It's pointless to risk losing the game for a higher score at round 12 when your per-round score later will easily go over 7,000 points.
"It was coming to the end of the game and it was pointless taking a risk with him.
Coming out of Eau Rouge in eighth gear at 200mph is no place to risk a pointless accident.
Poems about sex face the same (if greater) challenge as poems about fine meals or the Grand Canyon: since the experience in question doesn't require special verbal skill to make it pleasurable or interesting, the plain style can seem pointless, while elaborate metaphors risk comic overkill.
If not, "open design" risks seeming pointless.
A freak of a byelection that risked being pointless has ended up as a restatement of some of the capital's most distinctive values.
We have our differences, but both agree that bombing Syria under present circumstances would be a high-risk and pointless endeavour which should be rejected by the House of Commons, if the prime minister unwisely seeks to put it to the vote.
Many existing indicators of graduate jobs are inadequate, however, not so much because of a fuzzy threshold but because they are inflexible, loosely connected to high-skills utilisation, or inappropriately defined from the supply side (with attendant risks of pointless tautology: "graduate jobs are the jobs that graduates do").
Accounting professors have explained to me that rules limiting the ability of accounting firms to provide internal auditing services to a client (and thereby prepare the same books that they later purport to audit independently) are pointless, because accountants would never risk their reputation by acting improperly.
Don't just tell would-be fighters that it's un-Islamic to kill hostages - explain to them that they ultimately risk a miserable pointless death themselves.
