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If Jesse didn’t have a reason for hanging himself, then his death was pointless. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
All efforts to reform or control our desires are therefore pointless. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
Like most officers, David Delinko thought the name change was pointless. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
He looked at the doorway and he knew it was pointless. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
I hate them for creating the word org and I hate them for e-mail, which isn't real mail but a variation of the pointless notes people used to pass in class. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
Peeta's considering heading out anyway to scavenge for food, but I tell him in this storm it would be pointless. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
Glimmer appears to go completely mad, shrieking and trying to bat the wasps off with her bow, which is pointless. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
The Birdbrain Family had set a row of thirty birdhouses along their backyard fence, even though Luke could have told them it was pointless to do that until spring. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z
Then I saw it would be pointless to swim as far as the rock, because my body would take that excuse to climb out and lie in the sun, gathering strength to swim back. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
I guess, after what had happened, it all seemed so pointless. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
He knew that when the time came he would join the army, and he knew it was pointless to begin the argument again. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
Vincent writes back on July 23 and says he could write about many things, but he thinks it would be pointless. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
But feeling hungry myself, I reasoned that it would be pointless to waste whatever little energy I had left in scatting them away, for they would soon return. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
All those plans I had—photography courses and cookery classes—when it comes down to it, they feel a hit pointless, as if I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
But now that Rabiya is asking about it, it seems silly and pointless. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
I wave to her, but it’s raining so hard that it’s pointless. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
It would have been pointless as well as disrespectful for me to debate my benefactor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I tried to tell Abuela that talking to my mom was pointless. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
In less than twenty-four hours, the whole trip had become pointless. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
Then I reminded myself that it was pointless to speculate, that in just a few more hours I would know. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
They all knew that if the berg plowed through their camp, there would be no hope of survival, and trying to get out of its unpredictable path was pointless. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
Even in chat rooms, where it was totally pointless. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
Opening objects in a parked vehicle was so incredibly illegal that I realized he wasn't paying any attention to the rules, so saying something about it would be pointless. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
I have to convince myself that this isn’t a pointless life, even though the body is telling me it is. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
He was staggered now to think of his own presumption in accepting his friends’ offers to accompany him on this meandering, pointless journey. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
In principle any theory could be saved by redefining terms in this way; but the enterprise would be pointless. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The effort to escape was pointless, he realized. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
She is done because what she is doing, this whole idea, is pointless. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
“It’s pointless to speculate,” she said in her terse, businesslike tone. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Our exact positioning between those two points is a matter of pointless conjecture, and I will waste no time on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
“If you’d bother to ask me, I’d tell you that all these appointments are pointless. What do these doctors do? Nothing, except make you sicker with worry.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
Then the death of his son, Lawrence, to whom he was devoted, made further living seem pointless. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
I took a few steps back down the staircase, but it was pointless to pretend that I hadn’t been listening. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
To Ruby, thoughts were pointless if there was no one to tell them to the instant you had them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
“It’s such a pointless thing to get detention for.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
I worked mightily to think about anything other than Jeffrey’s gushing nose, but the distractions were truly pointless. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
“The world is all pointless accident,” I say. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
I know I’m supposed to take the tests, but it seems so pointless. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z
I knew I’d be going down a pointless road if I answered his question. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
Can I text Aliya to shut up with her pointless chattering next to me? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
They viewed it as a costly and pointless venture, given that at least a dozen invisible hovercraft are circling overhead for my protection and there’s no intelligence to be gained. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
I was really upset by Ruth’s remark at the time, but it’s pointless now trying to judge her or anyone else for the way they behaved during those early days at the Cottages. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
The belling tower struck and Simmon sighed, sensing it was pointless to pursue the conversation further. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
After decades of falling for such nonsense, the American people will decide they've had enough pointless anxiety. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
It may be that he considers it pointless, an eight-year journey to nowhere. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Like so much else in the captain’s world, the scarecrow is dedicated to a pointless task. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
“We know that,” said Mr. Weasley quietly, “but it would make our efforts tonight seem rather pointless if you left.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
It’s as if she thinks a woman without babies is pointless. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
That night, as was his habit, our father fell asleep in front of the stereo, the record making its pointless, silent rounds as he lay back against the sofa cushions, dreaming. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
“Because Jackson knows it’s pointless for S.Q. to try?” said Constance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
I suppose you may want to dig his pseudonym out of me, but it’s rather pointless—could be anything now. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
I hate this feeling I get when I’m forced to listen to his pointless, stupid questions. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
All the way Rowan silently hoped the helicopter would crash—but realized what a pointless exercise that would be. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
“I wish Arthur would give me a chance to explain...I know it’s kind of pointless because he’s leaving, but I don’t want him leaving like this. And Dylan...” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
But I’m still hopeless, useless, and practically pointless. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
It seemed pointless to me to try to do laundry in a sink with hand soap, but there was no bathtub or laundry detergent for him to use. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
Listen: I’ll fly to London right now and pull you out of whatever pointless meeting you’re in and make you admit how much you love it when I call you “baby.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
“I don’t know, I thought I was gonna be here all night by myself. That it was all going to be pointless.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
For a moment it seemed pointless, this annual pilgrimage to a home that continued to reject me, and I wondered if I should go. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
“This is pointless,” Tagoe says in the back of the cop car. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
“Yes. The world seemed washed of color. It felt pointless.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
“Maybe you should go home, Parky. I will take you back home now. This is pointless. You owe him nothing.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Anyway he related long pointless anecdotes of his undergraduate days, speaking familiarly of dead and departed professors by their first names, usually incorrect ones. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
I thought it was pointless, and the mats we were lying on smelled like a hundred sweaty armpits. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
Esteban allowed this invasion of grotesqueries because he had long ago realized that it was pointless to interfere in his wife’s life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
A public survey about their research was overwhelmingly negative, calling it pointless and dangerous, an example of “men trying to be gods.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
Without that as a given, such an operation would be pointless and unthinkable. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
We made pointless jokes about nothing at all, our minds eternally on the thought of the next few hours. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
They stayed, stubborn relics of a misplaced childhood, reminding anyone who witnessed his pointless, endless, feckless belligerence, that this man was once a boy. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
She was busy—thirteen days on ferrying and two off, in all kinds of weather, and there were so many ongoing senseless administrative formalities or blunders that a bit of pointless night training was unremarkable. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
Ready for another example of pointless purist dudgeon? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
I grew weary of my situation, as pointless as the weather. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
I should be catching up on my homework, but it seems so overwhelming and pointless. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z
I didn't like it at all; the violence was pointless and, helped along by Ras, was actually being directed against the community itself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
"I didn't say it's all pointless. I just have trouble seeing how it makes sense to start hunting around for other invisible people, that's all." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Do I follow him back right now? Playing it cool seems pointless since he’s leaving at the end of the summer. No time to waste.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
Above his head, light refracts through the water tank, the symbol of the compound’s slow, pointless struggle. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
I began, “Mr. Dussel, you seem to believe further discussion of the matter is pointless, but I beg you to reconsider.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
She made a wild, pointless gesture with one hand and then covered her mouth with both hands. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
Neither of them relished the idea of telling elderly, kindhearted Gallup that her decades of effort were pointless. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
It is pointless to worry about the possible malevolent intentions of an advanced civilization with whom we might make contact. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The whole trip seemed rather dull and pointless to her, though there were many robots in sight. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
He sent Chase on a pointless errand to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
I spend the entire school day with my stomach in knots, and its completely pointless, because its not attached to anything real. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
My life felt pointless now that you were gone. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
I hadn’t spoken to my brother in months—after what happened with Audrey, it had seemed pointless to confide in my siblings. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
She knows it’s pointless to try this with me and leaves me to tend Gale while she and Prim rest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
He liked the games, there was no denying that, but it was hard not to find the rest of it pointless. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
But he won't agree unless I'm in the bag, too, and I'm shivering so hard that it's pointless to object. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
His rages seem pointless to me, although I never say so. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
“And do not return. I am not interested in people doing good deeds. Good deeds are pointless, in any case. Nothing changes. Nothing matters.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z
“No, just listened. It was kind of pointless. I mean, you know, the usual, ‘If you need an adult to talk to, we’re here for you.’ Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
It seemed particularly pointless to Coraline, but she hoped that the people enjoyed it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z
Taking a swipe at the PSF’s ankle with my hand was pointless—he was so involved with whatever it was he was doing that he didn’t so much as notice. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
He makes a feeble attempt to get me to talk again but, seeing it’s pointless, sends me to a bath someone has drawn. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
How many days and nights had I spent perched up there with Sam, steadfastly ignoring Vanessa’s attempts to drag us into some stupid, pointless conversation? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
The sentence is pointless without it: The dog was Buster’s bulldog. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Luke tried to push the memory away, but it was pointless. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
According to our minister, Mr. Cornelius Barker, presents were a pointless, expensive, pagan diversion. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
His life was pointless, aimless, and it was true that he didn’t concern himself an awful lot about other people. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I am not signing any waivers. Rex could break his neck over some pointless game.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
“Humans laugh with their mouths, dogs with their tails. Either way, it makes for pointless mirth.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Ma really wants me in college so no one can write me off the way no one took her seriously for so many years, but sometimes it feels pointless anyway. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
It was this, of course, that made our life so easy that it seemed pointless. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
Harry couldn’t suppress the suspicion that the whole thing was entirely pointless, because the skrewts didn’t seem to have mouths. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
Gaunt screamed, “Mend it, you pointless lump, mend it!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
With pointless optimism, I look for something to pick up to use as a weapon, but there’s nothing in my path except the couch. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
He offered to pay for the scythe’s groceries—which was pointless, because scythes got their groceries for free anyway. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
It seemed pointless to try and tell his counselor that he was innocent. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z
But it was pointless for Milkman, particularly since his son’s presence was a real help to him in the office. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
Worrying about graffiti at a time when the entire system was close to collapse seems as pointless as scrubbing the decks of the Titanic as it headed toward the icebergs. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Like everything else in my life right now, the act is pointless. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
Now there’s this adorable guy with awesome bangs who maybe even likes me, and it’s completely pointless. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
The defeat made his service—and everyone else’s—seem so pointless. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Before, when Abilene talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z
He must have something else to tell or show me; he was too practical to take pointless walks. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
The whole plan would be pointless if she drowned before reaching the island. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
“B, you’re just starting out with us, and you’ve got a great future ahead of you. Why do you want to squander your big chance on pointless skirmishes?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
He knew it was pointless, but he just couldn’t leave the family behind on the pavement. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z
"All I can do is wonder about tomorrow. Which is pointless, of course." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
A whole dimension of drudgery—the tedious, mad, really quite pointless business of stepping over every inch of rocky ground between Georgia and Maine—had been removed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Some threw plates, food, and rocks at the Argo II, which was pointless, as most of the stuff fell back into the crowd. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
It was in such an advanced stage that an operation was pointless. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
But nothing had gotten better, and he’d realized that waiting around for other people to change was pointless. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
And it’s reckless and stupid, and probably pointless, too—because I doubt she’s even where I left her. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
It did not matter tonight...nothing mattered except the end, the end of their pointless adventure, the end of Dumbledore’s life. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
He had made up his mind that he would accompany her as far as the Tube station, but suddenly this process of trailing along in the cold seemed pointless and unbearable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
“So, you have come. I thought you would...one day. But your journey was pointless. I never had it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
It’s pointless and stupid and there’s only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z
