Sentence examples for pointless obsession from inspiring English sources

Even the most pointless obsession can yield a certain depth if it is pursued unfailingly.

For some reason, Gibson and Stephanopoulos chose to spend the entire first hour of the debate rehashing the cable news' greatest hits of pointless obsession: Tuzla, flag pins, Reverend Wright, polls and electability debates.

Coming on top of Trump's battle with Mexican leaders last week, his petulant squabbles with the press, his pointless obsession with the size of his inauguration crowd, his irresponsible order on Obamacare, we have to wonder: What on earth will week two bring?

Other Muslims -- millions of them -- are fasting to turn themselves away from pointless materialist obsessions and toward the spiritual life called forth by the best of the Quran.

I think the sparrow story, with its juxtaposition of dullness, obsession and pointless violence, would have been right up his street.

I'm sure BBC News could save a lot of money by ending its obsession with absolutely pointless live links to reporters standing outside government buildings where, very often, nothing is happening.

Will the revolution serve the goals of storytelling and personal expression, or will it lead to an obsession with trivial detail and pointless perfectionism?

The brain, circling in the cell of wakefulness, panics at the poverty of its domain — these worn-out obsessions, these threadbare word games, these pointless grievances, these picayune plans for tomorrow which yet loom, hours from execution, as unbearably momentous.

It is of course pointless to compare mere mortals with such extreme athletic obsession.

Instead there is a rote retailing of the sort of adolescent-minded obsession with bodily functions that surfaced in his earliest fiction, and inane, pointless wordplay that seems like a parody of his much-vaunted fascination with language.

Even more disconcerting is her obsession with a couple, "Jason and Jess", whose house she passes on her pointless commute.