Sentence examples for serving no purpose from inspiring English sources
FOUNTAINS are the jewels of the city, serving no purpose but loveliness.
We'll become the appendix of the species: serving no purpose and garnering attention only when we rupture".
Self-flagellation by authors is a long and distinguished tradition, with Tolstoy (who dismissed Anna Karenina as sentimental, "serving no purpose" and "bad") and Kafka (for whom The Metamorphosis was "imperfect almost to its very marrow") among its illustrious exemplars.
It's also worth remembering that while beards have the dual effect of keeping one warm while hiding one's chin, moustaches are almostly completely pointless, serving no purpose other than to reflect the fact that you can grow one.
Unlike Greste, Abd el Fattah has been at the forefront of political activism for a decade – this is very much his struggle – but in a letter from his cell to his sisters he said his imprisonment is serving no purpose: "it is not resistance and there is no revolution".
"What is adding to the oppression that I feel is that I find that this imprisonment is serving no purpose, it is not resistance and there is no revolution," wrote Abd El Fattah, explaining that while his suppression seemed a necessary hardship under Mubarak, the military council (Scaf) and then Morsi, it now seemed pointless.
Moreover, this silence would serve no purpose that I can see; therefore, it cannot be purposeful.
It will serve no purpose".
Such murkiness serves no purpose.
Staying remote serves no purpose.
