Sentence examples for pointless practice from inspiring English sources

For many, meditation seems like a pointless practice.

For Best Actor and Actress, in order to help "speed up" the show, they continued last year's pointless practice of having one presenter per nominee.

But James is among a large movement of guys who believe that cutting off one's foreskin is a cruel and pointless practice.

This is still a significant change, since it was the absence of surplus properties – the improbability of finding anywhere else to live – that makes the tax pointless in practice and vindictive in tone.

So summering in Laguna Beach as a kid, wandering around the town's bookstores and record shops, devoting entire days to the beautifully pointless Zen practice of riding and staring at waves — and then briefly making a home there, both before and after college — suggested the possibility of an antidote.

Or they have a vested interest in inertia letting pointless, expensive practices stay in place.

However, New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully denied whaling was taking place within his country's waters, and claimed the site was considered international waters, as he condemned the " pointless and offensive" practice.

According to a list drawn up by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, both practices are pointless; doctors only go along with them because they're terrified that you will turn on them if they don't.

It is pointless having a gold standard practice with staff who are undervalued, unsupported and paid unfairly – have we learnt nothing from the Francis Report 2013?

Given the above, Strawson contends that it is pointless to ask whether the practice of holding responsible can be rationally justified if determinism is true.

Do away with the practice of creating pointless digital experiences, (like the countless number of purposeless apps that are created) just so you can say that you too are doing what others are doing.