Now, instead of ranting pointlessly about politics to a curated group of people who share our views, we rant pointlessly about something else.
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This is only one of the film's pointlessly uncomfortable elements.
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A person can rage pointlessly at hardship, or draw strength from it.
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I can't stand pointlessly expensive luxuries, but this one has a point.
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Pointlessly difficult spelling isn't actually pointless: it shows who has had a fine education.
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It can seem willfully obtuse or pointlessly obscure, and often it's just plain boring.
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President Trump's trade aggression is pointlessly disrespectful of Xi's "Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation".
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And he repeats that process throughout the movie, with increasingly tone-deaf, pointlessly squirmy jokes.
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Add this under BIC for Her Pens to the growing list of pointlessly gendered products.
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It's worth the wait to see that little cursor hop around the screen pointlessly, though.
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Nobody with a name you're supposed to know dies abruptly or pointlessly in this game.
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I'm impressed that he managed to squeeze so many justifications into something so pointlessly stupid.
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His 11 years behind bars he recalled as a chunk of life pointlessly stolen away.
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Pointlessly and obnoxiously, a driver in one car honked and honked at the cars ahead.
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The Opinion section is regularly slammed for running lazy, pointlessly provocative, and/or embarrassing columns.
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Because why look a rival's gifthorse in the month and pointlessly squander an unexpected competitive advantage.
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Yet even if the prospect of Palestinian unrest is muted, Mr Trump pointlessly risks stoking violence.
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By contrast, Ramsay's torture of Theon — which mostly happened before the Red Wedding — felt pointlessly cruel.
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Album Review At first glance, "There's a Riot Going On" is a pointlessly provocative album title.
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If the ads don't work that's an awful lot of money being pointlessly poured into Facebook's coffers.
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This is just an extra measure you can apply to stop yourself from using your phone pointlessly.
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You didn't jump forward at your prey; you jumped sideways, swinging your paws pointlessly through empty air.
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He pointlessly confronts Eric about what he's been saying, and there's some low-key unpleasantness between them.
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By 1963 he was pointlessly cracking down on Buddhists, whose monks set themselves on fire in protest.
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I made some poor financial decisions in my 20s, like eating out every day and shopping pointlessly.
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He doesn't care who he offends and many of his movies are pointlessly violent, grotesque, and unfunny.
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In the interim, I for one will stubbornly and pointlessly resist this attempt to encroach on my phone.
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There is no bringing back those who have been lost, pointlessly, in such a cowardly and brutal fashion.
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" "There is no bringing back those who have been lost, pointlessly, in such a cowardly and brutal fashion.
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He circles the room pointlessly, and the floor vibrates slightly beneath him as the front door slams shut.
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Ms. Wong cooks skillfully, with an appreciation for nuance, and she doesn't abuse her freedom by innovating pointlessly.
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In the blockchain world (which is no stranger to pointlessly intricate pitches), Civil's incomprehensibility has become a running joke.
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"We want to be the antithesis to the pointlessly malicious and cruel movement we see popping up," said Hartmann.
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I also pointlessly reminded him that a piece looks a lot like a paint chip, and those are everywhere.
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At French insistence it still moves pointlessly between Brussels and Strasbourg every month, at an annual cost of some €114m.
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And so it is: Shostakovich's music reaches out to express a world, to give warning, to memorialize the pointlessly murdered.
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His 11 years behind bars for opposing white-minority rule he recalled as "a chunk of life" pointlessly stolen away.
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What keeps Spartacus from being pointlessly exploitative is that it also emphasizes the humanity of even the most minor characters.
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Even into the 21st century, Russian and American youths quarrel pointlessly online whenever a new upload of the commercial surfaces.
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Witnesses and suspects are interviewed, and dusty hovels are scoured while Mary Magdalene (María Botto) slinks around pointlessly in the background.
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In Mr Garutti's staging, the three pointlessly circled in and out of the box, robbing the scene of its transgressive punch.
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So there, I just described the initial setup and the first half of this pointlessly overlong, quarter-baked season of television.
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Five lanes heading north and five heading south are clogged with cars and buses, many of them pointlessly honking their horns.
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Based, sometimes loosely, sometimes carelessly, sometimes pointlessly, on "Great Expectations," the Hindi movie "Fitoor" is at all times more Bollywood than Dickens.
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It also pointlessly mystified the process whereby consumers acquire the most basic, unsimplified details about their home internet's price, speed, and capacity.
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I pulled pointlessly at the collar, but the air was still on the outside, only looking at the inside of my throat.
