It was cheerful and pointless; it summed up the night.
Communication is pointless in constant-sum games because there is no possibility of mutual gain from cooperating.
The Neasden bunker – pointless, horrid and pathetic, although intensely fascinating – sums up the sorry world of the bunker.
The rest of Friday night became a bewildering, enjoyable blur - so much so, summing up individual moments feels pointless.
Moreover, he summed up the war in Vietnam as "stupid and pointless".
Many technologies that seemed pointless or dangerous when first mooted ended up by adding to the sum of human happiness.
"It's totally pointless," Man's father says at one point during the competition, marvelling at the huge sums of money streamers put up out-of-pocket to boost their chances.
In sum, the government's ramped-up searches make scant sense except to stoke pointless fears and animosities, and then to reassure us with other Big Brother initiatives.
(The Wall Street Journal described the bid as "a sum that suggests he wants to be taken seriously," which is difficult to square with the pointless cloak-and-dagger act that went on before the bid was made).
