Sentence examples for a pointless effort from inspiring English sources

I've seen presidents founder in a pointless effort to seem more like a regular guy (George H.W. Bush).

As silly as that comment was, the sad thing is that it was not the most ridiculous thing said by a right-winger in the last several weeks of chaos, which they unleashed in a pointless effort to paralyze health care reform.

Using such markers to verify your level of spirituality is a pointless effort, however.

To make his tongue-in-cheek point that writing kid's books is a pointless effort, Colbert joked, "Newt Gingrich said it: children don't have a work ethic," to which Sendak responded, "But Newt Gingrich is an idiot… there is something so hopelessly gross and vile about him… so let's not take him seriously".

The effort to project any consistent intellectual framework onto someone like Trump is a pointless endeavor.

"A pointless endeavor".

This strikes us as a pointless campaign.

What a lot of pointless effort.

Justice Thomas revisits this painful episode, fresh in his memory, and picks apart the charges leveled against him by Anita Hill, his former employee at the commission, in an earnest but ultimately pointless effort to set the record straight and settle some scores along the way.

But making an effort to do so could spare firms pointless effort.

Though, as I say, at the time it all appeared to be an aimless monochrome of regret and shame, wrong turns and pointless effort.