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"pointless" Definitions
  1. having no purpose; not worth doing
"pointless" Antonyms
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It was boring and pointless, and I felt boring and pointless looking at it.
"Cats is pointless, and Kardashians is pointless," co-creators Bob and Tobly McSmith tell The Creators Project.
While yes, using a TSA-approved padlock to lock your luggage is pointless now, it has actually always been pointless.
It's somewhat pointless (Evans even refers to a handful of his creations as "the pointless trilogy") but it is extremely awesome.
The legacy of Zenobia is Amina's only comfort on her pointless journey; but is it pointless if we learn from it?
It might sound pointless, but it's even more pointless to lie there at night thinking about trying to go to sleep.
Pointless debates about gold coins and piss-takes about invading the Shire are perfectly pointless interactions that help genuine connections to grow.
"The last thing we need to do right now is trade pointless -- absolutely pointless -- show votes back and forth across the aisle," McConnell said on the floor.
"The last thing we need to do right now is trade pointless — absolutely pointless — show votes back and forth across the aisle," McConnell said from the Senate floor.
" Tehran replied by calling the claims "meaningless" and "pointless.
Truly disappointed and saddened by her ugly and pointless description.
That broadness makes any sort of attempted forensic analysis pointless.
If you're not a Tolkien fan, Tolkien is completely pointless.
At parties, the subjects found conversation both difficult and pointless.
He also felt that fiddling with the mask was pointless.
Removing it would leave the square seeming barren and pointless.
People lost their lives because of Bush's reckless, pointless war.
You're right, it's absolutely pointless since nobody can buy it.
But for some cats, it's as pointless as an O'Douls.
"Lidar is lame," he said, calling it expensive and pointless.
Even Trump apparently knew how pointless this whole exercise was.
"After thinking, I found this petition is pointless," Coldwater wrote.
"As far as I'm concerned it's really pointless," he said.
It would be pointless to go looking for the floats.
These weird, pointless, funny, boring, intriguing, puerile pieces of content.
It is, quite literally, pointless and super confusing to use.
Are house group chats as pointless as they are irritating?
It seemed so pointless, she said, so futile and sad.
So perhaps the search for a unifying theory is pointless.
The boxing superfight that is large as well as pointless.
Watching Rodriguez to assess him was almost pointless, Michael said.
I'll probably collect the degree, even if it's completely pointless.
C Sam Gagner is pointless in his past eight games.
But it would be pointless to do our mapping otherwise.
Saagar Enjeti argues why he thinks impeachment proceedings are pointless.
This entire sequence is exactly as pointless as it looks.
Like ATM fees, late fees are a pointless money suck.
"Quality without results is pointless," he was quoted as saying.
They recognized hard, pointless, idiotic toil when they saw it.
If the NHL adopted this rule, it would be pointless.
Do you agree that these programs are sort of pointless?
MMA, even though that debate is pointless to begin with.
Matthews might very well match Thornton's pointless postseason of 1998.
McDonald's' advertising is as ubiquitous as it is seemingly pointless.
I'm wasting precious time by busying myself with pointless deciding.
They were supposed to be provocative, but mostly looked pointless.
Law professors said the whole legal battle was pretty pointless.
To bring flowers before the funeral's even started feels pointless.
Now it's just pointless because it just keeps playing itself.
In a way, it is pointless to compare political cultures.
Almost everything that's currently being debated, by contrast, is pointless.
Wine is intimidating enough without saddling it with pointless rigmarole.
Unfortunately, the reveal makes his character feel even more pointless.
Yet so much of the smart kitchen just feels pointless.
It's pointless to keep pretending to be what we're not.
A CT6 without Super Cruise seems, to me, utterly pointless.
Isn't it all pointless if the US isn't on board?
To needlessly harm our allies and our farmers is pointless.
Pointless little books used to be more of a thing.
It's pointless — like painting nail polish on your pinkie toe.
Which poses the question: What's the next pointless culture war?
But the debate is more than just pointless, fun speculation.
More to the point, making it cheaper to launch pointless invasions of medium-size countries wouldn't be all that useful, since the monetary cost is really the least of the problems with a pointless invasion.
Leveling to 99 in the first reactor is pointless and meaningless.
At best, they often feel pointless; at worst, they're soul-sucking.
Salvini denied the reports and accused journalists of generating "pointless" controversies.
Trying to shake off your past is largely a pointless endeavor.
Scotland face pointless Slovakia away on Tuesday while Lithuania host Malta.
In our minds, it's not pointless, but it can be drudgery.
Contrary to Marx's claim, democratic politics was not a pointless charade.
She found herself wondering if her life's work had been pointless.
Maybe they were exhausted after a bruising, pointless draw in Iowa.
But from a narrative standpoint, it's a seemingly pointless little hiccup.
Yet the convention and protocol, even if flouted, are not pointless.
Many deaths are preceded by a surge of treatment, often pointless.
Still, a strong economy does not make a jobs guarantee pointless.
This has to be the best "pointless" answer on gameshow television.
That does not mean that the gun-control law was pointless.
Sometimes it would suddenly make a pointless circle around the room.
"A lot of UNESCO's work is quite pointless," Gowan tells me.
One person's luxury may be another person's pointless waste of money.
Every death, every double cross, every battle — they're all pointless waste.
The pointless Mr Moussa was the only candidate allowed to run.
Nor am I arguing that critical analysis of Radiohead is pointless.
Sports, as much as they pay the bills, are essentially pointless.
"What I said was selfish and pointless," she wrote on Snapchat.
To know you are going to die for something ultimately pointless.
But it can end the pointless cycles of pressure and negotiation.
It may become pointless for cigarette firms to start legal proceedings.
Scrap a policy that shames a nation with its pointless cruelty.
We curse trail designers for PUDS, or pointless ups and downs.
It's time to consign the mythical, improbable, and pointless Mayweather vs.
And it turns out that one of them is completely pointless.
The game's second half, after Best's injury, felt awkward and pointless.
Calling it "shocking" and "pointless", many outraged readers cancelled their subscriptions.
With that mindset, life's daily tasks start to seem pretty pointless.
Do you have a job that you secretly believe is pointless?
Of course, this all may be pointless speculating about the future.
Now that Instagram doesn't display photos chronologically, that approach seems pointless.
Both of them were too heavy, or too pointless, to move.
It's important to recall that all of this is completely pointless.
Now, does this mean that rescuing the financial system was pointless?
Hiking on nearby Avachinsky Volcano to admire the view seemed pointless.
From a purely physiological perspective, chewing something without swallowing is pointless.
"It should stop wasting resources on pointless and politically motivated prosecutions."
In 2017, I argued that it was pointless to short Tesla.
But it was a pointless debate, and we both knew it.
And most importantly, because discriminating against seniors is unfair and pointless.
What some might see as completely pointless, he found intellectually liberating.
It was about moving forward, even when progress itself seemed pointless.
Her son, Art, is a hapless nature blogger and pointless pseud.
And also set aside the accrued, pointless damage to your toaster.
Wishing that progressive anti-partyism never happened is a pointless exercise.
A light had been ignited in me that made school feel pointless.
Their jobs really are just as pointless as they think they are.
If this all smacks of pointless nihilism, that's kind of the point.
It was pointless to be angry at Beau — he was a dog!
At best, this is a pointless and distracting form of anti-politics.
As an individual content creator, however, I think Snap is fairly pointless.
The only problem is that it feels so aimless and pretty pointless.
It is every meme you've ever hated or celebrity you've found pointless.
If there is no follow-up or repercussions, then it is pointless.
No one worships useless, pointless nonsense like the Rick and Morty fanbase.
Let's be clear, the smart hairbrush looks kind of terrible and pointless.
Pointless destruction is a lot easier than rewiring and hacking the devices.
But the pomp and circumstance didn't make sense: The meeting was pointless.
It's pointless, drains energy, and causes their internal compass to go awry.
It is pointless to fret about decimal points in China's growth rates.
Struggling against the energy is pointless — and why do that to yourself?
Perhaps they decided that resisting Turkish tanks and US airpower was pointless.
Any kind of task, even if it is totally artificial and pointless.
She observed that people might believe it would be pointless to vote.
JOHN STOSSEL, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: It&aposs one more pointless environmental zealotry.
There's something more than a little pointless about the mental fitness debate.
Knowing that it was kind of pointless, but you'll still remember it.
It's kind of pointless and thus, we don't think it's worth replacing.
They may be pointless or maddening or simply not ready for primetime.
But it's pointless, because everyone is on board with Andre's Vegas deal.
Unboxing videos are normally dreary, pointless YouTube affairs — unless you're this woman.
On Thursday he said it was pointless for ASEAN to pressure China.
But at a certain point, ignoring those bits renders any discussion pointless.
That means individual efforts to combat climate change are effectively pointless, right?
But if the system is dysfunctional, offering them more money is pointless.
On my terrible days I let myself think that it's all pointless.
It was eye-catching, sure, but it was also really rather pointless.
Totally pointless, no economic benefit at all, it's just sort of lovely.
I always thought of fashion as kind of silly and sometimes pointless.
" Without the British, "the union of European peoples becomes pointless and lost.
Yet for Mr. Kolb, the CFDA president, creativity without commerce is pointless.
"she was mocking us": She denies everything, gets bogged down in pointless
Buying headphones that don't have noise cancelation is kind of pointless, right?
Pointless, half-baked and downright scammy projects should go down in flames.
Floral waters have always seemed like a pointless beauty product to me.
Here's mine: Yes, if all bodies are equal then labels are pointless.
I probably wouldn't eat this, though, the recipe is a bit pointless.
But at the moment, his tirade reads more like pointless wheel-spinning.
It's almost laughable because most of it is so mundane and pointless.
Giving cash to families with no strings attached isn't a pointless gimmick.
They've got to go eat dinner and hit another pointless private concert.
My production develops everyday but it is pointless to talk about it.
It is often seen as either positive or pointless -- but rarely dangerous.
Like swilling wine around in your mouth, the whole charade was pointless.