“We’re crew,” he said again, but he suspected it was pointless. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
After that, it's kind of pointless to continue the trend. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
For some reason, Thomas didn’t care about the Maps that much-—they seemed pointless anyway. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z
Why would you prefer to stay with three positively pointless blokes and a filthy dog? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
“It’s a pointless question. It’s not about individuals.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
She never knew when to shut up, always going on and on about pointless things. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Every now and then, some bin of unwanted DVDs or an aisle endcap of pointless knickknacks would catch her attention, but her dark eyes would always wander back to where our hands swung between us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
He began a trick even more pointless: a one-handed half-dollar-to-penny transformation, but with his two quarters. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
His life began to seem pointless, his quest pointless, everything, everything, without reason. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
A separate consequence of a settled existence is that it permits one to store food surpluses, since storage would be pointless if one didn’t remain nearby to guard the stored food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Otherwise there would be too much pointless paperwork. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z
A few more pointless days like this and I was just going to lie to her. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Citra knew it was probably a pointless endeavor to track those movements, but what if Faraday’s demise was not an act of self-gleaning at all? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
His hair had been neither cut nor combed in months, his clothes were pointless and he had no socks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
"It's not like we can do anything about it if he falls behind. This is a pointless task." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Occasionally, he would exclaim over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiking was a tiring, dirty, pointless slog between distantly spaced comfort zones. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Good luck sounds so trite and pointless in the face of this. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
The engineer liked to believe that his work at Magnetic Propulsion Laboratories was useful, even though it had always appeared pointless. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
“And talking loop theory is better than going into pointless hysterics.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
What if I’m as stiff and pointless as I was in the studio and they’ve just given up on getting anything better? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
It is pointless backing against the wall, and I have stopped bothering about my hair. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
“The impossible task is a pointless tradition,” erupted Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z
Trying to convince them of anything else would be a pointless waste of my time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
The last, unfinished line gave no clue at all, and the first seemed pointless, as it hardly seemed necessary to tell them they needed to keep their eyes open. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
Reynie had thought to post Constance near the entrance as a lookout, but he saw now that a lookout was pointless. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
The words spilled out before I realized it was not only rude but a pointless retort, since she didn’t appear to wear anything but lip gloss. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z
Like the old men on Tenth Street, now he bought the morning and evening papers, and once every two weeks the black newspaper, and read nervously, looking for reports of murders that appeared suspicious, pointless. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then it was gone, leaving Frank alone with his pointless spear. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
“But,” Ainsley protests, “we need time for real homework. We shouldn’t waste it on made-up projects based on pointless ‘Dear Diary’ entries.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
He decided he wouldn’t glean himself—that would be too pointless and pathetic a gesture. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
"I thought the whole thing would be that way, but it's just confusing and pointless. The ghosts—if there are ghosts—don't even do anything. They just show up and stand around." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
“I’m so mad because I’d just gotten my license back home when we came up here, and now it’s pointless,” Arthur says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
She knows why I'm here so she doesn't make pointless conversation that'll show me up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
His ravings against the Capitol no longer pointless, no longer to be ignored. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
She was as pointless and gray as the world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
An involuntary, wordless shout left him as he took a few hurried steps along the drive, faltered, ran on, then stopped again, knowing that pursuit was pointless. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Even as I say these words, I know it’s pointless. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
“Later!” whispered Harry, darting after Zabini as quietly as possible, though the rattling of the train made such caution almost pointless. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
I opted to put us both on the road almost immediately after we got there, to save both of us the pointless aggravation and strain to try and fit into a foreign mainstream group. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
He hated how they got angry whenever he questioned going to youth group or tried to take a class they thought was pointless. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
I had gone through so much already that it would have been pointless to quit now. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
If Maria didn’t notice she was being snubbed, the whole thing was pointless. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I knew it would be pointless to reason with you. The ymbrynes have been feeding you lies and propaganda for a hundred years. Better, I think, to take your souls and start again fresh.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
For some reason, Thomas didn’t care about the Maps that much—they seemed pointless anyway. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Ominously, there were many cobwebbed boxes piled on a table where Harry was clearly supposed to sit; they had an aura of tedious, hard, and pointless work about them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
It is a small hope, and pointless really. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
It was obviously pointless playing mind games with this human. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
In that event, it would be pointless for him to stop; nobody would mess with those crazed dogs. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Kind of pointless to simulate an ascent explosion. Nothing we can do." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
It seems pointless to maintain that Aristotle and his followers were deficient in common sense, or deficient in experience of how the world goes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
He has me fill out a questionnaire that seems more than pointless. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
My friend Jelani, who came up the same as me, once said that he used to think of traveling as a pointless luxury, like blowing the rent check on a pink suit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
We wandered wordlessly away from our search, neither one of us wanting to admit that we were eager to give it up, both of us feeling in our bones how pointless it was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Then, feeling it was pointless to pretend that he hadn’t overheard what they had been saying, he added, “I didn’t see Madame Maxime anywhere, though, and she’d have a job hiding, wouldn’t she?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
I tried to calm him but it was pointless. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Since treating his wounds seems pointless when he's lying in what's become a mud puddle, I manage to prop him up against a boulder. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
That was a pointless trick they’d all promised to stop a long time ago. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
This one day just before school was supposed to start I was moping around the back yard and thinking again how pointless and stupid everything was and Grim comes over and says, ''You know what? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z
“Not pointless,” she says, and looks at me seriously. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
It was a really stupid and pointless defense, like when a turtle tucks into its shell because a locomotive is barreling down on it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’m going to stop wasting money going backwards and forwards to London on pointless train journeys. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
“They use it as a pretty answer to pointless questions, to make themselves sound good.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Miss Trixie had stepped on the sign during one of her occasional pointless tours of the office, but the damage was limited to only a small sneaker print on one comer of the cardboard. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Briefly, I considered fleeing, but that was pointless. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
Three or four black-clad men were standing behind her, so trying to run away was pointless. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
In consequence, a couple of dozen harmless people had to make lengthy, pointless detours by road before they could resume their long hike. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe I should check my phone, he thought, then remembered how pointless that was. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Clara was ten years old when she decided that speaking was pointless and locked herself in silence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
But now in my shelter of all things impossible, I drift in a warm bath of forgiveness, and it seems pointless to resist. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
From far below came a metallic clang, a falling saucepan lid perhaps; the pointless roast dinner was in the earliest stages of preparation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Mr Graham would always take the view that this 'dignity' was something like a woman's beauty and it was thus pointless to attempt to analyse it. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
Now that DNA has confirmed that Anna Anderson was a fraud and that Anastasia Romanov died with her family in 1918, isn't this a bit pointless? Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z
Really exposes how dull and pointless adults manage to make the teaching of history and politics to the younger generation. Saci Lloyd's top 10 political books 2013-03-15T16:24:50Z
For the most part, the Safdies seem to enjoy mucking up Howard’s plans, intensifying his rotten luck, bad choices, collapsing home life and squabbles, pointless or otherwise. ‘Uncut Gems’ Review: Adam Sandler’s Punch-Drunk Hustle 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z
Plant knew it would've been pointless to try to replicate the thunderous Jimmy Page riff at the heart of Zep's "Houses of the Holy," so he didn't bother with it at all. Robert Plant in ghost dance with roots 2011-04-11T00:28:26Z
So is the closing Irresponsible Tune, of all things, a heartfelt acoustic ballad about the power of music: "Without our songs … life is pointless, harsh and long." Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan – review 2012-06-28T14:29:01Z
Setting 5,000 reporters loose on Allen would be pointless, but journalists nevertheless can do something useful here. The media dug deep on Brock Turner and Bill Cosby. What about Woody Allen? 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z
Just stop doing this cruel, pointless, terrible thing to people. TV review: Panorama: Disabled or Faking it?; Britain's Oldest Stand Up; Simply Italian 2012-07-30T20:05:01Z
Punk set out to overthrow the guitar hero decades ago, seeing long solos as pointless indulgences. Music Review: Eric Clapton?s Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago 2010-06-27T22:39:00Z
The world’s dullest board game becomes the world’s most pointless film. From Trolls to Transformers: toy films – ranked! 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z
To commit, as George Monocot called it, “the worst kind of television news reporting: cruel & pointless.” A reporter’s on-air horror show 2012-10-05T19:08:00Z
Not only does bad technique risk causing injury, but it is often pointless exertion: your body won’t reap any benefits. Never be an ego lifter: personal trainers' 12 secrets of succesful exercise 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z
Then again, it’s perhaps pointless to worry about meaning at all in this skittish, charming work. Dance Review: Dance From Douglas Dunn at Salon in SoHo 2010-05-07T22:30:00Z
But their guardians, the filmmakers, ill served them by stranding them in the woods for a pointless extra episode. The New Harry Potter: A Hollow Hallows 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z
He uses these responses to understand what types of pointless jobs exist. Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z
Writing in The New York Times, Janet Maslin found the movie “a likable, good-humored hybrid” of “small, funny moments and the pointless, oversized spectacle that these days is sine qua non for any hot-weather hit.” Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z
World War I’s pointless bloodletting weighed heavily on Britain in the 1920s and ’30s, and Churchill was directly implicated in it as first lord of the Admiralty. Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z
Yes, of course, the Golden Globes are completely silly and frivolous and pointless. Three things we love this week 2013-01-10T00:20:30Z
Hudson Yards is the “Horror on the Hudson,” a “real estate grift” with buildings that are “pointy and shiny and pointless.” Hate on the Hudson (Yards): How bad can it be? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z
It all leads to the unceremonious beheading of Missandei, and all of it seems . . . rather pointless. Fans used to love ‘Game of Thrones.’ Now they just love criticizing it. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z
Parker: We don't have enough pointless killing in it yet, but we're going to try to add that to it. Q&A: Parker, Stone talk 'South Park' game at E3 2013-06-13T13:44:08Z
Like so much else that happens in the first part of the film and seems irrelevant, even pointless, none of this seems to mean much. | 'Everyone Else': Maren Ade Puts Love Under the Microscope 2010-04-08T22:54:00Z
“It’s amazing, and it’s pointless. It’s wonderfully pointless.” The Topanga Tea Ceremony 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z
Allow me, as I am a borderline reliable narrator, to turn you on to this theatrical coolness, and please forgive the occasional insertion of distracting, rambling and thoroughly pointless personal observations. ArtsBeat Blog: Stew in Africa: Colors and Collaboration That Won't Fade 2011-08-11T13:32:15Z
But this week, like so many others recently, it has felt pointless, even silly, to analyze fictional stories when real people are dying. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z
The crowd just seems mildly amused and mystified to be part of this pointless performance. Deep and meaningful: Roman Ond?k's Time Capsule 2011-03-15T21:30:01Z
Let us celebrate this mountain of pointless effort with a list. Worth the weight? The actors who made drastic body changes for terrible movies 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z
But the real reason I disliked the film was because of Bane's pointless, gimmicky, anticlimactic death. In the fight between good and evil, even Batman must play by the rules 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z
I have no doubt some viewers will experience "Asteroid City" as a maddening Russian doll nested with clever but pointless gags, or as arbitrary and formless. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z
“The other was a pointless and nasty cathartic alternative. Given that we are the ones with the power, it is incumbent upon us to recognize the difference.” The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z
It is pointless to fault the film for inviting viewers into the fancy restaurants and luxurious homes that should be featured in lifestyle magazines. Bill Murray is back as a lovable rascal in Sofia Coppola's poignantly charming "On the Rocks" 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z
This is a compendium of all the worst facets of the critical mind: a pointless contradictory list of definitions of humor by other critics, serving only to show that Eagleton has read a lot. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z
It's a bit annoying to be honest because it's so accurate a description that it sort of renders anything else we say them about sort of pointless. All We Are – Utmost Good: New music 2013-05-06T07:00:13Z
He said further trials looking at the effects of vitamin D on bone health would be pointless. Vitamin D supplements don't help bone health, major study concludes 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z
In the trenches, boyhood crushes and childish rivalries are transformed into pointless braveries and deadly squabbles, love and hate wielded like bayonets in the hands of jumped-up children. A Devastating Tale of War, a Tender Story of Love 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z
Ms. Sampson observes shrewdly that for the second Mrs. Shelley, “Percy has to mean a great, undying love or else the sacrifices she’s already made are pointless.” The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z
If "Big Love" were mainly interested in making statements about this or that contemporary political issue, it would have become boring and pointless almost instantly. "Big Love's" riveting final stretch 2011-03-07T17:15:00Z
"You do things here you wouldn't do to an animal," said nurse Nerissa Brewer, as Uzoma faced yet another painful and pointless procedure. Great Ormond Street and Olympic Dreams 2010-04-14T05:45:00Z
All these decisions would be pointless, of course, if the ramen were not very good. Slurping Solo, in Sweet Isolation, at Ichiran in Brooklyn 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z
There was talk of getting rid of that scene, saying it was long and pointless, and I said, "No way, It's gold!" "Mothering Sunday" director on challenging politics through intimacy: "Nudity levels out classes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z
Because the #CheerioChallenge is more than just a pointless game played out for social media likes. The #CheerioChallenge message to dads: you can still be an idiot after fatherhood 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z
“I have had paper cuts on the soft flesh between the thumb and forefinger less painful and more rewarding than this agonisingly pointless remake.” Film quiz 2012 – can you guess which movies our reviewers are talking about? 2012-12-27T10:30:00Z
