Sentence examples for slightly pointless from inspiring English sources

But for now, it's hard to see the process as anything other than slightly pointless.

It divided critics, some of whom thought its note perfect recreation of a genre that is increasingly beyond parody, slightly pointless.

So we were then subjected to a torturous and a slightly pointless second half from Athens, knowing that Denmark were going to France and that England were out.

It all seems at times a slightly pointless exercise, a business of simply existing lucratively within the final stages of Europe's premier competition without ever threatening to press for more.

A brief nine-song fling, this compact and bijou collaboration works worst when it's overreaching itself – a slightly pointless cover version of Chris (Big Star Belll's "I Am the Cosmos" – and best when it keeps things understated (the Yorn-penned "Clean", which finds the pair declaring "Would you talk to me?/ I want everything to be so clean").

The series was only aired in the state months later and was heavily edited – slightly pointless, given that anyone who really wanted to see it already had, thanks to a loose attitude towards piracy worthy of the inspiration behind the series, Carl Williams.

Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock was a sweet, nostalgic and ever-so-slightly pointless movie based on the true story of an ordinary Jewish guy, Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), whose parents owned a motel in New York state's Catskill mountains in 1969.

It's been a few months since Orbotix's pearlescent smart ball finally started making its way out into the real world, and the team behind it has just announced that another major retailer will be carrying their slightly-pointless gadget.

My Italian friends were dubious about this service - to them, the idea of hiring a shopping 'companion' seemed both pointless and slightly seedy.

And so, yet another great film gets a pointless and slightly wrong Hollywood remake, and this one tiptoes sheepishly into cinemas while everyone is looking the other way – preparing for the Academy Awards.

The channel's description says it shows "Strange, pointless and slightly offensive films in the tradition of South Park and Beavis and Butthead".