Sentence examples for pointlessness from inspiring English sources

David Orr, the poetry columnist for the Times Book Review, writes about the art and pointlessness of poetry in his new book, "Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry".

Runner-up: Bizarre for the sheer editorial absurdity that the most watched televisual spectacle of the millennium would need to be modified for its audience, Grazia's royal wedding cover featured what most would consider Photoshop's apex of pointlessness: a slimmer Kate Middleton.

For work widely devoid of meaning, for electronic entertainment consisting of endless repetitive chatter, for recreation which moves us restlessly round the world, and for the chance to shop in order to escape the pointlessness of shopping".

It was disappointing, but not as disappointing as the second series, which was the very essence of pointlessness wrapped up in a silky blouse.

The Wire has not faltered for a moment in four vaguely themed seasons that have tackled the pointlessness of the war on drugs, the bureaucracy and corruption that infest both the police force and drug-dealing gangs, class war against the labour unions, and the city's dysfunctional public schools system.

So that's an exercise in pointlessness.

Nearly 650 candidates had withdrawn, surprised to find themselves nominated.The sheer pointlessness of the exercise seemed evident to everyone except the royal government.

America wants it too but it is already enjoying a moderate economic revival of the sort the Europeans would kill for, and is also involved in negotiating a similar, transpacific pact, on which it can focus its efforts if the spying row makes dealing with the Europeans too difficult.It won't stop the snoopingFinally, there is the pointlessness of the threat.

"Life-under-God", he says, "seems a pointlessness posing as a purpose life-without-God seems to me also a pointlessness posing as a purpose (jobs, family, sex and so on all the usual distractions)." That dismissive parenthesis is odd in a critic of the novel, for at some level, "jobs, family, and sex and so on" are exactly what novels are about.

The Sage of Omaha railed against the pointlessness of much of the work done by audit committees (while joking that he does not get asked onto compensation committees because they prefer Cocker Spaniels to Dobermans).

Despite some mutterings on Chinese microblogs about the pointlessness of replicating feats performed so long ago by the Soviet Union and America, Mr Xi appears as fixated on the moon as his predecessors were.