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According to Lewis, blaming others for the condition of the Middle East leads to a pointless spiral of conspiracy theories...
This verbal tic is particularly specific to America. I remember coming here from England and being stunned by the way in which my far more articulate and educated contemporaries peppered their statements with this pointless word. Despite my best efforts to avoid this affliction, I discovered that “like” is completely contagious. While at home over winter break I mentioned that I was “like” so excited to be back in England. My father, always a stickler for pure language pulled the car over and asked if I wanted to get back...
This is symptomatic of the crew’s ultimate failure to achieve a consummate synthesis of experimental scratch music and more mainstream funk. But given turntablism’s radical, fragmentary nature—weaving pieces out of pieces of other pieces—this is a pointless goal anyway. Built From Scratch’s many high points ensure that it’s banging, if not revolutionary...
...snow in New Hampshire. And nowadays, we have the pleasure of seemingly endless conversations about deadlines, revisions and library fines. To be honest, it’s been a rather unpleasant journey for all involved. Seniors spend more time complaining about their theses than writing them, thereby perpetuating their pointless drivel of moans and groans. And everyone else has had to listen to them go on—and on and on—about their sorry state...
...show the world that he was really a peacemaker in the Balkans and not the war criminal he's being portrayed as. His second day of opening arguments was much the same as his first: literal finger-pointing as the accusations flew against what he called NATO's "savage, pointless" and Nazi-like attack on his country. the whole story...