“What I want is to force viewers to watch a serious piece, where there aren’t just pointless gun battles and a pile of dead bodies,” Mr. Volodarsky said last month in his last televised interview. Eduard Volodarsky, Screenwriter Banned by Soviets, Dies at 71 2012-10-14T01:38:45Z
Cheap-looking and unpleasant — too many scenes boast a sickly green sheen, as if viewed through a haze of nausea — “Black Site” is a pointless rehash of war-on-terror tropes. ‘Black Site’ Review: Stranger Danger 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z
The liberal side was always so predictable and boring and frankly, pointless. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z
I did like 27 seconds on pandas, on the end of the show devoted almost entirely to, Why is the ruling class supporting a pointless war on Syria? ‘So did the world explode?’: An oral history of another insane week in the Trump era. 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z
The verdict of Bloomberg News: “ ‘Scandalous’ is as ecumenically innocuous as it is pointless.” ‘Scandalous’ doesn’t raise many eyebrows on Broadway | Theater review 2012-11-23T20:02:49Z
The police were distracted, and, in any case, the government had become so dysfunctional that it was pointless to apply for a permit. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z
But Carole King's songs are such a perfect melding of words and music that it seemed pointless to do that. Christine Tobin weaves a new Tapestry 2010-06-24T22:30:00Z
But the love story at the center is largely passionless, making the revival seem largely pointless. Star-Crossed (and –Blessed) Revivals: Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams 2013-10-02T09:45:54Z
Manhattanites figured out long ago that while feeling protective of your territory is one thing, getting upset about other people’s ideas of what that place means is pointless. In Semi-Defense of "Brooklyn Girls" 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z
I’m sorry I have to make money, even though sometimes what I’m doing is stupid and utterly pointless.’ The Struggles of Modern Motherhood in Essays, a Thriller and a Dystopian Novel 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z
It's a pointless enhancement to a mostly pointless movie. 'The Green Hornet': A comic-book caper without much punch 2011-01-13T20:37:04Z
In art, corporate slickness is pretentious and pointless, even when done tongue-in-check. Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis: Why new billboard art loses its power when seen up close 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z
Among the symptoms: otherwise pointless “mileage runs”, flights made solely to gain the favour of the airline gods. Give up life’s luxuries? It’s not that easy 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z
Yet in the end, he hesitates to go through with the assassination he has prepared; though he ends up by killing his man, the murder stands revealed as a pointless sacrifice. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z
He just likes causing a disturbance, however pointless. Punk spoke up for angry kids. Why won't today's bands follow suit 2011-08-14T21:05:00Z
Quickly I asked them to return him to the incubator, and then I just stood there in my pointless open shirt. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z
His real adversaries are not people but hyperbole, nonsense or any pointless excess of emotion. 5 Standup Specials to Stream for the Labor Day Weekend 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z
Around 50 million of us will have already voted by the end of the week, practically rendering a late October debate pointless in the worst way. Perspective | Kristen Welker saved ‘the show,’ but let’s not ever forget that TV debates need to change 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z
Compared with the handful of information-dense Public Enemy cuts that managed to pop up in the set list, Chuck D’s stage banter felt paltry and almost pointless. Prophets of Rage and the trouble with fighting today’s wars using yesterday’s weapons 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z
Whenever he opens his mouth, a torrent of pointless swearwords fly out. Die Hard 2 recap: 'Insane bloodlust, gratuitous profanity, zero logic' 2013-06-21T16:15:40Z
Many things that we do in the workplace to endear ourselves to our bosses or appear more proactive than our colleagues are basically pointless. Six ways to stay healthy when you're stressed 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z
Yet I know as a writer, it’s a pointless question. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z
The final word in idiocy, a device so pointless it can only be understood as art, and so messy it turns snacks into dirty protests. Kitchen gadgets review: Fondoodler – the perfect device for our times 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z
Some have been great, some terrible and some – sadly, including Brand's own appearance – a little pointless. Getting animated: Who are the best and worst Simpson-ised celebrities? 2011-02-22T14:13:02Z
It was a vague, borderline illegal, and fairly pointless plan. Everyone has a dream. For Jeffrey it was riding a CitiBike across America 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z
In any case, Oliver talked about the importance of political issues not tied up in the election, which is not a bad niche given how pointless a lot of the horserace coverage has been. John Oliver has a blast on “The Late Show” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
I would never argue with my daughter’s friend’s family about evolution; it would be pointless. Bill Nye: Creationism is not science 2012-09-25T16:16:00Z
But quite frankly these books just seemed pointless... The Buttons Family series: New Shoes and Going to the Doctor by Vivian French - review 2012-07-12T11:00:00Z
In these times when everything seems entirely pointless, I've become interested not in banal reality, but surreality. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z
When I travel, I aim for aimlessness, but this — well, this felt pointless. Lost in Java 2011-05-06T20:26:42Z
Hoffman is woefully unfunny, though perhaps not as bad as Harvey Keitel, who gets a pointless and baffling cameo as a lazy construction worker. Meet the Parents: Little?Fockers ? review 2010-12-23T22:24:00Z
There was a display of photographs, including many grotesque images showing emaciated prisoners in tattered stripes, mounds of discarded clothing, slave crews working on pointless exercises. Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z
A 2017 Knight Rider remake would be pointless because it’d just be the adventures of an Amazon Echo that someone had glued to the inside of a Tesla. Reboot regrets: the TV revivals that should never have happened 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z
Neither role challenges these performers, but penalizing them for working well within their capabilities and appropriate to what's been written for them seems pointless with a comedy like this. "Girls5eva" is a feel-good story about what happens when one-hit wonders get a second chance 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z
Not that long ago, making a list of the best international shows on American television would have been as easy, and pointless, as reprinting the PBS “Masterpiece” schedule. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z
When Strasmore tells Joe his suit is custom-made, it doesn’t feel like pointless excess; he’s strategically pointing out his value to Anderson Financial in order to keep his place at the firm. Entourage meets the NFL: Dwayne Johnson's charisma lifts HBO's Ballers 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z
"It really scared me. But I always say, after the age of 40, if you're not doing something that frightens you, it's pointless. "I see Riggan as a Don Quixote. Keaton takes flight in Birdman film 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z
But the request is pointless: Grammer talks about his personal life with no prompting, almost compulsively. Kelsey Grammer: starting over 2013-03-23T09:00:00Z
"It's essentially a pointless activity," said Ian Rice, a model railway enthusiast. TV Review: The Joy of (Train) Sets 2013-01-23T22:30:03Z
In a 1999 special, he even ridiculed airport security as a pointless charade, saying Americans are “always willing to trade away a little of their freedom” in exchange for “the illusion of security.” A George Carlin Special Too Raw After Sept. 11 Resurfaces Now 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z
The process proved expensive, time-consuming and largely pointless. John Guillermin, ‘Towering Inferno’ Director, Dies at 89 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
His whining — justified, to be sure, but pointless and aggravating in Abigail’s perspective nevertheless — reaches a fever pitch until she decides to mollify him. Hand Emma Stone an Oscar for this gripping "Favourite" scene alone 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z
If nothing else, the woman is sickeningly self-aware; she has to know that it's pointless to try to gain the jury's sympathy. Basking in the soothing Goop that is the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z
I’m impatient to acquaint myself with its cornucopia of invention, and yet I dread revisiting something so ridiculously pointless. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z
He also has some pleasing chemistry with his blade-running predecessor, Harrison Ford, with whom he trades pointless punches before Ford finally says: “We could keep at this or we could get a drink.” Ryan Gosling movies – ranked! 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z
If that all sounds confusing and pointless, that’s because it mostly is. ‘Agnes’ Review: A Crisis of Faith, and Filmmaking 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z
She is surely right, although it’s pointless to pretend that “Olympia” is a work of gritty urban realism. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z
Yet, he acknowledges, in these financially straitened times, worries like this can seem faintly pointless. Noises off: The hidden cost of recession in the theatre 2010-07-14T12:23:00Z
From the outside, it looks old and small and pointless. The week ahead: Giles Fraser's guide to midnight mass – and Doctor Who 2012-12-23T22:01:01Z
I’d be imprisoned that way for the rest of my pointless life, conscious of my predicament and helpless to change it. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z
But for readers who know something about the Auschwitz number system, especially readers who were actually there, the seemingly pointless error will give them pause. ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and the History in Historical Fiction 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z
Now that the future Verhoeven predicted has come to pass – in corporate and militarized law enforcement, in the propaganda used to sell the public on pointless and endless war – his intent seems more obvious. Total Recall at 30: a thrilling reminder of Paul Verhoeven at his best 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z
The whole sequence feels gloriously pointless, and — in classic Tarantino style — quite a few seconds longer than it needs to be. Perspective | The ugly underside of Brad Pitt’s cool car in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z
Five years after that hilariously pointless declaration, The Mooch is now a contender on Fox's "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test." "Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test": Where "Battle of the Network Stars" meets a redemption tour 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z
It’s pointless to be in competition — it’s only adding to the pressure that the business is putting on you. Viola Davis on Her Emmy Award 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z
"It is pointless banging on about taking risks and when it is a failure you run away from it." Ricky Gervais held talks on Sky1 shows 2011-08-27T11:29:21Z
The absence of dialogue in his script meant that rehearsing Lebanon seemed pointless. My hopes for peace 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z
To Klepper, it was pointless to avoid posting nude photos of himself to the Internet. 'Daily Show's' Jordan Klepper finds way to handle celeb nude hackers 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z
At first, free improvised music will sound like formless, pointless chaos. Evan Parker's musical utopia 2010-04-22T21:35:00Z
Ben Arnold It's a shame that so much so-called reality television concerns itself with useless types doing pointless things, when there is so much interesting work performed by underappreciated people. TV highlights 18/06/2013 2013-06-18T06:00:03Z
Hartnett doesn’t quite have the star power to really make the meta-humor of his character work, rendering his arc a pointless narrative gimmick. ‘Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre’ Review: The Getaway Car Is Stuck on Cruise 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z
The violently avenging hero is a durable American archetype, and denying it — and the indefensible, irresistible pleasures of watching primitive justice in action — is probably pointless at this stage in our history. Review: Denzel Washington Plays Judge, Jury and Executioner in ‘The Equalizer 2’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z
“I said, ‘I’m not an actress, it’s in English, it’s pointless.’ Can Gal Gadot Make Wonder Woman a Hero for Our Time? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z
Saint Laurent basics, in other words, cut with a contemporary ease by a designer at ease with the weight of his inheritance, and with no pointless distraction. Dior and Saint Laurent Face the Future 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z
However, considering the wildfire explosion she orchestrated led to her and Jaime's last child committing suicide, this seems effectively pointless — as he reminds her. Why Cersei May Not Be the Queen She Thinks She Is in Game of Thrones 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z
Holbrook wrote that asking students to guess an author's intent in writing a piece of literature is doomed to be a pointless exercise. Poet stumped by standardized test questions about her own poem 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z
"That's good for a college kid and they get to learn a fun, pointless skill," he joked. Balloon artist twists designs 2011-05-23T16:42:44Z
The subplot wasted nearly a third of an episode on pointless and increasingly unfunny slapstick. Can "Glee" be saved? 2011-02-14T16:30:00Z
It’s a victory, but a pointless, dumb one — and when Mr. Scorsese reruns the scene from a more objective point of view, showing us what really happened, the achievement becomes more unsettling. ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z
"To my mind banning any literature is pointless," he said. Memoir reveals prisoners' book preferences 2010-10-27T13:57:00Z
So pointless was it to resist the audible theatrics that I eventually climbed from bed and put an ear to the wall. My Life in Hotels 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z
Keeping just six, surrounded by hundreds of brand new houses and flats, would be pointless, they argue. Largest postwar prefab estate to be demolished 2011-01-02T18:39:33Z
It was a pointless addition considering Ryan Seacrest or the judges didn’t even bother to film greetings and contestants were forced to introduce one another as they waited for sidemen to cue up their tracks. 'American Idol' live a grim reminder of show's faded glory 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z
That said, any series of Lost without Hurley would be utterly pointless. Do you dread a Lost revival? Here's how it can find its way again 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z
There’s your requisite pointless nudity and the name-dropping of Bob Wilson. | 'Conni?s Avant Garde Restaurant': ?Conni?s Avant Garde Restaurant: The Mothership Landing? - Review 2011-09-20T19:53:47Z
But I find that, although great when experienced for real, magic is always liable to look pointless and unsatisfying in the context of a fiction film. Now You See Me – review 2013-07-04T20:50:01Z
It's pointless to try and pin this show down. The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart - review 2013-03-08T00:55:09Z
They are described as “pointless conversations” and the riffs, musings and improvisational give-and-take recall in cruder form the routines of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and George Burns and Gracie Allen. Television Review | 'The Ricky Gervais Show': Taking the Podcast Back to a Simpler Time 2010-02-19T07:08:00Z
It is a lively list this year, although I am astonished at the way pundits have rolled over for the fatuous and pointless Jojo Rabbit. Golden Globes: who will win and who should win the film awards? | Peter Bradshaw 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z
Since you and she argue “often,” she's not the only one getting a regular wake-up call: Your arguments are pointless. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: His girlfriend’s parents call five times a day, show up unannounced 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z
Rather than being an aspirational brand that helps readers achieve Paltrow levels of perfection, it’s a diary of how pointless it is to try and look like a movie star unless you actually are one. The pleasures of hate-reading GOOP 2013-04-27T17:00:00Z
And then there's the Karate Kid, who could ask Justin Bieber to write a song about the issue so that he can do a rap in the middle of it, or something equally pointless. We were holding out for a hero ? then three turned up at once 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z
Books about them began appearing by the dozen – often cheap, nasty and pointless. The best books on the Beatles 2012-09-26T07:00:15Z
Finally, there’s the ultimate in pointless gratitude: “I would like to thank the academy.” No Thanks. Really, Oscar Winners, Skip That Part. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z
For now, here’s a look at some of the most pointless trailer previews we’ve seen in recent months: “Ant-Man” releases a trailer for its trailer: Why this is the most annoying phenomenon of our franchise-obsessed age 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z
It’s exasperating and annoying and sometimes I feel it pointless to even start a conversation, as it has become a futile exercise. 'There's less talking now': readers on how smartphones altered family life 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z
I was finding the prose overblown and was getting irritated with the pointless lives of the super-rich. The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald is right on time 2013-05-07T13:41:06Z
To describe the plot, to the extent that there even is one, is pointless. Elizabeth Strout’s Lovely New Novel Is a Requiem for Small-Town Pain 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z
The whole repertoire of black politics—from mainstream activism to Black Power radicalism and beyond—now seemed pointless. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z
And when Soviet citizens went home from their pointless toil with their roubles in hand, they were then systematically disadvantaged as consumers. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z
On the evening of the Staten Island grand jury decision concerning the death of Eric Garner, it was grim to observe a choreographed chokehold presented as part of a long and pointless male duet. Talking About Love, Demonstrating Violence 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z
Sadly, this pointless cover of Henry Mancini's lounge standard is suitable only for 'zany' Euro hatchback ads starring smug men with annoying hair. Madness; Iggy Azalea; Michael Bublé: this week's new tracks 2013-04-08T05:00:00Z
