Sentence examples for pointless detail from inspiring English sources

He may have seemed frazzled in the end times at Chelsea, obsessed with pointless detail, diminished on some fundamental level.

They weren't - one was by Alaia, the other was Zac Posen - but the similarities between them showed how awards dressing has now been distilled to a formula: long, black, body-fitting with some pointless detail on top.

It's enough to make you shudder – not the prospect of revisiting American Psycho's axe attacks and torture scenes (or banal attention to pointless detail) but the very thought of "musical theatre", two words that fill any discerning musical, theatrical or bookish snob with disdain.

The fabulous Jennifer Lawrence continues to do her damnedest to keep this long-running dystopian saga's head above water, but ever since story-planners bid a sad farewell to the terrifyingly bloodthirsty Arena in 2013's Catching Fire and began exploring the future dystopian nation of Panem in excruciatingly pointless detail, the whole thing has gone downhill.

All of this daily vocabulary can be considered as pointless detail, but the impact of stereotypes should lead us to further questioning.

Yet he's not one of the decorative type designers, slapping frills or pointless details on clothes.

In Utopia facts do not exist, people are taught to doub't and forget and pointless details are shunned.

Just about everything in this collection was off, from the heaviness of the layers to the pointless details.

Janet Maslin, writing in the daily New York Times, dismissed its scoops as "dated, petty and easily available to anyone with Internet access," shamelessly padded out with pointless details about the pet birds McGinniss kept in his temporary home next door to the Palins in Alaska ("The grebe chicks have hatched!") and hearsay about the condition of the Palins' toilet.

Not just pointless details.

Online reviewer James Berardinelli considered the script "little more than a clothesline from which to dangle all of the obligatory set pieces", and USA Todays Claudia Puig found On Stranger Tides "familiar and predictable,... often incoherent and crammed with pointless details".