Sentence examples for question as pointless from inspiring English sources

Recently, when asked whether there was a correlation between his injury and his diminished production in the second halves of games, he dismissed the question as pointless.

Solly Zuckerman, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, decided that the question "How independent?" was as pointless as medieval disputation.

It may not be compatible with Georgian culture voluntarily to admit that headache causes lost time, or it may be that those who did not lose time saw the questions as pointless (these possible explanations being counter-balancing in whom they would exclude, again making significant bias unlikely).

Atheism is as pointless as satanism.

The book itself is as pointless as its contents.

A KING with no throne might seem as pointless as an admiral with no ships.

Some authorities also complain that the procedure for declaring a request "vexatious" is too difficult, so that it is often less time-consuming to answer what they regard as pointless or obsessive questions (possibly for example about their readiness for attack by zombies) than it would be to reject them on this basis.

As Pointless fans will attest, however, celebrities are useless at quizzes – none of the luminaries get the Reg Varney question, an old pub quiz chestnut.

I find this sort of question a bit pointless, as researchers will do what researchers do anyway.

As pointless as a playground game.

That strikes me as pointless and perverse.