All those bits and pieces from previous centuries – the clutter, the junk, the sheer bulk of countless pointless objects – needed to be swept away.
"It's almost pointless to object to a list like that," he commented, "since its purpose is at least as much for marketing as anything else".
This is an objection that has intuitive appeal, but there is a real problem with it: nudging is essentially inevitable, and so it is pointless to object to nudging as such.
Like critic Peter Schjeldahl, I thought it would be arbitrary and pointless if 'the object' reflected the collector's birthday or anniversary.
But he objected to pointless executions, protecting those deputies who had protested the arrest of the Girondins and of the king's sister.
In particular, hypostatisation is very common in philosophy (see the sentence (7) above) and leads, according to Kotarbiński, to pointless speculations about abstract objects, their kinds, etc.
(There is also pointless innovation: the awful faux-African objects by William Morris, at Heller, mimic materials like metal and gourds but are made entirely of blown glass).
The sense of blank and pointless disconnection is only aggravated by a second object, an assembly of industrial tubes and filters that might be doing something with some coloured pigment – except that it isn't.
Mainly, though, the show celebrates pointless creativity and the other lives of everyday objects.
It makes much more sense when dealing with large programs, where objects typically contain lots of lines of code, in which rewriting an object similar to another would be tedious and pointless, when Inheritance can be used to get the same properties and methods of the parent object.
Justice Alito objected that settling on profits as the correct definition "introduces pointless and difficult problems of proof".