And, seeing third-party politics as pointless, they became major Republican donors.
National Democrats didn't get it — they saw it as a pointless stunt.
Given that these bills are so unambiguously unconstitutional, they might seem pointless.
Are the characters flat, is the setting vague, is the dialogue pointless?
He uses these responses to understand what types of pointless jobs exist.
It was pointless to prepare a presentation of any sort for him.
Meanwhile, introverts would love to cancel pointless in-person meetings, says Moran.
As such, trying to negotiate or compromise with them was utterly pointless.
After I uncorked the bottle—decanting was pointless; what did I care?
And counting on help from the Republican-dominated federal government seems pointless.
When Jamie-Lee pointed out that canapés are pointless and too small.
At that moment, she says, she realized how pointless it all was.
At one metre of sea-level rise it would be basically pointless.
Varnish said appealing against British Cycling's decision would be a pointless process.
I didn't have to shift gears, but it wasn't totally pointless either.
And I think that's why her storyline feels so boring and pointless.
Focusing climate-change advocacy efforts on Republicans is beginning to seem pointless.
And we all know how that turned out — an utterly pointless exercise.
It makes two big changes: This makes most tax evasion schemes pointless.
Working too much is at best, pointless, and at worst, actively harmful.
Rehashing why and what happened is pointless on both sides of this situation.
The context of the dunk itself defangs it, making it almost brutally pointless.
But, the ongoing Oversight this, and Committee that is so pointless and draining.
It was brutally effective, and it rendered more subtle methods of warfare pointless.
Immigration advocacy groups have criticized the plan as a pointless waste of money.
But at this point, it's pretty much pointless to predict the political aspect.
It's August, it's scorching, and putting on a full face just seems pointless.
Tragedy Girls would be basically pointless if it weren't also so deeply weird.
Huawei's CEO Eric Xu Zhijun said in April that smartwatches are essentially pointless.
Trump, today, says it is a pointless media construct that henever bought into.
Late fees, penalties on credit cards and ATM fees are pointless money sucks.
Instead, Russia canceled the meeting, which Ryabkov said the sanctions had made pointless.
These paintings end up being just as pointless as their source material, however.
But even the best software is pointless without compelling hardware to run it.
Were they all just a pointless waiting room for Chris' march to victory?
This rally continues, until you give up, realizing the whole thing is pointless.
All CNN will get out of Duffy is a series of pointless controversies.
He is witty about the true English vice, which is pointless, pompous snobbery.
All of my fears were pointless because there's nothing to be scared about.
Even if I'd managed to cast my vote, it would have been pointless.
After this pointless delay, we pledged to ourselves: We're never doing that again.
It's pointless just tampering at the edges: You need to change important infrastructures.
"Its just so obvious how pointless this exercise is," he added in October.
"I'd spent enough time watching one pointless indignity after another," the author writes.
But this effort may be its most high-profile, and its most pointless.
The euro would plunge in value, rendering any other exit a pointless exercise.
But reason seemed to have no purchase on her; her obstinacy was pointless.
None of this is to say infrastructure spending is always pointless or excessive.
But it can seem daunting or even pointless if you've never tried it.
That's a petty, pointless move that had Trump's small fingerprints all over it.
But the film packages them into something hollow and pointless, a disappointing misfire.
It's tempting -- but pointless -- to try and score political points from the revelation.
The logic of threatening a painful, pointless war under these circumstances escapes me.
World War I was, if anything, more pointless than the Mexican-American War.
But at the same time she argued that making these distinctions is pointless.
Fighting was pointless and many of my comrades would still be alive today.
All seem like small objects, you could maybe even call them pointless objects.
Your own qualms about money is no reason to pick pointless fights online.
Those first two plans are essentially pointless renames with a slight price cut.
I barely pay attention throughout all-staff, and it's honestly just pointless reminders.
Regret is even pointless, Taylor writes, when it comes to her own illness.
After all, this pointless trend is, I hope we all agree, radically stupid.
It is pointless to summarize the deficiencies of either or both principal candidates.
There, citizens could gather to dissect the latest of our pointless recent wars.
Mr. Trump has dispensed with what he considers pointless moralizing and preachy naïveté.
"People are ready to resist another pointless war however we can," he said.
For this heartless and pointless incident to happen, there's no words to describe.
And music on its own, without me in it, is a little pointless.
He called the delay "pointless" and blamed Parliament for undercutting his negotiating position.
It makes no sense to continue squandering time and resources on pointless acrimony.
At other times, he said, it seemed pointless — as when allies were denigrated.
Why do exams focusing on pointless topics end up determining our entire future?
He said many things like that, pointless, stupid, hateful things, and still won.
We staggered home from parties pontificating on the pointless evil of Western religion.
But most importantly: you won't have to listen to any more pointless airplane arguments.
Make Instagram a safe space for yourself rather than a trap of pointless poison.
Tai's advantage play may not have been as disastrous – but it was as pointless.
This is pointless penny-pinching that will harm a small group of people's livelihood.
But, at least to us, it is never pointless, but it is sometimes busywork.
But have we reached a point where going forward with the event is pointless?
For the first two, guns are public-health threats or devices of pointless tragedy.
The whole exercise feels maddeningly, frustratingly pointless—and intentionally so, as we gradually discover.
In such circumstances many people respond to powerlessness with pointless acts of self-destruction.
They throw away their lives for a pointless and usually botched moment of terrorism.
A party celebrating it isn't just pointless — at least pointlessness would render it harmless.
The funds are now so big that there is more risk of pointless duplication.
And a pointless drain on resources because it's doing no more than disrupting walking.
Not only is it pointless to make a fuss; it might make matters worse.
From Baker (emphasis mine): Privately, Mr. Trump dismissed his own new strategy as pointless.
Nor are feelings of boredom and pointless activity confined to the arena of work.
Is it pointless for us to religiously check the weather before heading this year?
All of their gifts are fantastically pointless, which makes them so much more entertaining.
People were encouraged to experiment, no matter how pointless the outcome appeared to be.
He also worries that false positives will generate a huge amount of pointless work.
Overcrowded classrooms and distracted parents can make pouring effort into school work feel pointless.
It feels almost pointless to introduce Paul Wall at this point in his career.
He says that in rare cases, going along with the POLA is pointless conformity.
I don't know why exactly, you can be rational about it but that's pointless.
Unless a president has his own act together, reshuffling the team is ultimately pointless.
It's a mix, and that's why the heated sloganeering among geeks can seem pointless.
"What I said was selfish and pointless," Gomez, 24, wrote on Snapchat, also Tuesday.
Forcing them to re-learn something that they already know would be rather pointless.
Pointlessly difficult spelling isn't actually pointless: it shows who has had a fine education.
Outraged advocates say there often isn't a bed available, making the law largely pointless.
I've been trying not to buy anymore because I feel it's kind of pointless.
It is easy, and ultimately pointless, to compare Bennett to other failed top picks.
Can he restrain President Trump from petty tussles, pointless tweets and random self-indulgences?
Lauer had turned what should have been a serious discussion into a pointless ambush.
They sort of tussle here but like…it's all just so pointless, they realize.
The world of Muay Thai is not immune to these endless, almost pointless debates.
At best, Overwatch's tutorial is pointless, but some players might even find it detrimental.
It was one of only 15 games that season that he was held pointless.
"Isn't that a better legacy than a pointless wall of hate?" he asks Trump.
The kind of politically painful but economically beneficial reforms the I.M.F. likes are pointless.
Megan Barbero, a lawyer for the House, argued that further negotiation would be pointless.
CNN reports that with so few nominations, officials felt the training would be pointless.
"You have this thing that is pointless—and that is the point," he said.
It may be pointless to hold the main plot of "Suicide Squad" against it.
Lebanon, a pointless act that culminated in the October 23, 1983 bombing of the
Redditors are no stranger to what may outwardly seem to be pointless collaborative projects.
I realized it was pointless; they had already decided they were saving other places.
It seems a little pointless to me to be constantly raging about these guys.
This despair also inspires pointless second-guessing about whether Democrats picked the wrong candidate.
He has scoffed at our allies, launched pointless trade wars, and empowered our enemies.
Chief among the most pointless endeavors is the critical analysis of arts and culture.
Remember how you just said food photos on Instagram were totally boring and pointless?
TC: You guys took umbrage when I suggested that luggage locks were pointless. Why?
After every prolonged and pointless online battle, I knew I wasn't handling things well.
" - Jordan, 28 "La La Land because it's cheesy and pointless, with no story whatsoever.
In the Premier League, such pointless joy is rare – and yet it does exist.
Critics say that mining that area is a pointless vestige of the Cold War.
It was a celebration of masculine violence and vapid tradition, a pointless superficial contest.
It views debate — beyond its own tightly set parameters — as either pointless or dangerous.
But holding another election would be preferable to another "pointless" Brexit delay, he said.
I have a job, that when you get right down to it, is pointless.
Health care has many financial incentives that encourage continued treatment, no matter how pointless.
"Such useless accusations... are meaningless and not comprehensible and are pointless," said Abbas Mousavi.
Washington later blamed Iran for the attacks, which Tehran dismissed as "pointless" on Sunday.
When you&aposre young and don&apost have children, it seems even more pointless.
Its endless valorization of child-like imagination comes off a bit soft and pointless.
If something malfunctioned now, "all those years of training were completely pointless," he realized.
While traveling so often, it seemed pointless to spend money on New York rents.
Adding small amounts of vinegar, baking soda or salt to your water is pointless.
Trying to figure out which goaltender is worth the money is a pointless exercise.
" On national television, she called the destruction of the raptors' home "pointless and heartless.
Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, the league's top two scorers, were held pointless.
Did SDNY back off because he's the president and charging him would be pointless?
Nadler also called censure a "pointless, partisan exercise" that doesn't carry force of law.
And watching grass grow here is not necessarily as pointless an exercise as elsewhere.
These are pointless, sloppy sentences, and they highlight the central problem of this book.
None of this is to say that physical barriers are invariably pointless or evil.
To describe the plot, to the extent that there even is one, is pointless.
