Sentence examples for in a pointless from inspiring English sources

And the civilian dead will stay dead, discarded pieces in a pointless game of chess.

Here, Frankie is a former paratrooper and a mercenary in a pointless, unjust conflict.

China is not wasting trillions of dollars in a pointless war.

I've seen presidents founder in a pointless effort to seem more like a regular guy (George H.W. Bush).

This report pushes the envelope of legal arguments and in a pointless exercise denies the illegality of settlements.

Since we often don't have a fixed "right" answer a candidate can end misrepresenting themselves in a pointless way.

In the Back Room, on the Lower East Side, the drinks are served in teacups, a pointless exercise in deception.

But part of me takes pleasure in doing a pointless thing -- dancing.

"We're really upset for her to be injured in such a pointless way.

"You would expect the city of Newcastle council had more pressing business, such as supporting local economic activity, rather than participating in such a pointless sham".

But the coalition's budget aims to cut too much too soon, in pursuit of a pointless structural budget surplus by 2015.