Sentences with phrase «pointlessness as»

While I certainly admire the game, I still can't shake off a pervasive sense of pointlessness as I play.

And this year, a few MPs and journalists have used its abject pointlessness as an excuse to take a break from serious politics.

Not exact matches

The hardest times for me come when the feelings of pointlessness crowd in, as they still do.

I know it as a smothering pointlessness.

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.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

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.

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).

As the body count mounts so does the sense of pointlessness.

Here's a metaphor for you to illustrate my point as to this film's pointlessness.

There's a video as well, but even Porsche understands the pointlessness of it all; there's as much air time for the hard top models as there is for the cabrios.

In terms of sheer pointlessness, you'd have to go a long way to top marrying your pets in a # 20,000 wedding ceremony, as Bev Nicholson and Louise Harris did in April of this year.

That the self - described «pointlessness» of re-staging an ostentatious Merlin Carpenter show is an obstacle to the Biennial's ability to subsume this exhibition and render it as «proof» of what Grabner calls its radically - expanded regionalism.

OK, I'm glad we agree about future energy demand and the pointlessness of citing von Neumann's 1955 opinions as authority for anything.

Does Sullivan's case, he asks, tell us something about her capabilities as a lawyer or about the pointlessness of the bar exam?