Sentence examples for is a pointless exercise from inspiring English sources

Anyone who saw Robert Altman's underrated film "Prêt-à-Porter" knows that is a pointless exercise.

Shooting badgers is a pointless exercise, a short-term, ineffective, sticky-plaster on the gaping wound that is bovine tuberculosis.

Appier admits to guessing what his record might be with better luck, but it is a pointless exercise, he said.

Incidentally, there will be people who think that rubbishing an Express story is a pointless exercise because no-one takes the paper seriously.

It may be, as is so often the case, that looking for the logic in Trump's comments is a pointless exercise.

Some will complain that this is a pointless exercise in the pursuit of a will-o'-the-wisp - authenticity - that adds little to our understanding of Shakespeare.

But that's a pointless exercise.

But it has not been a pointless exercise.

This is therefore likely to be a pointless exercise.

"This is going to be a pointless exercise," I say to myself.

"It would be a pointless exercise to try and recreate one's youth.