Sentence examples similar to pointless thoughts from inspiring English sources

As she knocks back and forth between the Paris of Possibility and the London of Dull Certainty, devoting huge and pointless thought to suitors who never quite declare themselves (most probably because they aren't suitors in the first place), she becomes the ghost of her own tale and a symptom of her author's malaise.

It seemed pointless and thoughts like 'Why bother?' and 'Who even cares?' ran through my head.

Plus human mind is human mind, its very nature is to relay, mostly, pointless and painful thoughts as per the conditioning.

For everyone to realise opinion and thought is pointless.

It's enough to make you shudder – not the prospect of revisiting American Psycho's axe attacks and torture scenes (or banal attention to pointless detail) but the very thought of "musical theatre", two words that fill any discerning musical, theatrical or bookish snob with disdain.

And the appendix, long thought of as pointless in the human body, contained the substance that kills brain cells.

As you can see, it's pointless to insist that no thought could ever arise in any gelatinous substance yet that is precisely the unbending position of the Holy Office!" On the Illness.

As you can see, it's pointless to insist that no thought could ever arise in any gelatinous substance – yet that is precisely the unbending position of the Holy Office!" On the Illness.

It's absolutely pointless, and hard to suppress Deep Thoughts about tourists racing from one country to the next, chasing whatever they think is worth chasing.

The residents greeted him as one of them, but many thought that voting was pointless.

PMQs was a "pointless merry-go-round of poorly thought-out insults and planted questions".