Sentences with phrase «pointless at»

In fact, it's pointless at best and dangerous at worst because you could be setting a goal that isn't right for you and you'll find yourself wanting in your golden years.

I wanted it to feel pointless at the beginning and then gain merits as I uncovered or created problems and then either solved them or forgot them.

I wanted it to feel pointless at the beginning and then gain merits as I uncovered or created problems and then either solved them or forgot them... I showed the melons split, because, with all the contrast I saw in the fruit, I saw an opportunity to take restriction off of color combinations».

It all adds a bit of variety to the different stages, even if it does feel a little pointless at times.

So New Super Mario Bros. 2 doesn't strike me as odd or pointless at all.

I could quote praises of the quality of that very element of the game all day long, from every gaming site that's worth a damn and not only would that be pointless at this time but it would still not drive the point home because when someone thinks of a good video game story, they don't think of Planescape unless they've played it.

Likewise this lack of chance to plan makes traps feel a bit pointless at times.

I wouldn't say it has amazing story telling because the story in uncharted 4 is pretty pointless at best.

It's not engaging, it's not strategic and even worse arguably feels pointless at times because of how simple the council is to manipulate in order to get your way, like they're just a small hurdle you must constantly hop over in order to get back to making the city better.

Yeah, I think building a Smash game from the ground up is entirely pointless at this moment... just port the excellent Wii U foundation, increase the content, give us Ice Climbers and Simon Belmont, and take my $ 60.

You ramblings are incoherent and pointless at best.

Feeding him is pointless at this time, because his digestive tract will just force the food through his body without absorbing all of the nutrients.

and dazzling visual style but it is the characterization that matters the most... Christian Bale was superb and the scene - stealer but the rest did a great job as well - especially Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence and Jeremy Renner... the film slowed down a bit and became a bit pointless at times but nevertheless it was a lot of dazzling entertainment

The multiplayer modes and modifiers are repetitive and mildly fun at their best and frustratingly pointless at their worst.

Remember when your teacher swore that knowledge would come in handy someday, even though it seemed pointless at the time?

Pointless at best, this exercise has already proved needlessly divisive.

Sixth - placed finisher Patrick Gaillard was competing in what was his third and final Grand Prix, so he lost his hard - earned point, as did his Ensign team who ended up pointless at the end of season.

Transfer rumours about deals that could be done on at the end of the season are pointless at this point.

Any other service provided may be «nice,» but is pointless at the hour of death.

Talking up the detailed benefits of your solution to someone who is only vaguely aware of a problem is pointless at best.

Not exact matches

(See How to Deal with Time Wasters) Such sessions rarely accomplish anything except maybe some pseudo-bonding; they don't have a logical and clearly - understood endpoint so they seem both pointless and interminable; and, most often, they sorta drool to a conclusion without agreed - upon action items and / or documented next steps for at least half the people in the room.

As much as it's significant to speak for yourself and stand by your point, it's also necessary to avoid pointless arguments at work.

That raised the question of where Western countries go from here, after a volley of strikes denounced by Damascus and Moscow as at once both reckless and pointless.

«At the time I thought it was kind of pointless, but it ended up really exposing me to leadership opportunities and showing me that I wasn't good at a lot of things, instead of sticking to things that I was comfortable with.&raquAt the time I thought it was kind of pointless, but it ended up really exposing me to leadership opportunities and showing me that I wasn't good at a lot of things, instead of sticking to things that I was comfortable with.&raquat a lot of things, instead of sticking to things that I was comfortable with.»

Their fiscal policy has been driven solely by the goal of eliminating the deficit while at the same time delivering pointless «boutique» tax breaks.

As anti-poverty strategies go, increasing the minimum wage is at best pointless.

«A rule requiring retirement advisers to serve their clients» best interests is completely pointless if it means many Americans won't have access to retirement advice at all,» wrote Reps. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C.

At the end of the day, ranking # 1 is pointless unless it brings in dollar bills.

He proposed zero measures to restrict access to the weapons that make mass killings easy to carry out; and at one point, he implied such policies would be pointless.

Screaming at fools here is pointless.

Because as we all know, or at least should know, proof texting without proper context is not only pointless, it's dishonest.

What appeared good or even very good at first turned out to be meaningless and pointless, and the introduction of suffering and struggle and maturity was a good thing.

Federer's occasional mistake would not matter as Monfils double faulted at key points, hit lazy and pointless drop shots, and couldn't muster the force, energy, or focus that had sent his forehands and serves screaming past the Swiss.

He defended traditional missionary preaching of the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ against historical relativists and religious pluralists who viewed it as at best pointless and at worst a cultural imposition.

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

But when we look at the world around us, we find many instances of apparently pointless suffering from which no greater purpose seems to result.

If every person devoted all efforts that we seem to throw at this pointless debate to enlighten someone else's mind, and focused on, let's see I du n no, a clean renewable source of energy!!

We can then make that four - dimensional world a better place by causing there to be less pointless suffering in one particular place, at one particular time, than there otherwise would have been....

This is a pointless argument to have when you refuse to look at all of the evidence.

I started doubting my religious upbringing at about age 11 and became quite certain it was pointless during high school.

Stop the pointless bickering and attempts at proving others wrong, do good for the earth and others, and live your life.

You need to stop being so vindictive towards others, maybe read a book, go have sex, whatever you need to calm down, then come back and realize that no one is attacking you, im sure people are laughing at this conversation, but not because of what it in but just because its pointless, you bring up the same things OVER and OVER again and then accuse me of having spuratic arguments?

It is pointless to resort to slights and «gotcha games» or to throw stones at historical characters.

Our church, however, took it one step further: if all a woman was allowed to be was a «keeper at home,» then it was utterly pointless for her to try to be anything else.

Reason would dictate that if a celebration was based upon an occurrence, whether actual or mythological, redefinition of that celebration is logically pointless; a steak knife is a steak knife; has been a steak knife, and will always be a steak knife (at least for about 500 — 750 years); the very same with Christmas.

People are always talking about how «More murders have been committed in the name of one religion or another than any other cause», but they fail to talk about all the pointless ones that happen ALL the time for reasons that have NOTHING to do at all with religion.

To put it another way, if all God had to do was forgive, then the birth, teachings, the ministry, the betrayel, the trial, the beatings, humiliation, and crucifiction, the sacrifice of His Son, Himself, was a pointless act, a token gesture at best.

So stop the pointless labeling, stop dealing in poorly - reasoned absolutes, and start looking at history — and you will find that this country HAS ALWAYS DONE BEST — economically, socially, culturally - when PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL POLICIES (government — i.e. PUBLIC — economic regulation, direct democracy, progressive taxation) have been implemented.

As Ogden puts it, «Once we presuppose the mode of reasoning proper to religion, however — and not to presuppose it is to leave religious issues in principle undecided — the question whether God is real at once becomes pointless» (RG 38f).

Not at all, but here I am looking for a job to pay off the financial debt I made thinking I am sort of called, to eventually f (o) und family, and going starting tomorrow on a full - time two week course on how to write job applications, so me explaining the sinfullness of suicide, and regarding many persons on this planet me motivating them to endure whatever crappy situation (often for profit and / or gain of someone else) even tho they would be better off leaving such situation / s if possible (kind of Moses), seems rather pointless.