill cites to prove the worthlessness of the religious sanction--viz.

  22. The confession of these last few lines refutes the whole of Mr. Mill's elaborate argument on the worthlessness and immorality of that religion which from his grave he lifts his sad and hollow voice to overthrow.

  23. These tests have no value whatever, unless it be to show the worthlessness of the preparation.

  24. They show the worthlessness of testimony of this sort--no matter from what source--and the fallacy of that based on so-called clinical evidence.

  25. Concerning the latter nothing is said in the analysis, whose worthlessness is again demonstrated.

  26. Of the testimonials on Sanatogen we shall at this time have nothing to say; The Journal has in the past repeatedly shown the worthlessness of this kind of evidence.

  27. Such is the worthlessness of time, to the thought of those that have no faith in the future, that they have cared for little except present physical enjoyment.

  28. The absolute worthlessness of spiritual communication comes in when we are told by the medium, caught in a contradiction, that spirits are awful liars.

  29. But Nero feared Seneca might expose his worthlessness and the philosopher himself take the reins.

  30. How often had not Shakespeare himself seen worthlessness strike greatness down and usurp its place!

  31. His joy whenever he tears the mask from baseness is simply the joy of realisation, with deep sorrow in the background--abstract satisfaction produced by the feeling that at last he understands the worthlessness of the world.

  32. His stupid inefficiency and undisguised malignity have nothing in common with his mother's hypocritical and supple craft; he takes after her in worthlessness alone.

  33. From the very first it taught the vanity--the worthlessness of all earthly things.

  34. The biologists, through the fossil forms of life, established the antiquity of man and demonstrated the worthlessness of Holy Writ.

  35. An amusing instance of the worthlessness of the Greek sailors, whom, from first to last, he tried to make useful, may here be given.

  36. A day had not passed, however, before Lord Cochrane had fresh proof of the worthlessness of that pretended gratitude.

  37. The fundamental cause of the worthlessness of the labor on the demesne is the fact which accounts for the absence of a money payment for the work not performed.

  38. The reformers did not merely assert the insufficiency of reason and nature, but went further, and asserted their total depravity, and utter worthlessness in the Christian life.


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