"The Kids in the Hall" took advantage of the Gen X tendency to label everything as inauthentic and pointless by occasionally nestling uncomfortable commentary within their whacked-out scenarios. "The Kids in the Hall" are old now, and that makes their comedy still very much alright 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z
“Once you start looking for anything existential and you start wondering about your own existence, you realize that it’s all pointless,” Mr. Wannamaker said. Night at the Space Museum: 10 Open Bars and Tons of Kubrick References 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z
Otherwise it would be irrelevant; pretty perhaps, but pointless. At Milan Fashion Week, Fendi, Alberta Ferretti, Max Mara 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z
Fretting about your legacy seems to me a pointless act of ego, but Hebb disagrees. ‘Remember you will die’ – and 11 other tips for a better death 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z
He does not even seem to realize that, by engaging in such pointless gender baiting, he is only attesting to his own immense sense of insecurity. Donald Trump, the compulsive misogynist 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z
Sometimes, it can seem as though Jornet is conflicted by his profession, as if it is ultimately pointless. One step beyond: the ascent of mountain runner Kílian Jornet 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z
Behind-the scenes videos of the making of videos are often a bit pointless, but the one for U Should Know Better is amazing. Robyn feat Snoop Dogg - U Should Know Better (Christian Falk Remix): New music 2013-07-02T06:00:00Z
The next day he woke up at 7 a.m. and scribbled his second bad dad joke: “Without geometry, life is pointless.” This man posts a daily ‘bad dad joke’ in his front yard. People groan, but they love it. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z
Remembering Nicky imprecisely seemed as pointless as not remembering him at all. After 40 years I finally tracked down my dead brother 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z
Shergar Special Award: For extending a franchise far longer than anyone believed possible by creating any number of pointless new records, the record goes to ... Guinness Book of Records 2013 – digested read 2012-12-09T18:30:02Z
His actions are selfish and vain, his sacrifice pointless. ‘A Hidden Life’ Review: Refusing Hitler, Embracing Beauty 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z
W. H. Auden felt this way, and Vendler has written that it’s pointless to review bad poetry. The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z
Dinner sees a traffic jam of rolling carts parked tableside for various bits of stage business, some of which are pointless. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z
But for now, he's scuttling around London with Jacksathon, a 26-night tour of his Jackson's Way show, broadcasting his character's trademark theory that "around every point-full action, there's an infinite number of pointless actions". Will Adamsdale: the guru of nonsense 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z
“It’s painful, it’s pointless and the majority of you didn’t even agree to run it; you were just signed up by your dumbest friend,” he told viewers. John Oliver: ‘Maybe Brexit is a great idea. There’s absolutely nothing to suggest that’ 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z
Potter's first big-screen outing is so bright and breezy that it seems pointless to watch it now while my brain has yet to be befuddled by sleep deprivation and excessive Twiglet consumption. The great Harry Potter viewing marathon 2011-07-08T23:11:05Z
It shows a neat division of labour in the creation of pointless products, with implications that reach way beyond the beauty industry, to capitalism's mindless cycle of production and consumption. Artist of the week 191: Mika Rottenberg 2012-05-24T11:40:15Z
It is pointless to complain about a plot point simply because it isn't in line with one's own value system. Limitless Review: Wall Street on Steroids 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z
“Have some pointless fun with all that crazy energy.” Dina Nayeri’s ‘Refuge’ Follows the Reinvention of an Exile 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z
Too often, that takes the form of lowbrow exhibitions of cars or pop memorabilia, pointless social media campaigns or the pseudo-engagement of DJs and drinks parties. Dallas Museum makes art free for all 2012-11-30T19:38:05Z
So finding proof that there is Santa on a TV show is kind of pointless. Proof: TNT's life-after-death procedural is stiffer than a corpse 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z
Any more recap is pointless — such plots are rarely coherent. ‘Cam2Cam,’ With Tammin Sursok, Focuses on Murder 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z
Such messes, like pointless meetings, too much email, too many decisions and lousy in-office communication, are not necessarily of their own making. As Economy Is Upended, Marie Kondo Drops a Workplace Book 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z
"I think it's good to keep doing new things because I never want to recreate anything I've done before, because it's pointless in my book." Nash bites back 2010-04-19T09:40:00Z
But Armstrong and his team know the power of pageantry and our ceaseless obsession with gawking at expensive, pampered and pointless creatures. "Succession" presents the "Chiantishire" dog show, starring the well-bred Roys 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z
Foisting yourself on any such event in order to prove something is pretty pointless. My partner’s daughter didn’t invite me to her birthday 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z
Moreover, she said she met Weinstein a year later at a film festival and “he told me that everything I had done was pointless”. Harvey Weinstein assistant Zelda Perkins: 'I was trapped in a vortex of fear' 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z
He was starting to think that music that expressed a composer's emotions was pointless since no one understood it anyway. 'Where the Heart Beats': Zen Buddhism and the music of John Cage 2012-07-11T19:53:04Z
And in an era of dutiful brand extensions and pointless revivals, it turns out to be history that’s surprisingly worth repeating. Review: ‘History of the World’ Repeats, as Farce 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z
But none of that buys you pointless flash, heel-clicking or outbreaks of gold leaf. OFM awards 2014 best restaurant: the Ledbury 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z
The fact is The Velvet Underground & Nico is tapping into something as equally pointless as it is profound. The Velvet Underground & Nico: readers' reviews 2012-11-05T16:40:19Z
It's amazing how much pointless design you can see in Milan. When is a chair not a chair? 2010-04-19T12:12:00Z
She says: “Return yourself forthwith to the age of pointless educational pedantry.” Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z
In contrast to the more significant action in Montana and Nevada, all the time we spend in Twin Peaks in the back half of this episode seems less purposeful — and some might even say pointless. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 13: Starting Position 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z
It was cheerful and pointless; it summed up the night. Dance Review: Take Dance and Pulse at Merce Cunningham Dance Studios - Review 2011-12-18T22:33:43Z
Bad: TV's most pointless gameshow, Red Or Black?, starts again this week. Populist: Items of interest this week 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z
I’m not complaining, but rather pointing out how pointless, how silly it sounds when anyone bothers to venture a complaint. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z
He seems firmly in the grip of method acting, using his slim body and increasingly strained voice to channel Ivanov's raw and pointless misery. Ivanov – review 2012-11-12T18:01:24Z
And you can't get much more common than that, although admittedly the God's Word translation provides stiff competition with "absolutely pointless" and the Good News Bible challenges strongly with "useless, useless". Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible 2012-05-19T20:30:01Z
His son, who has no real direction, who has made this silly, pointless movie, can’t register as anything but embarrassing. Emma Cline on the Movie Business 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z
Still, it wasn't a terrible episode, just a little pointless. The Walking Dead: season three, episode 13 2013-03-15T23:00:00Z
Whose agenda is being served by that portrayal even in the most pointless and trivial celebrity story. Russell Brand on His New Show, Television Sidekicks and All That Salty Language 2012-06-28T12:00:11Z
That forward walk ends up being pointless on purpose. Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-03-08T22:36:23Z
That’s right, the seemingly pointless and certainly harmless grey birds that clog up city squares the world over terrify one of literature’s most famous heroes. 6 Things You Can Only Learn From Seeing the 'Harry Potter' Play 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z
I’m constantly amazed and provoked by how little it takes to upend a life, how easily self-sabotage comes for some people, and how pointless the best defenses prove to be. This Week in Fiction: Joshua Ferris on the Ease of Self-Sabotage 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z
The answers to why and how are terrifyingly pointless. John Cooper Clarke; Assignment: radio review 2013-05-03T06:00:22Z
With good reason: Movies are filled with dead spots, padding, meaningless interludes, pointless detours, grace notes and extraneous subplots that you don’t have to see to follow the movie. I missed a crucial moment in Jurassic World. Have I misjudged every movie? | Joe Queenan 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z
Click here to watch Pointless video clip The opposite of a pointless answer is an answer so obvious that all 100 people surveyed thought of it. Pointless: Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman on TV's favourite quiz 2013-06-04T16:32:22Z
Or won a pointless but lucrative literary prize? Pass notes No 2,841: Julia Stuart 2010-09-06T19:00:00Z
The sequence, the whole episode really, is another example why it’s pointless to try to classify this story as a “comedy” or a “drama.” Enlightened Watch: Consider Levi 2013-01-28T13:00:52Z
“I don’t do ballet, because that would be pointless,” she said. Admit One: Technology Extends Theater’s Thrills to Blind Patrons 2014-02-06T22:13:40Z
Then, after a series of pointless court appearances, she was going to either get released on time served, mandated to another rehab facility, or sent upstate to serve a multi-year prison sentence. My heroin addict friend: thrown in jail, a rebound in rehab – now Shelly has hope 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z
It's pointless railing against MTV, huffing that it doesn't show music videos any more. MTV at 30: from Dire Straits to Jersey Shore 2011-07-23T23:05:56Z
And more pointless effort is expended on fixing mistakes than getting the facts right in the first place. How celebrity gossip destroys journalism's credibility 2011-08-24T17:25:00Z
I used to think that marinades were pointless. The absolute best way to marinate chicken 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z
Embracing the Piano and the Material In the quest to describe the music of Fred Hersch in a word — a preposterous task, but not a pointless one — you could do a lot worse than “refinement.” Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z
Western nations say talking is pointless unless uranium enrichment is on the table, something Iran refuses to discuss. Iran to announce nuclear progress: Ahmadinejad 2012-02-11T11:45:00Z
Evangelicals believe Mormons aren’t true Christians, a distinction that is completely pointless to me and not particularly relevant to questions of policy. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z
It would be pointless to carry on counting the remarkable moments from hereon in, because from the minute Kraftwerk plug themselves in this gig is nothing but a series of remarkable moments. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night four: The Man Machine 2013-02-11T12:26:00Z
To attempt to boil this complex saga down to its essence is as pointless as tweeting the plot of Game of Thrones, but, basically, Diana Beard removed Iain Watters’ baked alaska from the freezer. Bake Off at 10: the greatest moments from the nine series so far 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z
What used to look like a bunker hidden under a pointless pedestrian bridge has become an airy, spacious gathering space with tall windowed walls. Critic?s Notebook: A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face 2010-12-31T22:50:05Z
Categories are pointless when a comics-rooted artist produces something as rich and resonant as this. Review | In the galleries: Comic book artists show new dimensions 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z
To some who haven't read the book, this looks like a pointless gimmick. One Day: a waste of a good tome 2011-08-24T09:51:15Z
Looking for plausibility in a movie called “Dracula Untold” is as pointless as looking for humor or personality in Mr. Evans’s dour performance. ‘Dracula Untold,’ in Which Prince Vlad Battles the Turks 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z
You may even see the whole thing as a pointless gimmick. The Bay – first look review 2012-09-26T09:23:35Z
One bloke doesn't participate at all, presumably on the basis that it's humiliating and pointless. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: The Naked Office 2010-05-14T23:37:00Z
Seen now, the picture is ludicrous, pointless, and stirring all at once. A Forgotten D Day Film 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z
This material has already been driven into the ground on social media and across late night, and in light of Trump’s recent victories and the Democrats’ recent debacles, it couldn’t feel more pointless. Saturday Night Live: RuPaul teaches the art of drag but episode can't slay 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z
“Lots of people want to take an old house, spiff it up, make the inside look like a house built two years ago. That to me would be pointless.” Home & Design: History helps breathe life into a Georgian manor in Virginia
And some of the minigames - like Test Your Sight, which is basically the old shell game - are just pointless. Review: Gory 'Mortal Kombat' as brain-dead as ever 2011-04-27T13:30:29Z
We have a lot of work to do and I’m looking forward to an end to this pointless distraction.” Lance Armstrong, Most Disappointing Cancer Survivor 2012-10-17T16:49:00Z
It is pointless to separate singing and acting in a Dessay performance. Music Review: Natalie Dessay in ?La Traviata? at the Met 2012-04-11T21:29:22Z
Delia taunts Earl with the pointless cruelty of the chronically stupid. ‘Donnybrook’ Review: Fighting for Survival in the Heartland 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z
Hussein’s rise led to Iraq’s pointless eight-year war with Iran, and the worsening horrors of his dictatorship, followed by the American invasion of the country. Review: ‘Iraqi Odyssey’ Shows the Arc of a Family and a Country 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z
The effectiveness of the drug also makes me anxious – if it’s not closer to 100 percent effective, it kind of seems pointless. 'Honestly, it’s a revolution. It's so great taking control' 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z
“In terms of pointless crimes it’s probably up there with forging a Bed, Bath & Beyond coupon,” said Oliver. John Oliver Votes Against Voter ID Laws 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z
She spends pointless days napping and watching 1970s game show reruns. Where the middle-class dream turns into the world's worst game show 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z
I think it’s pointless to try and second guess the way that people are going to react. Paapa Essiedu Knows ‘I May Destroy You’ Is Hard to Watch 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z
Purity tests used to determine when someone started liking a band or artist are pointless and divisive rather than unifying. David Bowie’s “Earthling” is 20 years old today 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z
At a running time of about 90 minutes, the production — punctuated by a, er, pointless intermission — runs a tad too long, given the project’s seemingly pedagogical roots. Pointless Theatre Company’s ‘Hugo Ball’ is eye-catching mayhem 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z
Tempting, but almost pointless, as the game itself is largely unchanged. Assassin's Creed III – review 2012-12-23T00:06:49Z
When his father, a builder, told him to get a proper job, he said it was pointless, because he was destined to be a huge pop star. Marti Pellow on success, songwriting and sobriety: 'Every day I punch addiction in the face!' 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z
But those who presume that projects like these are pointless or redundant have likely never contemplated the wishes – nor followed the career – of Mamie Till-Mobley. With the movie ‘Till,’ Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest to educate the world about her son’s lynching march 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z
A slow build – or at least a build as slow as this – is pointless. Stranger Things 3: a flawless finale – but what a slog to get there 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z
The sightings, specific to this beach or that—a shark seen at Ballston Beach! another at Head of the Meadow!—feel intrinsically pointless. The Summer of Shark Politics on Cape Cod 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z
Throughout history, postmenopausal women have been variously considered sexless, shrewish, whorish, dangerous, hysterical and pointless. What science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for and how to treat it | Rose George 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z
Beyond funny, the show — which can hardly explain its own premise yet somehow lasted for two seasons — is superbly pointless, except as a platform for Kovacs’s absurdist slapstick and imaginative free associations. Jean Rouch: A Long-Overdue Homage to a Documentary Maker 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z
As a result, everything we cherish in the music – harmonic structure, large-scale architecture, sense of cumulative power – gets jettisoned in this utterly pointless exercise. CBSO/Volkov – review 2013-02-07T15:24:27Z
I’m through with moping Moping from all this pointless hoping Hoping he’ll notice me and open his heart Time now to break away and make a new start. Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z
Trump and his minions may have broken the most powerful weapon that can be used against politicians when opposing their ideas is pointless. Paula Jones, Reconsidered 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z
They rarely mention it openly, but they have been created as sweet, fusty holdouts against pointless violence and cogitation-free thrillers, endearing throwbacks to a time when this genre was brainy and pure. 'Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart,' by Christopher Fowler 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z
“It was pointless providing information that would pay off a half-hour later, the way you would do on TV.” Children Star in an Interactive ?Doctor Who? 2011-07-15T16:19:01Z
Are the characters flat, is the setting vague, is the dialogue pointless? By the Book: Laurie Halse Anderson 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z
