| 单词 | pointlessness |
| 例句 | “Don’t be nutty, Brinker,” I turned back toward the desk and began moving books with rapid pointlessness, “what a crazy thing to say.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The utter pointlessness of whatever I was doing there seized me by the throat, and all I wanted was to get it over with and get back to my cell and sleep. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z When the victim stops walking and sinks to their knees to weep at the pointlessness of it all, the Pogrebin will leap upon them and attempt to devour them. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing she could do, nothing she could make Leon do, and she suddenly felt the pointlessness of argument. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z With the end of the world looming, I can finally see the pointlessness of everything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z There’s a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help feeling a kind of helpless and dispiriting pointlessness in what I was doing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He’s an amateur sociologist and a philosopher, opining on such topics as the origins of the “anti-urban, anti-statist” trucker culture and the transcendent pointlessness of material possessions. ‘The Long Haul’ Is a Trucker’s Slangy Tour of the Road 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Using an array of nonsense jargon, banal chatter and surreal advice, Jackson encourages his audience to embrace the gospel of pointlessness. This week's new comedy 2011-01-01T00:05:55Z The article included a long excursus on the pointlessness of looking for anagrammatic ciphers; a note revealed that the statement itself was an anagram. The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Many of the late 20th-, early 21st-century heavyweights — Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and so on — are masters at exposing the frailty, the pointlessness, the comedy of goodness. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Like "Silicon Valley" does in its best episodes, this is a show that acknowledges the noxious nature of office ecosystems and success ladders, and the pointlessness of working oneself out of actually living. Sick of working from home? "Corporate" will remind you of how lucky you are to escape your cubicle 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But what's offensive is not so much the "pointlessness" of the violence as the way the women characters seem to invite it. Michael Winterbottom on The Killer Inside Me 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z For her, it is impossible to stop obsessing over the “pointlessness … the brevity and meaninglessness of things” when “despair — awful, awful despair — kept on returning.” James Wood’s New Novel Confronts the Mystery of Other Minds 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z On the surface, the movie’s main subjects are originality in art, the fallibility of experts and the pointlessness of assessing authorship, at least when confronted with a masterpiece. Does It Matter if a Documentary Is Staged? These Two Films Hold Answers 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z He’s spoken about the pointlessness of hard drugs, and seems genuinely excited to be playing music for a living: He’s resisted getting jaded despite many years in the game. The Oscars have a Dave Grohl problem: A famous straight white guy everyone likes can always find his way on stage 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z This maxim neatly accompanies the age-old wisdom about haste, waste and the pointlessness of stressing over being late. A road map for surviving — and even enjoying — long car trips with kids 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Nowhere in the entire screed was the sheer pointlessness of the Afghanistan "conflict" mentioned: it was all about heroic redemption. Rewind TV: The Great British Bake Off Easter Masterclass; Our Girl; Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day; Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise 2013-03-30T22:45:01Z But the sense of giddy pointlessness is Russian to the core. Strange Lands Series Celebrates Soviet-Era Sci-Fi Films 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z I mean the point or pointlessness of life in the face of death, and how we avoid and embrace our ultimate ends. Review: A Fantasy Town Builds a Wall Against Time in ‘Ballyturk’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Let's face up to "the sheer pointlessness of our daily endeavors": we are all Vladimir and Estragon from Waiting for Godot. Non-fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-20T07:00:02Z Derided for its pointlessness upon launch, it is actually packed wall to wall with comfort food. Tired of rewatching Fleabag? Here are 30 TV hidden gems to stream 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Choosing to follow the central mystery of “Search Party” to its conclusion means riding shotgun with an unreliable protagonist whose mission smacks of pointlessness. TBS’s “Search Party”: A holiday trip through tragedy appropriation 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The subject of the film, fundamentally, is education, for better and worse—the ultimate pointlessness of education, with the emphasis on “ultimate.” Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Did Villeneuve kill off the blade runner to underline the replicant’s existential tristesse, the pointlessness of life when faced with the reality that you are just an ersatz version of the real thing? Blade Runner 2049: does it live up to the critical hype? Discuss with spoilers 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Realize the pointlessness of preaching to the choir. Journalists in the age of Trump: Lose the smugness, keep the mission. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z A book so determined to chase its own tail in its pointlessness has every right to become a cult classic. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Riot Girl, and the uprising that surrounds it, knows the pointlessness of trying to explode from within the mainstream. There's a riot grrrl going on – a classic tour feature from the vaults 2013-01-09T13:10:35Z This year, in terms of talent, publicity and execution, it seems unlikely that any film will manage to beat The Canyons when it comes to sheer undiluted pointlessness. The Canyons: 2013's most pointless movie? 2013-01-03T12:57:33Z A display stand for oranges, made up of little mounted and adjoined rings, exudes joyful pointlessness: Who would need to manage their oranges this way, except to revel in the sheer pleasure of their display? How “Good Design” Failed Us 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z She does a fine extended riff on the pointlessness of taramasalata, but what about the pointlessness of their relationship? Henry and Elizabeth 2010-06-16T21:40:00Z For Zimmermann, the fragmentary nature of his musical language was an expression of the essential pointlessness of art, the inability for a musical language to express the truth of humanity's post-war condition. A guide to Bernd Alois Zimmermann's music 2012-06-26T11:41:41Z “I still lived in a world of logic and purpose and resolve,” he writes of the early days, “and I hadn’t figured out how much pointlessness a hostage has to put up with.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Journalist Recalls the Terror (and Boredom) of Being Held Hostage 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Their workload is huge but the seeming pointlessness of it all would surely drive any ordinary man or woman to despair. The Briefs; Britain's Favourite Supermarket Foods – TV review 2013-07-19T06:00:08Z In a well-constructed programme, Our Drugs War encapsulated the pointlessness of our involvement in Afghanistan. TV review: Death in the Med, Our Drug War and In their Own Words 2010-08-17T07:00:00Z That tragedy sends the author into the kind of “addled mourning” that spins him through “cycles of pointlessness.” ‘The Hero’s Body’: The dangerous world of hyper-macho men 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z There is an almost superhuman level of pointlessness in assuming the identity of a – even if it's just Amelia Lily – then dribbling out such prosaic missives. Fake Twitter celeb accounts: why do people bother? 2012-07-26T18:59:02Z The pointlessness of the behavior, which sucked up and continues to suck up huge swathes of his life, can hardly be overstated. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Can't you give your obsession with the pointlessness of modern art a break? Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe – digested read 2012-11-11T13:00:01Z Though not strictly a horror movie, “She Dies Tomorrow” sees Seimetz’s vision build to a horrifying pointlessness. ‘She Dies Tomorrow’ Review: When Anxiety Goes Viral 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z But the pointlessness is exactly what makes it so wonderful. Perspective | The ugly underside of Brad Pitt’s cool car in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The hatred these two men have for one another can go on for decades, but in serialized entertainment terms focusing the story on that and little else is a swift journey to pointlessness. In its third season, "Cobra Kai's" one-note villain knocks it off its game 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Rick understands the pure pointlessness of existence — in any dimension, in any time, on any planet — and therefore behaves as if nothing matters and everything matters. Finally “Rick and Morty” is back with the inspiring nihilism we crave 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Yet the self-evident pointlessness of the Iraq war and the huge costs it incurred – human, political, financial – shoved the warrior ethos back into its box. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z The days pile up, always the same, but repeated in an ever-evolving random order, as if to underscore the pointlessness of attributing meaning. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-15T23:05:28Z It was pointless debating but pointlessness seemed to be the point. I f*cked a Republican on Thanksgiving 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Or borderline personality disorder and depression, which lead patients repeatedly to express the lack of meaning and the pointlessness of their existence. Emptiness doesn't have to mean nothingness: it could mean happiness 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z The most difficult think I face being a "climate doomer", is recognising the shear pointlessness of everything that isn't focused on mitigation or limitation. Why climate ‘doomers’ are replacing climate ‘deniers’ 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z As the conflict continues in Ukraine, Ms Pugh said that the reunion was even more poignant, and reflected on the "pointlessness" of wars. Falklands War: Welsh soldier thanks nurse who helped save his life 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The random pointlessness of the killing shocked Houston. Stressed drivers, lots of guns: An explosion in road rage shootings 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z She may be anonymous at the moment, but she has become a powerful symbol of the cruelty and pointlessness of this unforgivable war. Column: The image of a bloody mother and her unborn child symbolizes Russia's brutality in Ukraine 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The abject collapse of the Afghan army coupled with the flight of the Afghan leadership only emphasizes the pointlessness of trying to create a modern nation out of a feudal backwater. Opinion | Assessing the aftermath of the withdrawal of Afghanistan 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z One critic dismissed the mound as “an expensive exercise in pointlessness.” London’s latest tourist attraction, a $3 million pile of mud, forced to close after just two days 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The pointlessness of it all is especially despicable when you understand that space tourism is funded with the hoarded wealth of billions of workers who are struggling to survive here on Earth. No, billionaires won’t "escape" to space while the world burns 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Not only for the pointlessness of the tragedy but because of the enormity of the interconnected global war machine that caused it. National Book Award winner Phil Klay returns with visceral debut novel ‘Missionaries’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z This song, about the pointlessness of material goods if you don’t have the one you love, “poured out of me” on a plane after hearing the news. Alicia Keys: 'I was supposed to end up a prostitute or addicted to drugs' 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z But the pointlessness of riding a floating plank on an agitated sea represented a side of myself that I’d only ever glimpsed. How a run-in with the world's most venomous fish changed my life 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The word itself – meaningless, infantile, a bit 80s and decidedly naff – is emetic enough without the inefficiency, the pointlessness, the utterly wasted time and opportunity of a procedure that fixes precisely nothing. 'Don't just stroke me and light a candle, please': Sali Hughes on 'dirty' beauty treatments 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z There’s outright slapstick at one end, with black comedy somewhere towards the middle; down at the other end is the sad pointlessness of what these men are doing to each other. Musical notes: Scorsese, Madonna, and the awfulness of millennium pop 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Payne and Taylor, meanwhile, have fun mocking the drudgery of high school and the pointlessness of high school elections. Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician pairs perfectly with Election 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The Apollo 11 mission was, he insisted, chilling in its self-evident futility, its enormous orchestrated energy, and its ultimate pointlessness. Between the Moon and Woodstock 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z My friend Annie replies: “I fear he’d become tiresome down the pub, musing on the pointlessness of alcohol when all is dust, etc.” When will I be famous? Oscar the whippet’s bid for Instagram fame 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Neeson cast the episode as a parable on the pointlessness of seeking revenge and connected it back to the conflict in Northern Ireland, which officially ended in 1998. Liam Neeson Describes Racist Revenge Fantasy in Newspaper Interview 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z My friend was experiencing pain and pointlessness at work, but the narrative she told about her job was totally unrelated. The tall stories we tell ourselves about happiness 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z The pointlessness of The Good Place’s punishments — which serve no moral purpose — is the show’s most radical choice. The Good Place is really about rethinking policing and prisons 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z After all, the mindless pursuit of productivity can result in a swallowing sense of existential pointlessness, and as we’ve all learned from history, that will only drive you to drink. Letter of Recommendation: Drinking at Lunch 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z There is above all an absence of tension here, just as there is an existential pointlessness to the idea of buying success. The PSG-Neymar show rolls on – but is it more celebrity than sport? | Barney Ronay 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Thus began a lifetime’s discovery of the pointlessness of IQ tests and whatever it is that they measure. Opinion | Trump’s obsession with his IQ is the opposite of wisdom 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z But is satirising President Trump the definition of pointlessness? Edinburgh Fringe: The comics taking on Trump - BBC News 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Eventually, the monster of meaningless invades the adrift American’s home, provoking an inquiry into the