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And in an age when our blockbusters feel more pointlessly busy and somber than ever, that just might come as a relief.
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Similarly, season two of True Detective ditched the weird fiction (for the most part) and simply unleashed a pointlessly convoluted noir plot.
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Alas, the pointlessly updated production by the acclaimed British director Richard Eyre, with oddly monumental sets by Rob Howell, is a major disappointment.
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In others, Liao lays across Moro's back, almost pointlessly, like planking, T-bowing, or other internet memes, wearing him like a disposable garment.
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That his son was invoked by both Trump and Sanders, solely to prop up an obviously spurious and pointlessly political claim, is sickening.
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This sense of curious whimsy is often lacking in Venet's public, monumental arcs, that can feel craned in, plopped down, and pointlessly domineering.
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He most likely wouldn't advocate anything pointlessly disruptive, like reversing (again) the One China policy, tearing up the Iran deal or barring Muslims.
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I tend to vacillate uselessly between extremes, ignoring reality as much as I can bear, clicking only on articles sure to pointlessly enrage me.
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The debate continued, pointlessly, for another minute, until Emily, who had stood in stunned silence since they entered, pulled her phone from her pocket.
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But the twist establishes two of New World Order's core themes: pointlessly convoluted political machinations and a plot built on narratively convenient dream logic.
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Being a society in which every product is pointlessly gendered, sooner or later some company was going to release a male-specific fake tan.
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Lee remembers that for some reason, perhaps out of shock, he began to pointlessly sweep the debris around the shell of the gas station.
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Last week's episode ended, rather pointlessly it turns out, with a cliffhanger in which Connor waylaid and coldcocked Moore in a skid-row alleyway.
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It presents too much work that is pointlessly fussy, technique-obsessed and uncreative — no matter whether you parse it as art, design or craft.
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My own life has seemed to stretch out endlessly and pointlessly in front of me while my radiant child lies buried in the ground.
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In a particularly pointed piece, The Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson identified "misstatements of fact, leaps in logic, and pointlessly elaborate argumentation" throughout the book.
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That's a start; I hope he follows that sense further along, rather than just offering himself, appealingly but ultimately pointlessly, as the American Macron.
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Some of us can't stop talking about the music and colors in Nocturnal Animals, while others thought it was a pointlessly vain exercise in egomania.
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By labeling this a movement of "double suffrage," the organization implied that women's votes were redundant, pointlessly enlarging the electorate by replicating the male vote.
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President Donald Trump made 230 false claims last week, mixing some fresh false accusations and pointlessly false anecdotes into his usual stew of repeat favorites.
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I hope you don't mind if over the next week I bombard your inbox with 36 customer surveys so you can pointlessly rate your experience.
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Mr. Bi is a virtuoso of the mobile camera, following his characters as they travel restlessly (and sometimes pointlessly) by foot, pickup truck and motorbike. (A.
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But that's par for the course for a man who rivals Bond villains in his knack for pointlessly complex schemes with nearly zero chance of success.
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But the road to get there is so needlessly long, and so pointlessly convoluted, that many viewers will be forgiven for having abandoned it long ago.
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And much of the rest is unlovely, inaccessible or both: intensive agricultural land, horse paddocks, endless golf courses and pointlessly empty parcels like this one in Harlow.
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But incurred pointlessly, as Mr. Trump is proposing, large fiscal gaps simply mean more debt that will be left to our children and grandchildren to pay off.
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Spring rolls filled with short rib and bone marrow seemed pointlessly indulgent, and so did their truffle hoisin dipping sauce in which I couldn't taste the truffles.
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It's never clear if the show considers all criticism to be mindless and pointlessly myopic, or if it's arguing that good intentions — in this case, Titus's — matter.
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I was no longer obsessively opening and closing social media apps and was able to process current events without seeing people endlessly and sometimes pointlessly opine about them.
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Because Roman, the lone Savior survivor from last week, caught up to her, too, before channeling his inner Bond supervillain by devising a pointlessly convoluted means of execution.
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But seeing people in the city wearing these masks pointlessly or putting scarves over their face made me realize that people are aware that something is going on.
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The Village Voice critic Jonas Mekas, an early defender of the American version of cinéma vérité — or what the Maysles called direct cinema — found the movie pointlessly bleak.
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Or what if it turns on my empty rice cooker (after I forgot to top it up) — at best pointlessly expending energy, at worst enthusiastically burning down the house.
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We need to go full steam ahead and we cannot afford to allow innocent citizens walking and biking in New York or anywhere else to be mowed down pointlessly.
