Previously: An Obligatory and Pointless Look Back at 2011.
"It was pointless to look for work.
Lofton said it was pointless to look for a specific pitch against Schilling.
"It's pointless to look at this data second by second," Dr. Low said.
It is pointless to look at the images on the security camera in your apartment or office to see if the monster is in the lobby, because the dead cannot be seen on conventional cameras, no matter how high the resolution.
There is much to say in praise of an evening of stylish theater for its own sake, but it is pointless to look for the point of Mr. Vane's transparent musings, which were once thought to be mystical, metaphorical, metaphysical -- and thoughtful.
I assume it's for ergonomic reasons, but it seems pointless and looks silly, in my opinion.
But the strategy is so good that it's essentially pointless to keep looking for a better algorithm, says computer scientist Murray Campbell of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, who did not work on the program.
It would be pointless to go looking for the floats.
The bad-manners books are more fun than the finger-wagging set, but it's pointless fun, and if you're looking for pointless fun, there are countless picture books of glorious nonsense that don't even pretend to be good for you.
