"It's rather pointless, I must say," remarked Philip Landau, a 38-year-old lawyer, watching Mr. Blaine lie down and then get up again.
As the movie opens, the two are driving to a party, and Tom casually offers the tidbit that "frogs can spontaneously switch sexes," a remark that seems pointless only at first.
He said the traditional lecture model is outdated and remarked it was pointless for 100 universities to develop the same courses when "the best professors are making their course available for free".
Mitt has chosen the alias "Javelin," perhaps for his pointed remarks, or his pointless ones.
He remarked that it was pointless for each country to amass large amounts of information and intelligence but not to share that body of data to produce results.
See also: River's Edge, The City Of Lost Children, The Usual Suspects Don't see also: On The Waterfront Pointless trivia: "Making films", Spike Lee once remarked, "has to be one of the hardest endeavours known to humankind.
It's like resorting to that line we heard in grade school when twelve-year-old boys answered any remark remotely obscene with the pointless go-to: "That's what she said".
In its statement, the NJDC added that though "it is almost pointless to demand Governor Huckabee apologize for his remarks", other Republican candidates should do just that.
Remarking on Jade's intellectual failings is pointless.
But if Ben-Gurion's remark about "the connection between the Nazis and some Arab rulers" was pointless, his failure to mention present-day West Germany in this context was surprising.
Stepping over the body of a homicide victim, Erlendur remarks that the crime is "a typical Icelandic murder, messy and pointless".
