Sentence examples for to be senseless from inspiring English sources

The experience set off a profound revulsion in the young boy against what he considered to be senseless idol worship.

The looting in Clapham Junction does not seem to be senseless, random criminality; it seems more like the pursuit of group interests at the expense of the interests of a dominant political order.

It's difficult to make sense out of what appears to be senseless gun violence.

It's not so much that hindsight is 20/20 but it's more like hindsight gives more meaning to past experiences that seemed to be senseless or confusing at the time.

If wealth, influence and power did not offer immunity from the fundamental absurdity of war, it did permit a determined effort to try to give meaning to what was senseless slaughter, to purchase something with all that loss.

Insofar as my love is disinterested — not a means to antecedent ends of my own it would be senseless to think that my beloved could be replaced by someone who is able to satisfy my ends equally well or better.

It would be senseless to travel all the way to New York City just to see a taping that you might not even be able to see.

Both generals understood that "to confine Soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless" (Galula 1964).

"It would be senseless to say there is not a day when someone hasn't got an adverse comment".

It would be senseless to use a plane or helicopter that has cost millions of dollars for the purpose of chasing a lone terrorist, or a small group of terrorists, at high risk.

For even while his losses remained moderate, it would be senseless to suffer those casualties for no return.