We know that is pointless to stir a desire for free flight in people if they can't then find instructors to teach them. |
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Now, I've no specific objection to one's needy compulsion to share mundane personal blather but, for myself, I find it pointless and distracting. |
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A pointless remake of the 1968 classic, this features Mark Wahlberg as an astronaut who crash-lands on a planet that is run by simians. |
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The whole show was cringingly off the mark and much of the time was just plain boring and pointless. |
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But, the reason why it's a muddly subject is because they're being thick and pointless on purpose! |
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In contrast, today's budding poets might seem insignificant and pointless, punch-drunk and undirected about content, style, identity. |
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We are deluged with trivial information and pointless musings which strain the patience to breaking point. |
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It's 80 endless minutes of unfunny pratfalls, pointless chases and awful, awful songs. |
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I'm just forced to endure rage, endure my pointless existence, the whole idea of unnecessariness. |
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I might get narky with my girlfriend and pick a pointless argument with her because I'm cross and want to vent. |
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It smacks to me of a fishing expedition in the hope it may justify the prolonged nature of this otherwise pointless enquiry. |
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Asset-devaluation techniques like these don't stop attacks, but they have the potential to make them unrewarding and pointless. |
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It is pointless to object that Henry is here untrue to himself, when the point is that the old self has been destroyed. |
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To dwell on the negative of the situation was pointless, so I sought to find the good. |
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But it is as pointless to complain about this as it would be to complain that one episode of a soap opera is similar to another. |
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This is why there are no popular uprisings to overthrow the dictators, because it is perceived as pointless. |
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The netroots are out here trying to do some things that all the very smart people consider pointless. |
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She hated these lessons most of all, they just seemed utterly useless and pointless. |
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I have to confess that I consider cricket to be the most useless, pointless sport in the entire world. |
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However the day was almost marred by pointless and useless vandalism to one of the train carriage windows. |
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Almost immediately they run into a pointless spat with local tough guys that spirals into a violent feud. |
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You may occasionally be accosted in a public place by an attaccabottoni, a doleful bore who buttonholes people and tells sad, pointless tales. |
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However, the story and the manner of its telling are alike hackneyed, dull, and pointless. |
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There's not a single woman cowering under pointless blows, not a single housewife, waitress, charlady or nun being needlessly punched or nutted. |
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These are the kind of pointless questions that occupy the mind when you have nothing better to do. |
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Suddenly, all my lavishly packaged concept albums seemed pointless, irrelevant, sterile. |
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They'd already hashed it out a few dozen times before, and he found it pointless to go over it again. |
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So Cordelia realized how pointless their long one-sided conversations were, Kerowyn thought with the slightest air of smugness. |
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Fox hunting is therefore cold, heartless, premeditated and above all, pointless. |
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That helmet does mean that the optional sound-system is a bit pointless, though. |
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According to his account, he was overburdened and overwhelmed by the tasks imposed on him, many of which he regarded as pointless. |
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But succeeding generations of people like me will find marriage irrelevant, and pointless, and will go their own way. |
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It is pointless suggesting more and more ways to cajole people out of exercising their freedom to put less emphasis on childbearing and rearing. |
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The survey concluded that the electrics were antiquated and that any interior work would be pointless without the large scale repair of the roof. |
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However, no matter how serious or complicated a new situation may appear, it's pointless to press the panic button. |
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In many ways, his is a fine and progressive approach, which elevates party politics above the damaging and pointless battles of the past. |
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He didn't need to listen to his college classmates ask the professor pointless questions. |
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Anna knew it was pointless to continue, since it was so cold that it would keep icing over, yet she could not stop. |
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Sometimes he was right, as in his denunciation of the pointless attacks on the concrete-reinforced U-boat pens on the French coast. |
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This is perhaps the most pointless and ill-conceived magazine show that has ever had money thrown at it. |
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Brooke glanced back out the window, away from this boy and his inane and pointless questions. |
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Nothing before or since has been quite as bad, quite so pointless or inane. |
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Is any computing unrelated to quantum computing now a pointless exercise in combinatorics? |
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Aside from having total mastery over all things pointless, he's also a real cut-up of a comedian! |
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There are so many wonderful performances here, it would be pointless to single out individual cast members for praise. |
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At the same time, all this does is alienate liberal supporters who are perplexed by her insane and pointless maneuvring. |
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Now they spew out pointless filler instead of working on their own album proper. |
