How many times can we replay pointless little PIIGies fears?
The mind that fights with itself only adds another layer of anxiety, because when you know that fighting the fear is pointless, you feel more helpless.
While granting that ignorance and fear had bred pointless wars among Christian sects and nations, they asked: Were those the only reasons that, for a millennium and a half, an entire civilization had looked to Jesus Christ as its savior?
Now that this year's Australian word of the year has been announced, I find myself begging for pointless internet acronyms like Fomo (fear of missing out), an annoying phrase almost guaranteed to die off quickly.
Nothing Is Forgotten THEN "I was struck by the thought that every word I spoke, every expression of my face or motion of my hand would endure in his implacable memory; I was rendered clumsy by the fear of making pointless gestures".
Fear of numbing their minds on a pointless drive and wasting precious family trip time after years of working in our basement on our passion project.
"You reach a certain point with any emotion, where any fear you might have about projecting it becomes pointless," Yeaton says.
In a recent article on VICE, a male victim, Taylor Cooper, thought it pointless to report what had happened to him because he feared law enforcement would be useless.
Shearer has released five solo comedy albums: It Must Have Been Something I Said (1994), Dropping Anchors (2006), Songs Pointed and Pointless (2007), Songs of the Bushmen (2008) and Greed and Fear (2010).
Fear of social ostracism, not to mention the perhaps pointless journey — the drive over the Throgs Neck Bridge, down the Cross Island Parkway, along Northern Boulevard and Route 101 (Middle Neck Road) — would have combined to dissuade me.