Not only would the Sand Snakes have been rendered pointless if Myrcella hadn’t died, but she was doomed from the moment she told Jaime she was happy to be inbred. These Are the 24 Most Emmy-Worthy "Game of Thrones" Twists 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z
The jealous Solyony mocks another of her suitors, his army comrade Baron Tuzenback, and finally challenges him to a pointless duel and kills him. ‘There There’: a baffling, intriguing take on Chekhov 2014-01-11T02:41:38Z
“It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures…I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with ‘Once upon a time’.” Moomins’ magic maker 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z
We're never ones to shy away from arbitrary, unwinnable and ultimately pointless debates on guardian.co.uk/music, chiefly because we find them immensely fun. Open thread: which was the best decade for music? 2012-07-09T15:44:00Z
Rare that any film trilogy can stay as good into the third act, especially when it's based on such a simplistic and pointless storyline as this one. ‘Taken 3,’ Starring Liam Neeson 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z
Her goal is too pointless, her strategies too colorless, her manipulations too petty. Review: ‘Everybody Rise,’ Stephanie Clifford’s Debut Novel, Features That Old-Money Scent 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z
This may seem odd, or counterintuitive, because I count myself as an atheist who would seem predisposed to find the suffering and passion “Silence” depicts silly, if not altogether pointless. An atheist’s guide to Scorsese’s “Silence”: You don’t need faith to be astonished by the faithful 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z
As Mr. Fleck notes, “Innovations are pointless unless you make some good music out of them.” | Westchester: The New York Banjo Summit Is at Tarrytown Music Hall This Week 2013-01-12T02:55:29Z
There is a sense, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in February, “that the whole movie has been a strained and pointless contrivance.” DVDs: On DVD, ?Bob Hope: Thanks for the Memories Collection? 2010-06-05T02:15:00Z
Instead of focusing on the gentle love story at its center, Mr. Krymov’s production often digresses into pointless eccentricities. Theater Review: ‘In Paris’ Stars Mikhail Baryshnikov 2012-08-03T22:57:36Z
It will make the entire bloodbath of a series complete but almost exactly where it started, proving yet again that war is pointless. 'Jon will murder Dany then reign': you predict who will win Game of Thrones 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z
Comparing Lambert to Mercury is as pointless as it is inevitable, a reality Lambert’s never hidden from. Review: Queen + Adam Lambert conquer Tacoma Dome with blockbuster panache on Rhapsody tour 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z
Forrest’s life is a meaningless joke; the job he’s shackled to is degrading and pointless; and the life he’s critiquing, barely worth living. Hate your job, or your life — or both? Find catharsis in the cruel humor of “Review” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z
He ends up uniformed, hair-shorn and dead: another pointless sacrifice to the war. Hair 2010-04-14T16:56:00Z
Kneeling on that bed, doing CPR, felt not only pointless, but like I was administering final blows to someone who had already had a hard enough life. Let’s talk about dying 2012-12-27T01:00:00Z
It's a curiously pointless affair, as if the producers cued up random interviews with "interesting characters", then tacked on a theme afterwards. TV OD with Michael Hogan – Cherry Healey: How To Get A Life 2012-06-15T23:05:00Z
Administrative ineptitude is a recurring theme, as paperwork, pointless meetings and foolish rules keep interfering with actual learning. Bel Kaufman dies at 103; author of bestseller ‘Up the Down Staircase’
And the writer Jimmy McGovern made similar use of a Falklands vet in a 1995 episode of Cracker, in which a soldier is deranged by the feeling that he fought a pointless and forgotten war. Falklands on film: how broadcasters have handled Margaret Thatcher's war 2013-04-14T12:23:21Z
But those questions are as pointless as asking for the blueprints of Dr. Evil’s secret lair. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 6: A Weird Couple of Days 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z
Ultimately, Iñárritu's film espouses messages that "Life is a series of idiotic images . . . a mishmash of pointless scenes . . . a brief series of senseless events . . . surrender to it." Surrender to Alejandro Iñárritu's Netflix movie "Bardo," a surreal "chronicle of uncertainties" 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z
According to the vice-president's men, it was a "boondoggle", a pointless task that wastes time and money, mainly designed to keep the ex-ambassador busy. Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z
It is an irresistible story, all right, and suggestions for across-the-board restraint and skepticism are probably pointless. Perspective | Ready for the media’s Comey swoonfest? Nothing can stop it now. 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z
If gazpacho has always struck you as a pointless salad run through a blender for no good reason, the one here will make you see the point after all. The 20 Most Delicious Things at Mercado Little Spain 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z
“It’s something that’s not necessary, and it’s kind of pointless,” he says. Ball pits were gross even before the pandemic. Will we ever dive in again? 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z
It seemed so cruel and pointless, and the parents' grief so horrible, that I couldn't take it. Motherlode Blog: What Classic Picture Book Fills You With Dread? 2012-11-05T19:20:53Z
“Being stuck in a situation you don’t want to be in and having the outlook of everything is pointless — it’s kind of nihilistic.” Silver Torches to play from beautiful downer ‘Let It be a Dream’ at Tractor Tavern 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z
It's a simple but wickedly effective send-up of the self-help industry: according to Jackson, the only way to achieve lasting happiness is to make your life as pointless as possible. This week's new comedy 2011-01-01T00:05:55Z
But while there are haunting references to “Ol’ Man River” and, naturally, the blues, the guitarist ultimately realized it was pointless to trot out all these genres, textbook-style. 1927 ‘Great Flood’ still timely, especially with Bill Frisell 2013-03-01T21:25:10Z
Angus Wright also treats the Bunyan-quoting Major Flack, who sends a number of the men to a pointless death, not as a cartoon caricature but as someone driven by his own brand of religious fervour. Privates on Parade – review 2012-12-10T23:00:01Z
The character’s absurdism aligns with the authorial voice, which is not just humorously morbid but merrily macabre, as when Spencer wraps up a funeral oration by describing existence as “random, pointless, without redeeming value.” Armando Iannucci Gets Lost in Space in “Avenue 5” 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z
Although it rambles off into a pointless anecdote about his father’s youthful piccolo playing, it’s a tender and touching sequence, rendered with piercing honesty by Mr. Simpson. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z
Others disagreed, the Hollywood Reporter branding the reboot a “self-indulgent, pointless, meaningless… exercise in misplaced nostalgia and auteur idol-worship”. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z
The other day I sat alone in the bar across the street from University of Baltimore, where I teach, nursing a cold cup of coffee, scrolling and deleting old pointless pictures out of my phone. Chris Wilson's master plan transformed his life after prison. He insists he's "not an anomaly" 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z
“Especially if it’s pointless. When people say. ‘I want to be famous’ – why? Kristen Stewart Says Shooting Her Infamous Twilight Sex Scene Was 'Agony' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z
To the extent that there was enough volume, it was pointless volume. Music Review: Basilica Soundscape Featured Music and Art 2013-09-15T22:05:57Z
It soon emerges that the charismatic Tyler Durden is encouraging nightly basement get-togethers in which the first rule of Fight Club is that it sounds like a load of pointless macho nonsense. Which other Hollywood 'bro' movies need a Ghostbusters-style gender swap? 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z
“There was a lot of passion for the Vindicator and that was humbling. But good intentions aside, all that talk about a nonprofit model or a wealthy benefactor swooping in” seemed pointless. Perspective | ‘Democracy . . . is about to die in Youngstown’ with closing of the local newspaper 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z
A review in The New York Times summed it up as “chic and pointless.” Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z
Here, attitude was pointless, because dummy had tabled with the club queen. Bridge: Bridge - Don?t Overlook Defense in Your Game 2011-09-30T21:44:02Z
But by then he was chronically ill and any self-reflecting ruefulness he might have indulged in about his late matrimonial urge would have been pointless. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z
At the time even Cowell described the Battle of the Stars as “pointless”, but reports suggest it may be discussed as a possible way forward. Here's a thought: what if The X Factor had never existed? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z
"The Kids in the Hall" took advantage of the Gen X tendency to label everything as inauthentic and pointless by occasionally nestling uncomfortable commentary within their whacked-out scenarios. "The Kids in the Hall" are old now, and that makes their comedy still very much alright 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z
“It’s absolutely pointless ... Worrying is the worst energy waster. You just got to move forward and you need to find the good in things.” How we stay together: 'There is no magic cookbook of relationships' 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z
But that profusion itself has a moral point: it represents—as all the adventures of September and A-through-L and Blunderbuss represent—the role of play, of free invention, and of apparently pointless creative pursuits. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z
And in “Decorator Malignin,” a bureaucrat doodled on the margins of documents during the endless, tedious meetings that made up his pointless working life. Ilya Kabakov, Soviet-Born Artist of Immersive Installations, Dies at 89 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z
He soon identified the IRA's tit-for-tat bloodshed with police, soldiers and Protestant militants as a pointless waste that numbed the community's senses. Irish poet Nobel winner Seamus Heaney dies at 74 2013-08-30T12:31:11Z
We were aware as we began that this task was a bizarre blend of dangerous, silly, pointless, and futile. “You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z
Speculation is, at this stage, rather pointless, but a reporter calling around is met almost immediately with some acquaintances asking hungrily, “What more do we know?” Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z
My client is still in good spirts because that's his nature, but I find this extremely frustrating and pointless. I'm a public defender. I don't want my elderly client to die in prison from coronavirus 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z
A life in musical theater leads to, as your washed up counselor could tell you, "waitressing jobs and bitterness and the obsessive, pointless collecting of out-of-print original cast albums." 'Smore, 'smore, 'smore: Cinema's greatest summer camps 2011-07-01T14:01:00Z
“They’re attempting to do triple and quadruple turns with the leg pulled to their nose,” Okino says, “and the problem is none of them are executing them cleanly, so it’s almost pointless.’ It’s hard to look like a swan when you’re doing a wolf turn 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z
Which one of these is NOT one of their strategies for passing the empty, pointless hours? Quiz: Bad days in literature 2010-05-07T14:20:00Z
The most harmless part of the evening, it’s as pointless as everything else here. Review: From La Otra Orilla, Flamenco Without Flounces at Jacob’s Pillow 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z
That probably means you don't care and you're going to drink anyway, so it's pretty pointless. Motherlode Blog: Would You Take a Pregnancy Test in a Bar? 2012-09-13T19:41:27Z
You savor the performance and the breather, or you seethe that the evening’s dragging on a pointless extra 20 minutes or half-hour. Perspective | What we loathe about intermissions 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z
The rhythms in “Dos Estaciones” are somewhat slower than those in contemporary industrial cinema, but the movie never drags, and González doesn’t indulge in excessive longueurs or pointless ambiguities. ‘Dos Estaciones’ Review: A Tequila Factory’s Story, Sip by Sip 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z
Some anxious hours in a foreign hospital did the trick, prompting both of them to start thinking of marriage as more practical than pointless. After 25 Years Together, Why Marry? Why Not? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z
It seems almost pointless to reel off their names, permanently emblazoned as they are in the national consciousness and the history of rock'n'roll alike, but here goes: Tabby Callaghan! Why can't Elton John see the selfless genius of Simon Cowell? 2011-03-10T20:00:01Z
This pointless tinkering might not matter so much except that for a while it threatens to sabotage the main attraction: the first performance of the title role by Sondra Radvanovsky. Radvanovksy triumphs in Toronto "Aida" 2010-10-03T15:31:00Z
"As isolated as I was physically, satellite technology still allowed me to make a perfectly pointless telephone call to someone in another hemisphere." The Best Places To Hide 2010-09-03T16:00:00Z
The work was dull but not pointless: put stuff on shelves; tell customers where stuff was; sweep up spilled stuff; repeat. The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage 2014-04-25T12:15:00Z
She overcame the Barnum & Bailey-ness of her frock, only to later realize, upon her return to Manhattan, that boasting about her new laurel was pointless. Who’s Irish Now? 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z
Basing a decision on potentially misleading cues, and on a false presumption that religious taxi drivers are more trustworthy, is pointless. Don’t trust the religious 2012-07-02T18:20:00Z
The notion that this was a pointless war offends the old man, who says he owes his life to America. 'Vietgone' is a journey of intersecting lives after the fall of Saigon 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z
When we reconnected, at my instigation, it was shallow and pointless; he struck me as having an almost sociopathic lack of interest in the lives of his children. On the run with my dad 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z
Suddenly, the earnest environmentalism I was so good at spouting seemed pointless and stupid. The Long Road to Angela Davis’s Library 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z
Murphy is a discursive, if not rambling, narrator who includes an abundance of extraneous material, which some readers may find colourful, but others will consider exasperating or pointless. His prolonged courtroom reconstructions explain surprisingly little. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z
After reading it, you can’t help feeling that it is pointless to continue in your chosen career — assuming, like me, you happen to be a children’s book author. Meryl Streep Wants to Tell You a Bedtime Story 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z
A blasphemous Pietà, it flaunts a sophisticated but pointless decadence. Art Review: ?Eric Fischl: Portraits? at Mary Boone Gallery 2012-03-01T23:52:35Z
“That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.” Lucian Freud, Adept Portraiture Artist, Dies at 88 2011-07-21T19:28:45Z
Shot on or near the kibbutz where he grew up, and cast with people who live there, both works depict oddly pointless physical feats in spectacularly isolated landscapes. Last Chance: Emerging ?Young Israelis? at Lesley Heller Workspace 2010-08-11T22:45:00Z
Its script is a rehash of the obvious and the pointless, without the knowing self-mockery of “21 Jump Street.” Movie Review: ‘The Heat’ Is a Buddy Movie Without Any Guys 2013-06-27T16:22:35Z
If you’re getting the impression that “Ted 2” is a pointless and deliberately absurd reworking of an idea MacFarlane pretty well wore out the first time, you would be right. The dude-humor master class of “Ted 2″: Flashes of offbeat brilliance among the expected spank gags and deflated ball jokes 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z
The constant stream of people’s lunches or pointless personal details. 10 years of Twitter fail: Where Donald Trump’s “Sad!” thoughts flourish and Kim Kardashian has more followers than the Pope 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z
So why does watching it feel like such a pointless exercise? Anne Billson 2010-08-12T22:34:00Z
I'd cycle through different drum sounds, different guitar sounds, do a lot of pointless stuff. Tame Impala: a trip inside the head of main man Kevin Parker 2012-10-05T23:03:00Z
Deciding who should win the prize this year is difficult, and feels a bit pointless. Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet? 2012-10-01T13:08:55Z
“I miss having someone to hold,” she said, explaining that it felt pointless to try to replace Ludden, her third husband but “the one love of my life.” Television: Facing Age With a Saucy Wink 2011-04-28T18:29:14Z
I knew it was pointless to argue any further with this guy, because he was at least five times as strong as me. “As the North Wind Howled” 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z
Then you realize it is pointless to suck up to anyone and you can be an authentic person. ArtsBeat: Dick Teresi Talks About the Line Between Life and Death 2012-04-12T18:04:38Z
The characters’ prickliness and distaste for pointless social rituals feel apt for our justly embittered present day, and many episodes still feel perfectly current — except for one thing. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z
There they carry out pointless grunt work while enduring Lamb’s constant, finely wrought insults. ‘Slow Horses’ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Failure 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z
Not only is the food wasted, but the greenhouse gases emitted during the entire process — from raising livestock, making packaging, transporting fruit and vegetables in refrigerated vehicles — are a pointless ecological burden. Cooking from meal boxes can cut household food waste by 38%: research 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z
They accept endless time-sucking activity and pointless competition as the natural condition of future leaders. ‘Excellent Sheep,’ by William Deresiewicz 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z
It is a choice that speaks for “Prima Donna” as a whole: chic and pointless. Music Review: ?Prima Donna,? by Rufus Wainwright, Makes American Debut 2012-02-20T23:24:50Z
The pointless surge of adrenaline through my veins was making things worse. Adam Mansbach: My year on the bestseller list 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z
It’s as pointless and hollow as you can get. From Homer Simpson to Hank Kingsley: TV's greatest catchphrases ranked 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z
“Softer is pointless,” he says, ignoring her whimpers. Review: ‘Reset’ Follows Benjamin Millepied’s Efforts to Rejuvenate Paris Opera Ballet 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z
