Sentence examples for in the pointless from inspiring English sources

"Perhaps race initially was not a factor in the pointless shooting death of one man and the injury of another," it said.

Not a word is written about how many Chinese, or Vietnamese, died in the pointless war with Vietnam in the late 1970s.

"The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in the pointless death of hundreds of British soldiers and hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians".

Here, in the pointless arrest of Ms. Zucker, is a crime that is not even on the books: the staggering waste of spirit, the squandering of public resources, the follies disguised as crime-fighting.

The thoroughly evil Hackett is the only character in the film who seems to have even a moment's pleasure, as in the pointless but discreetly composed sequence in which he is gratified orally in the back room of his nightclub by a woman who then takes a quick sip of water and steps out into the club to deliver an entire chorus of "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue".

But as Mary McCarthy said in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, even lapsed Catholics still act like Catholics, finding pleasure in the pointless and returning to institutions that hurt them, hoping for good to come—I went back to the hallway full of water in search of my ideal young man.

Heston talks a lot about "magic" in his series, but in all the pointless supersizing I see only off-putting excess.

Both are demonstrably untrue and – almost in spite of the pointless, mind-numbing, nature of the political debate – voters have cottoned on to this.

The sheer stylistic exuberance with which he puts forward character is often in devastating contrast to the pointless, calamitous schemes in which they are caught up.

"The novel alone," he says, "could reveal the immense, mysterious power of the pointless," in opposition to the "pre-interpretation" of reality.

Baxter called playing in the preseason pointless, but the Browns said they wanted to see him do more.