The pointless 3D TV standards war presages the manifold sins of the smart home.
Such a message feels hollow, almost as pointless as the damning Goodreads review, "Meh."
It skipped past the deaths to show Rick threaten Negan, then to show the two of them drive out into the middle of nowhere in the RV, where Negan put Rick through some pointless games (more on those pointless games in a bit).
It's beautiful and rousing, exactly what we expect from ol' Jack, but it's ultimately pointless.
But the seventh Republican debate may have been pointless without Trump—that's his gamble, anyway.
Make Instagram a safe space for yourself rather than a trap of pointless poison. pic.twitter.
Paul Richardson — For the record, yes, players can earn this pointless accolade solely through points.
I hear they have a lot of drones at their disposal so that's probably pointless.
Donald Trump's main policy initiative involves building a pointless wall across miles of empty desert.
It sounds ... mostly pointless, but also a fun novelty — especially if you're into slow TV.
But those frustrating times met their end long ago, and so too should pointless idling.
I never contribute anything, so joining them each month feels a bit pointless to me.
And that's not even touching on the final twist that renders these questions almost pointless.
"It is pointless to go forward on the basis of [vetoes] and disputes," he declared.
The latter is a pretty pointless objective, because Cookie Monster is bound to devour it.
It would be convenient if inflicting pain on prisoners was pointless as well as wrong.
The mass collection by the government of our personal data, he argues, has been pointless.
It's pointless to say if either tribe is better or worse—both have their sins.
And there is such uncertainty over Brexit that making changes now seems a bit pointless.
It might make some voters feel that voting is pointless if the system is rigged.
Or does it mean a diminished Pride relic takes more pointless beatings with worse consequences?
But here's the thing: "Focusing on the grams of sugar is so pointless," Rumsey says.
While sales on all these coffee makers are great, it's pointless without the actual coffee.
More generally, many corporate espionage strategies, and sophisticated market research programs, could become utterly pointless.
We know you do, so say it already," she said, adding, "Own your pointless cruelty.
But for America to aim to balance trade with any one country would be pointless.
They should concentrate on eliminating specific annoyances, such as time-wasting meetings and pointless memos.
To try to describe Love and Rockets too hard in a short review is pointless.
Growing up, I knew it wasn't a pointless job and I knew it wasn't freeloading.
Brazil passed more than 75,000, many of them pointless, in the ten years to 2010.
Then I just kept wasting my money on pointless shit like food, drugs, and partying.
Sean: The group stage might be rendered pointless, but teams are still advancing through, right?
But copious data and fast speeds are pointless if mobile users can't get a signal.
Arthur Brooks: It's surreal: a hate crime and terrorism intersecting in one ghastly, pointless tragedy.
The recent calls for Trump to resign over his sexual exploits strike me as pointless.
Which is pointless unless Hachette pays royalties to authors' great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren.
Raising the legal age to buy an AR-15 from 85033 to 21 is pointless.
The public jousting between the Trump administration and the press has become tedious and pointless.
"They don't want to be talking about palace intrigue or this pointless blather," Judy added.
If and when they emerge, it's with no new facts but instead more pointless questions.
He questioned why YouTube was "making the most pointless f---ing changes to their platform."
But another pep talk followed by a another request for yet another statement seemed pointless.
To do anything else, as Sacks writes, would have been not only pointless but cruel.
"The palace intrigue of how this came about is to me somewhat pointless," he said.
"we won't be doing tweets about the mueller report because it's pointless," his account tweeted.
One of the things that drives people crazy about Washington is all the pointless theater.
What I remember of Dog Days is a grotesquerie of pointless violence and snowballing calamity.
Only admitting that would be tantamount to admitting that prohibition is both cynical and pointless.
It's also easy for a person to answer a simple question, especially if it's pointless.
Later on, at the pointless Rose Ceremony, JoJo is down for some tension-relieving conversation.
In other words, all this high-stakes procedural confrontation simply produced another pointless artificial cliff.
Because it seems like finding your steps or calling an Uber is kind of pointless.
Thousands of others like myself were wounded, all in a war I now consider pointless.
Whatever it was, I used to say to myself: Don't insert that pointless food detail.
Now, the convenience of titling has made translating librettos for performance seem pointless, even stilted.
Suddenly regulators' guns are blazing, but it looks thoughtless and is likely to prove pointless.
Everything felt too complicated, too expensive, and injected pointless competition into all aspects of life.
This doesn't mean, however, that a criminal investigation of Mr. Trump's possible wrongdoing is pointless.
In fairness, some Republican lawmakers appear to want to avoid this kind of pointless cycle.
But giving into it is ultimately more likely than not to prove shortsighted and pointless.
"My boss didn't even care about the doctor's note, so that was pointless," she says.
"This is not a pointless thing — the eternal lives of this tribe is at hand."
"It's pointless to try to convince him of anything," Mr. Kelly bemoaned in a meeting.
"The idea of what is composed and what is improvised is pointless," Mr. Sorey said.
Making hacking 'pointless' Most security experts agree that creating a truly unhackable system is impossible.
If he is injured in the spring in Paris, the whole season is rendered pointless.
The squabbling over the structure of the trial in the Senate is inane and pointless.
I feel like I got a pointless degree — there's just no job market for it.
Wars that seem endless and pointless hurt almost every incumbent who was sucked into one.
It seems a little pointless to take the I, P and O out of Spotify.
There is no other explanation for such a pointless measure that inflicts so much pain.
All these decisions would be pointless, of course, if the ramen were not very good.
It also projected the same sense of abandonment that comes from years of pointless war.
It's the kind of unproductive, pointless job capitalism makes up just to keep people miserable.
They announced themselves aggressively as exactly what they marked: the voided substance of pointless routine.
And that gets to the point of why dress codes are so pointless to begin with.
Still, LG desperately needed a thing, a way to stand out that wasn't gimmicky or pointless.
Both of those worry types, even though they made the leap to reality, were also pointless.
"Using an epsilon value of 14 per day strikes me as relatively pointless" as a safeguard.
A series of grand and momentous and pointless unities that most of us take for granted.
Just what turned out to be a desperate yet ultimately pointless attempt at delaying the inevitable.
And subsidising only instate tuition creates a pointless incentive for students to avoid venturing further afield.
But wearing wired earbuds as opposed to AirPods is mainly a pointless, arbitrary display of superiority.
On Thursday, Sharpton told BuzzFeed News that Northam's attempt to explain away the picture was pointless.
"I thought it would be really hard and pointless because I wouldn't understand anything," she said.
"It's pointless for me to continue trying to persuade him to change his mind," he said.
But sometimes you just want to idly waste time on a pointless game when you're bored!
But those questions are as pointless as asking for the blueprints of Dr. Evil's secret lair.
Pressure to shrug off pointless strictures is growing, as the court cases attest, but only slowly.
They forge the chains that bind us to our smartphones, or maroon us in pointless meetings.
But after years of participating in this culture in some form, I've realized it's pointless. Why?
"Keeping Herman Bell in prison would serve as nothing more than pointless punishment," the petition reads.
This video goes out to anyone who's ever sat through a pointless meeting at work 21.
Who says that beauty advent calendars are pointless if you don't buy them before December 1?
But that doesn't mean it's pointless to dwell on your ex's Zodiac sign for a moment.
Pointless, because the outcome of your pregnancy was most likely determined at that moment of implantation.
After 55 hours, productivity drops so much that putting in any more hours would be pointless.
What's even more amazing is that the Trumpian focus on the popular vote is totally pointless.
How voters feel Despite the anticipated high turnout, some see the election as a pointless exercise.
The Palestinians have said negotiations are pointless until Israel halts building Jewish settlements on occupied territory.
Most fans and media seem to agree that the whole thing is just weird and pointless.
But as he got older, the weight of pointless in-game accomplishments ate at his psyche.
Am I forgetting Google Buzz, Google Wave, Google Plus, and this summer's spectacularly pointless Google Spaces?
"The risks are there and it is pointless to pretend otherwise," he told la Repubblica newspaper.
In China and elsewhere, I have found acupuncture good for migraine and pointless for hip arthritis.
"Sometimes it's pointless for us to fight government attempts to take our land," Mr. Mo said.
If she is unable to apply critical thought to her function then she is utterly pointless.
One of Byford's first instructions to Kirschling was to identify timed signals that were clearly pointless.
At this point, the set-top requirements of Section 85033 of the Telecom Act are pointless.
It seemed "pointless" to try to fix them, said Lindsay Magill, Kaupp's 38-year-old daughter.
If the Prince of Darkness can't be defeated, then all the heroine's furious action is pointless.
Part of what I find so bizarre about Trump's lying is how pointless it often is.
But I think as far as criticizing them, it seems rather pointless, because it's very humorless.
Why do we allow ourselves to be dragged into pointless, likely fruitless, micro-arguments on Twitter?
One grieving father had refused to attend the city's commemorative ceremonies days earlier, calling them "pointless".
"But they were Loyalists," one man told me, and I knew further discussion would be pointless.
" He argues that more and more people are employed in jobs that they think are "pointless.
Compliance with foster families felt pointless, he said, and putting in effort at school seemed futile.
If only the game wasn't filled with so many pointless side quests where you're fetching potatoes.
I'm cackling at the pointless addition of me because he cannot not be a bitch pic.twitter.
The rest of the developed world agreed to reject this cruel and pointless practice long ago.
Top-down management of law enforcement can lead to pointless arrest quotas or unhelpful security lapses.
If that was the only big change here, a merger would seem rather small and pointless.
It will be pretty and it will be almost pointless, because the band will play on.
What she feared most was pointless suffering and the loss of control over her own life.
This decision is really pointless and it's yet another change not a single person asked for.
The higher this cap is set, the less distorting (and therefore more pointless) the policy becomes.
For example, Facebook wouldn't allow someone to publish an ad that suggests that voting is pointless.
The effort to project any consistent intellectual framework onto someone like Trump is a pointless endeavor.
It is pointless when it becomes painfully obvious that the policies being resisted actually make sense.
