Sentence examples for an exercise in irrelevance from inspiring English sources

For the Lib Dems, it has been an exercise in irrelevance.

Very long-range forecasts from the OECD, a think-tank, may seem an exercise in irrelevance.

In a capital seemingly ever consumed with the latest dust-up, where historical memory tends to be measured in days rather than decades, Moynihan's elaborations of neglected historical corridors, lost moments and failed schemes tend to be seen as exercises in irrelevance and self-regard.

A prolonged exercise in schadenfreude.

Like a rat in an exercise area.

Mr. Bernstein suggests that a gold standard is a bane in bad times, an irrelevance in good.

I hope and pray that this is not a metaphor for their irrelevance in the United States in 2010.

A nobody; an irrelevance.

In privacy cases, truth is not a defence but an irrelevance.

But to me that's a bit of an irrelevance".

"The extra £5m a year was an irrelevance".