unproductively

1 Here, the girl is Wendy and she lives in her own ramshackle utopia, one that borrows a little from “Beasts” and, more generously and unproductively, from J.M.

2 But in his pomp, still waspishly sharp, Hadlee expended not a single drop of energy unproductively.

3 The most common danger is unproductively whiling away the hours without anything to show for it.

4 He goes on to describe how global treaty negotiations have been unproductively framed around limiting the rise in temperature in the coming decades by working backward to present-day emission targets and timetables.

5 And vast sums of money had actually been spent and were still being spent on this business, and utterly unproductively, and the whole business could obviously lead to nothing whatever.

6 And, unlike the fade-outs that punctuate the movie like chapter breaks, they unproductively disrupt the flow.

7 Salinger writes, "almost everybody I've ever known lets me know... how unhealthily, how selfishly, how unproductively I'm living my life, going years without publishing, not meeting anybody".

8 Volatility has come down meaningfully, interest rates are low, corporate cash levels are high and dilutive just sitting unproductively on balance sheets, and there is pent-up strategic demand.

9 But, it may be asked, does a family, which does no more than support itself, labor unproductively?

10 It seems far easier to focus on the few looters who have reacted unproductively to this tragedy than to focus on the killing of Michael Brown.

11 "If you look from January until now, too much time has been spent unproductively," he said.

12 Oil refineries, for example, operate so unproductively that even though Mexico is one of the world’s top producers of crude, one-third to one-half of the country’s gasoline is imported from the United States.

13 Don’t force yourself to plod on unproductively on difficult or large projects.

14 No time was wasted worrying or staring unproductively at my computer.

15 Let us take, for instance, as our example, Paris, which is much frequented by strangers from various parts of the world, who, as sojourners there, live unproductively upon their means.

16 David A. Sanchez, president of the California Teachers Association, said Obama had embraced "the same one-size-fits-all and flawed foundation" of the Bush-era law "that has unfairly and unproductively used test scores to label public schools."

17 The capital thus set free, finds its most convenient seat to be Paris, since the business to which it must turn is the production of articles to be unproductively consumed by the sojourners.

18 As usual, that conversation has started unproductively, with Trump’s declaration — on no apparent evidence — that there are criminals and “unknown Middle Easterners” mixed in with the migrants.

19 People can't expect to spend so much of their lives unproductively.

20 Washington is a likable actor and easy on the eyes, but the character is unproductively one-dimensional and so is the performance, which remains reactive and opaque.

1 无益

feeble unprofitable profitless unprofitably

2 无益地

unprofitably