I am striking because it is pointless to study for a future that does not exist.
If they are to surrender their agenda-setting powers to the masses, their manifestos seem pointless.
We've seen this problem before, with pointless regulations that make safe technologies prohibitively expensive to develop.
"Texas politicians have now responded with one of the most blatantly pointless and insulting restrictions yet."
The rule will also relax pointless industry classification standards regulating who is allowed to join AHPs.
Given that, debating what exact word he used to further that long-standing practice is pointless.
"To say that such brutal, pointless violence is unconscionable is an understatement," the Kentucky Republican said.
"Going to see him is like pissing in a violin, it's pointless," one executive told reporters.
It's pointless to argue whether an algorithm can make for better matches and relationships, she claimed.
Instantly, the only round of Concacaf qualifying with any degree of suspense is rendered totally pointless.
Russia's eight-hour 'humanitarian pause' from bombing eastern Aleppo is basically pointless Russia's eight-hour 'humanitarian pause' from bombing eastern Aleppo is basically pointless Russia temporarily stopped its airstrikes over eastern Aleppo on Tuesday in preparation for an eight-hour "humanitarian pause" due to start Thursday.
It is pointless to wear a face mask if you do not have the virus and are not a medical professional coming into contact with itWearing a face mask won't negatively affect you, but it's likely pointless and may cause problems for people who really need it.
He used to take infield grounders during batting practice, just for fun, but decided it was pointless.
Also, there are lengthy subplots about guns and science versus magic and all sorts of pointless conflicts.
RCEP was seen at the time as the lowest common denominator—a pointless or even counterproductive distraction.
But all your efforts are a little pointless if you never follow up in a meaningful way.
" Later, Gomez sort-of apologized when she wrote on Snapchat, "What I said was selfish and pointless.
"Lord, thank ya for the untimely frost you sent what claimed our pointless bananner orchards," Early continued.
But we've allocated a weird amount of cultural capital to this especially pointless subset of the discipline.
That it was possible to make a point without morphing into a shout-fest that turned pointless.
Speculating about celebrity engagement is wildly irresponsible and more or less pointless, but goddamn is it fun.
And the lawsuit brought against California by the nation's largest telecom providers will prove to be pointless.
I don't make the minimum threshold anyway, so paying tax just to claim it back is pointless.
I didn't want it to just feel like a gimmick, because that would be thin and pointless.
I love that, looking back: the sweet determination of telling that pointless lie with so little payoff.
So the fact that workers are burning out and sometimes dying is pointless as well as tragic.
Cost is not an obstacle, since informed, engaged patients will be less likely to want pointless procedures.
Instead, the ANC is proposing a constitutional change that is pointless at best and dangerous at worst.
I got it the first time, so a second (or third, or twentieth) watch would be pointless.
It could be some sort of ideological aversion to redacting even the most personal or pointless information.
"It's pointless to tell others to take medication when you're the one who is sick," she said.
Adi Robertson: I figured it was death camp make-work, which I'll admit would be elaborately pointless.
It's a good meme because it reminds you how dumb, pointless and incredibly fun things can be.
It's the same pointless RCS zombie-tech I've been accurately predicting would fail for the last decade.
This is where our Internet Ghost led us, into the clammy underworld of sleepless, pointless, predatory noise.
Still, Coughlin refuses to join the local mobs, which he believes are engaged in another pointless war.
And for the apps built specifically for mobile—Snapchat, Instagram, Uber—the Chromebook experience is largely pointless.
To reward the Gungan Boss, the Queen presents him with the pointless, plasma-filled Globe of Peace.
Basically, the whole exercise was pointless because the windows kept getting wet again and again and again.
As a disclaimer: these are entirely the opinions of the writer and are, of course, utterly pointless.
" Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi said it was "a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage.
Trump saw this as utterly pointless and futile behavior that would never fly in the business world.
Instead, the boards were notoriously known for hosting some of the most pointless and hateful commentary around.
Television today is pretty loud and fast, but Twin Peaks thrived on silence and wandering, pointless creeping.
The Russian embassy in Ottawa later issued a statement denouncing the sanctions as "absolutely pointless and reprehensible".
"It's pretty pointless, in my opinion, to argue with such hateful, sad, and jealous people," she says.
Holders of pointless jobs disdain those who do helpful jobs because they envy the sense of purpose.
Some things in the world seem to obvious that it feels pointless to say them out loud.
Throwing in pointless shit is not what makes a virtual world feel like a lived-in experience.
But at the same time, it's not a completely pointless feature, even if it's a gimmicky one.
Remove meaningful protections governing those end arounds, and you've effectively made net neutrality protections pointless, activists warn.
I've made some comparisons against the Mate 20 Pro and the iPhone X, but they're pretty pointless.
But making pointless "commonsense" gun laws and politicizing every shooting will do nothing to help the situation.
Why sometimes it feels totally pointless, and other times the game wouldn't be the same without it.
The Mexicans are top of six points with Sweden and Germany on three and Korea still pointless.
Republicans are enormously frustrated by what they view as a politically damaging and pointless 35-day shutdown.
Please join me in celebrating this exciting new adventure in pointless administrative precision and futile institutional control!
Highlighting the left's biases may seem like a pointless effort to apportion equal blame along ideological lines.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services' position on the belated DACA renewals is unfair, pointless and cruel.
"It's the feeling that life is pointless, that there will never be joy again," he told me.
It was a pointless and soulless mission in which everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
This was all just speculation, rendered pointless by the two things I did find out about Mark.
Less charitably, Paul Romer and William Nordhaus were rewarded for pushing pointless economic modelling in new directions.
But it's just bland, pointless, and boring — like too much of what's going on with the Saviors.
The first "Amazing Spider-Man" hardly justifies its existence, which makes its sequel all the more pointless.
On their way to that section they have had to cross the frozen wasteland of pointless shapes.
Prince taught me at a young age that that dreaded word, weird, was just another pointless label.
But the incredulous "Really?" and size of the laughter made it clear how pointless that complaint was.
It was pointless — a point that Kaine himself made about an hour into this exercise in futility.
Among all the reasons to immediately cease this pointless testing policy, its stark racial disparities rank first.
There are no peacock displays of pointless erudition in her work; no recondite allusions are dragged in.
Ahead of the vote, he said would never accept another "pointless delay" to Brexit beyond Oct. 31.
Lorenzoni said debates were pointless and made no difference to his candidate's commanding lead in the race.
Given that the structure is based on a Fibonacci spiral, it seemed pointless to attempt any accounting.
As always, with such ease that it almost renders the whole process pointless: 3343 games, 3333 wins.
More recently, the Trump administration has taken even more pointless and vindictive steps toward the Palestinian people.
Furthermore, fighting a trade war when tariffs around the world are already pretty low is particularly pointless.
Some experts are increasingly wondering if China's lockdown will become pointless the more widespread the virus becomes.
More sensible still, on his watch Alrosa is at last getting rid of pointless Soviet-era appendages.
The protests we have had — like blocking the streets of London — are, I am afraid, completely pointless.
The third response was to engage in action, however pointless, intended to "do something" about the threat.
It's pointless, however, to critique Franco's or anyone else's performance, because the film has no developed characters.
She takes off her pointless gloves and sends her hands down to where the earth is warmer.
And while the statement was vague enough to lack teeth, that doesn&apost mean it was pointless.
It is pointless to engage in the perennial handwringing about the limitations of the two-party system.
Is it better to stick with something that's awful and possibly pointless because you made a commitment?
An ever-expanding list of mostly pointless alerts risks making us blasé about truly urgent mass warnings.
But injecting the death penalty into this problem is a level of pointless distraction we don't need.
And yet imagining it, as philosophers, artists and politicians have done ever since, is far from pointless.
It was rush hour, so the roads were clogged: I ran because driving would have been pointless.
Life seems random, a pointless series of events that, at some arbitrary point in time, just stop.
The Chairman should focus on helping the American people, rather than wasting time playing pointless political games.
Sure, AOC is not the first politician to be subjected to pointless tests of so-called authenticity.
Mr. Janicki rejected the argument that prosecuting Mr. Karkoc would be pointless given his age and health.
So will electoral districts gerrymandered so narrowly for partisan benefit that even holding elections can seem pointless.
It may feel pointless to push for openness in a Washington that is so invested in secrecy.
Jaromir Jagr—He's pointless through three games, and Thomas Hickey was his man on Sunday's overtime winner.
As always, with such ease that it almost renders the whole process pointless: 163 games, 10 wins.
You sneak past lines of workers stretching toward the horizon, and scenes of guards administering pointless beatings.
If you've never tried virtual reality (and I haven't) it probably sounds goofy and kind of pointless.
Stapling the proposal to tax plans that are contentious in their own right is pointless and destructive.
Several men saw the proliferation of anti-abortion provisions as pointless, especially since abortion, overall, remains legal.
So when we set up electoral systems, it's pointless to ask whether politicians will game the system.
Capricious enforcement of otherwise pointless rules leading up to a chaotic election day can do the trick, too.
"Why waste more time on pointless speculation," the masked figure on screen said, interrupting the Q&A session.
There exists, deep within the internet's tunnels, a wealth of affordable gifts that are neither dinky nor pointless.
It's a pointless diversion in an administration full of them—wasted energy on the part of everyone involved.
For most working schmoes, this kind of moralizing of lifestyle is as pointless as it is off-putting.
One may argue by extension that all video games are similarly pointless, and that that is the point.
His aim was to fortify the regime, not consume its strength in pointless fights at home and abroad.
In the rich world most people die in a hospital or nursing home, often after pointless, aggressive treatment.
"It's pointless to prepare a meaningful, substantive briefing for the president," Mr Woodward quotes Mr Cohn as saying.
Taxpayers want to be protected from pointless government spending, especially when it subsidizes those who need it least.
It's pointless to predict gun violence if those predictions only serve as statistical justification for biased police overreach.
Amid the proliferation, the need to sort useful from pointless, and legal from dubious, has never been greater.
The PP said Sanchez's hour-and-a-half speech was pointless given his distance from a parliamentary majority.
