Sentence examples for pointless discussions from inspiring English sources

Would a President John McCain tolerate pointless discussions?

For example, it can lead to lots of pointless discussions about the plausibility of particular scenarios.

Moreover, reporting random error units, and explicitly showing the imprecision of a study, could also help to prevent the frequent but pointless discussions about post-hoc power [ 14].

No, but do not attack it for being without evidence; it is a pointless discussion.

"It's unclear if we can find someone who can stop this 'monumental' irritation – to stop this fruitless, pointless discussion.

The details of the team's latest debacle, against New England on Thanksgiving, fell into the usual trend of chaos, followed by more pointless discussion of the backup quarterback Tim Tebow — this time for dressing against the Patriots despite an injury, as Rich Cimini writes on ESPN.com — followed by Rex Ryan talking himself around in concentric circles.

Whether or not they are causes of domestic violence seems a pointless discussion – factors such as alcohol and entrenched disadvantage are so strongly associated with domestic violence that to seriously reduce its incidence requires tackling them or least talking about them loudly and publicly.

And yet, days before the vote, the subject turned from the perfectly legitimate questions of Dean's stance on the issues and his general fitness for office to a completely pointless discussion on his wife.

But they are hypocrites, because that, in fact, is exactly what they are doing by drawing so much attention to her appearance, rather than her work, and stoking that pointless discussion.

Unless you're comatose or have found another pleasant way of avoiding the subject, you're probably aware that for the past week or so the political media has been blissing out to a pointless discussion of whether or not President Barack Obama has shown sufficient emotion over the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

2.56pm BST "On the theme of pointless and irresolvable discussions," writes Jimmy Smith, who has got the MBM email lark down to a T, "a friend of mine and I once had an extremely lengthy conversation about whether David Schwimmer was likely to be a good swimmer or not.