Sentences with phrase «like pointless activities»

Alicia's post on «Being Present» is such a great reminder to value our children and spend time with them doing what can sometimes feel like pointless activities.

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Last week a friend of mine observed that our culture is fascinated by zombies because they reflect back to us our worst selves in relation to our technologies: a need to engage interminably in pointless activities; a hapless desire to be in contact with others like ourselves

Last week a friend of mine observed that our culture is fascinated by zombies because they reflect back to us our worst selves in relation to our technologies: a need to engage interminably in pointless activities; a hapless desire to be in contact with others like ourselves without sharing any meaningful emotional or intellectual matters; the compulsion to devour rather than use a brain.

It seemed like I was constantly dealing with slow - moving platforms, or waddling through empty corridors, or sliding up and down pointless poles and ladders, or partaking in whatever other dull activities the designers could think of to make the process of reaching my destination at any given instance as time consuming and annoying as possible.