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I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticy, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days. |
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The huge surface area of all these worlds of programming leads to pointless flame wars over whose world is better. |
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If there is an invulnerable army running amok, all the rest of the sacrifices of that day seem silly and pointless. |
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A catapult fired point-blank, and flames broke over the roiled water, but it was pointless. |
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Personally, I think that makes it fairly pointless to theorise about the exact nature of consciousness. |
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It beggars belief how anyone with any sense could buy this pointless drivel. |
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The world will be so fundamentally different by 2050 that it's pretty pointless to speculate that far out. |
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Whichever way you cut it, it's still too often a pointless exercise for anyone writing for the consumer press. |
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When people began appreciating the wealth of other religions, conflicts in the name of religion seemed utterly pointless. |
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But that would render it pointless, a social inclusion policy rather than an existential explanation. |
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And even as pointless chatter filled my ears, I couldn't get the freshman girl out of my head. |
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However, there is no symbol for medium range and the infrequent appearance of the icons make them somewhat pointless. |
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You think I've got time to sit around doing something utterly futile and pointless? |
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The Government renders this part completely pointless by making the employer pay for the medical certificate. |
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After much seemingly pointless bishop maneuvering, a draw was agreed in 61 moves. |
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The models are detailed, but uninteresting lines, flat colors, and predictable pans render them pointless. |
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It's a pointless exercise in negativity by both the Labor Party and the Democrats. |
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It is a pointless plan and a waste of the taxpayers' money in a time of government cutbacks. |
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Yes, they seem pointless and stupid, but so do many of the things that are done in school. |
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If played with people who are not keen on presenting their points of view then the game becomes pointless. |
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The pointless poses of the last farewells pass into the ice of politeness like the smooth insides of a purse. |
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As sequencing projects had grown larger and larger it had become quite impossible and pointless for journals to publish the sequences in print. |
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Without this, talk about the virtues of flexibility and corrigibility remains pointless. |
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The draw isn't being made until next Sunday anyway, so it is pointless talking about the possibles until we see who we get. |
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To stay up any later would have been pointless, the results almost a foregone conclusion. |
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He took a deep breath and said a quick prayer for courage, then he moved on with his life, a life that would forever seem empty and pointless. |
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And so, to distract from this pointless scepticism, I mention something cribbed from the Guardian. |
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Defeat would leave them pointless and inflict further damage on their already fragile self-confidence. |
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You know, somewhere deep inside, that this pointless piece of frippery will find its way into your heart and your bathroom. |
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I find it insulting that our elected councillors are prepared to waste both their time and ours on such frivolous and pointless schemes. |
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She suggested that I purchase a gift certificate instead, but I said that would be pointless, since I would be the one spending it. |
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The criminalization of responsible drug users is only one of the many pointless aspects of drug prohibition. |
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The outcome also prompted immediate speculation in London that Britain's planned referendum on the treaty was now pointless. |
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But denigrating weblogs because they're introspective is like declaring the bicycle pointless because we have oil tankers. |
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His way is to embrace all the infinite pointless and impossible acts that surround every useful, purposeful decision. |
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Telling one person they should show their commitment by abandoning their fossil fuel use to other greedy-guts abusers is pointless. |
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Reverting to a full troop withdrawal stance would be both pointless and disastrous in policy terms. |
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Despite my general disdain for the community at large, community service would be somewhat pointless without it. |
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They relate to the problems of everyday life, and it would be pointless to quote from them at any great length. |
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In between filling out forms and running pointless errands, I struggled to keep a social life. |
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Going with friends is pointless because essentially casino gambling is not a team sport. |
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As such, then, it's utterly pointless and a complete waste of time, yet it is an undeniably cute doodah whatchermacallit. |
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It's pointless asking a man of O'Callaghan's scale the extent of his wealth. |
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Do you ever feel like your life is falling into a dreary, pointless routine? |
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He advised wannabe singers to get as much work experience and practice as possible rather than paying for a pointless degree. |
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After nearly twenty minutes of this pointless and boring jabber, the coach blew four quick whistle blasts and gave a long, loud holler. |
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I believe I've made it abundantly clear that this is a pointless retelling of an old story. |
