Sentence examples for made pointless from inspiring English sources

In her view, he was a gifted man whose life was made pointless by his wealth, which gave him an unlimited power that he constantly abused.

The thinking is an update of the sort of thing John Major wanted the Citizen's Charter to provide, and the big new commitment - to introduce local taxation and local control of key services - is seemingly made pointless by a matching promise to offer national standards of excellence.

So, instead of making pointless arrests, they decided to solve the problem at its root - by building picnic tables at the side of the car park.

Mr Korda also deals interestingly with the convoluted genesis of Lawrence's great book, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", which reveals much of its author's contradictory, even contrary, motivations.Mr Korda's prose skips along through 700 pages but he cannot resist the biographer's twitch of making pointless, speculative claims for his subject.

Nothing Is Forgotten THEN "I was struck by the thought that every word I spoke, every expression of my face or motion of my hand would endure in his implacable memory; I was rendered clumsy by the fear of making pointless gestures".

Will Quince, the Conservative opposition leader, accused Mr Hunt of making "pointless and childish statements".

Another part of Google, though, creates the programs that pay Web developers to put ads on their sites, thus creating the incentive to make pointless Web pages in the first place.

What wasn't acceptable was making pointless utterances while finding their way back.

The attack should still be examined to identify any weaknesses in the U.S. security apparatus, but it should be for the purpose of making future improvements, not for making pointless recriminations and conducting political witch hunts.

If there is an awkward moment, don't stress or make pointless conversation.

Don't make pointless rules, like 'No throwing the ball at another player's face.' Make it more broad, such as 'No physical violence,' and include that under the title rule.