Sentence examples for small pointless from inspiring English sources

Watching this film, with its brightly underscored themes of luck and risk, is like watching a high-stakes gambler amass a big pile of chips and then fritter it away on a series of small, pointless bets.

It might seem like a small pointless goal in the face of a planet stocked with high-minded resolutions, but I stick by it.

Start minding about small, pointless expenditure.

Could this be some small (but pointless) quid pro quo for the access Boal was granted to CIA officers and White House officials?

Our only recourse was to express middle-classness in small and pointless ways; ways that probably nobody else would even notice, as if we were writing reassuring little notes-to-self.

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Some choose to stand in silence, while others engage in pointless small talk, mostly about how annoying the chip reader is.

Dino Rossi interrupted me constantly, and tried to fill up our scheduled 10 minutes with pointless small talk so he wouldn't have to hear me talk.

An act as pointless, small-minded and shortsighted as launching a harpoon into the flank of a whale.

Disneyfied Americans, in this view, have become too concerned with small and vulgar pleasures, pointless one-upmanship.

Although the regular season of college basketball is wildly entertaining, it's pointless for small conferences, where the team that gets the ultimate prize — a tourney bid — is determined by a few short hours of basketball.