Nell thinks it pointless to cook unless someone you love is going to eat the meal; Antonia says she "dedicates my life to love, really, to loving somebody" and that work is just something to fall back on.
When he eventually explains why he thought it pointless to worry about how his holiday might play with the media, it's the only time he allows a glimpse of how deeply Fleet Street has hurt him.
In a recent article on VICE, a male victim, Taylor Cooper, thought it pointless to report what had happened to him because he feared law enforcement would be useless.
In a recent article on VICE, a male victim, Taylor Cooper, thought it pointless to report what had happened to him because he feared law enforcement would be useless considering that he suspected the person extorting him was in a different country.
I don't spend much time looking back, because I think it's pointless.
"I think it is pointless to think that we can get people to abandon their belief systems because they are operating at such a fundamental level," said Prof Hood.
Beyond a point though, I think it is pointless to talk about what individual editors manage or don't manage, what proprietors manage or don't manage.
But I think it's pointless to go back and think 'if only', because I chose the life I wanted and I've had a bloody fabulous time.
If you have the opportunity to play them and you don't win, you don't stop one or the other from getting there, I think it's pointless to then complain about it.
The regularity with which I'm contacted by population worriers – people who think it's pointless discussing green energy, climate change and ethical pensions when the elephant in the room is actually the new human in the room – is impressive.
(Critics have yet to review the show, but Mr. Hirst, in his way, has, telling Timeout magazine: "I think it is pointless. Most of the the work has been shown two or three times already").