The results are a sort of 21st century dada experiment—deeply pointless, sort of confusing, and interestingly astute.
Indeed, if it turns out that life is common elsewhere then the whole idea would be rather pointless.
Putin said a ceasefire would be pointless as it would not involve Islamist militant groups it deems terrorists.
Amherst townsfolk dismissed the poet's life as small and pointless, and Dickinson softly sneered at all of them.
Duterte has repeatedly said conflict was pointless and he wants to get along and do business with Beijing.
Stamkos, playing in his 600th NHL game, was held pointless for just the second time in 14 games.
You don't have to be an audiophile to know that headphones without noise cancellation are kind of pointless.
Since he already knew calling Samsung would be pointless, Matty then decided to call Verizon's customer service line.
While making countless puns about Swedish pop music, fans moaned that the change was confusing, distracting and pointless.
Mr Trump's demand that an upgraded NAFTA must narrow America's trade deficits with Canada and Mexico is pointless.
Maud retorts that this is pointless, since Magpie is doomed to a life of prostitution whatever they do.
Sometimes I ponder shit and think everything's so important, and other times I just think... life is pointless.
Are we going to have to endure yet another football season marred by these pointless and divisive protests?
For many "prowess" is a mastery of the complexity (some of it quite pointless) of the written language.
Someone standing behind me shouts out who the characters are as they're being attached, rendering the exercise pointless.
They know I use it for medicine, but they also make the odd joke about my 'pointless weed.
YEMEN ATTACK 'Pointless slaughter': Even in a country subjected to countless acts of violence, this one sticks out.
Several medical experts have already made the case that it's pointless for healthy people to track blood sugar.
Its pointless cruelty, and the sickening desire to capture it, brings a pain to my chest even now.
Probably little more than some extra (and pointless) security training for those intrepid enough to visit the continent.
Guess those Tesla stores aren't as pointless with that in ind, even with most Tesla sales online now.
I believed he'd be too frightening to even look at, a "vegetable" living a grim, pointless, institutionalized existence.
It's pointless to speculate why no criminal charges have come out of the Trump Tower meeting to date.
However, bankers and investors argue that yearning for the pre-crisis golden years of bond trading is pointless.
Scalise should drop this pointless resolution and instead use his position to argue for free market climate solutions.
It's small enough to fit in anywhere, but not so small that it's pointless for watching videos on.
Pointless shoppingIn my 20s, I spent quite a bit of time shopping online, just to pass the time.
It seemed not only pointless but cruel to do so—and might well have hastened his decline. ♦
My point is that life is a dull and pointless void of nothingness and we all die alone.
But Gunter also says that she thinks telling her family that they "can't" have a food is pointless.
We must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction.
It launched a pointless invasion of Iraq that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
For months, it sat in our cupboard, taking up space like a ridiculous metaphor for my pointless consumerism.
"Maybe it's pointless to fight: this is the point of the film," Blomkamp told Motherboard in an interview.
I know it's pointless to complain about Disney's drive to wring every last dollar from its various brands.
If you back up all your encrypted messages to your iCloud account, your use of encryption is pointless.
But these puzzles often appear to be either lacking significance, or so surface-level as to be pointless.
The idea of taking on a social network seems ambitious/pointless for a 94 year old publishing house.
Like homework, reading challenges can feel like pointless busywork for those who aren't feeling intrinsically motivated to read.
As Donnelly or Toscano point out in their book, however, speculation about Gibson's mental health is largely pointless.
There is even an extended — and a bit pointless — boarding party when Leland beams over to the Discovery.
Nondescript cheese, bland mushrooms and a pointless egg dragged down a pizza with a very good, light crust.
I'm sorry I have to make money, even though sometimes what I'm doing is stupid and utterly pointless.
But they are often as pointless as they are copious, lawyers for the victims of the spying contend.
Related: There's a Pointless War Being Waged on Killer Robots From the Future More is on the horizon.
The company this month released its Advanced Protection Program, which is meant to make stealing your password pointless.
Even outrage grows boring, and it begins to feel pointless: His obnoxiousness isn't going to get him impeached.
If not, she should stop her whining, blaming and pointless meddling and go back to a quiet retirement.
" He praised the president's made-for-TV lawyers but said "a lot of this" is "pointless, monotonous, redundant.
Mr. Trump ran for office promising to eliminate such discretion and replace it with heedless and pointless enforcement.
You had to do extra stuff that might seem pointless, like joining clubs and going to office hours.
I understand such sentiments, but up close, a mob is an ugly thing to see, its actions pointless.
To convince you that because no one can be pure, it's pointless to try to make anything better.
More than that, and replies seem to be pointless and might come across as combative rather than persuasive.
" He proclaimed the deal has consigned "the pointless and arbitrary sequester caps to the ash heaps of history.
All I ask in return is to feel some sense of purpose in this bleak and pointless existence.
And it doesn't quite have the genre-smashing brio of Carry On. But that doesn't mean it's pointless.
" Tehran has denied involvement in the attacks, calling the accusations from Saudi and U.S. officials "meaningless" and "pointless.
Highway boondoggles involve either pointless roads or straightforward graft rather than inability to execute on perfectly reasonable projects.
Impatient, impotent, and in turmoil, we all bicker with pointless small talk, leading to an omnipresent existential angst.
I've often developed crushes, which Gil tends to take in stride because he mostly just finds them pointless.
The instinct to criticize Trump for late or inadequate responses is, on some level, pointless and self-defeating.
"Vacationland" is mostly good fun in this pointless-little-book way — and acutely bourgeois in its subject matter.
And congressional Republicans so far show no willingness to consider impeachment, which can make its discussion feel pointless.
But by then, that player is on their way out, so getting invested in their arc is pointless.
It would simply reveal that we've wasted a lot of time following her on a pointless side quest.
It was clearly a blowout and kind of pointless/dickish move from Brooks, so what did Dwight do?
He should halt the pointless row with Qatar, and seek a political deal to end the war in Yemen.
The catch is that with markets skittish, investing to grow looks almost pointless, no matter the pedigree of leadership.
Aho's assist snapped a four-game pointless streak after he had posted 10 points during a five-game stretch.
That's because that kind of pointless sniping is by now baked into the cake of this administration and government.
The Kyrgios conundrum is perfectly encapsulated with the clip of his pointless inexplicable 'tweener against today's opponent, Andreas Seppi.
And while you're here, please answer my question, which is: What's the most pointless TV death you've ever seen?
However they're so big, to completely cut myself off from either just seems almost pointless, not to mention difficult.
I don't think it's completely similar to what we've done before, because that would have been a pointless task.
Renzi has asked Italians to abstain, claiming the vote is pointless since the law has already been substantially changed.
Not big news, like the latest presidential debate, or the pointless news, like Kylie Jenner's fashion choices at Coachella.
Almost everyone else considers broadcasting your location 24/7 a pointless threat to privacy that quickly drains your battery.
I've started to read this book and now I realize it's definitely not pointless and I definitely need it.
The two countries fought a pointless war in 1998-2000 over a desolate border town; perhaps 70,000 people died.
" / "No." non-jokes and pointless, underlining asides like Phil saying something blundering, then adding, "Why did I say that?
Public discourse has never been as idiotic, cruel, irrational and utterly pointless in my lifetime as it is now.
Observed with gloating precision by Sean Odea's dispassionate camera, the flaying and knifing, drilling and gagging are depressingly pointless.
" According to Elva, after the rape she blamed herself and felt "it was pointless to address what had happened.
"[Budgets] make us feel bad about ourselves, they don't provide any forward-looking information — they're just pointless," Sethi says.
I'm aware this may be a coping mechanism, because the prospect of everything being pointless is hard for me.
"It's fairly pointless looking beyond Tuesday at this stage," said Kathleen Brooks, Research Director with City Index in London.
Such self-inflicted harm would impose a pointless cost on the average American household of perhaps thousands of dollars.
It seems pointless, until you find yourself watching countless videos of these machines in action for hours on end.
However, on the other side, there are people who actually think the long potato strips are pointless and strange.
HANS DEMBOWSKIFrankfurt Bartleby's column on pointless tasks mentioned Parkinson's Law: work expands to fill the time available (June 2nd).
An exemption on "religious grounds", granted through a cumbersome procedure, makes the law potentially pointless as well as confusing.
Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly and Claire McCaskill ended up losing in the midterms — making the deals seem largely pointless.
How are you supposed to wade through all that technobabble, all those pointless secondary-character subplots, without nodding off?
For the past few generations, the Vietnam War—which lasted a decade—set the standard for grinding, pointless quagmire.
Launching in Walgreens stores with a menu of blood tests that didn't include these tests would have been pointless.
In a pointless race to make his way through his father's whisky, he was, of course, drinking too much.
This makes Ms. Olatoye's claim that she had informally told HUD officials of the lapse in inspections rather pointless.
He tells you it's the fault of immigrants and bad trade deals and wasteful pointless wars based on lies.
But all of that doesn't matter anymore because just came out with the most pointless app and it's amazing.
Zeke's fellow contestants embraced him and unequivocally called Varner out on his dipshit move; a pointless one at that.
The pointless online bickering, the aggregation, the noise that greets us every time we glance at our news feeds.
But the bill is little more than congressional grandstanding: at best pointless, and at worst damaging to American interests.
If Moxi does actually build this thing, it will be just as pointless as most flexible screen tech demos.
Giving farmers earlier warning of drought would help avoid pointless ploughing and planting, says Nguyen Huu Thien, an environmentalist.
It's kind of pointless to have this guy elected president and not at least ask those kind of questions.
I love technology when it's new, arcane, exotic, or quixotic, but I hate it when it's pointless and misleading.
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - The shared-office provider's long-awaited IPO filing is packed with pointless life-affirming tropes.
The Koch brothers spent $400 million in 2012, but reportedly believe any money spent attacking Trump would be pointless.
Watching Lynch making Twin Peaks may irritate viewers who think both he and his show are pretentious and pointless.
