Sentences with word «pointlessness»

The term "pointlessness" refers to something that has no purpose, value or significance. Full definition
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, in many ways, the sheer pointlessness of many, if not most, of these activities that gives me hope.
Julian Fantino flirted with pointlessness.
And though Brando delivers a performance that's just as engaging and mesmerizing as one might expect, the movie is a dull, relentlessly talky exercise in pointlessness.
While I certainly admire the game, I still can't shake off a pervasive sense of pointlessness as I play.
The only reason I can see to be a painter these days is precisely the existential pointlessness of it, plus the fact that it sometimes looks pretty nifty on the walls.»
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.
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 hardest times for me come when the feelings of pointlessness crowd in, as they still do.
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.
Get a Life Unloved Mishra and stop such profane and pointlessness except to ridicula one's pastimes!
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.
Dig into the data and the true pointlessness of the policy becomes clear.
He came fourth in the end, having failed to dispel an air of pointlessness which hovered over his campaign.
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.
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).
It's not without its good points, but the overall unpleasantness and relative pointlessness of the narrative cripples this film's chances of ever succeeding.
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.
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.
Anyway, my point was (other than that Demons would be a downright brilliant target of the trend and I'm zombie Maurice Chevalier if the rights are that pricey to obtain) that the inevitable pointlessness of remaking films could be avoided if they stayed away from films as significantly artistically respected and influential as Dawn of the Dead, Halloween, Carrie, Evil Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Phantasm (it'll be remade sooner than later) and so - forth.
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.
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.
The film portrays the difficulties of the particulars, the ease of success, and the ultimate pointlessness of revenge.
Without a strongly guided unlocking system or meaningful leveling up, Starhawk has a liberating pointlessness.
The game deftly rips apart the greed and pointlessness behind loot boxes and pay - to - win microtransactions.
In his Guerre Pace (War's Peace) body of work Bertolo sought to consider the contradiction between the «willingness of human beings to inflict suffering on their neighbors and the evident pointlessness of history» and concurrently, «the serenity and quiet joy of family intimacy.»
Says Fong, «Above all, this radical way of talking is defined by what appears to be extended pointlessness, something we are increasingly incapable of tolerating as the world around us moves ever faster.»
Which brings me back to the complete pointlessness of the whole argument — there's no money to go on holidays ANYWHERE, let alone weddings in America.
Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween is so bad it aspires to the height of utter pointlessness that was Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho.
The text is transparent about art space's simultaneous critique of and parasitism on institutionality: «we are the first to acknowledge that this exhibition is tinged with pointlessness... like teenage punks, purposefully ruining the cool kids» party, we are happy to have been invited and are sure we won't be asked back anytime soon.»
The project raised eyebrows, both because of its scale and the apparent pointlessness of storing so much ephemera.
It's by no means the worst of Allen's later films (Cassandra's Dream remains unrivaled in that department) and the flashes of brilliance from Winslet and stunning visuals do lift it but there's an overwhelming, existential pointlessness to it all.
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.
In «Dumb and Dumber To,» when Harry Dunne learns that Lloyd Christmas has been pretending to be catatonic for 20 years just to prank his old pal, the humor stems from the sheer pointlessness of the stunt.
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!
But I choose to believe that pointlessness is the lie.
Its pointlessness is getting very old.
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