Sentences with phrase «with pointlessness»

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 Premier League begins this weekend, with the pointlessness of the second international break out of the way.

Not exact matches

It is just when problems are settled, books are finished on time, love is made with some rare finesse, that I get the sunny - sky blahs, offended by the pointlessness of joy.

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.

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.

With the dumping continuing on Howard, their peripheral tangents to learn lessons and change their own lives reek of hollow pointlessness by comparison.

I'd entertain complaints about the pointlessness of stringing together song scenes with subtitles when the same effect can be achieved with the whole movie on DVD these days, but surely that more traditional method is preferable to the silly rigmarole that is offered here.

BTW, I disagree strongly with those «critics (who) have been screeching about the pointlessness of examining what Hansen actually does».

Given the massive nature of the litigation hitting the council at the time, the fact that there was very little chance of settlement (particularly in the light of the conditional fee arrangements agreed with the solicitor, which drew some adverse comment) and the possible effects on council business of arranging so many meetings, the tribunal had operated the Employment Act 2002, s 31 (4) to award only a 5 % uplift, but the court agreed with the EAT that the sheer pointlessness of grievance meetings in these circumstances meant that even 5 % was an error of law and so the zero uplift in the EAT was approved.