| He would neither pointlessly defy nor helplessly flee the real monsters of his upbringing. |
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| It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied. |
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| What would be the value of a lone survivor, pointlessly holding out in a blighted, boarded-up street? |
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| It is presumed that the legislature avoid superfluous or meaningless words, that it does not pointlessly repeat itself or speak in vain. |
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| Hospitals could be pointlessly officious on such matters as visiting rights for parents. |
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| Don't they become fifth wheels, spinning pointlessly in relation to the processes responsible for human action? |
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| To complain is to speak out about this, and we can do so petulantly, aggressively, calmly, pointlessly, or constructively. |
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| At times, though, the album meanders pointlessly and becomes slow and uninspired. |
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| She raised one of those pointlessly anorexic cigarettes to her pouting lips and leaned in closer to me. |
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| Mammals, as we have learned to expect, employ a bizarre and pointlessly complicated variation on the straightforward and logical reptilian plan. |
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| The pointlessly beautiful game seems burdened with a vast weight of financial, cultural, political import. |
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| But the suggestion that scientists are pointlessly pursuing experiments and models that do not work is just wrong-headed. |
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| Meanwhile, it's the producer who takes the blame for the pointlessly animated, time-killing interactive menus. |
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| The anachronisms remind us, pointlessly, that the play is a modern construct. |
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| Why don't we spend hours dissecting our relationship, going into personal details and pointlessly wittering on, like I do with my girlfriends? |
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| Some kits are so pointlessly expensive that it'd be more cost-effective for you to stitch your own footwear from fairydust and unicorn pubes. |
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| As a young lawyer, I was already scandalized by the number of witnesses that we pointlessly subpoenaed before the court. |
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| This results in a lot of fuel being pointlessly burned up, without the vehicle actually having moved an inch. |
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| But they are either in my head today, are titularly significant or I've been wallowing in them pointlessly, and they together somehow manage to sum up my head, today. |
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| Brazilian businesses are often unregistered, partly to avoid tax but also because much of the paperwork is pointlessly burdensome. |
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| I had never depicted, much less imagined, anyone doing anything as pointlessly ill-intentioned. |
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| Kara DioGuardi, the pointlessly anonymous songwriter who was unnecessarily drafted in as a spare part back in 2008, has left the judging panel. |
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| They will thus have pointlessly wasted any pension to which they were entitled in their country of origin. |
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| This table omits a lot of interesting data, whereas other data such as the balance for the financial year, are pointlessly duplicated elsewhere. |
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| By believing, or appearing to believe, the opposite, the Union is mistaken, and this is pointlessly complicating transatlantic relations. |
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| It will increase public deficits pointlessly in both the United States and Europe, when we want to reduce them. |
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| In fact, a legal framework in this area would serve only to burden pointlessly a sector that thrives on creativity and spontaneity. |
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| On returning to the village, my friends made me understand that they had wasted time to accompany me pointlessly. |
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| Daneri is using the aleph to write a terrible poem that minutely and pointlessly describes everything on earth. |
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| Whatever the lying word or disgraceful deed, you are always left with the feeling that something so paltry, so pointlessly tawdry, must lead to a larger scandal. |
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| Items other than those which you need for the next group of lessons should be left in your locker rather than carried pointlessly around the school with you. |
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| It was vital that these criminal procedures should not be pointlessly slowed down, for if they were delayed this might lead to people escaping a verdict. |
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| In its action, the opposition must not seek to hinder pointlessly the action of the government, but rather endeavour to encourage it to improve such action in the general interest. |
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| At no point during those five hours did I have to change a nappy, or clomp around a hallway in my pants pointlessly humming lullaby fragments into a tiny black hole of noise and fury. |
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| Run breathlessly and pointlessly after his mustachioed shadow? |
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| Nevertheless, supporting the amendments that have been presented, the majority of which toughen the legislation pointlessly, will cause adaptation problems in certain regions. |
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| He sat there, pointlessly tossing the ball into the air and letting it fall, over and over. |
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| In my view, that moment is unnecessary and pointlessly upsetting. |
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| Still, this isn't as pointlessly blokey as Top Gear and petrolheads will love r learning about classic motors. |
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| I am glad to have been one of those Members of this House to whom Commissioner Lamy referred who told you to what extent negotiations on the Singapore issues were pointlessly weighing down the whole enterprise. |
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| As dead-air friendlies go it is hard to imagine a more pointlessly provocative choice of fixture, an occasion that basically boils down to a game of chicken with the more unpredictable elements of the away support. |
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| We want to ensure that it is rid of all the pointlessly contentious dross to do with the current situation and free of any additions which do not contribute to the formulation of the text. |
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| Their owners are often completely unaware of how much money they are wasting unnecessarily on energy, which is pointlessly burned up and goes out of the chimney as unused heat. |
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| The Director-General earnestly wishes to draw the attention of the General Conference to the above criteria which, in his opinion, may pointlessly complicate the procedures involved. |
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| That is why I believe that we must support this agreement and so avoid pointlessly prolonging the discussions, which would be inevitable if we went for conciliation. |
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| The effect of regulations that have been written down in multiple pointlessly duplicated documents definitely depends on the effective implementation of the law in individual Member States. |
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| But nowadays spammers do not just use addresses that exist: they send messages to addresses that have been generated at random, and so your catchall address can receive several thousand spam each day, pointlessly! |
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| With Donglegate she pointlessly robbed that man of his employment. She degraded his masculinity. And so the community responded by degrading her femininity. |
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