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The Haggler Maybe a day will come when Payless Car Rental stops pointlessly antagonizing its customers, but as far as the Haggler can tell, that day is far off.
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But because I was there, ostensibly covering the event as news even though I knew—like nearly everybody else watching the launch—that it was a pointlessly stupid stunt.
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Even when Atomic Blonde's story becomes pointlessly complicated, to the degree that following it starts to feel like a chore, the look of the movie is pretty darn glorious.
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Well, when you flex this muscle, you can sort of squish the tissue in that area around pointlessly, but in monkeys and other mammals, it helps to manipulate the tail.
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She runs into both of the big outlaw groups that are filling the region's power vacuum (the Tullys are holed up in their castle, pointlessly waving a defiant Stark banner).
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We shuffled away, they followed, and beat up all the boys while a female friend and I stood on the perimeters, pointlessly waving our arms around in a confused panic.
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Down went Shia's white flag of defiance, up went a red Trump hat, and the most pointlessly convoluted game of capture the flag of all time came to an end.
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When we washed our dishes from dinner, we leaned over the stern in the dark, and hanging upside-down, the blood rushing to our heads, we pointlessly swished and swished.
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It would certainly relieve some of that "the world is meaningless and I am just standing on a giant rock swirling pointlessly through the universe" angst that I sometimes feel.
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Click here to view original GIFThanks to the internet and being able to easily share videos of them playing out, those pointlessly complicated Rube Goldberg machines are more popular than ever.
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The character dynamics the show had established were either pointlessly stretched out (as with Arya and Sansa) or heedlessly rushed (as with the gallop to get Jon and Dany into bed).
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They discussed the morbid etiquette of whom you tell about the accident and whom you allow to remain ignorant, and the impulse to game out, pointlessly, alternate versions of the past.
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In part this may be because there is so much else going on that it can seem pointlessly distracting to pay any attention at all to what the first lady wears.
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Most of all, though, it is an attempt to divine why smart, seemingly decent politicians and bureaucrats would continue pushing a pointlessly cruel approach long after its pointlessness had become clear.
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Public safety, national security and the rule of law are among the incantations the Trump administration likes to chant when rolling out one of its deliberately and pointlessly cruel immigration policies.
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You could say that the greatest danger of accepting such a commission is the hubris of the later writer pointlessly emulating the great one before him, and it would be true.
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But D, in a pointlessly stupid move that endangers his newly rediscovered childhood sweetheart (an excellent Shantol Jackson) and their young daughter, decides to give his package to the Turks instead.
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Tim "Baked Alaska" Gionet, a neo-Nazi-adjacent web personality notorious even among other far-right Twitter users for his willingness to engage in pointlessly stupid stunts, earned himself a permanent ban.
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Click here to view original GIFAside from the pointlessly short controller cables, the only other complaint we have with Nintendo's NES Classic Edition is that it only comes with 30 classic games.
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Setting out to investigate, he very rapidly and pointlessly unleashes hell upon himself in the form of the Seven Demons, a team of maniacal assassins who arrive en masse to murder him.
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So, to sum up, pre-checked consent boxes (or cookie banners that tell you a cookie has already been dropped and pointlessly invite you to click 'ok') aren't valid under EU law.
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Every time the plot seems like it's getting on track again, it's pointlessly diverted in favor of more hijinks that are there to pad things out to reach the 10-episode season order.
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The bill provides no funds for voter education, pointlessly explains that "passports" (an acceptable form of ID) includes "passport cards" and failed to "meaningfully expand the types of photo IDs that can qualify".
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I told myself it was a trial and started the long process of selling off all of my cosmetic items (I could write an entire follow-up piece about how pointlessly arduous that was).
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The first scene, clumsily concocted from disparate sections of music, is limp in the way it lets Siegfried depart for the lake when nobody is noticing, and then carries on pointlessly after he's gone.
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It does not seem far-fetched to expect that signatures will be pointlessly challenged and citizens intimidated and inconvenienced, that the ruckus of the Trump campaign will spread to polling places around the country.
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Obviously, if you are used to being the greatest power for decades, it will be very hard to face reality and focus on managing decline instead of pointlessly trying to guard what once was.
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It overbuilt certain useless units and ran into bottlenecks — in one memorable match, it paraded back and forth across a choke point, pointlessly setting itself up for a counterattack, while the commentators expressed profound confusion.
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Because speaking of misery porn and watching women suffer pointlessly, from what I've seen so far, all they do is slowly absorb lethal radiation while shoving soil into bags and getting shocked with cattle prods.