Who was it who once astutely noted, “There is nothing more pointless, and nothing less funny, than defending your own material”? Books of The Times: In ?The Bedwetter,? How Sarah Silverman Found Her Vulgar Voice 2010-05-03T20:45:00Z
A discussion with a lawyer might prompt the detainee to cut his losses and opt for voluntary departure, avoiding a pointless legal fight and the taxpayer-funded costs of detention. Immigrants in detention centers are often hundreds of miles from legal help 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z
Hundreds of pointless and irritating footnotes force the reader to jump between two parallel texts. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z
Your desire to get back at the interviewing company is understandable but, I think, pointless. @Work Advice: Keeping confidences, or not 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z
Wallander felt there was so much he didn't understand as he went on one pointless journey after another. Digested read: The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell 2011-03-28T20:00:00Z
An essential theme of “Fargo” in all its forms is that the accumulation of bodies is pointless and absurd, exposing pettiness and evil in the harsh light of the winter sun. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 5: ‘Once Upon a Time ...’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z
Defying either one is objectively pointless, like rebelling against the gold standard or barbershop quartets. Hipsters, they’re just like us! “Normcore,” Sarah Palin, and the GOP’s big red state lie 2014-04-27T11:00:00Z
Detractors say Yung Lean’s music is pointless or appropriative, that he’s a bad rapper, that he’s “what’s wrong with hip-hop” these days. Swedish teenage rapper Yung Lean to make Seattle debut | Concert preview 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z
It was pointless to prepare a presentation of any sort for him. In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump’s ‘Crazytown’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z
And Mr. Black is so wryly funny and incisive about matters of major import that he doesn’t need to pile on poor, pointless Kim Kardashian. Theater Review: ‘Lewis Black: Running on Empty,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z
And one of its first lessons is that it’s pointless to defy labels. “Dear White People,” listen up: This is the conversation starter about race you’ve wanted 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z
As unremarkable as the White House tennis pavilion project completed this week, joining the Rose Garden make-under as her permanent, pointless contributions to the grounds. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z
It’s a strange, rambling tale of light and darkness, which seems kind of pointless at first and then turns hilarious, tragic and profound. What’s the one great movie in this year’s Oscar race? It has a hairy Bulgarian monster, and you haven’t seen it 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z
Describing the specifics of such feats is a pointless enterprise, like trying to translate into language the experience of riding a roller coaster. Critic’s Notebook: Make-Believe at Geffen Playhouse and La Jolla Playhouse 2012-12-19T23:07:37Z
To bring flowers before the funeral’s even started feels pointless. What Our Extremist Politics Owe to Batman and Captain America 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z
It is not about the people who think such a wall is a good idea or those who find the idea racist, expensive and pointless. A heartfelt lament on patrolling the border: Francisco Cantu's 'The Line Becomes a River' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z
At thirteen, Nader spoke up when an instructor declared the Christian cross to be pointless. Homosexuality, God and ISIS: The secret life of a lonely gay Christian in Yemen 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z
He wrote that Oliver’s “making fun of experiments and pining away for days when classified ads and near-monopolistic positions in local ad markets funded journalism is pointless and ultimately harmful.” How not to respond to John Oliver’s ode to local newspapers 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z
As he told a British journalist after he had retired, he just couldn’t explain what he did, so he thought it was pointless to give press interviews. On the Runway: Balenciaga Exhibition Opens 2010-11-19T00:49:00Z
But Mr. Rubenstein didn’t waste time taking actions that seem panicky and pointless, like buying up the nearest supermarket’s entire toilet paper supply. For H.I.V. Survivors, a Feeling of Weary Déjà Vu 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z
Yes, this is the same show that A&E remade as a U.S. version — a pointless and possibly insulting exercise, much as when Fox remade “Broadchurch” as a stink bomb called “Gracepoint.” ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’: A fitting response to our super-serious zombie mania 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z
There is a pointless digression about the Kama Sutra and a strange speculation about a meeting that can never have taken place. Brighton festival – review 2013-05-11T23:07:30Z
As a result, it’s become a contradictory form—the late-night talk show is frenetic and pointless, relevant and irrelevant, funny and not-funny. Larry Wilmore’s challenge: Why he could be the black late-night host who makes it 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z
In my hazy and unhappy memory, that performance consisted of distressed women lugging bricks from one side of the stage to another for hours, symbolizing the rude and pointless burden of being. A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z
There's something a bit pointless and glib about the NPG buying a portrait of Gerry Adams if no one bats an eyelid. NPG brings us face to face with Gerry Adams 2012-11-15T14:16:16Z
The muscles wrapped up in spandex, the end-zone celebrations clearly practiced before a mirror, the physical intelligence masquerading as athletic talent, the intensity of focus on one, purely pointless endeavor. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z
Its music riffs on “GoT,” complete with drumbeats and a twinkly harp, and it includes gratuitous nudity and a pointless beheading. Searching for Leonardo da Vinci in ‘Leonardo’ 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z
Instead we get a thin whine: a wasp in a jar, all pointless agitation and a touching desire to offend. A Novelist’s Requiem for the Male Libido 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z
Yelling at them is pointless and cruel — they are in the same boat as the rest of us. For author Jenny Lawson, life is brutal — and hilarious 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z
Like the obtrusive railing that forces visitors into one particular path around the gallery, its authority has come to seem sort of pointless. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z
Is it just another pointless award ceremony that allows insider figures to perpetuate a music business glamour threatened by the collapse of the traditional music industry? Paul Morley Showing Off ... Ms Dynamite, M People and Portico Quartet 2010-09-03T15:56:00Z
It was a moment of careless unkindness, a way of noting that an unspoken rule — stupid, pointless, insidious — has been violated. Samira Nasr, a fashion first at Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I just want to bring more people with me to the party’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z
They seem to occupy a third sphere of slick and pointless professionalism, where too much technique serves relatively skimpy, generic ideas. Art Review: The Home Video Rises to Museum Grade 2010-10-22T00:00:00Z
We learned nothing new about Superman in Dawn of Justice, beyond the pointless fact that his mom shares the same first name with Bruce Wayne’s long-dead mater. Five tasks Justice League must complete to save the DC universe 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z
“The idea of what is composed and what is improvised is pointless,” Mr. Sorey said. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z
There’s a whiff of pointless meanness to the play’s mimicry of her and of another famous classmate, Sigourney Weaver. A Neil LaBute Play Anchors Summer Shorts Festival 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z
They were pointless endeavours, and they only helped to wear out the welcome of their respective programmes. Spooks: we don't need a film version 2013-03-26T13:45:17Z
While the amusement park setting enables Hand to ramp up the tension with a toolbox of strange and creepy people and places to play with, she never falls prey to pointless sensationalism. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z
It’s pointless complaining about the lack of originality in kindergarten horror. Scary toddlers and super creeps – helicopter parenting and the rise of 'kindergarten horror' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z
Her son, Art, is a hapless nature blogger and pointless pseud. Ali Smith’s Seasonal Cycle Turns to a Dreamy ‘Winter’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z
What she stood for is pointless at this place, because she's so helpless and drained of physical, emotional and mental energy. "Phobias" horror film stars discuss tapping into fears, playing tortured, and anti-Asian attacks 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z
Since one viewer's revelation is another's crime against cinema, to attempt a ranked list of recuts would be pointless. When should a director stop messing with a movie? 2010-08-17T00:20:00Z
Ms. Eisenhart said that the idea of women altering their dress for male attention is “really pointless, because if someone really likes you, they’re going to see how you are anyway.” Women Who Cover Up (Even as the Temperatures Climb) 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z
Viewed one way, giving these subjects a platform is dangerous — or, at best, pointless. ‘White Noise’ Review: Hearing Dog Whistles Loud and Clear 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z
Though overtly dramatic and mostly accessible, the music is so inventive and charged with ambiguities that talk of conservative versus experimental approaches to composition seems pointless. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:46:31Z
It also legitimates and makes funnier the type of nonsense behaviour that can seem – dare I say – pointless in the hands of other comics. Jackson's Way ? review 2011-01-09T21:30:01Z
I think letting go of pointless, mediocre jobs is fine, especially if you are grieving and coming out of depression. I’m avoiding work 2013-02-07T01:00:00Z
Perhaps he sneaks around to David Blaine’s house at night and rifles through a file marked “ideas too pointless and boring to attempt”. Which ridiculous art project should Shia LaBeouf do next? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z
Roth stands in for the outraged viewer for the duration of “Fin,” his indignation apparent as he repeatedly condemns the shark fishing he witnesses as crazy and pointless. ‘Fin’ Review: Eli Roth Wants to Save the Sharks 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z
The former succeeded with skill, intelligence and fortitude; the latter simply by clearing this pointless hurdle and knowing that one day soon it will all disappear like magic. Stars of the final presidential debate: Biden laughing at Trump's BS and the invisible mute button 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z
I’ve long thought there are more pointless monuments and works of abstruse public art here than any emerging-economy country really needs. Ay, yi, yi, the ways Mexico spends its tourism money 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z
The resulting contest, on a secluded country road, is so pointless and boring it would be more convincing to see these beta-males race on unicycles or pogo-sticks. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - review 2010-10-07T12:00:00Z
What his exact stature is as a poet is a pointless question; there is not much to be said for league tables here. RS Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M Wynn Thomas – review 2013-04-06T08:30:19Z
The arrival of Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son – the most pointless threequel since Godfather III paid off Coppola's back-taxes – reminds me that this guy's career is apparently still a going concern. What is the point of Martin Lawrence? 2011-02-11T21:03:00Z
On another, it’s kind of pointless and vapid to sit around discussing the philosophical implications of highbrow literature while around you terrible people are doing terrible things all day long. “The Third Man”: Why this masterful 1949 Euro-noir about the age of American arrogance and power is more relevant than ever 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z
Both are popular with moviegoers, but Mendes said lobbying by fans is pointless because the decision will be made solely by the series' producer, Barbara Broccoli. Sam Mendes: It's time for a new James Bond director 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z
The outrage manifests in obsessive fact checking, which is both necessary and, this deep into the quagmire of lies, pointless. Jon Stewart is right: How long will the media play Trump’s game? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z
But "theatre" is reserved for the manipulative and the pointless. Why is theatre such a dirty word in politics? 2011-08-22T15:09:08Z
Its proposition – that there are far more pointless than point-ful acts in the world, so why not exploit that fact? – is a gift that keeps on giving. Jackson's Way ? review 2011-01-09T21:30:01Z
If they had just swapped livers it wouldn't have made much difference to either of them; it would have resulted in a completely pointless film that would no doubt have flopped at the box office. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z
Here's one: picture a pencil, then an irritating golden robot called Mr Chips comes and cuts the sharp end off … pointless! The Village; Arne Dahl – The Blinded Man; Catchphrase – TV review 2013-04-08T06:00:19Z
Or is it pointless when they act like my mom abandoning me at age 8 was a perfectly acceptable thing to do? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Reconnecting with long-absent maternal relatives 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z
"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" isn't bad, but it feels pointless, especially in comparison to what Marvel Studios has been doing with superheroes lately. 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'? Nothing new in this web 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z
There remain three evenings of screenings, with six Competition films for the Jury to see, so further debate on the awards is pointless. Second Annual Edition: If I'd Been Tweeting from Cannes... 2012-05-24T15:10:01Z
In that way, it’s become about as useful as the term “the media” — so general as to be pointless. Perspective | The term ‘fake news’ has lost all meaning. That’s just how Trump wants it. 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z
And as the Swedes are basically cooler than everyone at everything ever and always right, arguing is pointless. The war on fat is over – and I won 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z
The interior is sumptuously appointed, but there are no great artworks, nothing to elevate the pointless acres of paneling, plush and gilt. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z
He also lost his appetite, which was equally shocking, because food remained a spring of little joys for him, even when everything else seemed pointless, painful and confusing. The Most Comforting Dish of All 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z
It’s nice of Kim Kardashian to try to distract me with something totally and utterly facile and pointless at a time of global crisis. Zip it, Kim Kardashian – Taylor Swift is the Marmite we're all coming to love 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z
Most of the officials she talks to insist that it’s pointless to try to persuade the International Olympic Committee to reverse a decision. ‘The Golden Girl’ Review: A Lose-Lose Proposition 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z
Hoodies don't vote, they've realised it's pointless, that whoever gets elected will just be a different shade of the "we don't give a toss about you" party. UK riots: Big Brother isn't watching you 2011-08-11T17:18:00Z
Before 1914, wars were not typically considered pointless, gratuitously violent enterprises; they could be foolish or misguided, but they were generally considered instrumental exercises of political power. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z
But in any case, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures are determined to keep selling toys and Halloween costumes, and it’s pointless to protest the merchandising of manufactured cuteness. Review: ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ Amuses, but Misses Opportunities 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z
It’s pointless to ask questions about what is or isn’t on television right now. Where have all the fun sitcoms gone? They’re all over television, silly! 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z
But Richard Bean's version of House of Games, a flawless 1987 film written and directed by David Mamet, is a pointless exercise. Review 2010-09-16T23:33:00Z
And she agrees with you about avoiding pointless street confrontations. Perspective | Miss Manners: Shunning, shaming and ‘cancel culture’ 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z
Yet he’s not one of the decorative type designers, slapping frills or pointless details on clothes. On the Runway Blog: Catch Tom Ford but Don't Miss Thomas Tait During London Fashion Week 2011-09-19T07:41:56Z
It’s true that, in order to avoid pointless conversation at the barber’s, I sometimes sit through the entire procedure with my eyes closed. Would you dare to dye your partner's hair? 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z
Steven Fielding, a professor of political history at the University of Nottingham, said the suggestion that “The Crown” carry a disclaimer was “reasonable and yet pointless.” Fact or fiction? UK govt says ‘The Crown’ should be clear 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z
Everything in Its Right Place still sounds like a haphazard and pointless synth'n'laptop experiment. Radiohead's Kid A: still not much cop 2010-10-11T11:59:00Z
To exclude these filmmakers from the Oscar race to prove a point seems both petty and pointless. Screening out Netflix is the real danger to future of film 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z
With bitter discernment, Thierry notes that, though he himself is unemployed, the pointless training provided work for the trainer and other bureaucrats. A Movie that Captures France’s Dystopian Employment Situation 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z
Calling it “shocking” and “pointless”, many outraged readers cancelled their subscriptions. Ghost stories 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z
A lot of the experiments done in this laboratory seem utterly pointless. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z
The adventures that once seemed exhilarating became pointless, even sickening. How men recover from war 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z
It was a bland and pointless crime, a turgid investigation, an escape attempt so limp that its main component was a cagoule, and a resolution that stirred feelings no more intense than mild disapproval. TV review: Penn and Teller: Fool Us; Law and Order: UK; and Mildred Pierce 2011-07-10T21:05:01Z
The work is methodical and labor intensive, and may strike some viewers as pointless or redundant. Art Review: Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity 2011-02-24T21:29:53Z
