Sentence examples for pointless desire from inspiring English sources

"Even though it can sometimes take three days, is so tense it causes tears and shouting, and last time ended in deliberate nuclear annihilation in a grand, but ultimately pointless, desire to choose my own method of defeat.

The year before, in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Dennett had published a paper called "The Mystery of David Chalmers," in which he proposed seven reasons for Chalmers's resistance to his views, among them a fear of death and a pointless desire to "pursue exhaustively nuanced analyses of our intuitions".

As one respondent in the 1996 survey put it, "It is pointless to desire the ridiculous".

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Assuming that counting grass blades is irrational because it is pointless, fulfilling the desire to count grass blades is not intrinsically good.

Archer now believes that terror suspects are subject to arbitrary and pointless restrictions, motivated by a desire to break their spirits, rather than genuine concerns that they are a threat.

Its pointless cruelty, and the sickening desire to capture it, brings a pain to my chest even now.

Main reasons for patients hastening death by VSED are: readiness to die, life perceived as being pointless, poor quality of life, a desire to die at home, and the wish to control the circumstances of death.

The Palestinians say negotiations are pointless because they believe Israel has no desire to see a Palestinian state come into being.

The case for assisted suicide seems to depend on human sympathy — on the impulse toward mercy, the desire to ease what seems like pointless pain and suffering.

It's pointless not having that as your aim or your desire".