purpose or pointlessness of life. Steve Bannon’s dark pursuit of a meaningful life 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The three-martini lunch may be remembered as an anachronistic ritual during which backslapping company men escaped a swallowing sense of existential pointlessness. Letter of Recommendation: Drinking at Lunch 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Not to mention another example of the basic pointlessness of comparisons, of that endless, formalised quest for an all-time champion, for one of these giants to be named definitively as the greatest. Diego Maradona stands alone in football’s glorious outlaw age | Barney Ronay 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Some months ago, this column pondered the pointlessness of Middlesbrough, outlining that, for better or worse, they were the only team in the Premier League that had done absolutely nothing remarkable all season. Premier League: 10 things to look out for on the final day of the season 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z While Boro fans will almost certainly bristle at this rumination on the pointlessness of their team’s Premier League existence, they must surely have hoped for more upon securing promotion last season. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z And yet pointlessness is coming to define American foreign policy. Trump and Trade: Extreme Tactics in Search of a Point 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z I shouted at the moment of peak pointlessness. 'It's not just shopping, right?': life in the shadow of North America's biggest mall 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z She spoke of leaving Earl Blackburn not regretfully, exactly, but with a kind of cold wisdom about the possible pointlessness of the gesture that people three times her age don’t often achieve. Yuja Wang and the Art of Performance 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Most of Kenzo World's competitors also try their hardest to be cryptic and nonsensical, lest customers realize that smelly water is an essentially pointless purchase, but here, Jonze has elevated that pointlessness to an artform. Spike Jonze's new perfume ad is the only perfume ad worth watching 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The bid was a stunt, a piece of real-time performance art meant to jolt viewers into considering the pointlessness of the electoral process. Icelandic comedian Jón Gnarr's 'The Mayor' is like 'Veep,' only with a real-life politician 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z In another way, though, a draw underscores the unreasonableness—the irreducible pointlessness—of boxing. Boxing After Ali 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z On foot in car-crazy Saudi Arabia, I discovered the pointlessness of asking directions. Walking 21,000 Miles Across the World Is…Normal Life in Tel Aviv, getting older, anxiety, war, the tension between the pointlessness of life and the need to give it meaning. Q&A: SXSW 2016's must-see music acts introduce themselves 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z This emerging trend should make clear the pointlessness of proposals being floated by several Republican presidential candidates, including Donald Trump, who seems to believe keeping Muslims out of the country will keep terrorism out. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z As the Atlantic magazine put it: “In a year of inexplicable presidential candidacies, his stood out for its utter pointlessness.” The 10 best curveball US presidential candidates 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Related: Uefa invites ridicule upon indignity with reaction to booing of its anthem At which point you may start to think the most remarkable thing about all this is its basic pointlessness. Manchester City fans should carry on booing but will Sheikh Mansour join in? | Barney Ronay 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z We don’t have to look hard to find a prime example of the self-aggrandizing pointlessness of what’s in store for us. “Morning Joe’s” Nazi freakout: Joe Scarborough is a bullying egomaniac (pt. 134) 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z This certainly chimes with my own feelings about the pointlessness of today’s supposedly smart TVs, as outlined in my recent feature Smart TVs Are Dumb – Every Last Stupid One Of Them. "TV is like the fax machine" - Netflix's Reed Hastings Pulls No Punches With Vision Of TV's Future 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z But one year in particular shows the utter pointlessness of trying to forecast the future: 1989. Predicting the future is a mug's game 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z I’m offering you an out here – a chance to skirt obsolescence, to actually make the world better instead of wasting away in your own bigoted pointlessness. It's game over for gay marriage opponents. These dodos need to find a new obsession 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Which leaves us with a perfect storm of pointlessness: the pointless booing of a pointless song, for pointless reasons, now the subject of a pointless censure. Manchester City fans should carry on booing but will Sheikh Mansour join in? | Barney Ronay 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z There is both presumption and a certain pointlessness in trying to explain the awful convergence of sorrow and circumstance that drove Robin Williams to end his life. Robin Williams and the Dark Mystery of Suicide 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z How else do we explain a Don Cherry dance number, except to assume every decision maker that okayed it along the line was filled with either total despair or a foreboding sense of pointlessness? Stanley Cup Game 4: Rangers clutch last chance to keep Kings at bay 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z They are represented mostly by a panel of door handles, each designed by a famous name and each only slightly different from the others, a microcosm of previous biennales that is eloquent in its pointlessness. 