Sentence examples for pointless activities from inspiring English sources

As a thriller writer, whose living depends upon being able to summon up exciting stories to order, I'm relieved to discover that there really is a genuine benefit in apparently pointless activities.

Politics is full of pointless activity that I did my best to minimise.

But what is clear is that office workers are on a treadmill of pointless activity.

"For the life of me, I can't understand why I was involved in such pointless activity.

There was no privacy — the toilet stalls had no doors — and no rest from endless, pointless activity.

By applying the long tail to the online world, Anderson brings intellectual order to what often looks like pointless activity.

This is state-sponsored persecution of a protected species to please some of the richest people in the country, pursuing a cruel, destructive and pointless activity.

It was the background hum of Yonville, the sound of pointless activity, the sound of life just passing by, passing by without interest or protest.

And pro-Kremlin blogger Ilya Varlamov compared Muscovites catching Pokémon to police catching opposition leaders in banned political protests — his implication being that both players and protesters were indulging in a similarly pointless activity.

Organized sports are an attempt, through regimentation (uniforms and trophies) and rhetoric (rah-rah boosterism and coach talk), to give an inherently pointless activity some kind of point, to inject a purpose into play.

My diary entry for 21 October 1999 records the following exchange with my feisty private secretary in response to my complaint about the rising tide of pointless activity that my job as the lowest form of ministerial life in the department for the environment, transport and the regions seemed to entail: "Nick Raynsford [my predecessor] worked much harder than you do," she said.