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The more you embellish your note with seemingly pointless trills and scales, the more you care. |
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They are the boring, pointless, uninteresting gobs of wasted film dedicated to showcasing whatever idiotic local events took place that day. |
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On the other hand, I wonder if we won't regret the ridiculous amount of wasted trees and oil we pour into pointless packaging. |
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Brush and Rimbothorn ganged up in a rather pointless jointure to try and drench her. |
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There's a sad lack of rationality here, and it's become pointless to try to reason with the ranters. |
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Barth had the foolishness and rashness of the child that he was, quick to anger, slow to forgive, filled to the brim with pointless pride. |
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Because I have learned the hard way, if you think someone is disruptive, reasoning with them is pointless, debating the issue is pointless. |
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They do not want to believe that he would wage a pointless war, that he is as reckless as he is. |
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But, instead of retreating into pointless recriminations and bitter words, he sought a pragmatic way forward. |
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Our red boxes tell us what to do and our diaries are full of meetings, mostly pointless ones. |
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Ally, I was pretty sure, spent most of her money on clothes and other pointless things, though she got a monthly allowance from her parents. |
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After all this activity, she is left alone for a solo that looked rather pointless, as if it had been tagged on for her benefit. |
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The bell rang, and I rushed to my locker to get my stuff for language arts, the most pointless subject of the day. |
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His lack of a counterpoint reply can sometimes make Bam's labors seem pointless. |
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If the regular season doesn't mean all that much, then it's kinda pointless to get in a lather over the preseason. |
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It focusses on topics so remote from everyday concerns that, from a layperson's perspective, they can seem pointless. |
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He wanders into pointless asides, conspiracy theories and even presumes to lecture the audience about its loyalty to Canada. |
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Easy to say, but I do believe that living a lie is pointless and not only hurts you but all those around you. |
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The screen panned out and, superimposed on the pointless picture of a telephone, apparent quotes begin to appear. |
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So if you were hoping all the pointless, stupid controversy of the 2000 election would come to an end after this November, the signs aren't good. |
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It was a display of pointless truculence and ignorance and he was applauded for it. |
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All this pointless palaver about safety nets ignores the fact that Medicare IS a safety net. |
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He knew it was pointless but Luca still kept up his efforts in trying to talk sense into Blake. |
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This conversation was pointless and only awakened the hollow feeling in the pit of his gut and the sensation of helplessness. |
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It is a pointless plan and a waste of the taxpayers ' money in a time of government cutbacks. |
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It is pointless to note that incisions to a carcass by the teeth of predators or scavengers often resemble knife cuts. |
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The premise remains interesting, but the plot is cluttered with schemes and counter-schemes that seem unrealistic at best and pointless at worst. |
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Trouble's, it's just a pointless greatest hits album to steal your cash and screw you. |
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A theosophical discussion with a scientific basis is almost pointless and surely an exercise in futility. |
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Going down with a sinking ship seems so pointless when other more seaworthy vessels are within arm's reach. |
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Thieves are thoughtless at the best of times, but vandalism for the sake of vandalism is just pointless. |
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The pointless violence and vulgarity, however, that ends his stories smacks of an author thrashing around for an ending. |
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They would talk, but about pointless, and meaningless things, but only if they could spare you the time of day. |
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Whenever we attended we found ourselves in pointless meetings with people justifying their own existence. |
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Suicidal Terror's only possible victory lies in the pointless self-murder of its last happy martyr. |
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He settled into that familiar, steady, Melburnian tedium of pointless repetition and occasional scandal. |
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I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticky, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days. |
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Remember it is pointless keeping too much surplus money in a savings account if you are also servicing debt at a higher rate of interest. |
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I'll spare you the individual punches, but it was a very fickle and pointless affair centred topically on the BBC website. |
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Setting out future goals is a pointless task if steps are not taken towards achieving them. |
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Athletics, on the other hand, was an excuse to mince around a field in a vest and carry out a bunch of pointless exercises. |
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I sometimes think singles are pointless because the album will come sooner or later. |
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Seemingly vital projects such as turning a polystyrene head into a binaural microphone now seem pointless. |
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I have a disturbing fascination with minutiae, general knowledge, pointless facts and other trivia. |
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There was no pointless clutter of brandy snap baskets, tuiles, mint leaves or physalis either. |
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Instead of left and right, we just don't like the bland, blah-blah, pointless, and point-of-view-less media we're getting. |
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Now, pointless variation is in fact a sin of unpracticed writers, but lots of variation has a point, so there's no justification for viewing all variation with suspicion. |
