Sentences with phrase «pointless exercise in»

This is all a pointless exercise in funding piety.

But if you do use that card in the offline world where it can be skimmed, then you're putting yourself through a pointless exercise in security theater to not use it online.

Absolutely pointless exercise in futility.

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

by Walter Chaw A completely pointless exercise in winsome, pathetic hand - wringing, the navel - gazing Bobby is just one of this year's inevitable examples of the power of nepotism in dictating who gets to continue churning out the worst films anyone's ever seen.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

I will not engage in a contest of pitting «experts» opinions against each other as such an exercise is as pointless as biblical proof texting.

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.

It is only speculation that someone is «overplayed» until it is played out on the field and it is an exercise in pointless self promotion, it may make you feel better to get an unprovable opinion out there first, but you can't argue it into a fact.

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.

I wrote here back in December when the CAAs were launched that they were a pointless, uninformative exercise.

I know walking can seem pointless as you don't feel like you're exercising hard, but in my experience, it's the best exercise for getting rid of fat on your lower half.

There are many exercises with the stability ball that can provide specific benefits to the trainee compared to if they were not to use the ball at all in their workouts, but there are also plenty of instances where using a stability ball is pointless, or even less than useless in some cases!

However, but for right at the end of the film, when the dance provides a tempo and impetus to the soldiers going blazing in for the rescue, the whole exercise seems pointless and indulgent.

But if you never watched the show, or only watched it in pieces, or stopped watching it once Vincent Chase and his buddies became obnoxious examples of everything that's wrong with this town, then you will surely find this exercise pointless.

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.

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 involveIn 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 involvein 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 involvein a very small role (going to show yet again just how pointless an exercise Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was for all involved.

It's clear immediately that something's gone seriously awry in terms of Misconduct's production and execution, as the movie, directed by Shintaro Shimosawa, comes off as a dull, terminally flat exercise in pointless virtually from beginning to end - with the far - from - engrossing vibe perpetuated by a whole host of half - baked and underwhelming attributes (including a series of lazy, phoned - in performances from an unusually talented cast).

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.

In some sense, rating the summer as a whole is a pointless exercise; despite outdated assumptions from both industry insiders and film critics, good and bad movies alike are a year - round business.

Viewed in these terms, Ken Block's Gymkhana Fiesta is one of the most pointless engineering exercises ever undertaken, because, having driven it, I think I can now define its role in the autoverse.

Even though I knew that the exercise was pointless (no one in our summer theology class at the fire temple ever had the right answers to the priest's questions), I found myself writing out two pages.

The marketing men will tell you you can put it in your pocket and you can but that's a pointless exercise.

For the Authors and Publishers who keep repeating this pointless exercise — Every single book in the Kindle Store has a free chapter.

-- Ignore the Problem: As tempting as self - flagellation is, why indulge in such a pointless exercise?

But in the end, I suspect analysis is wasted — these stocks move up & down en masse, so individual stock selection may be a pointless exercise.

In most (but obviously not all) instances, I think trying to forecast the future is much like forecasting economic growth — a difficult, frustrating & often pointless exercise for investors — far better to focus on the best companies & management teams.

Agri - Business — agreed, the reporting isn't much help: i) it's 5 - 6 years now since we've seen a useful / proper divisional breakout of Speciality Dairy vs. Animal Feed, ii) you could probably hazard a guess at their respective revenues now, but without a profit breakout that's a somewhat pointless exercise — which just leaves you with an aggregate divisional margin to rely on, and iii) I wouldn't worry much about Property — rental income's small in relation to the division, and any sale should be flagged, so you can back it out.

For the little credits mining brings in, it quickly becomes a pointless exercise as doing faction missions will net you far more cash at a much quicker pace.

In the old days, this kind of design in MMOs was a lot more common, but it was often an exercise in frustration due to long travel times and non-scaling content that made revisiting older zones pointlesIn the old days, this kind of design in MMOs was a lot more common, but it was often an exercise in frustration due to long travel times and non-scaling content that made revisiting older zones pointlesin MMOs was a lot more common, but it was often an exercise in frustration due to long travel times and non-scaling content that made revisiting older zones pointlesin frustration due to long travel times and non-scaling content that made revisiting older zones pointless.

In one of its pointless periodic ranking exercises, Art News just listed Stella among the 10 most expensive living artists.

During its celebratory opening days, the museum showcased five performances from its collection, acquired over the past decade — among them, Tania Bruguera's iconic meditation on state power Tatlin's Whisper # 5 (2008), in which two police officers on horseback ride through the gallery (in the Tate's case, the vast Turbine Hall), performing pointless crowd - control exercises.

Lost in all the comments on CO2 plant food and nitrate starvation (most important point of this blog is we should agree to cut all the mindless banter), Judith Curry said: «Focusing on the «warmest year» is a pointless exercise, unless the warm anomaly is as large as 1998.

I just engaged in the completely pointless exercise of, over on WUWT, trying to point out that Wegman stated in figure 4.4 that M&M's red noise was generated using AR1 -LRB-.2), when in fact it can be conclusively proven (as above by DC in the last diagramme and the accompanying text), that it could not possibly have been AR1 -LRB-.2).

Therefore, although it might perhaps be useful to show that the SCC exercise isn't valid (although it's likely to take a long time with believers fighting it to the bitter end), I suggest a more practical way to unwind current US climate policies is to show that, given what's happening in the wider world, they're completely pointless.

although it might perhaps be useful to show that the SCC exercise isn't valid (although it's likely to take a long time with believers fighting it to the bitter end), I suggest a more practical way to unwind current US climate policies is to show that, given what's happening in the wider world, they're completely pointless.

Bear in mind that these thermometers recorded the max and min through the 24 hour cycle (if they didn't then the whole exercise was pointless) so the only day they had a difficulty to resolve was the changeover day, so just skip that day and all is well.

Not only would EPA resources that might otherwise be devoted to wrecking more vulnerable programs be engaged in a pointless exercise, but this would be a tremendous organizing, fundraising, and media opportunity for the green lobby.

Not only is the attribution exercise pointless in our opinion, but it is actually counterproductive in that it distracts from the reality at hand and diverts the efforts of the meteorological and climate communities from actually doing something that might be helpful.

In absence of a Global agreement many Chinese investors simply began to trade on foreign exchanges, rendering the whole exercise pointless.

Even Satoshi Nakamoto is known to have 1 million bitcoin, so any exercise in limiting the amount cryptocurrency creators can keep, is pointless.

Less Competition Remember how you were convinced that job searching in the summer was a pointless exercise?

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.