After two pointless hours, Justin was called into the office, where the guards gleefully told him that they would allow us into the country, but we'd have to walk with our children to Vilnius (which is around 100 miles away), and the car would stay in Poland.
The idea being that you would alert others when you were vacating your spot, so they could spend a few less pointless hours circling the block.
The phenomenal growth in the number of managers in universities seems only to have led to a growth in pointless bureaucracy: every hour spent reporting on our teaching and research for the latest review committee is an hour taken from time we could have used to actually do teaching or research.
She'd spent a pointless quarter of an hour in the stocks, in billion degree heat.
Kids: why take only five minutes to get ready when you could stretch it out into an hour of pointless torture instead.
Much as I love the last, its pungent treacly flavour masks the natural caramel notes of the reduced milk, rendering four hours work pointless.
If I were queen then all those who honked in fury would be shut up in a cell and themselves honked at for hours – probably a pointless punishment as they'd doubtless think the bedlam some new form of pop music.
By the time Fatou reached the Derawals', only her hair was dry, but before going to get changed she rushed to the kitchen to take the lamb out of the freezer, though it was pointless — there were not enough hours before dinner — and then upstairs to collect the dirty clothes from the matching wicker baskets in four different bedrooms.
Lose the hours spent on pointless meetings, plowing through email or (be honest) gossiping, and most people probably "work" in the strict sense less than they think.
Dundun, B.D., and I formed a congress and became the Three Musketeers — no hijinks or swashbuckling, just hour upon hour of pointless conversation, misshapen cigarettes, and lethargy.
