The New York Times quoted a donor as saying Clinton said: "There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful … our analysis is that Comey's letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum".
No wonder that Didion, back in 1966 in the midst of a hectic life as half of one of the hottest writing partnerships in Hollywood, could not stop herself from wondering, when the adoption became a reality, "What if I fail to love this baby?" From the evidence of this book, that fear is groundless.
I am certain that the accusation is groundless".
So you end up either continuing on in the same vein — pointlessly citing reasons for methods and methods for reasons forever — or arguing in circles, or granting that your method is groundless.
Regarded as a great holy man, Sergius comes to realize that his reputation is groundless; warned by a dream, he escapes incognito to seek out a simple and decent woman whom he had known as a child.
Mr. Jackson's defenders and relatives contend that the case is groundless, the confluence of a frustrated prosecutor and a greedy mother exploiting her son's onetime friendship with a rich entertainer.
But in an op-ed article published Monday in The Midland Reporter-Telegram, Mr. Creighton, along with six of his House colleagues, used language that suggested a focus on plaintiffs: "A plaintiff should be required to pay the defendant's legal fees in cases where a court determines that a lawsuit is groundless or where a jury determines a suit is frivolous".
And there are a host of other legal reasons to believe that the lawsuit is groundless.
However, Moodie et al 31 have demonstrated that this line of reasoning is groundless, given that the costs of manufacturing cigarettes for the illicit market are so low that presence of branding on packaging is unlikely to impact upon these costs in any meaningful way.
That scene is groundless supposition, but there was a real Tom Lefroy, of an old Irish Protestant family.