Talk radio, archetyped as Cabbie FM, really does comes into its own around a big, pointless, political issue of the day. How much should MPs earn? Radio review 2013-07-12T06:00:06Z
In keeping with 2020's wild style, they're all pointless garbage piles; no one can be surprised that this one attracted a flying invader. Pence vs. Harris: Amid lies and side-eyes, a garbage pile of a debate attracts a fly 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z
The jumps, I am more or less convinced, are there to keep you counting your steps, which distracts you from how hard and existentially pointless it is to run on the spot. Fit in my 40s: Canada's Air Force fitness drills are a retro, noisy tonic 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z
This very good salad, which obviously glances toward Southeast Asia, is a smart way to handle an antipasto standby that is usually pointless except when melons are in season. Red-Sauce Italian Cooking Finds a Future at Don Angie 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z
By this point differentiating between the two was pointless. We raise a glass of blue milk in Ming-Na Wen's honor #MayThe4thBeWithYou 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z
“It seems pointless to lump them all into one creative slot.” Cultural Studies: For Millennials, a Generational Divide 2013-12-20T21:59:54Z
It was pointless to request a table unless your name happened to be Winston Frederick Churchill Guest. The Hamptons on the Hoof 2013-08-09T22:11:52Z
It’s pointless smelling roses, it’s been found, When you, like them, are planted in the ground. Style Invitational Week 1228: Drone for a loop 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z
Maybe it's about some distant clue about how ridiculous and small and pointless the whole thing is. The 10 Best New Restaurants of 2014 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z
Ben said that he was sorry for getting her into this mess; she told him it was pointless to feel that way. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z
And for those seeking some sort of generational Coachella cred, it’s pointless. Rock in Rio is not for the Coachella crowd, but it works for Vegas 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z
I kick to try to line up a photo, but it’s pointless. Diving into the tranquility of Tahiti 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity" is lyrically rendered as "Perfectly pointless, says the Teacher. Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible 2012-05-19T20:30:01Z
In a stunningly pointless exercise, in 1969 Georges Perec wrote an entire novel, A Void, without a single E. It's probably only a matter of time before O gets it in the neck. The story of O in design 2010-03-16T22:00:00Z
If reviews are being curtailed until closer to the release date, it's a largely pointless move. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – the wait for reviews begins 2012-11-30T12:05:54Z
"I wonder if others would have reacted differently in that situation. But it's pointless to philosophize about it. What happened happened." East German officer who opened Berlin Wall wept moments later 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z
It adds area maps with fast travel points, eliminating Destiny's pointless slogs to and from orbit. Destiny 2 Would Be Amazing Except For This One Huge Problem 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z
But the combined effect of all this stuff is faint indeed, a playful obliqueness that seems somewhat pointless. Review: There's something (weird) about Mary 2013-04-23T02:16:03Z
Anchoring the news in such moments seems more and more like a pointless and outdated ritual, an attempt to apply order to an explosion. Welcome to a world of chaos and collapse, brought to you by ‘WTF?’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z
The hosts ask guests dumbly pointless questions as if they were of great moment. Critic’s Notebook: The Rise of the Anti-Talk Show 2012-06-07T21:51:11Z
Visually, the movie, which can be watched in pointless 3-D, has little to set it apart, although a few of the mutant-penguin designs are worthy of the “Gremlins” director, Joe Dante. ‘Penguins of Madagascar,’ With Voice of Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z
These are pointless, sloppy sentences, and they highlight the central problem of this book. The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z
Who knew that voting for the outcome of a meaningless reality show using a premium rate phone number could be such a pointless waste of your time? The X Factor 2010: the lessons we've learnt from this year's show 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z
That book, to be released Tuesday, is one whose success, on its own merits, is nearly impossible and rather pointless to evaluate. 'Go Set a Watchman' Review: Atticus Finch's Racism Makes Scout, and Us, Grow Up 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z
In the Daoist view, sex between men was not so much morally wrong as pointless, as it did not facilitate the accumulation of precious qi. China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z
“It’s the feeling that life is pointless, that there will never be joy again,” he told me. The Unlikely Comeback of the ‘Pill-Popping Dermatologist’ 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z
A better title for the article would have been "In Boulder, Where Unfathomable Wealth Meets Unthinkable Superficiality" Totally pointless article that hits on all the clichés of Boulder history and ignores all the downsides. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z
In Hollywood, makeovers and pointless topless scenes aren't just for girls Between Twilight and New Moon, Taylor Lautner clearly hit the gym. Twilight: what have we learned? 2012-11-17T00:05:00Z
The political logic of this debate holds that if inborn intelligence, far more than environment, determines outcomes, then social engineering for greater equality is pointless. Are humans getting smarter? 2013-06-03T20:25:00Z
Unlike this play, his death will be pointless. A deeply relevant 'Death of a Salesman' emerges 2012-03-16T05:31:08Z
The film lacks the narrative clarity and moral complexity of Clarke's film and ends up clamorous, dislocated and pointless. Dog Pound 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z
In our time, which is to say in Addario’s, unwavering faith in the justice of one side has perished, a casualty of too many brutal, pointless, reciprocally corrupt wars. Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z
I recalled the laws of thermodynamics, and realized the truth about whiskey stones: despite their striking geometry, they are entirely pointless. Holiday Gift Guide for Foodies: From Murderous Mermaid Salt to Lamps Made Out of Croissants 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z
Despite a good night’s rest and a delicious dinner at L’Hote Antique, our visit to Blois ended up seeming rather pointless. A quick offseason visit to the Loire Valley, birthplace of the French Renaissance 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z
Gainer blogs are an offshoot of a fat-pride movement that has bubbled up in response to what its proponents consider to be a pointless and hysterical national fuss over obesity. | 'Huge': Lessons From a Weight-Loss Camp, on ABC Family 2010-06-27T22:51:00Z
She vividly conjures “the fading walk-up flats in far-flung London postal codes of former courtiers and retainers”: their tables crowded with “tasteful knickknacks,” their stair carpets reeking of “downward mobility and pointless, genteel sacrifice.” Tina Brown Catches Up With Royal Intrigue in ‘The Palace Papers’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z
There have been wars that seem more pointless and wars that seem less conclusive. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z
He says he doesn’t read, so presumably it would be pointless; however, the Constitution might be a place to start. Jane Green: By the Book 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z
And one of its main points is that eating is pointless. Books of The Times: Lionel Shriver Addresses Obesity in ‘Big Brother’ 2013-06-23T19:20:39Z
I am an utter instant convert, and Tuesday evenings are going to be pointless fun for a while. The Silence; That Mitchell and Webb Look; Shooting Stars 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z
Is it a way of letting go—recognizing that, even if Megan gets her break through him, she may indeed really go places without him, but that it’s pointless to try to stop her? Mad Men Watch: Open Your Mouth and Say Ennui 2012-06-11T12:28:20Z
Bertolt Brecht's epic may be about a bafflingly long and pointless 17th-century conflict, but it is also a play for our time. Mother Courage and Her Children – review 2013-03-03T14:55:09Z
“And she knows it’s a pointless exercise to try to change something that was such a massive social question that it resulted in a civil war.” ‘Outlander’ Takes Manhattan 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z
“I suppose that all this is a bit pointless,” my mum mused one day. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z
Pedestrians look on in shock, less at the accomplishment than at his daring to do something so pointless on jammed sidewalks. Critic?s Notebook: Fasten Your Seat Belts And Embrace the City 2010-10-14T15:49:00Z
I feel safe saying so because we had a lot of smug conversations over the years about how pointless marriage would be for us. Modern Love: Did Mother, Maybe, Not Know Best? 2014-02-06T23:27:15Z
To reveal more about the story would be pointless, but also difficult, as there really isn't one. Like 'The Expendables'? Scarecrow suggests other '80s-style action films 2010-08-13T01:16:00Z
What, in fact, must be: Talk of unity between human populations, after all, is pointless without a parallel reckoning, a striving toward the renewal on which all earthly life depends. Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z
In our addiction to betterment, we’ve replaced “health” — an absence of sickness — with the amorphous “wellness” and a flurry of overtesting, fad diets and pointless “alternative” treatments. Barbara Ehrenreich Urges Us to Accept, Accept the Dying of the Light 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z
Set in the small Wisconsin town from which it takes its title, this pointless wallow in man-child misery unites three unappetizing specimens in what only the most magnanimous viewer would call a plot. Movie Review : ‘Oconomowoc,’ Set in Small-Town Wisconsin 2013-04-18T23:53:00Z
You have to be as authentic as you can in a role like that, otherwise it’s pointless and becomes a puppet show of a dictator. Idris Elba’s Toughest Role Yet: Going Brutal With Grace for ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z
It’s pointless to focus on any one beer since Chuck’s goes through so many kegs every week. Come for the beer, stay for the beer, at Chuck’s Hop Shop 2014-03-12T19:27:30Z
His almost incidental murder was akin to Denise’s in season six – short, sharp and pointless, just as deaths in this show should be. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode three recap – Monster 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z
For a time I thought story was stupid and pointless. Diamondbacks 1, Story 0 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z
I replied, reasonably, that it was pointless to seize my computer for days without working on it, merely to reserve space in a line. Gene Weingarten: The keys to insanity 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z
Some are violent, some educational, some utterly pointless but weirdly satisfying and addictive. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z
The New York Observer said the film was "a dumb, pointless, ugly, moronic and incomprehensible jumble of botched effects, technical blunders and cluttered chaos." "Green Lantern" emerges from obscurity; critics pounce 2011-06-17T05:24:12Z
In between is an indistinct, often pointless, largely unproductive, generally unprofitable realm that is enormously conducive to human happiness: puttering about. T Magazine: The Gift of Time 2010-12-04T16:30:00Z
The more sensitively conceived, ingeniously elaborated and dazzlingly executed his work, the more bizarre, eccentric and nakedly pointless it appears. Review | Who wants to join the cult of video artist Matthew Barney? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z
It may seem that in a world of visual overload we should be on our guard, but that is pointless and destructive. Trust me, I'm a picture 2011-03-09T13:38:19Z
“It’s all so excitingly pointless,” said Python Terry Gilliam, who will host the event. Pine no more! Monty Python celebrates 50 years of silliness 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z
What some might see as completely pointless, he found intellectually liberating. Harry Mathews, Idiosyncratic Writer, Dies at 86 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z
My parents’ efforts to get me to sleep by 7:30 p.m. were pointless. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z
This was pop fandom in 2020: competitive, arcane, sales-obsessed, sometimes pointless, chaotic, adversarial, amusing and a little frightening — all happening almost entirely online. How Pop Music Fandom Became Sports, Politics, Religion and All-Out War 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z
Indeed, the Forbes critic called this fratricide scene "a totally pointless subplot that achieves nothing and only serves to confuse us in the end." The "Squid Game" critique is also a love letter to a unified Korea 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z
It seems pointless to kill a man who places such little value on his life. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z
In fact, so shaky is its philosophical foundation that arguing seems pointless. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2015: 11 other acts that should be in 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z
So they’re pointless to begin with, and then you don’t even get that right? | Mather Zickel: Mather Zickel ‘Reports’ the News for Adult Swim 2013-01-17T15:40:14Z
These scientists believe that we should get rid of this kind of negativity because it only fuels pointless and fruitless claims for social and political change. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z
Indulging in a pedantic analysis of classic joke structure, comedy rules and the ways Gutfeld falls short of those standards is pointless and fails to understand what his rise signifies. The late night rise of "Gutfeld!" is telling us something. It isn't funny, but that doesn't matter 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z
That’s ironic because he’s so obviously a loser: divorced, dissatisfied, trapped in the cage of his own snobbery, scratching out a marginal and largely pointless living. Review: In ‘The Film Critic,’ a Snob Is Tripped Up by His Heartstrings 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos told Hollywood trade publication Variety in an interview it was pointless to show at Cannes after the festival rule change. Netflix to pull all movies from Cannes film festival 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z
Now it seems prescient — and, to his generation, pointless. Perspective | I thought Amazon’s new cashier-free store was creepy. My teenage son couldn’t care less. 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z
It's pointless to observe that all their stories are totally familiar, since very likely the target audience for "Prom" hasn't encountered any of them before. "Prom" and the bland, creeping evil of girl culture 2011-04-29T01:01:00Z
Looking to others serves just as an understandable, but ultimately pointless, struggle for meaning when it's really an "inside game." Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Gimme an M! Gimme an E! There are ways to lift yourself up. 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z
Human curiosity is inevitable, and denying the existence of this vast, charged space that is a crucial part of Soviet and global history would be impossible and pointless. Chernobyl welcomes the tourists – ‘a messy and morally queasy experience’ 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z
Couches were ridiculously pointless unless you had an actual receptionist and maintained office hours. Augusten Burroughs: “What did normal people do when they stopped drinking?” 2013-04-23T00:00:00Z
But isn't such laborious commitment a pointless fuss in this age of ready pleasures and easily disposable lovers? Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z
Though the "Pirates" episodes suffered from a similar abundance of excess, the "Prince" spectacle falls short in ways less comic, more pointless and just not very much fun. 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time': Overloaded with special effects and fairy-tale gobbledygook 2010-05-26T22:20:00Z
But these puzzles often appear to be either lacking significance, or so surface-level as to be pointless. Wes Anderson, Curator? The Filmmaker Gives It a Try 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z
I understand the confusion but I feel like I've repeated it and explained it so many times that it's pointless. The Antlers' kiss of death 2010-05-13T21:50:00Z
Will this ensuing war for something as pointless and ephemeral as power claim one of their lives? Summer is coming! Everything we know about new Game of Thrones so far 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z
Compare that with the pointless materialism and Samantha-falls-off-a-camel laziness of this year's film, and the decline becomes clear for all to see. Wanted: whoever killed Sex and the City. So we can shake your hand 2010-09-28T10:39:00Z
“Doing diva,” she said in London in June, “that’s completely pointless.” Victoria Beckham: Is She for Real? 2010-09-03T22:43:00Z
I became suspicious; at cookouts and parties and events I'd walk past the seafood salad as if it were as pointless as potato or macaroni salad. Real crab — not imitation krab — is an ingredient I'm willing to fight for 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z
Now it seems pointless to me to actually read the books. Emily Dickinson, British Abolitionism and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z
It’s diverting, a little sad, a little boring, full of geeky macho posturing and ultimately pointless, much like a Wednesday afternoon in a comic-book shop. | 'Comic Book Men': Kevin Smith?s ?Comic Book Men? on AMC 2012-02-10T17:12:59Z
Since then the food industry has worked tirelessly to find alternatives but these are all inevitably more expensive, gimmicky and pointless. Some kind of explanation: unspeakable nougat and trained cats 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z
Image via Wikipedia With Obamacare headed to the Supreme Court, it may seem pointless to reflect on some of the other challenges to the law that are winding their way up the courts. D.C. Appeals Court Points the Way to the Defeat of Obamacare's Individual Mandate 2011-09-29T15:22:11Z
"It's cruel and it's pointless and it's nothing like it says it's going to be in the brochure," cries Cassie, one of the characters in this inept family drama presented by the Comedians Theatre Company. Edinburgh festival: day one at the fringe 2012-08-06T15:42:24Z
He taught us that Pokémon and professional wrestling were pointless to buy into. Generation B: The Column Wraps Up With a Word From a Son 2010-05-20T23:26:00Z
Each new Die Hard film – the gratuitous second, the pointless fourth, the actively terrible fifth – serves only to diminish the glory of the original. After Terminator: franchises that deserve a mercy killing 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z
The writing of the final season was definitely ice, much like the White Walkers who loomed over Westeros for so long only to be rendered pointless in the end. You can’t rush perfection. ‘Game of Thrones’ tried and came out like an undercooked Hot Pocket. 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z
