Sentences with phrase «pointless exercise»

This is a repetitive, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking — the kind of movie where you distract yourself by making a list of the sources.

Second, trying to pin an appropriate P / E ratio on a volatile (and / or cyclical) business is a fairly pointless exercise.

It was a brief, polite and yet pointless exercise.

Without comprehension, reading is a frustrating, pointless exercise in word calling.

Too much the other way and it's a fairly pointless exercise.

Hair washing was a pretty pointless exercise for Felix for the first several years of his life; he was bald until 2.

There other flubs in The Next Best Thing (such as a line where Robert mentions it's the 21st Century in a scene that, in the film's time frame, should be set around 1993; or the fact that Robert's sole love interest, a cardiologist, has no name and is rather comically listed in the closing credits as «Cardiologist»), but to go over them would be as pointless an exercise as the entire film is.

During its development period McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray said in UK auto magazine Evo: «The most pointless exercise on the planet has got to be this four - wheel - drive, thousand - horsepower Bugatti.»

I found that film to be an ugly and largely pointless exercise in brutality, but if that didn't scratch your itch for office - set murder movies, perhaps Mayhem, the newest film from director Joe Lynch (Everly), will be more up your alley.

Asbestos around a heating duct boot, should have been one of the most pointless exercises ever engaged in, but where it might be known to have been done in a particular area and documented, perhaps a Registrant / REALTOR might be expected to be aware of it — depending on rarity.

More to the point, it would be an almost pointless exercise since Texas hospitals seem to have a tacit understanding that they will honor each other's futile care determinations.

Instead, they end up making videos and infomercials selling 10 lb kettlebells and high intensity heart rate raising workout programs designed to have you shed the pounds by using the kettlebell in near pointless exercises that look like you're shooting your workout partner with a kettlebell handgun.

In fact, Isobel Lucas probably puts in the most emotionally effective performance in a very small role (going to show yet again just how pointless an exercise Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was for all involved.

It was a rather elaborate and pointless exercise for both of us, but we soldiered on through the 90 - minute application of dye, heat setting, rinsing and blow - drying.

Think of the economic multiplier provided by the largely pointless exercise!

At this point, adding some kind of P / E multiple's a rather pointless exercise.

But this wounded mindset also begat 2008's «Rambo,» a sloppy, nihilistic and near - pointless exercise in sadism and explosions - go - boom!

This is a pointless exercise.

It is a pointless exercise by young and inexperienced «researchers».

Guessing what he would have thought had he been given the knowledge we possess today is a pointless exercise.

If, and it does appear to be the case, a deal has been done and everyone knows this to be the case, then surely holding off announcing the deal to avoid a fan revolt is a pointless exercise, seeing as everyone knows that the German international is set to leave Koln in the summer.

Citing it as an example of what the Spurs should do is a pointless exercise because it shouldn't be the standard in the first place.

Stockpiling players, sending them away from Stamford Bridge with many failing to return to make an impact, it all seems like a pointless exercise for the most part and a costly one for other clubs.

Pretty sure Kevin Kietzmann forced the appearance because he knows Petro is more reputable than he is but it was a pointless exercise.

The Arsenal chief - executive has been football's invisible man for two years, and his refusal to answer questions properly yesterday — instead throwing the ball back into the manager's court — made it a pointless exercise beyond some grandstanding from a man who is now keen to show everyone who's in charge.

By all means give him credit for the pub redevelopment, but other than that pointless exercise he ain't done a lot has he?

Trying to predict the starting lineup has become a pointless exercise given the disposition of the manager to come up with a formation and personnel that no - one else could possibly have thought of.

I felt that a 7 - week old baby could still be miscarried and it was kind of a pointless exercise to look at it dancing around in my womb, although I was amazed to see how human such a little embryo really was.

Killing foxes is also a pointless exercise, as a new fox will fill the gap left by a dead one within three or four days.

By achieving this you learn that chasing feelings, whether they be positive or negative is ultimately a pointless exercise as feelings and emotions are fleeting and come and go.

A criminal waste of an ensemble cast that should have found something better to do than lend their names to such a pointless exercise.

«Creation» doesn't aim to preach Darwinism, which would be a pointless exercise, given how dug in people are on both sides of the matter.

Its appeal is mostly to an audience that can appreciate its gross - out camp humor and can overlook that it's a pointless exercise.

It was perhaps asking a bit too much of EA to get everything right for their first attempt, but even then, Grand Slam Tennis has all but made pressing buttons instead of swinging arms to hit a tennis ball an archaic, unsatisfying and pointless exercise.

However, at least there was a foundation of strong material and the occasional interesting bout of orchestration or something which Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard managed to push by the censors; The Prestige is an almost unimaginably unambitious, pointless exercise in droning monotony.

Even such tedious and pointless exercises become engaging and occasionally funny when Fraser is relating them.

«The Collection,» however, is just a pointless exercise in sadism.

It might be as good as you can make one of these «ridiculous to sublime» zombie flicks, but that's just not good enough; its appeal is mostly to an audience that can appreciate its gross - out camp humor and can overlook that it's a pointless exercise — totally falling apart when it tries in an existential way to explore the moral boundaries between the present and the beyond, but thankfully for only a brief period.