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale review: put yourself in their space… 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z What is striking about his move to City is its sheer pointlessness. Jack Rodwell’s stasis says more about football than Yaya Touré row does 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The annoyance caused by the blocked view, then, is multiplied by the pointlessness of what's blocking it. Yeah Yeah Yeahs launch pre-emptive strike at phone-wielding gig-goers 2013-04-10T09:50:30Z Finally, what about the niggling issue of pointlessness that still pervades the 4K scene? How long before a 4K TV becomes a realistic purchase? Give it two weeks 2013-04-09T15:42:57Z Once their hosts determined to be less passive and obliging, the alacrity with which they regressed to primary school pointlessness was alarming – but more a reflection of temperament than technique. World Cup qualifiers: 10 talking points from Tuesday night's internationals 2013-03-27T12:33:46Z It only increases the feelings of emptiness and pointlessness. After the Games: what now for the armchair athlete? 2012-08-13T17:22:38Z But the town is pervaded by a sense of nihilistic pointlessness. DR Congo: Where logic ends? 2012-06-06T08:57:26Z Modestly describing himself as a "dilettante architectural photographer", Moby repeatedly admits the pointlessness of his own project – far more than he needs to. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-02-10T17:34:47Z With time and reassurance, she finally dismissed her guilt; I listened to her statements, returning not with, "You shouldn't feel that way," but with reasons which effectively reinforced the pointlessness of her guilt. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z It’s the pointlessness and lack of meaning in what they doing that is the problem. Think Your Job Is Bad? Try One Of These! 2011-08-12T00:01:11Z But even worse than the suffocating anticlimax was the feeling of dangerous pointlessness. The Senate puts on its debt ceiling happy face 2011-08-02T17:13:00Z A weakness of the Facebook, or social graph, model in the enterprise has been the fear of pointlessness. Is the Virtual Neighbor a Match for the Facebook Friend? 2011-06-20T16:11:02Z My chief objection to the life was its seeming pointlessness. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z But the bizarre fascinations of the gym – the airless, repetitive flexing and relaxing, the determined pointlessness, the feverish generation of sweat – none of this was even conceived of until the 60s. The gym is a genius con we should be ashamed to fall for 2011-01-05T20:30:00Z Never mind for a moment the pointlessness, if you'll excuse the pun, of confiscating such items from anybody, let alone from pilots. In praise of Michael Roberts, body-scan rebel 2010-10-21T21:15:00Z Sometimes the young football mind is slow to see the pointlessness of violent challenges in non-threatening parts of the field. Jack Wilshere and Cesc F?bregas are already in perfect synchronicity 2010-10-19T21:16:00Z I am crushed by the stupidity; the utter pointlessness. Lennon?s Killer Wavered 2010-09-16T19:23:00Z Most of the cost is in the pointlessness of digging under Canary Wharf and the City. Letters: Making banks more user-friendly 2010-08-01T23:04:00Z It was at this point that the utter pointlessness of the whole endeavour hit home to everyone, and people reacted in one of two ways. Tough Guy: Nettle Warrior 2010 2010-07-29T09:50:00Z I had not realized how much the pointlessness of this much-repeated phrase annoyed me until last summer, when I came upon a lady on the street who was walking with her head down. | Answerless Questions 2010-05-21T14:26:00Z S. T. Law, Glasgow, Scotland These earthquakes, or the chance victims of suicide attacks in my country, point to one thing: the pointlessness of this life. 2010-01-21T11:00:00Z I did not pursue the subject of Carrington's pointlessness nor proffer a plea for socialism. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece In response, Amazon sent internal memos to its employees, stressing the pointlessness of unions within the company. A Short History of EBooks I consider that story and the two which follow quite equal, in their diverting pointlessness, to any of those told by Cicero in De Oratore, Book ii. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The pointlessness of loco is made clear enough by Wheeler's 'and he takes on strength from a place nearer to him'. The Last Poems of Ovid It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. The Trial The talk was light word-play, such as depends upon the talker's own mood for its point or its pointlessness. Indian Summer It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. Siddhartha |
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