Sentences with phrase «pointless activities»

Check yourself if you become absorbed in pointless activities.

It's a ramshackle and shoddy collection of pointless activities even more pointless than the usual videogame because no one bothered to give any of the activities a meaningful incentive.

He wastes huge amounts of time on pointless activities, suffers emotional harm under a bizarre worldview that accuses him of being inherently evil, and feels forced to throw away significant amounts of money to fund the perpetuation of the belief system his is enslaved by.

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.

If your dog has developed a tendency to pursue the same pointless activity — sucking on his flanks, chasing his own tail, barking or snapping at thin air, et cetera — he may be suffering from canine compulsive disorder, or CCD.

While a lot of objectives are brief, I rarely felt like I was doing as many pointless activities (although you will watch a couple demos) as the first NES Remix had me doing.

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

Other works involved a weird assembly of radios, lights, and motorized mechanisms that jerked this way and that in an energetic display of pointless activity.

I raise this question because, even for those who are convinced that energy conservation is a good thing, it often seems a lonely and pointless activity in present - day America.

The moaners will say that a no - look goal, a flamboyant celebration or an outrageous back heel are all pointless activities.

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.

Regardless, consider the fact that there may always be some dogs who just seem to think that going after a ball and bringing it back is a pointless activity or perhaps a mere waste of time.

With their energetic displays of pointless activity, his machines satirise technology and challenge the concept of mechanisation as a positive force in society.

Check yourself if you do any of these pointless activities.