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They set out to accumulate a lot of chips, but this is pointless as the increase in chips in this situation is of trivial value as the blinds and antes go up. |
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A dedicated bus-only lane would cure this pointless immobility. |
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Are things truly inalterable, rendering the erasure pointless? |
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This may seem like a good idea in theory, but in practice they amount to glorified extra-credit projects and pointless busywork. |
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Were it not for his impeccable service record, he might have been sacrificed to the god, but he was too good a soldier simply to waste on a pointless ritual. |
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Such deaths shock and sadden us all in their pointless cruelty. |
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These images unflinchingly confronted the gore, the naked terror, the arrogant incompetence, the pointless cruelty, the insane devastation of the military nightmare. |
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One reason for this is that in many seats tactical voting is pointless. |
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I think it is a ridiculous and pointless stunt that isn't even newsworthy. |
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It's virtually impossible to camouflage an aircraft in broad daylight so it's pointless to speculate over whether hot pink or avocado green is better for daytime stealth. |
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I find this kind of coverage distasteful, pointless and irrelevant. |
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Or have the number of postponements finally awakened us to the fact that it is a bit pointless starting the season knowing that half your games won't even go ahead? |
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And they will not be dealt with by pointless, unorganised and ill thought out demonstrations that no serve other purpose than to provide another irrelevant sound byte. |
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Eastward lay what seemed like pointless desert and unpopulated towns. |
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The negotiations have gotten nowhere, and I see no reason to continue with this pointless exercise. |
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No matter how many times I say that award ceremonies are pointless industry backslapping, I still can't help but be a teeny bit interested in them. |
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But we are digressing from a totally pointless and inane post here. |
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She had just noticed him watching her like a hawk and she also knew it was pointless of her to scrunch up the paper and hide it in her palm for he had already seen it. |
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By then, it had become obvious that it was pointless converting poor sandy soils or reclaiming heath for arable, and pine forests were planted instead. |
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Everyone adores money, why not the doctors, I asked, in a feeble attempt to defend my colleagues and take the easy way out of a pointless argument. |
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Ok, that didn't take long to devolve into totally pointless snark. |
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Accompanied by some cheap black sambucca, a small guitar, and three kazoos, we head to Hyde Park fountain for a few hours of pointless hysterical jamming. |
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Still, trying to fulfil them always seemed so pointless and meaningless. |
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Erigeron Spindrift makes growing ordinary karvinskianus pointless! |
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My money is on Crusading Carly to oust the jejune and pointless Barbara Boxer. |
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Coburn is also off camera for thuddingly lengthy stretches of the picture, while Cobb and the gaggle of actresses run about doing pointless bits of business. |
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If the self-destructive urge to have one more pointless leadership change were not enough there are now influential voices calling for the disbanding of the party. |
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She was perfectly happy to carry my half of the conversation for me as she chattered incessantly about things that were far too pointless to consider inane. |
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He also, like some existentialists, believes that life is pointless. |
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They would rather earn wages than play politics with pointless strikes. |
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What is unforgivable though is the pointless gumph when Aragorn falls in to the river and drifts off, only, gosh, he returns just in time for the battle. |
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But in my office, when I have nothing to do, the world seems do dismal, pointless and punishing that it can be hard to remember flowers and sunshine. |
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Why not just create something utterly silly, artistically a bit pointless, but ultimately just fun to watch? |
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I did dabble with a bread maker but it is now gathering dust with the sandwich toaster and the waffle iron in the land of pointless kitchen purchases. |
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Sweden explores new frontiers in our misguided, foolish, pointless obsession with rating and censoring entertainment. |
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It is wanton and pointless vandalism which has caused a lot of disruption to the school, but also those who carry out such attacks are putting their own safety at risk. |
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The behavior has long been regarded as a failed attempt at flying, pointless because the young chukar's flight feathers are not yet fully developed. |
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As with the country's crusade against communism, the pointless violence reflects America's own shibboleths, fears, and internal politics rather than meaningful policy. |
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Given the infinite amount of stuff out there it's pointless to pretend that you can experience it all, but I think it's wrong to not be bothered and just ignore it all. |
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Why do teachers insist on assigning pointless busywork during a break? |
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I'd like to start on real football rather than pointless friendlies. |
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The comingling of the art and pop music worlds is pointless and pretentious. |
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Setting a secure password policy with no enforcement mechanism would have been pointless, so Burnette installed an add-on system component that would allow them to enforce it. |
