She considers it pointless, counterproductive even, to answer the Russian's provocations with passive reserve.
The Europeans, no: the Europeans of that time, which was a time of struggle, were so convinced that the heaven of the stars was immutable, was in fact the paradigm and kingdom of immutability, that they considered it pointless and blasphemous to notice changes.
Most Westerners, unschooled in its pleasures, consider it a pointless delicacy.
She was also immensely grateful to Steptoe for continuing to consider it, even when every option seemed pointless.
However, 27% (n = 223) of caregivers working in adult ICUs considered that family participation is or could be very useful or essential to the patient's well-being, whereas only 9% (n = 75) considered it to be pointless.
Children were allowed to visit in 95% of ICUs, with or without restrictions; 70% (n = 636) of respondents considered that visits from children were very useful or essential to patients' well-being, and only 4% (n = 39) considered it to be pointless.
"You loved it," he writes of the game, "because you considered it an art: an apparently pointless affair, undertaken by people with a special aptitude, which sidestepped attempts to paraphrase its value yet somehow seemed to communicate something true or even crucial about the Human Condition.
Murphy is a discursive, if not rambling, narrator who includes an abundance of extraneous material, which some readers may find colourful, but others will consider exasperating or pointless.
For its part, the Obama administration has pulled out of a bilateral working group on civil society it now considers pointless, and indicated that the president will not accept Vladimir Putin's invitation to come to Russia before next September, when they may meet on the margins of the G20 summit in St Petersburg.
Severely disordered patients were assumed to have low level of insight, and in most cases it was considered pointless to try voluntary mental health care.
