Sentence examples for relatively pointless from inspiring English sources
Replacing Sky Sports News with a time-shifted version of Sky 3 was described by one former senior Sky executive as "a cheap way to fill airtime with relatively pointless TV".
I got into this in some detail in yesterday's box office piece, but I personally think that the whole 'Dear John beat Avatar' story is relatively pointless.
Although the big second act action beat is unexciting because it's relatively pointless (it's a character who can't die or hurt others, being chased by another character who can't die or hurt others), the climax of the film is genuinely exciting and suspenseful.
Thanks to the relatively recent weekend offshoot Pointless Celebrities – which, incidentally, goes some way to nullifying my earlier "nobody on Pointless is a shrieking idiot" point – the show is starting to break out of its daytime straitjacket.
So relatively speaking not that it's pointless [building empathy], but relatively speaking if the patients trust you, they'll trust you [more] next time; but it isn't long-time [patient] care, [empathy] isn't… compared with other specialties, it isn't very important.
They seem to occupy a third sphere of slick and pointless professionalism, where too much technique serves relatively skimpy, generic ideas.
But considering the significant results of this relatively simple method, exploring these algorithms further is quite pointless.
This blocks the serious worry that neutral monism is the pointless endeavor of reducing that which is (relatively) well understood mind and matter to something unknown and, possibly, unknowable.
In addition, due to relatively weak English skills, most of the Facebook applications are pointless in the eyes of Japanese users.
Young fly-half Jones, preferred to the established Tovey, missed two relatively straightforward attempts at goal in the first half to leave the home side pointless at the break.
The idea of a substantial book about a major musical figure that pays relatively little attention to his music might seem counterintuitive — or, to put it less politely, pointless.