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Sachi and I were still arguing about completely pointless things like what it means to fall head over heels in love, when all of the sudden, poof! |
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And it certainly should not be mindless, pointless growth for its own sake. |
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The story of Alstory Simon has all the scope and scale, the cruel reversals, and pointless waste of proper tragedy. |
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However, I find it almost pointless to search for an exact idea to copy. |
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The debt ceiling is pointless, redundant, and a threat to our constitutional order. |
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The skronking sax is relentless and pointless and although the electronic bleeps are a welcome change, it's not enough to make these mundane tunes memorable. |
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Lessons in which there are no right or wrong answers, and from which solid conclusions cannot be drawn, tend to frustrate boys, who often view them as pointless. |
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It would be pointless losing player after player to the sin bin. |
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It would be pointless to spend the next few months duking it out with her only to lose on Caucus Day. |
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In other words, schlepping to the office via train 40 minutes each way had become pointless. |
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Two nonbinding straw polls and one utterly pointless beauty pageant of a primary. |
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They have been starting work at 8.00 am every weekday morning with a few minutes of pointless hammering, thus causing me to leave the house as quickly as possible. |
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Instead, Snider's point is that both sides settle for easy answers to complex problems, finding their solution in pointless blame-placing and muckraking. |
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After this abrupt and confusing start, waters are only muddied further by the constant intervention of some rather pointless and badly executed film footage. |
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She's become so dogmatic lately that arguing with her is pointless. |
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Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat. |
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It's a crying shame that so much money has been wasted on this pointless political campaign. |
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Meanwhile the utterly pointless Flash vote has brought nothing to the table apart from an extra 20 minutes of yawnsome padding. |
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Labradoodles might not be as serious as that but there is no reason to inflict pointless suffering on dogs for the sake of human vanity. |
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One of the most pointless forms of aggression is that of single men who are, in effect, undomesticated by responsibilities of family life. |
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Quite a few sacred cows would meet a humane end and we might see rather fewer pointless wars. |
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Countless collectibles and optional cases build up backstory but much like the pointless stealth sections, they're more filler than killer. |
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Simon Day and John Thomson's bafflingly pointless A Gaucho Adventure reduced two funny men to starring in their own vacuous vacation video. |
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To single out Tiger Woods is a cheap shot, and he has every right to stay away from such a pointless controversy. |
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And that would be a valid, if pointless, thing for me to do. |
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What follows, from the writers of The Hangover, is predictable, crass, pointless and plotless. |
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The example of how Title IX has been enforced in sports suggests a pointless punitiveness can be expected as women fall short in other fields. |
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Blind Freddy could have seen that Danny was being beaten pointless, but Laurie refused to shift him until the last quarter. |
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Among the intelligentsia he was best known for his fervent but pointless monologues, or his mansuetudinous dialogues with himself. |
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Because there has been no k in the word for over 700 years, representing its omission with an apostrophe seems pointless. |
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The case made it pointless for someone to import slaves into Britain around 1800 as the slaves would have been freed if they had landed. |
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Since the decision has already been made, further discussion seems pointless. |
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Eventually his conscience gets the better of him during a pointless sensory deprivation experiment on a monkey. |
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You ever have a staring contest with a fish? No eyelids. Kinda pointless, right? Like you reaching for that scattergun. |
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But I know that avoiding it, deferring it, or equivocating on the scale of it is pointless. |
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In the programming sections of Usenet, case conventions are second only to indentation as a source of pointless erudition and time-wasting flameage. |
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Our taxes are being funnelled into pointless government initiatives. |
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Because of the Angevin control of England in 1154, it was pointless to object to the superiority of the overall Angevin forces over the Capetian ones. |
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But what you can do is know all about the totally pointless things like who played the third spear carrier on the right in Indian Jones And The Temple Of Doom. |
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Moifaa gave Kia Ora a two-fence start and beat him pointless. |
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If the universe as a whole is pointless, then it exists reasonlessly. |
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I could end my career with England being record goalscorer and maybe even record caps-holder, but if you're not going to be successful, then it's pointless. |
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And, actually, not only is it unwinnable, it's actually pointless. |
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As pointless and unfunny programmes go, it was right up there. |
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In Brave New World you find the pointless hedonism of our binge-drinking young professionals in the city centres and the uncouth savagery of housing-estate charvers. |
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There's still a massive question mark over Thierry Henry, one that's been clouded by all the pointless pontification as to whether he's the best striker in the world. |
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