Sentences with phrase «own pointlessness»

This requirement triggered a firestorm of protest from corporations about the difficulties of calculation, the pointlessness of the statistic, every objection in the book.

The pointlessness of positioning a portfolio for a particular news event couldn't be clearer than it is in the strong stock market performance following the June 23 referendum vote in Britain to leave the European Union.

strike me down if i am to be wrong on any issus reguarding your retardedness and pointlessness of existence!

The hardest times for me come when the feelings of pointlessness crowd in, as they still do.

I know it as a smothering pointlessness.

But I choose to believe that pointlessness is the lie.

Its pointlessness is getting very old.

It is the sheer excess — the disproportion of our human bondages and the absurdity resulting from this excess, the grotesque pointlessness of so much of it — that undermines my sense of ultimate meaning as transcendent willing purpose.

It is just when problems are settled, books are finished on time, love is made with some rare finesse, that I get the sunny - sky blahs, offended by the pointlessness of joy.

Whatever plan I might commence, whatever identity I might pursue, it shrank to pointlessness beside the yardstick of boundless nothingness.

Get a Life Unloved Mishra and stop such profane and pointlessness except to ridicula one's pastimes!

I'm working on letting go of the unimportants, you know — the small stuff, the pointlessness, the worries, the materials, the what - ifs.

All the pointlessness around the box is good for nothing if chances are not made and goals are not produced.

The Premier League begins this weekend, with the pointlessness of the second international break out of the way.

There's chat about Jürgen Klopp's capacity for winding up other managers, discussion on the general pointlessness of the Hollywood Ball and even some talk about Barcelona's upcoming seasonal fundraising.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

In 2018 fantasy will meet reality - and the dregs of delusion replaced by the unignorable realisation of Brexit's sheer pointlessness and waste.

Whereas, the Cronje affair in cricket was partly because of the relative lack of money in the game - how little he could be bribed for - and of course the sheer pointlessness of even the proper (non-stanford) one day game.

IT IS A REMARKABLE THING TO SEE SO MANY IMPORTANT MEN REPRESENTING aggressively vocal, mutually hostile constituencies converge on Albany, only to emerge disconsolate, agreeing over nothing but the pointlessness of it all.

Irrelevancy is the gravest enemy in politics and the pointlessness of the Liberal Democrats is...

Dig into the data and the true pointlessness of the policy becomes clear.

There is a certain pointlessness to any assessment of party fortunes in the general election campaign, simply because what has happened since May 6th has changed the rules of the game so completely.

The pointlessness of it all merely increases when we acknowledge that France, Belgium and the Netherlands will enforce international law even if we don't.

What is most worrying about the Tory - led government's proposals to move May day is the sheer pettiness and pointlessness of it all.

He immediately got it - obviously it was a war crime, it showed the whole pointlessness of the campaign.»

And this year, a few MPs and journalists have used its abject pointlessness as an excuse to take a break from serious politics.

The project raised eyebrows, both because of its scale and the apparent pointlessness of storing so much ephemera.

An exercise in tasteful pointlessness, shot in flat black and white and scored (by Gruff Rhys, of all people) with tinkling piano and sawing strings that evoke nothing so much as an aura of cut - rate class.

What On Chesil Beach gets right is the sheer silly, tragic pointlessness of the virgin - wedding - night business and how disturbing sex was for a generation whose hypocritical elders had withheld information about it — a bizarrely sacrificial ceremony which probably had its last gasp with our own Lady Diana Spencer.

It's subsequently not surprising to note that My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done establishes itself as a baffling ordeal virtually from the get - go and maintains this feeling of frustrating pointlessness right up until the anti-climactic finale, which is undoubtedly a shame given the presence of some seriously talented actors within the supporting cast (including Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny, and Brad Dourif).

The Strangers (2008) was almost the platonic ideal of the genre: ninety minutes of no - frills home invasion terror whose apparent pointlessness was all part of the point.

Amongst all of this mumbly pointlessness is another element, a stranger one that is hard to discuss because Braff himself didn't seem to know how to fit it into his own movie.

Some suspense arises about just how far the woman's sickness will take her, but it's overwhelmed by the pointlessness of the story.

Apparently, then, pointlessness is precisely the point here.

Rather than playing up the gratuitous pointlessness of cash - in sequels like itself, however, Craven's latest merely adheres to the very convoluted whodunit formula (and mounds of inane exposition) that it outwardly addresses via a from - the - grave video recording by Jamie Kennedy's genre know - it - all.

So - so effects, little or no pacing, a drag in the middle and totally unnecessary 3D technology highlight the pointlessness of it all.

On several occasions, its portentous blatting resembles nothing more than a sonic raspberry — and, given the overall pointlessness and bad faith with which practically every aspect of this production has been crafted, that sounds just about right.

Egoyan's latest even throws in a creepy, non-sequitur-spouting Bruce Greenwood just for good measure, hinting at a subplot that may well have been dropped due to sheer pointlessness.

With the dumping continuing on Howard, their peripheral tangents to learn lessons and change their own lives reek of hollow pointlessness by comparison.

As the body count mounts so does the sense of pointlessness.

I'd entertain complaints about the pointlessness of stringing together song scenes with subtitles when the same effect can be achieved with the whole movie on DVD these days, but surely that more traditional method is preferable to the silly rigmarole that is offered here.

Our reaction: «This is a movie about the grubbiness, pointlessness and cowardliness of crime, while simultaneously recognising that such behaviour is the inevitable consequence of terrible circumstances.

Here's a metaphor for you to illustrate my point as to this film's pointlessness.

However, the unintentionally hilarious butchery of the final reel is quite nasty, of course, but nevertheless satisfying in its overall pointlessness and its a comeuppance free - for - all.

By the end, the story winds down into pointlessness, but director Whit Stillman has a distinct and appealing style that makes the film unique and keeps it moderately entertaining.

Perhaps the centerpiece is a lengthy monologue from a partygoer played by Will Oldham about the inevitability of decay and the pointlessness of human existence.

A grisly critique of representations of violence, the original version shot a hole right through the fourth wall, but Haneke's echo — which re-uses the same locations and stresses its own pointlessness at every turn — transforms his cultural commentary into an endless hall of mirrors, completing the project by repeating it.

Speaking of feeling more adventurous, Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 does one of the best jobs yet getting right into the action and slicing off the borderline pointlessness of the previous entries faux open world portions.

After that bit of pointlessness, the businessman sees Mina sleeping in the front seat and actually says he's not going to let this opportunity pass by, so he pulls a gun out and tries to rape her.

The pointlessness of the project becomes painfully evident in the third act, when we are treated to a plot twist that seems thrown in to divert us from the fact that the older woman - younger man relationship offers nothing in the way of insight.