Sentence examples for a sterile exercise from inspiring English sources

It will not be a sterile exercise".

The past is not dead ground, and to traverse it is not a sterile exercise.

Lix, an actor, is so virile that he impregnates every woman he beds; unfortunately, the story he inhabits is a sterile exercise.

Requiring the police to record every possible consideration in preparation for large operations would be a "sterile exercise", the force added.

But it's far from a sterile exercise in closed-system aesthetics, thanks not only to Yu's sense of humor but also the patient tracking of the ghost in the (time) machine.

8 9 The creation of systematic reviews without attention to their uptake is clearly a sterile exercise.

I think if you write something purely jumping on a bandwagon it becomes a rather sterile exercise.

But one should also ask: isn't this preoccupation with clear-cut definitions and delimitations, after all, a sterile academic exercise?

Another sterile exercise in military planning is about the last thing our impoverished national security debate needs.

But these 19 intense tracks are more than a series of sterile exercises and cold technological feats.

From the standpoint of practical marketing, they are sterile exercises in taxonomy.