"He used to say all sport, except motor sport, was a waste of time, and that football was no more than kicking a windbag around a field and pointless," says Payne. "So I'm not sure when all that changed".
That made no sense and still sticks in my craw -- a pointless foray out to left field when he should have ended the film with a bold, declarative statement like, "There is only one solution to our health care crisis, and that is the passage of H.R. 676, the bill for IMPROVED MEDICARE FOR ALL, delivered by a single payer".
THE Swiss composer Frank Martin, who died at 84 in 1974, lived through the decades when pointless stylistic battles were waged within the field of contemporary music, and composers faced pressure to take sides.
Efforts to maintain confidentiality with a non-disclosure agreement or other agreement may be pointless if all the members of a field are present.
No granting agency has ever declared a particular field of medical research to be pointless for animal-based research.
In the field of video games, which many people view as childish and pointless, these stories also have a legitimizing effect: they measure the medium's worth in dollars, when its artistic and moral worth is more questionable.
Metts settled into his new life in the oil fields, reluctantly accommodating an array of strictures that he regarded as pointless.
"Most of the more left-field dance stuff that people get excited about I find fairly pointless to be honest," he continues.
But between 1998 and 2000, a pointless war with neighbouring Eritrea stymied progress.Strong young men were summoned from their fields and sent to the front line.
In fields with no risk factors, treating maize with soil insecticides was found to be pointless.
