Sentence examples for pointless at best from inspiring English sources

A string of academic studies labelled DARE pointless at best.

If PCCs cannot claim any great electoral mandate, the reform will look pointless at best.

To me, climbing a mountain seemed pointless at best, suicidal at worst.

If you aren't up on all the mischief that transpires behind the bar these days, the scene I'm about to describe — and the experiment to which it belonged — will sound pointless at best and repulsive at worst, and it will peg me as someone with too much time on his hands.

The changes Apple made to the emoji — I'm not talking about Unicode's welcome and long overdue gender and skin color modifiers, by the way — are pointless at best and often damaging.

Mr. Savage thinks religion is at best pointless, at worst malevolent.

You could argue that there's something at best pointless and at worst a bit pretentious about Savage Night at the Opera's knowing recreation of the sound of Low-life-era New Order, but equally, it's hard to remain stern in the face of such a beguiling tune.

Even if you accept that the overall aim of dramatically reducing immigration is sound and The Economist doesn't the cap is at best pointless and might well be actively damaging.The trouble with the Tories' pledge, and indeed with Britain's immigration policy in general, is that most of the key variables are beyond its politicians' sway.

(It will be mediocre at best; a pointless waste of resources, at worst).

They often perceive the work as pointless, and react with apathy at best and outright aggression at worst.

Everything else, from being tough on social security or bending to the vile anti-immigration agenda of Ukip and the Tories, is at best a pointless distraction from the economic crisis.