[每日] otiose (a) 無用的
Word of the Day (Tuesday October 14, 2008)
otiose \OH-shee-ohs; OH-tee-\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/3b4Uy
1. Ineffective; futile.
2. Being at leisure; lazy; indolent; idle.
3. Of no use.
Mr. Federspiel's surreal flourishes and commentaries straddle the
line between interesting and otiose. Most of the surrealism is
pretty but pointless.
-- D. F. Wallace, "The Million-Dollar Tattoo", New York Times,
May 5, 1991
Although the wild outer movements and the angular Minuet can take
such clockwork precision, the Andante, with its obsessive,
claustrophobic dialogues between strings and bassoons, seemed
sluggish and otiose.
-- Tim Ashley, "VPO/Maazel", The Guardian, April 16, 2002
The umlaut he affected, which made no difference to the
pronunciation of his name, was as otiose as a pair of
strategically positioned beauty spots.
-- Peter Conrad, "Hidden shallows", New Statesman, October 14,
2002
One hazard for religions in which all professional intermediaries
are dispensed with, and in which the individual is enjoined to
'work out your own salvation' and is regarded as fully capable of
doing so, is that belief and practice become independent of formal
organized structures which may in such a context come to be
perceived as otiose.
-- Lorne L. Dawson, "The Cultural Significance of New Religious
Movements: The Case of Soka Gakkai", Sociology of Religion,
Fall 2001
Otiose is from Latin otiosus, "idle, at leisure," from otium,
"leisure."
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