Sentence examples for pointless standoff from inspiring English sources

It's a fight that does neither any good and yet they seem incapable of extracting themselves from a pointless standoff.

Just as bad, he said, the whole standoff looks pointless, considering what would have been voted upon.

The disorienting way that opposites attract and even collapse into each other haunts Ross's novel at every level, from a casual description of a standoff between David and Alice as "something absurd and useless, a pointless exertion of stamina, like a kissing marathon," to broader statements.

Standoff ends.

Marketing: Pointless!

Pointless fact?

With a standoff.

A political standoff erupted.

Pointless worrying.

No standoff.

Pointless, right?