Sentence examples for might seem pointless from inspiring English sources
You had to do extra stuff that might seem pointless, like joining clubs and going to office hours.
At a time when all kinds of information can be found on the Internet, shredding might seem pointless, but paper is still the easiest way to get someone's personal information, Mr. Foley said.
IF your knowledge of Scotch begins with Johnnie Walker and ends at "on the rocks," a weekend spent tasting expensive single malts at whiskey bars around the city might seem pointless, even intimidating.
One of the most intriguing is Ruppy, the ruby coloured puppy a dog that glows bright red under ultraviolet light because it has genes in its body from a sea-anemone protein that functions very much like GFP, but fluoresces bright red instead of green.This might seem pointless, but it permits exploration of animal processes that have long been mysterious.
To many people this might seem pointless: rerouting data through another server makes for slower surfing, fonts and graphics are sometimes slightly skewed and video may not work properly.But for many others the manoeuvre is anything but pointless, for this redirection allows them to surf the web anonymously.
Producing low-frequency sound might seem pointless, but in peafowls' natural habitat it makes sense.
A KING with no throne might seem as pointless as an admiral with no ships.
His passivity — and devotion to lost causes like honor and duty — might seem quaintly pointless, except that it mirrors the soldier's fate in combat.
Under such conditions, life might seem essentially pointless – we're like Sisyphus, condemned by the gods to spend eternity rolling a rock up a mountain.
This time, the city's film office took a precaution that might have seemed pointless in the 1970s: The filmmakers — who have slightly abbreviated the film title to "The Taking of Pelham 123" — were requested to limit their make-believe gunfire so as not to alarm nearby residents.
Whatever the playwright might be satirizing is elusive and so wildly scattershot, it would seem pointless.
