Word: pointlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puzzled by the reference in your kindly review of Our Man in Havana to my slipping in a cruel] pointless carica ture of a dumb U.S. businessman." I can't remember any such character...
...chill of lurking dread is no longer so chilly, the pace no longer so breathless as in Greene's earlier thrillers. He cannot resist slipping in a cruel, pointless caricature of a dumb U.S. businessman, or an unlikely scene in a top-secret conference, at which Wormold's secretary sprays the green baize with Greene bitterness. Such interludes damage the "entertainment," but they cannot really spoil the unique formula of suspense plus...
After the early excitement, the campaign rapidly settled down into a dull, listless affair, and it has remained so ever since. The candidates rarely seem to speak the same language. Hogan discusses crime and maintains his "liberalism;" Keating defends Eisenhower's Formosa policy and makes a pointless offer to investigate the Atlanta temple bombing (before a Jewish audience, of course). Harriman attacks the Eisenhower administration and accuses Rockefeller of "posing as a liberal;" Rockefeller says Harriman is "boss dominated" and claims he will "anticipate problems instead of waiting for them to occur...
...withdrawal will have no effect, if the proposed seminar is a pointless exercise in spite, if Harvard can, in fact, derive great benefit from the NSA, there is no point in supporting the Student Council's hastily approved move...
...Voyeur is a savage but pointless reaction against the psychological novel. Instead of probing the mind, the book nearly ignores it, and concentrates on the exact description of things. In accordance with Author Robbe-Grillet's belief that objects are more important than people. The island, a barroom, a bedroom, are etched into the reader's mind, while the story itself and the characters are allowed to go hang. Sooner or later, Robbe-Grillet or one of his disciples is bound to write a novel about a roomful of furniture; the affair between the armchair and the ottoman...