But to condemn him for opting for extended, yet essentially harmless, prose seems excessive.

Both were adept at courting the media, publicising their gatherings which were essentially harmless.

Among adults, they are often seen as unwanted (but essentially harmless) home pests.

Foolish, greedy, deceitful, comically conceited, but apart from a tendency to gossip, essentially harmless.

The article stated that drinking two cups of the tea per day gave a mild stimulation, increased heart rate, and mood elevation, and the tea was essentially harmless.

As long as a borrower can comfortably afford the mortgage and remain in work, the two factors are essentially irrelevant.

The subject of private medicine kept being tugged back to location and estate agents, who were essentially irrelevant and, at best, a distraction.

It can not, obviously, be ruled out, but it's essentially irrelevant.

For long-term investors, newspaper headlines about short-term losses are essentially irrelevant.

The name collenchyma in turn was borrowed from botany because of a fancied, essentially irrelevant, resemblance between sponge tissue and a particular class of ground tissue in plants.

After all, after your first billion, it all becomes essentially meaningless - you can only wear one pair of shoes at a time.

The prosecution's case was so vague as to be essentially meaningless.

The academic results of all this may be essentially meaningless, but the psychological ones are extraordinary.

A set of targets for borrowing and debt that could accommodate this outcome would be essentially meaningless in the face of more robust economic growth.

More gloomily, one might see it as a rational choice based on the perception of life as essentially meaningless, with no need to perpetuate it.

For most people, life would go on essentially unchanged.

Today, the appeal of the seven-inch remains essentially unchanged.

Comets are sometimes referred to as time capsules because they contain materials that have remained essentially unchanged since the birth of the solar system, 4.6 billion years ago.

His stories remain essentially unchanged.

But the region's leaders are going to have to overhaul radically energy policies, essentially unchanged since nationalisation in the 1970s, if they wish to secure their long-term economic prosperity.

We thought our vision was broad, but it was only nonspecific, and as a result, essentially useless.

Were they not essentially useless?

He disapproved of manufactured products that were unsafe, showy, maladapted, or essentially useless.

Cavalry forces were essentially useless in the defense of the town.

This diminished the shield's effectiveness, making it cumbersome and essentially useless.

Now music has become essentially worthless, those who rely on it for a living need to figure out what to do.

Everyone's business, savings, houses, were essentially worthless.

In addition, investment firms came to see that the credit default swaps weren't true protection and were essentially worthless.

Card money was thus essentially worthless.