She thinks of her grandmother, "fundamental and as still as a root," and it seems senseless to say that she is dead, "just as senseless as it is to say I myself am alive".
"It seems senseless at a time when the city has no money, and now they spend $100,000 , $150,000on a traffic light that seems to have no purpose," Mr. Needle said.
It seems senseless to him, inevitably — not just because of his anger and grief, but because he has little to say about the substance of her work there and her attitude toward it.
He sees children being shot in the arms of their parents and pizzerias blown up and it seems senseless, when we all know what the solution is going to look like".
It seems senseless not to take advantage of that, now that technology makes it possible.
On the other hand, it seems senseless to say that beauty has no connection to subjective response or that it is entirely objective.
It seems senseless to ask: "What is the probability that Lev in the world A will observe A?" This probability is trivially equal to 1.
Since money is the ultimate security blanket, it seems senseless that people fritter it away.
But for many, he said, it still seemed senseless.
Yes, on sober reflection, such worries over a man's condign punishment seemed senseless, a study in misplaced compassion; but there it was.