"It is pointless to me to speculate on what the reasons behind our merger partner's decision were," Kengeter said.
When I was in Leicester, there was an old man called Bernard who summed up the city's pointless struggle.
"Secretary Kerry's speech today was at best a pointless tirade in the waning days of a outgoing administration," Sen.
Until recently, for instance, it was thought that telling the truth about a fatal illness was pointless and cruel.
At this point, both sides, soldiers and leaders, seem to be crumbling in the face of a pointless war.
Worse, the overwhelming majority of projects are approved despite U.S. objections, making its opposition politically awkward and functionally pointless.
Mogoeng made it clear they were, saying it would be pointless if the Public Protector's findings could be ignored.
At this point, it feels almost pointless to extol the benefits of the Kindle and e-readers in general.
When Pierce learned about the scandal, she said her efforts to get into a top school suddenly felt pointless.
"At this stage I wonder: "Why the hell should I spend my evening writing a pointless op-ed piece?
My cousin continued to say that land acknowledgments are pointless, and this set me on fire all over again.
She doesn't want to dominate every moment of silence with some pointless comment, she thinks about what she's saying.
While it's safe to say that the teen failed the test, it's not like the exam was completely pointless.
Continuing this dance with them, trying to pin them down in a clear-cut case of denialism, is pointless.
I gave it a shot once or twice, but it felt totally pointless and a complete waste of time.
But with most Russians expecting him to retain power one way or another, the referendum was widely deemed pointless.
Users say that part of the problem is that going to the authorities with complaints is all but pointless.
This sort of rote policing seemed pointless; nothing was accomplished by confronting the young men beyond fomenting ill will.
Read more " _____ Chris Cillizza in CNN: "Debating what exact word he used to further that longstanding practice is pointless.
That then pushes people to ask how sustainable is an expensive but valueless — and so, philosophically speaking, pointless — premium?
First billionaire Tom Steyer dropped out, ending a pointless campaign that nonetheless drew some moderate support in the South.
But honest discussions of one's current legal views are entirely proper, and without them confirmation hearings are largely pointless.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the talks were pointless because foreign troops remained in the country.
He did not say the goal itself was pointless, only that it would be too much of a burden.
To be ill-prepared for any reason is dumb and just prolongs a war, yielding pointless loss of life.
It's a choice to be energized, because the other choice is a depressing, pointless way of looking at it.
But Hawkins starts with just the spookiness, withholding the date and the full, pointless story for a long time.
Sputnik was just a metal capsule, after all, a false image spinning in pointless orbit through the godless wastes.
If the patients manage to learn who is receiving what, the trial is pointless and has to be canceled.
If the patients manage to learn who is receiving what, the trial is pointless and has to be canceled.
If it seems like a pointless gesture in the wake of fires devastating a continent, that's because it is.
But the Congress party state chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir said with scores of members detained, an election was pointless.
In the first week of school, students told me how pointless my job was, since they could already read.
Andrew Yang has committed to ending the pointless and cruel War on Drugs in favor of the Portugal model.
" Kelly is quoted in the book as saying of Trump, "It's pointless to try to convince him of anything.
"It felt like the government and I.O.C. wanted to hijack our team for a pointless political stunt," Griffin said.
Short of turning back, which would only insure that our torment had been pointless, there was nothing to do.
Grousing about pointless remakes is a critical activity so frequently practiced that it's become a form of conventional wisdom.
Everything felt so thoroughly cheap and rushed and pointless that, watching it, I assumed it would have an agenda.
It is the language of people who believe that politics is pointless and that its institutions have become ineffectual.
It's true that high-octane, hardworking child-rearing has some pointless excesses, and it doesn't spark joy for parents.
Emotional manipulation is nothing new to cinema, but it can be particularly repellent if a film's story feels pointless.
But putting time and energy into a pointless, misleading solution is likely to breed cynicism about all of politics.
I've made it this far without really discussing Atomic Blonde's story because, well, the story is mostly pointless busywork.
It's tempting, but pointless, to argue that these walls allowed Mosley to photograph as if white people didn't exist.
But replacing everything at once, especially when nothing was wrong with the original series, seemed like a pointless overhaul.
Success in politics is a lot of work, and pretending otherwise isn't just pointless, it never seemed right to me.
Rather than focus on pure performance — Motorola says tech specs are now pointless — the Z3 Play focuses on the experience.
They were fighting a pointless, losing battle, and their time would be much better spent solving other crimes, they said.
At times it comes across less like a sci-fi adventure and more like the world's most pointless virtual cookbook.
But Walda and the baby being killed by dogs was still a completely empty, pointless scene to actually depict onscreen.
For a busy man such as Falih, long discussions among fellow ministers with no guaranteed serious outcome might seem pointless.
And now, Photobooth also has the ability to capture kisses as well (thus rendering the old-fashioned photo booth pointless).
So all this whining is just -- it&aposs humorous but it&aposs pointless because it&aposs going to happen anyway.
But on Instagram it feels a little pointless, since this capability has been there all along with the text tool.
He pursued an audacious deal with longtime enemy Eritrea that ended a largely pointless 20-year war between the countries.
Death makes all of our morals and values—great career, marriage, house, kids, accumulation of stuff—seem trite and pointless.
There was no way to be sure, and it would be pointless to try to get the Brits to confess.
But these girls are, above all, portrayed honestly and lovingly—even when they're forcing us to relive pointless pubescent squabbles.
But last June 52% of British voters decided to blow up half the bridge, rendering the whole edifice rather pointless.
This can't possibly be true, and I don't know why everyone is rallying around this bizarre and ultimately pointless conspiracy.
The imam of Mecca's grand mosque called the Afghan conflict a fitna, a religious term for pointless strife between Muslims.
To understand why, it helps to start with a bit of textbook finance that says share buy-backs are pointless.
So seasons four and five of the show often got bogged down in pointless narrative games and endless status shifts.
The argument becomes somewhat pointless at the extremes: No company is actually "full stack" if you define that broadly enough.
Look, life is a series of pointless bureaucratic tests, post-9/11 airport security is a shining example of that.
That might sound kind of pointless, but, in the end, what are any of us really going to leave behind?
Samsung's added a ton of features that makes it practically pointless to own a Fitbit or general-purpose fitness tracker.
Selling everything sellable and pulling the plug on the rest would probably benefit shareholders; sticking around looks painful and pointless.
Specific tasks like 3D modeling benefit from visual immersion, but otherwise, working in VR is an exercise in pointless misery.
"With all of these horrible things this administration is doing, sometimes it feels pointless to even be designing," she said.
STOSSEL: But it should now stand for enough protection already because we are now down to pointless things like straws.
Because you're so depressed and lost and confused that the only content you're capable of consuming is pointless, nonsensical drivel.
I wanted to tell him to stop, but it just seemed pointless, so I endured and, finally, faked an orgasm.
The last thing it needs is for companies to be ruined by incompetent heirs or torn apart by pointless disputes.
There are a lot of reasons today to acknowledge the ultimately pointless endeavor that is watching other people play sports.
And, of course, the niggling technicalities can ultimately seem pointless both for the long-term investor and the tactical trader.
In this perverse society, the "psychological violence" of knowing a job is utterly pointless justifies it carrying a generous salary.
On top of that, all of the conversations are laborious and many of them turn out to be absolutely pointless.
While they might have a few juicy quips of their own to share, blowing off steam can eventually feel pointless.
Nevertheless, Drake will likely do something (silly, hopefully) that we'll have to inevitably cover so this entire thing is pointless.
Teams qualify for these tournaments all the time, only to go home pointless and goalless, and not just first-timers.
While we were otherwise distracted, Iggy has decided that he is ready once again to board the Pointless Drama Express.
To the extent that paedophilia is an orientation, like being straight or gay, attempts to change it are probably pointless.
Or maybe we'll all switch to Allo a month from now and Apple's hard work would be pointless and useless.
And how can a negotiator know that negotiation is pointless if they're not physically in the room with a suspect?
When all sides recognize that a war is pointless, there is at least a slender basis for preserving the peace.
You might object that such measurements are pointless because this time spent is a small price to pay for safety.
The press reported a number of possible reasons for the poor turnout, including that many assumed the vote was pointless.
Since most paid human labor would be pointless, the disincentive to work produced by a monthly check would be unimportant.
We may never know, but this state of affairs raises grave concerns unless you think food facility inspections are pointless.
The historical stabbing games are often the worst offenders when it comes to overstuffed sandbox titles with pointless, tedious tasks.
Maybe change the villain outright, since Enchantress amounted to a lot of bad CGI and an utterly pointless final fight.
So it stands to reason that any regulation of JUUL flavors that still allows Mint pods may be essentially pointless.
"Why not threaten sanctions, cut out the pointless pomp or visibly align with peaceful critics of the government?" she said.
Does this ever make you feel like your work is pointless because practically no one in China can see it?
What remained after were just heavy-handed drama and pointless villains milked for the sake of continuing a valuable franchise.
Cleo: You're meant to go fight all those battles, so watching it as a movie is just kind of pointless.
It was an indication that the growing campaign to deny Mr. Trump the nomination may not be a pointless exercise.
"We must not let sterile controversies and pointless arguments waste our precious energy or distract from government objectives," Conte said.
But not only is detention particularly ineffective, all other attempts at micro-managing a child's vocabulary are pretty pointless also.
You'd ask the question what is the difference between men and women if our reproductive organs became kind of pointless.
Oh, and gluten's going back in my diet because restricting it is pointless, if not damaging, when you're not allergic.
Fairy tales are tools to separate the good from the bad, ours from theirs, and the valued from the pointless.
The critics saw our pointless, difficult, obsessive pastime becoming exponentially more popular, and beloved home breaks ruined by terminal overcrowding.
Because it's asynchronous, and because there are no limits on space and time, it often leads to endless, pointless ruminations.
Fast-fashion empire and pointless graphic tee slogan enthusiast Forever 21 is preparing to (potentially) file for bankruptcy, and honestly?
Maybe it gets paid for by future tax increases on the rich, in which case this is all somewhat pointless.
