Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...completely pointless," said Melinda M. Sick...
...abrupt frames which lopped off heads and feet created a jarring view of the scene. These frames were unoriginally employed--ever since Toulouse-Lautrec, the arbitrary, non-classical frame has been employed to make audience members re-evaluate their perspective, but here that re-evaluation seemed pointless. To say the least, the frames have been more successfully employed in the past...
Tragically, it seems pointless even to speculate. Harvard students, with the exception of some ROTC students, are not part of the dying class, and the Roberts family is. We members of the American elite have a great bargain going: we're content to let the unfortunates in our "all-volunteer" army do the dying, and policy makers will let us get away with...
...this could mean war. Expensive? Yes. Bloody? Yes. Pointless...
Bush's decision has resulted in a tenuous American alliance with countries that were, until recently, considered terrorist states by the U.S. Very few Americans seem to realize the long-term implications of this action: We are going to war--pointless, expensive, bloody...