Sentence examples for pointless idea from inspiring English sources

Although he told friends at the time that Facebook was a "ridiculous and pointless" idea that wouldn't succeed, he made the gamble, and now the shares look like being the hottest property on the US stock market.

Alan Sepinwall, television journalist with The Star-Ledger, said the episode, "started off seeming like a dumb and pointless idea before gradually revealing itself to be a fun, and even welcome, diversion".

The honeymoon period often precedes the pointless dates, the idea of ghosting and overcoming mini-heartbreak after mini-heartbreak.

We try our best to fund those who come up with the least pointless and annoying ideas.

Actions like restricting short-selling of financial stocks, Mrs. Merkel's bad idea, are pointless.

The idea of pointless protective gestures brings us back to the intelligence agencies and Aquaint.

thinred The third-place match is absolutely pointless, what a moronic idea.

Something much more interesting tends to get lost in all this pointless dancing around the idea of biological essentialism.

Most are pointless, but one — the idea that it will give a terrorist a platform from which he could stir up support in the Muslim world for his radical views — is well taken.

This pointless arrangement was the idea of the soloist, the pianist Andre Watts, who had asked Mr. Stein, a composer of film and television scores, to turn the Schubert's great fantasie into a piano concerto.

In a stinging editorial, the paper referred on Wednesday to Kenny's suggestion as a "pointless refloating" of the idea, seeing it as little more than "a cynical chance" by the leader of the Fine Gael party "to steal Sinn Féin's nationalist colours".