useless words

“There are too many useless words thrown in,” she said.

The quote in question — “Aristocracy, liberalism, progress, principles … Useless words! A Russian doesn’t need them.” — came from Yevgeny Bazarov, a nihilist rebel in Turgenev’s best-known novel, “Fathers and Sons,” part of which he wrote at his estate near Mtsensk.

“I’m sorry,” I said to her back, the useless words serving as final proof of my inadequacy.

“Then again,” he made a gesture as if to show how useless words were.

“However, he's not cowardly sitting by a screen typing useless words but trying his best to change this world by working very hard.”