Sentence examples for that seemed pointless from inspiring English sources

Many technologies that seemed pointless or dangerous when first mooted ended up by adding to the sum of human happiness.

But Neeleman was desk-bound and frustrated by meetings that seemed pointless.

At Southwest Neeleman was desk-bound and frustrated by meetings that seemed pointless and endless.

But in any given issue there will be a number of cartoons that seem pointless or obscure to me.

Objections like that seem pointless for some organists, like Robert Melhuish, the chapel organist at St . Marys College in Moraga, Calif., and St. Joseph's Seminary in Berkeley, College

As the movie opens, the two are driving to a party, and Tom casually offers the tidbit that "frogs can spontaneously switch sexes," a remark that seems pointless only at first.

This explains why tickets are so costly and why some London venues bring in shows (such as creaking touring productions) that seem pointless: when it comes to paying the contras, anything is better than nothing.

All memories are precious, even those that make us sad or angry, even those that seem pointless.

"Double Exposure," danced to a driving score by Robert Ruggieri, was dressed up in high-tech trappings that often seemed pointless.

Some professors refused to believe that the interest in Einstein's work was sincere, adding that it seemed pointless to try to explain to amateurs a theory whose mathematics took years of specialized training to grasp.

Last spring, at a tasting of 2010 Bordeaux, I stopped taking notes after a few dozen wines — they were so consistently good that it seemed pointless.