Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes The Victors confuses you with details and the seemingly pointless fluttering of some thin characters. But this is only outside the cage. Inside, Sartre and Babe avoid allowing the lines of the play to wander off from each other and the result is a fascinating, lucid view of the tombless dead and the entombed living...
...state sales tax has saddled most college communities with a massive load of pointless paperwork; the result has been a time-consuming combination of confusion and inconvenience for administrators, students, and bookstores alike...
...continued affectation" which surrounds him. In the last scene, his sincerity and sobriety provide the one dramatic moment of the Charles production which is not just funny. Then everybody starts the frug. Like the show itself, the dance entertains, but it makes Congreve's quiet thrust at meaning pointless. I would have thought the one thing that a repertory company might have learned from modern drama is to take comedy just a little seriously...
With so perfect a stage, it is pointless to lament that the rest of the Met is slightly tacky. It would probably take the management twenty years to amass the funds and courage to make significant changes. The new generation that arises by that time will forgive the new Met as being quaint, just as we forgave the old Met for its idiosyncrasies...
...slaughtered the women and children along with the men; who deprived wounded soldiers under his own command of medical attention; who disregarded the safety of his troops to the extent of sending them into hostile territory with insufficient military preparation and protection to their almost certain (and quite pointless) death; who was convicted of one desertion of his own troops and was suspected of others; who either committed perjury or at least gave incorrect, damaging testimony in court to satisfy a personal spite; who disobeyed specific orders given by the one friend he seems to have retained...