Sentences with phrase «seemingly pointless»

Dr. Gottman's research has helped him to discover something counter-intuitive: many of the seemingly pointless and frustrating issues that you find yourself constantly arguing about with your partner are anything but insignificant.

We wondered if different types of empathy could explain such seemingly pointless, harmful behaviour.

Then you can focus discussion on what needs to be discussed — the things you find under - supported in some scientific case or another (or the things you find to have merit in the contrarian case that are not generally accepted in mainstream science), vs. seemingly pointless discussions of policy that are based on fundamentally different assessments of physical reality.

When should you stop indulging in seemingly pointless media?

Once complete, it will be Seemingly Pointless (http://www.seempoint.com/) first release.

Ultimately it will all make sense in the end when the review comes full circle and the truth behind the seemingly pointless opening rant is revealed.

Honorable Mentions: Awkward Dimensions Redux (StevenHarmonGames); DYO (Team DYO); Code 7 - Episode 0: Allocation (Goodwolf Studio); You Must be 18 or Older to Enter (Seemingly Pointless)

Honorable Mentions: Crewsaders (Titan Squad), A.L.F.R.E.D. (Hugo Lefevre, Joseph Reichenbach, Romain Jaohar - Gaillard, Garance Royere Lebigre, Nicolas Tham, Mario Speiser, Delphine Migeot de Baran, Song Huang), MOLOCH (Seemingly Pointless), Kyklo's Code (Cube Factory), Membrane (Perfect Hat / Seth S. Scott), That Blooming Feeling (The Tots Team), Tell Me What You See (Pesky Bees)

On the way to the Dragon Roost Cavern boss key will be a room where Link swings across to a seemingly pointless ledge - this room is located right outside the room with the boss key.

Honorable Mentions Awkward Dimensions Redux (StevenHarmonGames), DYO (Team DYO), Code 7: Episode 0 — Allocation (Goodwolf Studio), You Must be 18 or Older to Enter (Seemingly Pointless)

Many seemingly pointless NPCs will spout random knowledge, or silly puns, which all work very well for a Western audience.

Will all the small, seemingly pointless items end up being my saving grace in a big fight at some point?

Though most of the changes are aesthetic and minor, and many are seemingly pointless (like changing the standard Honeycomb icons, which everyone does but no one needs to), there are more than a few really useful changes here.

Ultimately, a seemingly pointless origin story featuring weird casting choices (will.i.am?)

Long, unpleasant, and seemingly pointless, Mr. Turner makes for an unsatisfying viewing despite all of its technical achievements.

So much uncut hardboiled posturing proves exhausting over a nearly two - hour runtime, and with zero emotional stakes and a plot that is both difficult and seemingly pointless to follow, there's a fundamental emptiness behind all the flash.

into a grab - bag of ideas in various stages of formation, full of dead ends and seemingly pointless sequences, peppered with out - of - nowhere narration by Michael Gambon.

Frustrated with seemingly pointless auditions and a useless agent, Greg thinks aloud that he wished he could just make his own movie.

Screenwriter Kelley Sane generally does an effective job of balancing the various characters and their respective storylines, though there's certainly no denying that some of these subplots are far more interesting than others (ie there's a seemingly pointless digression concerning an illicit relationship between two young Arabs, the relevance of which isn't made clear until the film's final moments).

Foreign language tracks in French and now Spanish are presented only in 2 - channel Dolby Surround (192 Kb / s), as is the ported - over audio commentary (again) and a seemingly pointless additional English track which is also included.

Many scenes feature seemingly random characters carrying out — in great detail — seemingly pointless tasks.

The disc opens with a seemingly pointless promo for Sony Blu - ray and trailers for Inside Llewyn Davis, Roadshow Attractions» In a World...,

There are a lot of character names flying about here, a lot of seemingly pointless stuff, aimless boring dialog and not much action believe it or not.

From there, Eyes Wide Shut progresses into a strangely episodic midsection revolving around William's nighttime exploits in New York City - with Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Frederic Raphael, offering up a number of seemingly pointless, palpably comedic interludes (eg William's encounters with an oddball costume - shop owner).

Where am I going with this extended (and seemingly pointless) construction analogy?

Without routines and habits in place we are constantly using that willpower to make decisions that are seemingly pointless, but empty the willpower jar over time.

I learned so much about them through this seemingly pointless banter.

For many, this was an entirely new project — discomforting, challenging and seemingly pointless.

Woe be unto you for assuming your literal interpretations hold more merit than the very nature of the universe that hashed through eons of seemingly pointless iterations to give your unique, yet ignorant, perspectives.

Not exact matches

I know this might have fans curious when Fox will be announcing this moving forward, but a new comment from Deadpool and X-Force creator Rob Liefeld suggests that Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse has seemingly made Wadlow's X-Force script from 2013 pointless, he didn't elaborate.

The film needed a tighter focus on its main story and a large plot point of Russell ending up in jail seems utterly pointless in a tale that seemingly already had the goods needed to flesh out a satisfying journey.

But because it's a woman... Now, don't get me wrong, had Sansa's rape come out of absolutely nowhere and just been chucked in for seemingly no reason I would have been pretty pissed off, because at that point it would have indeed been a pointless and exploitive moment that didn't need to exist.

Most summons are seemingly random or pointless sounding items like «Octomania».

These otherwise «highly important and charged» titles and quotes in their respective fields are used here in an insignificant, if not pointless and petty, quarrel between two people whose perspectives already misalign, showing how seemingly fixed meaning and value can fluctuate in altered contexts.

LinkedIn used to be the laughingstock of social networks; the stodgy, seemingly - pointless network you were on because everyone else was.