Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it [the vandalism] was idiotic and pointless," said Duncan...
THERE is Buggin' Out, a radically militant Black activist who directs his energy not towards constructive change, but at a pointless effort to get pictures of Blacks hung on the all-Italian Wall of Fame in a local pizzeria...
...deepest change may be a planetary intuition that military war is pointless. Except in atavistic places like the Middle East and Ireland, conquering territory is a fruitless and counterproductive exercise. Why conquer land? The Soviets have more trouble than they can manage with their nationalities. The new world's battlegrounds are markets and ideas. The Japanese and Germans, having learned their military lessons the hard way, re- entered the war by other means...
...most ballyhooed work, Buckley's adaptation of his espionage novel Stained Glass, proved stagnant and pointless. Deficiencies that can be overlooked on the page -- cardboard characters, what-if plots about events from decades ago, smugness about how easy it is to distinguish between right and wrong -- are wearisome on the stage. Buckley's dialogue was, if not sesquipedalian, then not serendipitous either. The cumbersome production resulted in set changes longer than the scenes, although the scenes were not necessarily any more interesting...
...head of the newly-formed Committee forChoice in Housing, Eugene Stern '92, calledJewett's proposal "pointless" and said he does notbelieve students will support...