Sentence examples for is fairly pointless from inspiring English sources

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Practically speaking, though, this formulation is fairly pointless.

"Otherwise, riding around in circles is fairly pointless".

Mathematics is, in itself, an exercise in the abstract — twiddling funny squiggles on paper, really, which is fairly pointless except to mathematicians.

"The best a formal curfew could hope to do is send a message from the state that violence against women is seen as unacceptable and will be taken seriously, but unless this were followed through in a whole range of other ways, it is fairly pointless".

Although not necessarily re-defining the tasks required of home users, there was some uncertainty about 'the point' - in health benefit terms - of collecting the kind of information that was demanded by these telecare systems: "It is so basic, it's stuff that actually is already known to your practice, they know if you smoke, they know what you do, you know it is fairly pointless.

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Wiping off your shopping cart, though, is doable, even if it's fairly pointless.

ACCORDING to CNN, a recount in Virginia seems to be fairly pointless, since the voting machines are all electronic, and leave no paper trail.

It's fairly pointless, especially now that The Pirate Bay has moved to a tracker-less setup.

The first is fairly harmless, the second seemingly pointless and the third downright confusing.

It's a fairly pointless assault, and the results are catastrophic, but the battle gives Mr. Scott the opportunity to conduct a brief, brutal seminar in 12th-century military tactics, complete with massed archers, wall climbers and vats of boiling oil.

And even if it doesn't, if the requirement of respect for privacy under the Human Rights Act, which governs the conduct of all public bodies including the police, doesn't cover a person's right to know who she is having sex with, then it would be a fairly pointless piece of law.

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