It's probably pointless to note that the actual Illuminati got started in Bavaria, not Rome, and a hundred years later than the movie says, and that groups within the Church, especially the Jesuits, have at times encouraged scientific research more vigorously than the current Republican Party.
Both, especially the latter, were attention-grabbing displays, with overly clever harmonic excursions, pointless fusillades of notes and reflective moments that seemed arbitrary, not organic.
With good reason: Movies are filled with dead spots, padding, meaningless interludes, pointless detours, grace notes and extraneous subplots that you don't have to see to follow the movie.
Reid's office, which had held off pushing the issue, quickly pounced, mocking the meeting as a pointless spectacle and noting that attending members would be skipping an actual committee hearing with Gibson that had been scheduled for the same time.
Sitting in the audience, it seemed awfully odd and pointless to be taking notes, while everyone around me stood up, raised their hands and sang.
And in terms of "spoken explanations from the stage", the obvious question is "Who is doing the explaining?" Conductors tend to be magnificent musicians and average orators, and planting the program annotator on the stage to provide a recapitulation of his/her program notes seems pointless.
Notes are pointless if you don't use them.
There are skimpy skirts, tails (for a note perfect if pointless version of Peggy Lee's Fever) and a general theme of low material, high glitz.
After his reporters spent two weeks engaged in apparently pointless judge-watching, Wright turned their notes over to the paper's publisher and corporate counsel.
Who was it who once astutely noted, "There is nothing more pointless, and nothing less funny, than defending your own material"?
