The action is, in short, thin yet heavy, burdened with a pointless complexity that serves, above all, to mask — with music and quick cuts — the insignificance, impersonality, and indistinctness of each of its elements.
They often say these disciplines are really just pointless luxuries that serve no economic purpose.
"Unless a British government decided that a grand pointless gesture would serve some other purpose".
To facilitate Michel's training, the family erects a door and door frame that sit in the yard, serving as a monument to utterly pointless ambition.
Stupid, ultimately pointless events where music serves only as a conduit for getting more hammered and loose.
Having sex with Men was now no different to wearing a pillar-box hat, going to swing dance classes or knitting pointless rags that only serve to clutter up the house.
So are these scarves pointless bits of tat that serve to dilute the rivalries that make the game so special?
It can be affecting: the way Some Things We Do reduces life to a dismal list of pointless activities ("We betray, we serve, we regret, we learn"); or how Gira's voice is swathed in a ghostly reverb on Just a Little Boy (For Chester Burnett)– the title is a reference to Howlin' Wolf – which skulks along at a deathly pace.
In the Back Room, on the Lower East Side, the drinks are served in teacups, a pointless exercise in deception.
He cooked methamphetamine for a while and indulged in "mucho" pointless violence as a biker, then served two and a half years in San Quentin.
