Sentence examples for pointless affair from inspiring English sources
But it seems an extravagantly pointless affair: stripped of the movie's slick, synthetic glamour, you suddenly glimpse the fragile, anti-intellectual nature of the fable beneath.
"You loved it," he writes of the game, "because you considered it an art: an apparently pointless affair, undertaken by people with a special aptitude, which sidestepped attempts to paraphrase its value yet somehow seemed to communicate something true or even crucial about the Human Condition.
But the pointless campaigns were lively, colourful affairs, giving an impressive imitation of the forms of democracy.
Nevertheless, the new Australian militarism has been an entirely bipartisan affair, with Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard pursuing the pointless war in Afghanistan with quite as much enthusiasm as Howard.
The whole affair was disgusting, repetitive and pointless -- the antithesis of the fiesta brava that fans romanticize.
He wants so much to be taken seriously - as a thinker on Northern Irish politics (he foresees a political realignment), third world aid (he's been there - largely pointless), state education ("beyond repair"), and global affairs.
The parts that deal with affairs, etc. have felt pointless and drawn out.
"What happens is you get the arrest of people that may have smoked at a party three days ago," said Lynn, calling that state of affairs, "totally unfair, and frankly pointless".
He tended to think that focusing on concepts like void, nothingness, infinity, and space would draw people away from the world of human affairs and ultimately point them toward pointless introspection.
It is pointless to blame the evil bankers for this of state affairs, since they don't control fiscal policy, which is the remit of the Treasury.
