Sentence examples for is basically pointless from inspiring English sources

As you mention in your book it is basically pointless to try to change another person's mind but I suppose at some level I was also operating under the delusion that if I said the right thing he would admit he was wrong".

Russia's eight-hour 'humanitarian pause' from bombing eastern Aleppo is basically pointless.

He wrote that "'The Watch' is basically pointless", "the humor [of 'The Adventures of Hurley and Frogurt'] doesn't work" and "Operation: Sleeper" was deemed "the most useless of the webisodes".

I'm putting words into her mouth, but it sounded like she thought people over 40 were basically pointless.

It's so insulting but in a really funny way - unlike Closer or Now, which are basically pointless".

"There is a class of markets that I think are basically pointless," says Justin Wolfers, an economist whose research on prediction markets, much of it with Eric Zitzewitz of Dartmouth, has made him mostly a fan of them.

Asked by Tett to comment on Greenspan's recent article in the F.T., in which he said financial reform was basically pointless, Volcker said: "On the face of it, without referring to Alan Greenspan, I can simply say I think the markets needed more regulation and the banks needed more regulation".

The device also had side buttons that were so hard to click that they were basically pointless, and the Bluetooth version offered more ways to fail as it offered bad performance.

He notes that Rube Goldberg structures can be "basically pointless"—yet we can imagine playing with the setup for hours.

Holding your cat down and making them struggle to get away will only make them hotter and more frustrated, and it's basically pointless.

And as the Swedes are basically cooler than everyone at everything ever and always right, arguing is pointless.