The drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This usually causes an eruption of huge emotion as the normal feeling of worthlessness is contradicted by the new worth in the person’s bank account. From Wordnik.com. [Scripting News for 3/17/2008 « Scripting News Annex] Reference
"trumpery," and so supplement the idea of worthlessness with that other idea, equally grateful to the author, of deceit. From Wordnik.com. [Style] Reference
Aliens (1986), though his "worthlessness" is caused by an injury sustained in heroic battle, not something as unflattering as pathological-tripping. From Wordnik.com. Reference
She explained that in this place she "felt her worthlessness.". From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Ireland, there was none to be compared in worthlessness to that made by. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
Even filial love has withered under the shadow of Cassier's worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
Blaney and try to convince him of the worthlessness of McNally's contract. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Line War] Reference
It is the giver who determines the worth or the worthlessness of the gift. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Cluthe soon saw the utter worthlessness of all the trusses then in existence. From Wordnik.com. [Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured] Reference
He reached into his pocket, before remembering the worthlessness of his bills. From Wordnik.com. [Victory] Reference
York City, we had daily evidence of the utter worthlessness of all such trusses. From Wordnik.com. [Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured] Reference
The younger patient needed to share her angry feelings and sense of worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
The World War proved the utter worthlessness of Christianity as a civilizing force. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Instinctively, Sonia perhaps realizes that her cachet is her intrinsic worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Sonia, The Ideal Symbol] Reference
Don't overlook the value of a liberal arts degree despite jokes about their worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Recovering From Debt Rape] Reference
And to create something - to create a song is a very powerful argument against worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [In A Texas Jail, An Exclusive SXSW Concert] Reference
That look was at once the revelation of the worth of the one and the worthlessness of the other. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
She knew that the man was distinguished for his intelligence as well as for his general worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Pharisee with a deep sense of their own worthlessness and littleness gnawing at their spirit all the while. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
For all the insight and help I've received from drug therapy and psychotherapy, I still have feelings of worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Healing Myself With The Power Of Work] Reference
I could discover no evidence of a creature alarmed with a sense of guilt, loathing itself, conscious of its worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
And they're less likely than people with conventional depression to have feelings of worthlessness or thoughts of suicide. From Wordnik.com. [5 cold-weather health hazards, and how to stay safe] Reference
To bring out the husband's faults and to make his errors known, and give her the opportunity of proving his worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
If any one had told him that he was an object of pity because of his boy's worthlessness, he would have sputtered with indignation. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
His master turned on him because his own reason was inconsistent with his conduct and a mere shield for his indolence and worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
Of course it would hardly be right to sell it to an innocent person, who did not know of its worthlessness, for then they would lose also. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference
Also it may be doubted whether Alicia would have tried the days of her hospitality to Captain Filbert by her general standard of worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
Calling around him the choicest minds of Greece, he pointed out the worthlessness of their altars and shame of public life, but Athens was quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
I've watched the political debate over the worthiness (the Republicans call it worthlessness) of the unemployed American workers whose benefits are ending. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Stagliano: The 'Good Old Days' on Unemployment] Reference
And I felt so drenched in worthlessness on the way home that I practically expected a policeman to grab me and say, "All right, buddy, you're coming with me.". From Wordnik.com. [NAMASTE] Reference
Sickness, weakly accepted at first, later grew, and as an octopus, entwined its incapacitating tentacles about and slowly strangled a life into worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
True the evidence it affords is sometimes negative, often conflicting, but it is so rather from imperfect interpretation than from any intrinsic worthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Yankee is to the Southerner a synonym for all that is low and base and cunning, and the Southerner is to the Yankee the embodiment of all worthlessness and crime. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
She doesn't care if we happen to suffer along the way -- from subtle worries to intense feelings of sorrow, worthlessness or anger -- or create suffering for others. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Fire up Those Neurons for Positive Thinking] Reference
A lurking sense of their own worthlessness has made them timid of utterance except as they echo and prolong a note that has been struck repeatedly by singers of reputation. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
West skewers an array of villains for helping to perpetuate a "profound sense of psychological depression, personal worthlessness, and social despair" in much of black America. From Wordnik.com. [A Prophet With Attitude] Reference
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