Sentence examples for pointless compared from inspiring English sources

I stand by my prediction that, as the moment approaches, dying richer will come to seem pointless compared with dying later.

It makes things now seem a bit shit and tame, and after watching it I thought, 'I may as well stop music because it's pointless compared to what Bowie did three decades ago.' It's amazing theatre, with tricks like going up on a giant telephone.

Judith Moreton, managing director of Skyjet International, says it is pointless comparing the cost of travelling on an executive jet with that on a scheduled carrier because they are quite different journeys.

The defence secretary, Michael Fallon, has dismissed Jeremy Corbyn's proposed compromise on the Trident nuclear weapons programme in which submarines would be retained but go to sea without warheads as "pointless", comparing it to going into a fight with an imitation gun.

Even passable films like Andrew Davis's A Perfect Murder (a remake of Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder) or Tim Burton's visually stunning but oafish Planet Of The Apes, seem pointless when compared to the originals.

It is of course pointless to compare mere mortals with such extreme athletic obsession.

Perhaps in the days to come the debate over Britain's Greatest Olympians will be cranked up once again but it is largely pointless to compare across events and Ainslie's achievement is immense in its own right.

It might be a pointless exercise comparing the football deeds of Bobby Moore with Lennox Lewis's right cross, or the merits of Seb Coe's quicksilver feet with those Murray uses to extricate himself from all sorts of difficulties on a tennis court.

It's come to the point that anything celebrity related is deemed "pointless" and "trivial" compared to the rest of the world's problems.

Suddenly, the thought of saying lines on some mediocre TV show seemed so pointless and empty compared to the responsibility of getting people safely to their destination in the wake of the terrorist attacks.

Rajon Rondo's absence has made the Celtics offense look pointless, without a playmaker, especially compared with a Knicks team often deploying two, in addition to the at-times-unstoppable Anthony.