But if the third season suffered because it seemed pointless, that may be because it was setting up season 4's warning about the perils of trusting in bipartisanship. Making "Cobra Kai" great again: The series returns with a parable about the peril of bipartisanship 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z
I always thought of fashion as kind of silly and sometimes pointless. Colin Hanks Learns the Importance of Fashion From Tim Gunn 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z
He soon identified the IRA’s tit-for-tat bloodshed with police, soldiers and Protestant militants as a pointless waste that numbed the community’s senses. Irish Poet and Nobel Winner Seamus Heaney Dies at 74 2013-08-30T15:07:16Z
Along with accessories-in-murder Primal Scream, she reduced one of the greatest songs ever – Some Velvet Morning – to a pointless pile of sub-electro garbage. Models and music: looking good, sounding dreadful | Ben Myers 2010-03-29T11:35:00Z
I'm not going to get all sixth-form poetry with you about the rest of the album, pointless really – we could be here forever. The Velvet Underground & Nico: readers' reviews 2012-11-05T16:40:19Z
How pointless is it to threaten main characters — let alone Earth — in a prequel? ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Review: Here Come the Grease Monkeys 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z
If it had done I'm sure the families of the victims would have followed the same path as the Liverpool families.I'm sure he didn't mean any harm but it was an extremely pointless observation. Michael Richards revisits his racist rant … and the bonuses of being Brucie 2012-10-02T15:01:48Z
I tell you I’m upset and you just ignore my feelings and start talking about some pointless novelty in the news. Could AI counselling be the future of therapy? 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z
Maybe it's pointless worrying: the humble e-reading device may soon be supplanted by tablets such as the iPad and Kindle Fire. Why too many Es is bad for us but great for Amazon 2012-06-08T10:00:02Z
Less clear is what Mr. West thought he was doing with this depressing, grim story, which here becomes a pointless, abjectly impersonal re-creation of mass death, one poisoned sip and fired bullet at a time. ‘The Sacrament’ Invokes Jonestown 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z
Yes, superheroes bring with them high concepts and flashy spectacle, but they also allow us to believe that life contains more than pointless chaos. Why the "Glass" prequel "Unbreakable" holds up, nearly 20 years later 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z
So do many movie lovers—even executives who feel stampeded by another Hollywood infatuation with a technology that was already pointless when their grandfathers played with stereoscopes. Roger Ebert: Why I Hate 3D Movies 2010-04-29T14:54:00Z
Nondescript cheese, bland mushrooms and a pointless egg dragged down a pizza with a very good, light crust. Lost in New York at Public Kitchen 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z
Here’s an early report: This is like a master class in pointless political pseudo-analysis. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z
But preserving recordings is pointless, Hart says, if people can’t hear the stuff. ‘Sesame Street,’ Radiohead and wax cylinders enter Library of Congress 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z
Or maybe Gos from 2003, who was so overwhelmingly pointless that many have come to question whether or not he actually existed. Back to Big Brother 2010-07-27T14:09:00Z
Poor Barry is making a desperate attempt to persuade the Cody family to abandon the pointless, unrewarding world of violent crime and instead try day-trading at the stock exchange. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-24T22:10:02Z
Tynan was unfaithful and liked to spank his wife, a practice she found humiliating and pointless. 'A complicated hoot' 2011-08-26T21:55:05Z
Billboards, usually a major element of marketing campaigns, are “kind of pointless right now because no one’s going outside.” Dua Lipa’s Unplanned, Uncertain, Unprecedented Album Launch 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z
Otherwise it is pointless to suggest something without telling the reader where to find it. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Fall Edition 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z
This was evident from the start with the Millennium Experience, aka the Dome, a pointless, demeaning exercise that cost a billion quid and fell flat on its bloated face. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z
Or you can make pointless small-scale night-attacks of the sort described. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z
It was just pointless and a waste of time. Jane Curtin Is Playing It Straight 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z
There are no peacock displays of pointless erudition in her work; no recondite allusions are dragged in. ‘Nine Pints’ Is a Brisk Biography of Blood 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z
Once again, the small details are great; “Vinyl” continues to fail, and fail miserably, on the big ones, thus making the small ones pointless. Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Getting Sly & the Family Stone all wrong — at the expense of the band’s women 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z
Moreover, thanks to Davis’s perfectly guileless performance, we never forget we’re laughing at the pointless persecution of a harmless, mentally ill indigent. ‘The Day Shall Come’ Review: The Revolution Will Be Compromised 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z
Though we never learn the details of that story, we grasp that it’s banal enough to convince Meg that life is just a big, cosmic, pencil-related joke with the punch line, “It’s pointless.” ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2, Episode 9: Nothing Can Stand in Her Way 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z
That line winks at the beautiful speech Frances McDormand gives at the end of the movie “Fargo,” asserting the basic morality of a place that’s never known such pointless violence. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 3: Small-Timers and City-Slickers 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z
Plant knows it would be pointless to re-create the roar of Led Zeppelin. Concert review: Robert Plant at Taste of Chicago 2013-07-13T03:44:00Z
It may be pointless to hold the main plot of “Suicide Squad” against it. Review: ‘Suicide Squad’ Chases Nihilistic Swagger but Trips Over Its Own Feet 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z
Instead of expressive story development it depends on arbitrary structural tactics for its effects: not just the reversals and the symptoms-as-titles, but also the pointless weaving of characters into one another’s stories. ‘Breathe’ Review: A Pandemic Musical That Strains to Surprise 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z
Just another pointless hour of watching people incapable of explanation trying to explain to each other how their lives went right or wrong. Nick and Margaret: We All Pay Your Benefits; Brady and Hindley: Possession – TV review 2013-07-12T06:00:07Z
That character in the remake is now a vaguely defined and rather pointless "mercenary." Which "V" reigns supreme? 2010-05-18T19:30:00Z
But its real meaning is neither fashion nirvana nor pointless trend. Irony, sincerity, normcore: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, David Foster Wallace and the end of rebellion 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z
How poignant, even pointless, all this seems now, with nearly everyone gone. In Morocco, Exploring Remnants of Jewish History 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z
For the first two, guns are public-health threats or devices of pointless tragedy. Barrel of deaths 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z
It is perhaps pointless to quibble here about the ungainliness of those clothes and accessories made from the pelts of reptiles. On the Runway Blog: At Gucci, Assuredly 'Made in Italy' 2012-06-25T15:52:33Z
“Revoking press credentials was imprudent, pointless and offensive from the start,” said Post Executive Editor Martin Baron. Trump lifts ban that excluded The Washington Post and other news media 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z
But doing so is frankly pointless — their activism isn't about logic or cogency, but pink-washing violent patriarchal oppression. “Impeachment” pokes at the enduring myth of conservative feminism 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z
Hiking on nearby Avachinsky Volcano to admire the view seemed pointless. Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z
Not that it’s all gone, mind you, but scenes like the random, pointless undressing of the Alice Eve character in Star Trek: Into Darkness used to be far more common. Beefcakes are the new cheesecakes 2013-12-22T20:00:00Z
So if “Chicken & Biscuits” isn’t a profound work, that doesn’t mean it’s pointless. Review: In ‘Chicken & Biscuits,’ a Sweet but Dated Comedic Recipe 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z
The recruiting efforts would be pointless if there were many paths to God. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z
It's really just a torrent of age-old gags and clumsy, pointless situations dressed up with street slang. Anuvahood ? review 2011-03-17T22:00:03Z
It would be pointless if this was something that happened only in Britain. Should we all eat less meat? 2013-06-08T17:00:02Z
It should include “some ‘friendly reminders,” written in a passive-aggressive tone, Ms. Moss said, plus a pointless inquiry, like “asking 26 people what dates in June are good for them.” A Book of Emails Women Love to Hate 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z
Even a cameo from Orson Welles couldn’t lend lustre to this pointless and unfunny spoof, a dire tongue-in-cheeker that slipped past the franchise control of the producers, Eon. James Bond on film – ranked! 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z
A few pages later, Prose nails why cliched descriptions are so hopeless at conveying experience, explaining, for instance, why the sentence "Tom bit his lip" is a pointless banality. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose – review 2012-05-26T23:07:19Z
This pointless dissipation of energy and talent perfectly describes the horrors that befell classical musicians during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z
It was probably not the most sensible time to be doing a private outpatients’ session – the problems I was dealing with in my room off Sloane Square all seemed pointless and trivial. David Nott: ‘They told me my chances of leaving Aleppo alive were 50/50’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z
And I want to be a part of moving scenes, and not scenes that are mundane or pointless. Maisie Williams on 'How Game of Thrones' Treats Women 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z
Nevertheless, I was surprised to see so many people dismiss “The Convert” as pointless. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: Out of the Nest 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z
Many people play it for five minutes, decide that it is aggravating and pointless, and put it away forever. Why you can’t stop playing Flappy Bird 2014-02-14T12:50:00Z
My experiment with sidewalk leaning-in was short-lived; it felt pointless and rude. Perspective | I walked ‘like a man’ for a week, and here’s what I realized. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z
“It was so meaningless and pointless, and such a baffling event that it got me thinking about the why of it,” he said. In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z
The legacy of Zenobia is Amina’s only comfort on her pointless journey; but is it pointless if we learn from it? Stories for Kids About Heroic Young Refugees 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z
It’s pointless to attend to them now — the bees need the pollen and nectar — but as soon as the flowers fade, I would cut back the catmint hard. The late-spring trim can do wonders for summer perennials 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z
The series creators, however, argue that thirsting for revenge is pointless. ‘Five Days at Memorial’ Tells the Harrowing Story of a Deadly Choice 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z
In this feedback loop of pointless loathing, a dark laughter thrives. Doug Stanhope 2010-09-01T21:00:00Z
It’s a delicious, riveting mess of nonplot and odd characters, of pointless incident and pointed drama. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z
It was pointless debating but pointlessness seemed to be the point. I f*cked a Republican on Thanksgiving 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z
We’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images. The case for doing nothing: It's an intentional strategy, not a luxury or a cop-out 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z
There is a long and pointless digression, for example, about a masseur who got lost on the way to an appointment. Books of The Times: Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’ 2013-04-29T19:31:34Z
It is hard to remember the funny and smart Colin Farrell – from, say, In Bruges – while watching this intensely pointless and silly action thriller. Dead Man Down – review 2013-05-03T10:12:34Z
Although there's admittedly something truly unsavory about Haley's portrayal of the relentless dream stalker, even with his electronically deepened voice and a pointless amount of backstory, there's just no replacing Englund. "Nightmare" a sleep-inducing retread 2010-04-30T00:09:00Z
And the likelihood was that it would be just another pointless demonstration, a few hundred people surrounded by an even greater number of State Security. Stories from a revolution: The beauty of leaderless Tahrir Square 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z
Message board and mailing list culture, too, had yet not widely birthed trolls, flaming, or pointless provocateurs. Belle and Sebastian's first fans connected online before the trolls arrived 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z
And Last: He tapped “Send,” fearing he’d only embarked on another pointless journey, until a wave of optimism hit him, and he realized, “Heck, the Empress has always thought my entries were hilariously bad.” Style Invitational Week 1415: The Year in Redo, Part 1 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z
At the seaside outing, Mr Hunter, the company manager, conducts the choir, and the singers obey every flail of his arm, no matter how pointless. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists ? review 2012-05-20T18:47:54Z
But let’s get back to my original question: Is “Casa de Mi Padre” brilliant or pointless? A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z
What I do know is that it can be good — lifesaving, even — to be reminded to take each moment as it comes and to make time for silly, pointless joy. How a Missing Sock Changed My Life 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z
Only he didn't manage to find any rustlers or even any restaurants serving rustled sheep, so it all felt a bit pointless. TV review: Spies of Warsaw; The Food Inspectors 2013-01-09T22:30:00Z
It’s another pointless romp through Sandlerland — where the women are buxom, the kids have catchphrases and the jokes are below average. ‘Grown Ups 2’: Another lowbrow job from Sandler gang 2013-07-11T16:24:52Z
No one expected Rock to drop any revelatory political insight tonight, but his middle-of-the-road gripping comes off as utterly pointless given the direness and absurdity of our current situation. Saturday Night Live: Alec Baldwin and Jim Carrey face off in debate parody 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z
Goldoni thoroughly revised the text, cutting out arias and pointless spectacle. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z
It’s pointless to spend more than a minute or two explaining why Carlson’s old statements were offensive; their offensiveness is self-evident. Perspective | Why does Tucker Carlson act like he’s the victim? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z
I want to stop what I’m doing, go to wherever Watson is, and throw a hat or some petals at her, some flamboyantly pointless gesture of admiration. Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast is a good start – we need more feminist fairytales 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z
None of it means that immediate reforms of structures, rewards and the rest are pointless. Challenges are mounting for new BBC chief 2013-02-17T00:06:16Z
Military operations and high-level diplomatic negotiations prescribed by Peaceland would have been pointless against the marauders, but a reconciliation process led by residents worked. How to Help Endangered and Impoverished Peoples 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z
The effort to achieve “objectivity” or “detachment”—“to sound as cool as Jane Austen or as Olympian as Shakespeare”—was pointless, could only “betray our own reality.” Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z
Why we couldn't just get the sketches without this pointless and unfunny framing device is a mystery. Movie 43 – review 2013-01-29T18:45:01Z
Banning these jobs is pointless, Lewis says, aside from giving privileged feminists something to do, and making the work more dangerous. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z
If you are content in the present, then I think it's pointless also to worry or to sit and wish things didn't happen that have happened. Alan Cumming: "Life's just the same show with different costumes" 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z
The pointless political scheming in the face of profound climate change. Perspective | Was ‘Game of Thrones’ supposed to mean anything? Only if you wanted it to. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z
As the title implies, there’s virtually no action — the show consists of the meandering, generally pointless, often smutty conversations that take place while the characters wait for something to happen. This Man Doesn’t Star in Every Australian TV Show. It Just Seems That Way. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z
On a certain level that might be defensible as a portrait of moral or political reality, but its effect is to disempower the public and suggest that democracy is pointless. From James Bond to Edward Snowden: How the dangerous fantasies of spy fiction shaped our “Mission: Impossible” world 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z
“But they were Loyalists,” one man told me, and I knew further discussion would be pointless. In Saint John in Canada, Exploring the Legacy of the Loyalists 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z
Rather than ask pointless questions, we joined the seven or so others dutifully making the rounds. Overnighter: Frescoes and Festivals in an Umbrian Town 2012-10-28T05:00:23Z
Cohle is stoic and intense, not built for small talk, a man who doesn't try to win an argument, mostly because he knows he's right, so debate is pointless. Just like Rust never sleeps, McConaughey is wide awake 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z
“If neither one of us gets what we need or want, the whole exercise is pointless.” How do celebrity publicists operate in an era when the truth can mean anything? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z
“The Green Hornet” is not terrible, just pointless, and it offers further proof that superheroism is, at least for now, pretty well tapped out as a vein of lucrative pop-cultural bounty. | 'The Green Hornet': Have Cool Car and Mask (and Sidekick), Will Travel for Justice 2011-01-13T22:53:25Z
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