She was eventually granted asylum and released earlier this year—but not before spending long, and pointless, months in custody.
But he's a trick, a pointless publicity bomb whose explosion only highlights Marcus and Sasha's complete lack of sexual chemistry.
The sluggish rhythms, the awkward cuts, the unlovely cinematography cohere into what seems like the enactment of a pointless dream.
Instead we get a thin whine: a wasp in a jar, all pointless agitation and a touching desire to offend.
And it's always nice to get it, but it also always feels slightly late and maybe even a little pointless.
Abandoning innovative leadership in the face of pointless expediency sets back the cause of saving our most precious housing resource.
It will end where it was always fated to end, where everything is fated to end, in a pointless vacuum.
While the CIA was "rectally rehydrating" prisoners, many of its own experts were telling it that the torture was pointless.
Saudi Arabia will now turn to its final game against Egypt, another pointless team, to salvage something from this Cup.
The answer, I think, is that the words are not pointless, even if they may be ineffective in the moment.
We hope that the wonderful work of our dear friend Maurizio Cattelan becomes immortalised by this stupid and pointless act.
It may seem like pointless fantasizing to plot progressive rulings when the right is tightening its grip on the courts.
For many residents, the block on which one of these new buildings sits can seem almost like a pointless extension.
I'm not complaining, but rather pointing out how pointless, how silly it sounds when anyone bothers to venture a complaint.
The truth is that much of the extra effort these entrepreneurs and their employees are putting in is pointless anyway.
Life as Wurzbacher paints it feels less like the pursuit of happiness than the slow accumulation of random, pointless indignities.
But, Horry says the whole debate over championships is pointless ... 'cause not everyone is able to win in their careers.
And so, her extended photo-op tour will be largely pointless, particularly given that she doesn't really dictate US policy.
In the past, refugees' uncertain status worked against them by making it pointless for businesses to train and hire them.
"From a moral point of view, unacceptable; and from a practical point of view pointless, harmful and dangerous," he said.
It seemed possible that all the organizing and running around had been pointless, that the die had already been cast.
It is quintessential Jim Carrey and he somewhat rescues a movie that might otherwise be viewed as a pointless retread.
He says he doesn't read, so presumably it would be pointless; however, the Constitution might be a place to start.
Like most new internet activities, this seemed totally pointless to the old people of the day, but teenagers loved it.
And it confirms all of Musk's critics' most disparaging caricatures of the hypeman CEO: Erratic, narcissistic and, at times, pointless.
For my part, I hope it's a sign that the pointless bile of the innovation versus deployment argument is receding.
We're told the team was extremely disappointed with the video because it was utterly disjointed ... pointless with no story line.
Charli XCX is not going to notice me doing it, but I do it anyway, despite the whole exercise being pointless.
They've got that weird glass shade on the back, which as far as I can tell is pointless, other than aesthetics.
She had four months in the I.C.U., endless and pointless and painful procedures, and final days full of fear and despair.
The perfectly good cash caused thousands of dollars worth of plumbing damage and officials are stumped by the seemingly pointless destruction.
So you won't see a skydiver wearing a cape because it would be pointless at best, and possibly dangerous at worst.
Trump had, literally for years, advocated withdrawing from Afghanistan, a war Breitbart saw as pointless nation building that didn't benefit Americans.
It's useless information, doubly pointless against the Dragonslayer Armor, who decimated me with a few swings of his electrified Dragonslayer Axe.
The sister accepts the invitation, but is later struck by a bullet while exploring the grounds — a "pointless and hypnotic" death.
It's pointless to go back to work afterward since I leave an hour later, so I just use PTO every Thursday.
You can't race against other players in official races — at least not yet — which makes the barebones multiplayer component pretty pointless.
And Trump announced the creation of a new — and pointless -- office called VOICE to highlight the crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
To suggest otherwise would be to suggest that it was pointless to see any film outside of a theater until recently.
Our readers can rest assured that there are people on the inside doing their best to resist this pointless generational changeover.
Daenerys says much the same thing, tersely suggesting that he may have just made the death of her dragon Viserion pointless.
Complaining on social media about an Instagram update is about as pointless as expecting your iPhone battery to last all day.
Nabbing seats from Labour in pro-Brexit areas is pointless if Remainer seats in London suburbs and university towns are lost.
It'd be pointless to try to convince them to stop, whether by illustrating the futility or explaining Spotify's Terms of Service.
"Whether there were 9,000 or 30,000 [people forcefully disappeared] ... it's a pointless discussion," President Mauricio Macri told BuzzFeed News last year.
"I was told to forget about it; it was pointless to do anything about this," Kirshner told the New York Times.
When Kurtz started showing the app off to friends, people started pointing out that it wasn't as pointless as it seemed.
Suing the president of the United States is usually a totally pointless exercise, but Allred is used to challenging powerful men.
Depending on how many pointless tweets you've fired off into the ether over the years, that may take a long time.
Standing up for a teammate is pointless, unnecessary and sometimes more detrimental to your team than the hit you're mad about.
Just as the president's fixation on fudging the crowd size for his inauguration was totally pointless, so too is this debate.
Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)In a lot of ways, doing a traditional review of the $2,000 Samsung Galaxy Fold is pointless.
While everyone else on Stranger Things feels locked on rails, Eleven (MINOR SPOILERS FOR POINTLESS PLOT) is busy doing almost nothing!
It's just a pointless, aimless ad hominem attack and, as many pointed out on social media, a thinly veiled racist remark.
A version of that sentence was included in the statement, despite criticisms from others at the meeting that it was pointless.
Comparing the beauty of the first ladies is kind of like spamming my Twitter with your #fakenews hashtags: pointless and ignorant.
It would be—for a moment I told myself this—a project similar to Sonny's paintings: dazzling and pointless and defiant.
Except for the painful, and almost certainly pointless, process of tracking down who was behind the outbreak, patient zero doesn't matter.
With the Israeli economy growing well, some experts and former policymakers say intervention is no longer necessary and may be pointless.
It is also pointless — and somewhat dishonest — to talk about total U.S. defense spending as if it was all for NATO.
But it's not just that we want what these men have; it's that the wanting seems as pointless as the winning.
Experts will continue to demonstrate that it isn't, and that regulating it would be pointless at best and destructive at worst.
Meanwhile, if two teams from each group advance, then we have the opposite problem: the group stage would be rendered pointless.
"Today's exercise is a pointless farce that will deceive no one," said CNRP's former leader Sam Rainsy on Twitter on Sunday.
This kind of behavior — corrupt at worst, pointless at best — is precisely why President Trump won, but it goes beyond him.
Meanwhile the West, through its policies of demonisation and pointless sanctions, does all it can to push Russia into China's arms.
The Security Council would then bring into fold the main regional powers, although diplomats said it was pointless without Iran's involvement.
In some cases, the training seemed worse than pointless, forcing patients to confront realities that might have been better left unconfronted.
This kind of drinking was careless, pointless—one of the risks, the consequences of being the kind of drunk you were.
Thursday's town hall event in New Hampshire was totally and utterly pointless, and was nothing like what he'll face on Sunday.
Poe, Finn, Rose, DJ and Holdo were all unnecessary characters with pointless plotlines that added nothing but took away a lot.
Whereas bullshit jobs are often highly respected and pay well but are completely pointless, and the people doing them know this.
The digital download still feels like the new, yet it isn't, it is old, obsolete, defunct, pointless, rusty, rotten and sick.
As the novelty wears off, many of these "enhanced" films are gimmicky at best and pointless headache-inducing garbage at worst.
People would be free to quit their pointless, underpaid jobs whenever they liked and still have something to fall back on.
The only reason to make this otherwise-pointless change is to make costs look larger — in this case, $20 billion larger.
For Trump, this move would help to accomplish one of his most precious but pointless goals — lowering the US trade deficit.
It also seems pointless to "Americanize" French morality when the United States has a president whose supporters shrug off his philandering.
The most obvious solution — a fine, like the one that transformed New York City's sidewalks in 1978 — would be pointless here.
"Blame-shifting is pointless because nobody swoops in and hands you the nomination; you have to win it," Mr. Jentleson said.
There was also a widespread sense that any effort to game out the political consequences now for November's elections is pointless.
But while many of us might think our jobs suck, some gigs are actually pointless, according to anarchist writer David Graeber.
Under the circumstances, endlessly battling it out to try to get a good person on the Iron Throne is basically pointless.
In the theology of nuclear deterrence, the point of this unholy trinity is to make nuclear war unwinnable and, therefore, pointless.
"Shackling is a dehumanizing, cruel and pointless practice that has no place in New York City in 2018," the suit said.
If keeping 2,000 troops in Syria is pointless and abandoning the Kurds was inevitable, what is the responsible way to withdraw?
And when you consider where Lucas's story is headed (see point 4 below), it makes the whole thing even more pointless.
There's a part of me, though, that feels like there's value in actually doing work, even if it's for something pointless.
"Antitrust law is very complicated and it's pointless to speculate about what WeSearchr thinks it means by citing it," he said.
It was a classic move from the kid who has become the living embodiment of every pointless pettiness associated with Duke.
It resulted in Rubio trying to attack Trump again, and again only for the debate to devolve into pointless cross talk.
As of writing this, there are no specific treatments available for COVID-19, but that does not mean testing is pointless.
Yet millions of older Americans, diagnosed with subclinical hypothyroidism based on T.S.H. numbers, are taking a medication that now appears pointless.
Enforcement has also proved utterly pointless with respect to drug markets, where locked-up dealers are easily replaced by new ones.
We can add to their books David Orr's " Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry ," which came out in 2011.
Dinner sees a traffic jam of rolling carts parked tableside for various bits of stage business, some of which are pointless.
Yet from the age of thirty or forty on, after we've spawned, we're living on time that evolution regards as pointless.
Metts settled into his new life in the oil fields, reluctantly accommodating an array of strictures that he regarded as pointless.
The point, rather, is to show that digital books can be useful and aren't a pointless addition to a kid's library.
