Word: pointlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...downside was a pointless parade of contributing pundits, who appeared in mix-and-match threesomes and contributed little but air-filling babble, and the channel's nonstop, near evangelical promotion of the Internet, where it has a Website. The partnership of NBC and Microsoft holds the promise of creating a hybrid form of news delivery on both TV and the Internet, but this Website has so far been disappointing...
...Grace Kelly or Audrey Hepburn, but right now her main claim to fame seems to be her "matter-of-fact ease with her sensuality." Famous actors like Kathy Bates, for example, or even Leslie Nielsen appear to be at ease with their sensuality. This is pointless, and as interesting as reading about the "quiet sexuality" of a turtle. RUTH SMETHERS Olathe, Kansas...
...about class, that judgment is really about politics, that religion is really about fantasy, that necessity is really about chance. These views come from an Enlightenment that began with Galileo and Newton and a modernity begun by Darwin, Marx and Freud. We are Nietzsche's children, shivering in the pointless void...
...first round of voting that 11 candidates will face next Sunday. He was ailing, unsteady on his feet, glassy-eyed. His leadership and his policies looked just as moribund. His approval ratings moldered in the single digits, and his ambition to run for another term in the Kremlin seemed pointless...
...kind of useless," says Chip Sumner '96, a physics concentrator who plans to continue his studies next year at Cal Tech. "The government puts out a good book, so it seems pointless to go somewhere where the person speaking doesn't know as much as the book...