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But critical parts of The Surge feel so pointlessly, punishingly difficult that it's hard to imagine a world where that kind of structure, which requires a strong challenge next to a normal one, even works.
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You can rage pointlessly at the lot you've drawn and the hardships you're confronting or you can take note of, and pride in, the way you're taking them in stride and moving forward, forward, forward.
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And there are others, such as the sticks of fried cod that a server pointlessly snips in half with scissors and then spritzes with atomized yuzu juice, that are right at home at Hudson Yards.
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An obvious example would be to follow through on its proposal to remove students from the overall migration numbers, a practice that pointlessly inflates figures, as well as depicting vital overseas students as a nuisance.
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Penultimate episode "Fire And Reign" did seem to ask: Why wrap up a single major plot line so close to the end when you can pointlessly toy around with one of history's most tantalizing obsessions instead?
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His approach suggests a Christmas pageant on the dark side of the moon, but it's pretty much a mess, with lyrics swallowed by the voice synthesizers and dancers flinging themselves pointlessly around the plastic-sheeted stage.
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Without naming Mr Salvini (and blithely glossing over his own role as head of the last government), Giuseppe Conte, Italy's prime minister, declared that the deal showed that "provocative and pointlessly litigious attitudes were counterproductive". Perhaps.
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What hope means, and what recovery means, is getting up every day in the full knowledge that nothing means anything and we're all going to die pointlessly and too soon, and getting on with shit anyway.
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Benjamin, who, in 303, co-wrote a book, "The Age of Sacred Terror," about the ideological war that America faced against radical Islam, deemed Flynn's comments "pointlessly pejorative" and thought they would serve only to inflame extremists.
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As it happened, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who is now being sought for arrest by Spain, got a 90 percent mandate, leaving Madrid authorities to talk pointlessly about low turnout, having previously beaten people trying to vote.
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This flies in the face of a decade of bipartisan work in Congress to address the harm caused by drug addiction, and threatens to make federal drug enforcement efforts even more pointlessly cruel than they already are.
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However, we can only hope pray that his next offering goes a lot smoother than last season's: That is, a fresh crop of athluxury that won't include pointlessly high price tags or the stinging disapproval of the style elite.
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William Frederick Poole, the librarian at the Chicago Historical Society and the founder of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, was one of the most outspoken opponents of such designs, which he saw as wasting space and pointlessly imitating churches.
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I found the pilot formless, too pleased with its own cleverness, and stylishly nonsensical; like too many streaming dramas, it felt like somebody's screenplay for a movie, pointlessly expanded to 10 hours when it might have struggled to fill two.
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It constructs pointlessly elaborate schemes — with which, say, Frank can steal a presidential election and reinstall himself as president — then assumes the couple's ruthless efficiency is so all-encompassing that the results of those schemes play out offscreen between episodes.
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You get it.) It's an easy, fun ritual to see how many digits you can pointlessly memorize of the famously never-ending, never-repeating number (even though 29 digits is more than sufficient for almost any calculations you'll ever need).
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So while all these various claims remain to be proved, Huawei certainly looks to have been listening carefully to the factors consumers care around, rather than focusing on adding hardware gimmicks to its devices, such as, for example, pointlessly curved screens.
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" Houston admits that at one point "Instagram would stress me out and make me feel pointlessly competitive and anxious," so she had to take a "step back and realize it's supposed to be a fun way to document [her] experiences.
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Plus, for as pointlessly convoluted as Jack's death proved to be, I liked the way it allowed the episode to depict the slow-motion freight train crash that is grief overwhelming a family as the news spreads from person to person.
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So instead of dealing with the episode's most vital and interesting themes (particularly as pertains to the Hosts' intelligence), the show instead spins out a bunch of pointlessly busy plot lines that feel like second-rate rip-offs of Lost.
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But once again, the administration is pointlessly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by trying to open to logging Alaska's Tongass National Forest, one of the nation's largest and most effective "carbon sinks," as well as other intact, "roadless" areas.
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In New York, close to three-quarters of pretrial detainees in the city's jail system, many exposed pointlessly to the horrors of Rikers Island, are there because they could not afford the price of release at the time of arraignment.
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She is every woman who must suppress a sigh when the blowhard in accounts management talks over her — only, in Clinton's case, that blowhard isn't just pointlessly pontificating about email blasts; he's a candidate for the most powerful position in the world.
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To the Editor: If the Democrats push for impeachment in the House and if the House does impeach, with the Republicans controlling the Senate, that will be as pointlessly distracting and destructive as the Republican-controlled House's impeachment of President Bill Clinton was.
