Sentence examples for make pointless from inspiring English sources

I don't know what is worse – killing elephants to make pointless little trinkets or paying squillions to hunt them and wanting to pose with their corpses.

Gorgeous design and flashy artwork won't make pointless, played-out content suddenly relevant and meaningful.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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