Unplugging a server to physically move it (again, entirely pointless) would only lead to potential data loss in the machine's memory.
Clues, Chekov was saying, had better lead somewhere, or else fickle audiences will feel they've been taken for a pointless ride.
Her intention, she said, was to help her father deliver on his agenda, and talk of succession was pointless until 2021.
If he does not, President Trump may learn the wrong lesson -- that even Seoul thinks talking to the North is pointless.
Louisiana won't be able to ban abortions outright but they will be able to require abortion providers to obtain pointless credentials.
You don't want to end up filling your home with a bunch of pointless junk — Marie Kondo would be so disappointed.
We have also been down the dark (and pointless) road of blacklisting people, so we certainly must resist that urge, too.
Breaking up big tech companies without paying attention to how much user data is still being collected is pointless, he said.
Today, they said — with black humor — that 50 percent of normal traffic would be a gift, and planning seemed increasingly pointless.
At some level, all you have is a powerful person putting all of his weight behind a pointless, small-minded fight.
"We must choose between greatness and gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction," Mr. Trump said.
"Reflex" (2017) and "Extend/Retract" (2016) are both pointless as well, but they disguise that aspect by falsely offering kinesthetic possibilities.
In Killing, body hair is but one metonym for pointless virility, along with the more abstract signifiers of authority and affluence.
Pitching currency opportunities to clients is pointless without the big exchange rate swings that pique investor interest, Fabrizio Russo told Reuters.
The Cuomo plan has angered the de Blasio administration, City Council members and nonprofit housing organizations, who call it pointless and harmful.
" Prince Andrew added that Prince Charles is very much on the same page and that "any speculation [to the contrary] is pointless.
Do you think that the internet has had something to do with allowing people to recognize how arbitrary—or pointless—things are?
Similarly, an amazing growth strategy using the latest viral hacks is pointless without a way to retain and profit from the growth.
It was among the first companies to recognize that VR's true power wasn't in games or pointless escapism, but in other people.
When queried, Apple Support directed Gizmodo to Apple's Features Availability page—which was entirely pointless since Iran has never been listed there.
If this were just a story about who Hillary Clinton has lunch with in her spare time, it would be totally pointless.
So all the focus — decades and decades of focus — by earnest liberals and scientists on particular climate skeptic arguments is pointless. Sunspots.
Without that, little to no progress will have been made on the denuclearization front, and the summit will have basically been pointless.
The scheme is more likely to subsidise "pointless" new projects, according to Randal O'Toole of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank.
In most races, this change is pointless – producing the same Democratic and Republican candidates that would be produced by a partisan primary.
In remarks made on the House floor Tuesday, Jeffries called the DMCA takedown system "inefficient, cumbersome," and even "pointless" for content creators.
Its premise was that it was pointless to back individual companies—better just to own the entire market and go to sleep.
Romney is right that any sort of 2020 primary challenge to Trump is totally pointless -- if your goal is to actually win.
And a "twist" that's more or less telegraphed through a megaphone early on carries such low stakes that it seems completely pointless.
This keeps happening, with the algorithm-based safety feature kicking in for too many people and making the check-in almost pointless.
And, by the absence of powered armor, makes the movie version of Starship Troopers a particularly pointless shooting gallery sort of exercise.
Paranoia rendered much of the espionage pointless—the spymasters in Moscow simply did not believe what their British agents were telling them.
The girls having some kind of intervention is about as dumb as believing Elena could be president of the United States. Pointless.
Whatever story the film is trying to tell is frequently shelved for long, pointless sequences that have little to do with anything.
First suggested by Benjamin Franklin, in 1784, it was at the time shot down by many very sensible people as being pointless.
And there was a marked focus on now-defunct groups from the civil war, rendering the meetings "pointless" in the official's view.
"That little stutter right there was pointless," Sherman said, referring to wide receiver Michael Crabtree's move at the beginning of the play.
The government has wasted millions of dollars on a pointless review, and upset businesses in the process, complains its leader, Simon Bridges.
Stating that this strategy is "pointless" mostly just exposes Nolan as somebody who is unable to fathom common financial and geographic realities.
It's integral to be at the forefront of discussion because it's an industry consistently and brutally slated in the UK as pointless.
People who do not suffer when pursuing unachievable goals may waste their energies on pointless effort, thereby harming their chances of reproduction.
As his speakerphone continued to malfunction, what should have been a dry, pointless diplomatic photo op turned into a comedy of errors.
Showed him that everything we do — even his attempts at stealing the safe from the brothel — are pointless narratives without true meaning.
Now it feels like the world is spiraling, and there isn't much hope, so the motivation to stay sober often feels pointless.
Meanwhile, throughout the Obama administration, this completely pointless commission kept unilaterally grabbing power over things - to which they have zero legislative tether.
On Wednesday, it described a series of demands by cabin crew unions as "pointless" due to the overall attractiveness of staff conditions.
Patients who don't understand how long they have to live often choose overly aggressive therapy that can cause pointless pain and suffering.
It is a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America.
Trophies are a fun, if ultimately pointless, way to track your progress through a game and score bragging rights on your friends.
We've had enough underdog success stories to make everything feel unpredictable, but not so much that the regular season feels completely pointless.
Just as one critic would applaud the comedy for its "irredeemably funny" moments, another would dismiss it as crude, stupid, or pointless.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday it was pointless discussing Beijing's contentious activities and no one dared to pressure it anyway.
We're giving you the run-down on how to contextualize (and sexualize) what some might believe are the most pointless emoji available.
Bates finds it pointless, Daisy thinks it's the public's right to come inside, and Carson is certain they'll be invaded by marauders.
It snapped a two-game pointless streak for Svechnikov, who had seven points (five goals, two assists) in the previous four games.
Minutes later, James drove along the baseline as Carroll reached out in a desperate — and ultimately pointless — attempt to impede his path.
But returning Turtles stars Megan Fox and Will Arnett onstage together had to be the most pointless, awkward thing we've seen here.
If enough people were to say no to pointless things often enough it would lead to a more efficient allocation of resources.
The Papadopoulos case yielded tremendous speculation but no collusion — just a rather pointless prosecution against him, resolved with 22019 days in jail.
Maybe the real point of their pointless impeachment hearings is to distract from the even gaudier circus that is their primary contest.
It also shows that Russia is fed up with what it considers long and pointless talks with the Obama administration over Syria.
Kelly reportedly lashed out at Trump and said during a small group meeting that it was "pointless" to advise Trump on anything.
Somewhere along the way, they've evolved into bric-a-bracs that look lovely in a box, but are ultimately a bit pointless.
"It's the right thing to do," said one GOP aide, who until recently repeatedly shot down queries about the bill as pointless.
But parents often feel like trying to set limits is pointless, that the cat is out of the bag, tech is everywhere.
Annoying, friction-adding aspects of the system like the wired controllers and these pointless console buttons add to the nostalgia, for me.
Like literally every forum, message board, chatroom, social-media network, and comment section, wikiFeet is also a breeding ground for pointless arguments.
And above all else, its gentle family stories are the perfect palate cleanser for a TV landscape too addicted to pointless bombast.
The only thing keeping this dunk from being outright slob propaganda is that, on a certain level, it ended up being pointless.
J: While I understand the irony you were attempting to convey with your mention of luggage locks being pointless, it's somewhat misplaced.
And as a person who occasionally just vomits pointless nonsense into Twitter in a long attempt to obscure such personality analysis: shit!
In his review of the movie for "The Independent," Geoffrey Macnab called "Wolves at the Door" a "repellent, misconceived, and pointless film."
But it also seems pointless to side against Shulkin in a clash over VA privatization unless you're actually going to push privatization.
The cycle of violence-ceasefire-repeat that keeps verging on all-out war may look like pointless destruction to the outside world.
And as the Trump administration forces thousands of furloughed employees back to work without pay, some said that job-hunting seemed pointless.
Felon disenfranchisement is a destructive, pointless policy that hurts not only individuals barred from the ballot box, but American democracy at large.
Achim Steiner, the administrator of the United Nations Development Program, said openly criticizing the Trump administration on climate change would be pointless.
While The Wooster Group is known for its extensive use of video, here the effort was so restrained it seemed almost pointless.
Last, Alex Whitworth argues that it's "pointless" to complain about the Electoral College because everyone knows that's how the game is played.
And it could demonstrate how we can avoid dragging the nation through yet another wrenching, destructive and ultimately pointless political battle today.
Clinton made similarly pointless comments suggesting that another Democrat in the race, Representative Tulsi Gabbard, was the favored candidate of the Russians.
"That will happen at the bargaining table - not by rushing into court in a pointless attempt to restrict workers' rights," he said.
Dozens and dozens of pointless emails hit my inbox every day, so I set out to stop it once and for all.
In these circumstances, holding open the possibility of NATO membership for these countries, as the West has done for years, is pointless.
Legal experts widely dismissed the order as a pointless fig leaf, but, in a Rose Garden ceremony, Barr declared it a triumph.
The scattered, busy and occasionally pointless questioning left some topics more muddled than they had been at the start of the night.
Rookie forward William Nylander snapped a three-game pointless streak with an assist and posted a plus-2 rating against the Bruins.
Eichel, who snapped a five-game pointless drought, collected a goal and an assist to help snap Buffalo's three-game losing skid.
Yet most of them, particularly Frank, seem to be living for their pointless, petty work, fighting a losing battle against the clock.
Another installation is a 100-foot-long fence with a gate that seems pointless, since a diver can easily swim above it.
At least one juror visibly expressed annoyance at the response, gesturing with her hands as if to suggest the exchange was pointless.
But would a president who's holding federal workers hostage in pursuit of a pointless wall be willing to enact a sensible stimulus?
"It's true that high-octane, hardworking child-rearing has some pointless excesses, and it doesn't spark joy for parents," Ms. Druckerman writes.
By February 1917, after more than two years of bloody and pointless war, six million Russian soldiers were dead, wounded or missing.
Whilst this playful activity appeared to be aimless and pointless, Sharif was consumed with the pursuit of a new conception of art.

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