Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tense marriage with Paige, his wife of five years. In the past, after fights in their small apartment, Rick could escape by driving across the state line to Vermont, where Paige has never been, hence a place that he can claim as his alone. Now even that consolation seems pointless. Six months after her miscarriage, which has driven Rick into self-absorbed guilt and silence, Paige has moved out. The question of whether this marriage can or should be saved generates some suspense. More interesting, though, are the paces Author Bret Lott puts his hero through during the ordeal...
Javeline says she waitressed last summer to earn money, but because of her earnings she was placed in a different financial need bracket and thus qualified for less aid. "That decreases your motivation because it seems kind of pointless to work hard," she says...
...typed pages--about eighty thousand words, or the size of an average novel--that, covering a period of only about five minutes, recaptured every move, gesture and word uttered in a long, and largely pointless, conversation designed to get Eliza Gant from the kitchen of her house into a car waiting in front, so that she, Luke, and Eugene could take a short ride...
...practices what has become known as "safe sex," and, he says, "the information that I'll receive from the test is not going to help me become more safe. If I find out I'm positive, there's nothing I can do about it anyway. It's kind of pointless...
Like several other scenes in Bye Bye Verdi, the Sid Down-Stan Byeme exchange seems utterly pointless, serving only to lengthen the production and irritate the increasingly restless audience...