All the eye-rolling over teenagers having an umbilical attachment to their phones is somewhat pointless, isn't it?
If you don't know Roland, the loss of his fingers surely means nothing to you; if you don't read the later books, the effects that Mort has on the rest of the series will make him seem as if he's somewhat pointless; and if you don't know who Jake is, the mention of him will mean nothing to you.
However, this exercise may be somewhat pointless because the stress at the source cannot be controlled from outside, rather, it is strongly influenced by local dislocation-dislocation correlations, such as the back stress from previously emitted loops.
While Moore-Roberts does want to improve representation at Yahoo, she noted how it's somewhat pointless to increase the pipeline of underrepresented people coming into Yahoo if the company isn't also working to retain them.
Therefore a specific device for measuring the systolic blood pressure is not interchangeable with itself and it is somewhat pointless to assess agreement between these two devices since they are not repeatable within themselves.
Note in this regard that the debate which of the genetic codes, classic or operational (associated in tRNAs with the anticodon and acceptor stem, respectively), came first is somewhat pointless, as these two codes have diverged from a single ancestor.
Rune armour requires level 40 defense and rune weapons requires level 40 attack, it is somewhat pointless doing this if you don't have the defense level.
The novel's protagonist, Jimmy Stephens, is a somewhat pointless person, a nightcrawler for The Daily Herald of the Manhattan demimonde.
Why? J: While I understand the irony you were attempting to convey with your mention of luggage locks being pointless, it's somewhat misplaced.
