Sentence examples for pointless seeking from inspiring English sources

It is pointless seeking "new paradigms" and "vertical structure" when not a single plough or cow is new.

He points out that focusing the fiscal argument on (Labour) investment versus (Tory) cuts cost his party dear at the election in May 2010, since most voters accepted the need for cuts in some form.In this polite revenge saga, the message the author sends to his own side, now in opposition, is that it is pointless seeking office if you have squandered economic plausibility.

UNTIL A FEW YEARS ago it would have been pointless to seek self-knowledge through numbers.

It is possible that a definition of pain-free periods is pointless in patients seeking care in the secondary care sector.

That is, the denial of an ultimate end of human action reduces to the claim that there is no end to human seeking at all, that it is pointless.

With few exceptions, this has been a year of pointless, derivative action movies or bloated, self-indulgent offerings from auteurs seeking to make terribly important films.

"Iran is not seeking to have the atomic bomb, possession of which is pointless, dangerous and is a great sin from an intellectual and a religious point of view," he said.

For Kiarostami, the cultural bureaucracy that depends on constraining the work of death is as vain and pointless as the one that seeks to constrain the power of desire and it's only the prying eyes of such an arrogant temporal authority that drives lovers underground into the realm of the dark and the dead.

Her view of the suffrage question was that the Constitution had already given the vote to women and that the legislation sought by organized suffragists was therefore pointless.

On top of that the sought for utility can itself feel pointless — with, for example, content previews that can be horribly slow to load, so why not just tap and look at the email in the first place?

Starring Josh Brolin as a man who seeks revenge after being abducted by a mysterious assailant, it was described as a "pointless remake" by Peter Bradshaw.