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When a speaker is made to repeat a characteristic malapropism one too many times, what usually seems like an intelligent technique for defamiliarizing us from our own speech starts to feel a bit too much like pointless and supercilious cruelty. It is one thing to have a character write “ourselfs” instead of “ourselves,” but it is a bit much to have him say of his friend’s daughter, “which that incident was, Baby Amber died...
...Bush won?t go so far as to ask Hu to give up Iranian crude, officials say. That, after all, would probably be a pointless request. But he will press Hu to use China?s vast purchasing power as leverage for the good of the international community...
Primary-care doctors are less enthusiastic about the idea. Yet the American Academy of Family Physicians (A.A.F.P.) has officially concluded that it is pointless to battle the clinics' proliferation, and has chosen instead to define standards of sound practice. Many doctors argue that the clinics cannot provide the ongoing relationship between patient and caregiver that is crucial to managing disease. "There's no history and there's no future implied by the interaction" between nurse and patient at a miniclinic, says Dr. John Saultz, who teaches family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. "We take responsibility for [our patients...
...order to figure this out, Rogan has to hop in and out of a heck of a lot of cabs and undergo many brief, and seemingly pointless, encounters. It was admittedly difficulty for me to remain interested in the film because of the lack of explanation or resolution of the various subplots throughout DeLillo’s hyper-real storyline...
...fact that neo-liberal economists do their best to couch their policies in terms of “development” and “poverty reduction,” suggests that the human rights cause has solidly won the battle for public sentiment. Hence, it may seem somewhat pointless to ask whether we have an obligation to be ethical consumers...