Sentence examples for sterile exercise from inspiring English sources

It will not be a sterile exercise".

The past is not dead ground, and to traverse it is not a sterile exercise.

Lix, an actor, is so virile that he impregnates every woman he beds; unfortunately, the story he inhabits is a sterile exercise.

Requiring the police to record every possible consideration in preparation for large operations would be a "sterile exercise", the force added.

I think if you write something purely jumping on a bandwagon it becomes a rather sterile exercise.

Another sterile exercise in military planning is about the last thing our impoverished national security debate needs.

But these 19 intense tracks are more than a series of sterile exercises and cold technological feats.

And why is it that they sometimes manage to make movies with characters you're invited to care about—"Fargo" and, more intermittently, "Miller's Crossing"—but more often lapse into sophomoric bunkum, like "Raising Arizona," or beautifully crafted but sterile exercises, like "Barton Fink"?

And why is it that they sometimes manage to make movies with characters you're invited to care about — "Fargo" and, more intermittently, "Miller's Crossing" — but more often lapse into sophomoric bunkum, like "Raising Arizona," or beautifully crafted but sterile exercises, like "Barton Fink"?

But one should also ask: isn't this preoccupation with clear-cut definitions and delimitations, after all, a sterile academic exercise?

Of course, a few people may continue to accuse Mr. Cunningham of devising sterile formal exercises.