Sentence examples for is essentially pointless from inspiring English sources
In any case, that's why the binary scale of good and bad, like and dislike, is essentially pointless.
Here, after all, is a world where technology must be treated with suspicion, workers perform random jobs whose nature is essentially pointless, and loneliness is the presiding spirit of the age.
THE NANNY DIARIES Despite some bright moments and a superior level of craftsmanship, this adaptation by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini of Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin's 2002 best-seller is essentially pointless.
Only now Durant is on the Warriors, Tim Duncan is reportedly retiring, and an 82-game season and three rounds of playoffs – stretching from late October to the end of May – is essentially pointless for 28 teams beyond player development.
Partly because cat-food pouches are surely the true home of Heston's snail porridge and partly because, like all Heston ventures, this one is essentially pointless, what with the small fact that astronauts will pretty much do and eat whatever you tell them to when the payoff is being shot into infinity.
A streaming music service without any music is essentially pointless, yes.
Once-hailed but now practically unknown startups like Ello and Diaspora are nice to use, but if you're the only person you know using them, they're essentially pointless as Facebook substitutes.
But the strategy is so good that it's essentially pointless to keep looking for a better algorithm, says computer scientist Murray Campbell of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, who did not work on the program.
Councillor Lisa Trickett, the council's cabinet member for A Green, Smart and Sustainable City, said: "We regret the resources yet again taken up in what was essentially pointless court action when we could have put our energies into collaborating on ensuring citizens have clean, well-managed streets.
With hindsight it appears that all these defences were, essentially, pointless since Nelson's victory at Trafalgar in October 1805 - at the very moment the construction of the Martello Tower system was getting under way - made a French invasion of Britain a virtual impossibility.
