Then, to Moscow utter outrage, Bush announced plans for an anti-missile system in the Czech Republic and Poland (only 190 km from Russia's border) to supposedly shoot down Iranian nuclear-armed missiles that don't exist was a act of monumental stupidity and pointless belligerence.
To continue this pointless action would be an act of inhumanity on par with the rape of Nanking, which trust me, was no stroll in the park,nor, I daresay, a walk on the beach for that matter.
"He believed that a less than candid biography would be pointless," Mr. French writes, "and his willingness to allow such a book to be published in his lifetime was at once an act of narcissism and humility".
"He watches a bit of Pointless.
In a statement, top Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi called Trump's move Thursday "a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage... Trump will try to blame the Affordable Care Act, but this will fall on his back and he will pay the price for it".
As Nancy Pelosi remarked in the New York Times, "It is a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America".
I know these are pointless acts of pointless generosity.
"Through the decades following the war," Flanagan writes of Dorrigo, "he felt his spirit sleeping, and though he tried hard to rouse it with the shocks and dangers of consecutive and sometimes concurrent adulteries, outbursts, and acts of pointless compassion and reckless surgery, it did no good".
One of Jim Morrison's final companions (on this plane of existence, anyway) is among those criticizing the state of Florida for its recent pardon of the singer, calling it "politically motivated" and "the final act" of a "pointless passion play".
An act as pointless, small-minded and shortsighted as launching a harpoon into the flank of a whale.