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It was obvious they weren't talking about literally every man in context, and it was clear these men were butting in on conversations about gender to derail them with a pointlessly persnickety objection rather than dealing with the substantive conversation about sexism.
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I admired his humility and reflected that his field was not so unlike my own, where, despite a growing knowledge of the pathogenesis of cancer, one could not precisely predict whether a patient would benefit from a treatment or suffer pointlessly from its side effects.
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It's a pointlessly salacious bit that feels like the show's most, er, naked callback to season one, with a brief moment of setup when Qyburn interrupts to tell Bronn that if he just kills Tyrion, a whole bunch of cool stuff will be his.
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It's hard to miss a pointed bit in which Obama tells a group of troops that he has spent time mourning "with Gold Star families" in the same stretch of months in which Trump was feuding pointlessly with a Gold Star family that dared to criticize him.
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So when the brother she barely knows (Eric Edelstein) asks her to babysit her 11-year-old niece, Maddie (Bryn Vale), you can probably write the rest yourself — even if you neglect to pointlessly throw the clown-painted music fans known as Juggalos into the mix.
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As the war grinds pointlessly on, and she and her family languish in materially deprived boredom, she is singled out by a smooth-talking figure named Gaines, who hires her to deliver money to rebel militiamen operating outside the purview of the Army of the Free Southern State.
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But naturally, Musk, a committed solar booster, has shown himself to be overly sensitive to short-sellers, poking Einhorn after the guy complained about Tesla in his Q3 investor letter (and, pointlessly, inviting Einhorn to tour Tesla's facilities when Einhorn appeared in his letter to suggest that Musk should face prosecution).
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Pointlessly yelling into the void about some minor injustice you've suffered is the perfect relief for the giant wave of anxiety crashing against your insides, a balm for the wounds that riding public transportation with people who don't use headphones while they listen to music can inflict upon your weary soul.
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Arnot said the apparent "biological trade-off" is that it would be pointlessly costly to invest energy in the ovulation process if a women is having little or no sex and is hence unlikely to fall pregnant, so the body diverts energy resources into protecting and caring for existing offspring.
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To compound matters, the company's reliance on its own demonstrably unreliable geolocation technology to determine who gets a Safety Check prompt results in it spamming users who live hundreds of miles away — in totally different towns and cities (even apparently in different countries) — pointlessly pushing them to push a Safety Check button.
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Pursuing questions as varied as a pet's value in the years leading up to the war, how the idea of war-preparedness (or "doing things") goaded people into acting drastically (and often pointlessly), and how the event shaped thinking on animal rights, Kean achieves an unusual psychological portrait of a society in wartime.
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The world is reeling from multiple catastrophes at once: stocks are cratering, governments around the world continue to be pointlessly, cruelly incompetent, a killer asteroid is coming (always), Sarah Palin is rapping on live TV. And then of course there's the minute-by-minute updates on the global pandemic of the novel coronavirus.
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The magnificent opening scene alone — almost a standalone sketch set in a convenience store, featuring a winding conversation between a clerk played by John Hawkes and a Texas Ranger played by Michael Parks — represents "the Tarantino touch" at its best, seeming at first pointlessly digressive, then becoming essential to the film's overall flavor and flow.
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Part of that was due to her portfolio: neither Mr Trump nor his supporters have ever seemed terribly engaged by foreign policy, while the positions Ms Haley advocated at the UN—tough on Iran, defensive of Israel, pragmatically nurturing alliances (rather than pointlessly confronting them like Mr Trump)—were mainstream pre-Trump Republican ones.
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The whole concept of LCD Soundsystem as a band may indeed be limited, emotionally and formally, by obsessive historical positioning and pointlessly intricate self-referentiality, but that's the point, too: the project's impossibility works as a comment on the evolution of taste, the passing of time, and all the metalayers implicit in loving music as a fan and an artist.
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It gets around to more or less explaining them eventually, but for too long it leaves us furrowing our brows, because the only way The Walking Dead knows how to tell stories anymore is to pointlessly extend them, decompress them to the point where what would have been single scenes in earlier seasons now fill entire episodes, and then jostle the timeline for no particular reason.
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When the elevator door opened on one floor to release a pointlessly smiling girl wearing a beret, and on another a hunched-over old man with dandruff on his shoulders and a faint odor of urine, I caught sight of shabby hallways, in a state of disrepair, the name of a dentist gouged into frosted glass on the first and a lawyer on the next, his long foreign name nothing but consonants.
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