The children of Hailsham endure short, determined, and thus "pointless" lives; but are our lives — though generally longer — less pointless or less determined?
For the first time parents have taken to heart the feedback they got from their kids, have come to suspect they may be leading pointless lives..
This success has created some dissonance for a crew of raconteurs who have spent much of their lives laughing at the stiffs who live pointless lives in dumb jobs defined by their next PowerPoint presentations.
Most butterflies lead what may seem pretty pointless lives: they munch away furiously as caterpillars, hoping to turn into pupae before birds or the dreaded ichneumon wasp discover them, but live just a few days as adults.
Then there's anyone who says they're Al Qaeda, perhaps bored, dissolute youth looking for something exciting and meaningful to do with their pointless lives, turned on by social media and its urgent ennui.
Might as well be as happy as we can during our short, pointless lives by ignoring anything we can be reasonably sure we don't give a shit about.
Attendance seemed pointless: Jermaine, living with his father and brother in the evacuee trailer park known as Renaissance Village since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, had not managed to earn a single credit in more than two years.
"If you don't like water sports, it's a little pointless to live here".
Also the question of whether she liked this town, and did she miss wherever it was that she used to live — pointless.
Anything, anything to break from the script for what is shaping up to be the most pointless, predictable Oscar night in living memory.
