"otiose lines in a play" "advice is wasted words" "a pointless remark" "a life essentially purposeless" "senseless violence"
"squandered money cannot be replaced" "a wasted effort"
"partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"
"emaciated bony hands" "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys" "eyes were haggard and cavernous" "small pinched faces" "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"