How To Use Pointlessly In A Sentence
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Back in the fall of 1959, when I arrived in Boston as a college freshman, the universally acknowledged top of the heap was Locke-Ober, a Belle Époque pillar of elegance off the Common, with a men-only main dining room and a stuffy menu crowned by a pointlessly fussy treatment of decorticated and reshelled lobster called Savannah.
Boston Goes Way Beyond Cod
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Then there's the idea of disembodied breasts fighting each other ( "My ta-tas could beat up your ta-tas") which not only pointlessly brings up violence (this time woman v. woman or breast v. breast) but seems counterproductive to the idea of breast cancer research.
Feminist blogs
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The single framed print hanging on the wall on the first landing, the dead lightbulbs suspended pointlessly from their dusty flexes.
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He yaps pointlessly about… ‘Meals on Wheels.’
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Mammals, as we have learned to expect, employ a bizarre and pointlessly complicated variation on the straightforward and logical reptilian plan.
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Another day, another study, about grown women being foully and pointlessly competitive with each other, this time focusing on levels of one-upmanship on the school run.
Save me from these silly school run myths | Barbara Ellen
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Arguably, though a conversation with fellow hacks who know a lot more about buses than I do left unresolved the question of whether it will prove less manoeuvrable than the surprisingly manoeuvrable articulated "bendy" buses that Boris Johnson is gleefully - and rather pointlessly - phasing out.
Boris's Bus (A Political Journey) Part 33: The Finished Article
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Chemicals were pointlessly poisoning the soil.
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Shoals of cycling commuters share the roads with Mercs and Audis, while galleries and brasseries line up beside shops selling ergonomically perfect kitchens and pointlessly pricey polo necks.
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Innocent lives were cruelly and pointlessly wiped out.
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She raised one of those pointlessly anorexic cigarettes to her pouting lips and leaned in closer to me.
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It is presumed that the legislature avoid superfluous or meaningless words, that it does not pointlessly repeat itself or speak in vain.
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It's pointlessly trying to keep your friendship secret — it's common knowledge already.
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Frey's ‘novel’ isn't the first memoir of substance abuse, but with its harsh typesetting, galling repetition and disavowal of adjectives and quotations, his may be the most pointlessly abrasive.
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Children, like all young mammals, actively do things that don't seem to make a great deal of sense at the time - playing pointlessly.
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She felt she should come over and pointlessly berate Kelly One-Leg, who is still playing that I-only-have-one-leg card, like that somehow makes her better than this ranting, insane cow, bitching at her for daring to not-like getting justly shoved to the ground by the in-every-way superior NaOnka, whose goodness God had rewarded by not making her into some gimpy little one-legged girl gettin 'in NaOnka's way!
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Acme Blindfolds & Blindsides.
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Meanwhile, it's the producer who takes the blame for the pointlessly animated, time-killing interactive menus.
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Otherwise you simply free up time at work that you will then fritter away pointlessly.
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I don't know (though I'm sure one of my readers will) how much truth there is in the story, but I zeroed in on the word "Laserpithium," an ungainly word (made more ungainly by being pointlessly capitalized) that I had to investigate.
Languagehat.com: ROMAN LASER.
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It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied.
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It's pointlessly trying to keep your friendship secret—it's public knowledge already.
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He is also pointlessly and intimidatingly good-looking.
Times, Sunday Times
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Don't they become fifth wheels, spinning pointlessly in relation to the processes responsible for human action?
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Boehner also sees the health care repeal effort as a budget saving activity, but if they did anything, it was spend money pointlessly on a pageant of whining.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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The anachronisms remind us, pointlessly, that the play is a modern construct.
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I ask only because we seem today to be much more savvy about being in Important Times, collectively aware that we're passing through history – a tsunami, exploding aircraft, malign old tyrannies being shucked like peas, an old man's important half-truths being pointlessly interrupted by a skidmark – and, being aware that this is living-dramatic, wanting to refract it instantly as drama.
Rewind TV: The Hour; The Apprentice; Show Me the Funny; Imagine; Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet; Twenty Twelve – review
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There are certain forms of weather we get here that are foul - pointlessly mean, surly for no reason, vindictive.
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The plot, about police investigator Stewart trying to nab a criminal while being unlawfully pursued with daffy poetess Colbert in tow, is too lightweight — and the characters spend too much time pointlessly arguing — for me to care.
Weekly Mishmash: April 18-24 : Scrubbles.net
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The pointlessly beautiful (beautifully pointless) game seems burdened with a vast weight of financial, cultural, political import.
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And it wouldn't even have to be some kind of pointlessly mandated socialism.
MetaFilter Projects
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But the suggestion that scientists are pointlessly pursuing experiments and models that do not work is just wrong-headed.
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This was a gig of two halves, divided by a pointlessly long interval.
Times, Sunday Times
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he spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery
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He took the bottle back off me, carefully screwing the top back on and placing it, pointlessly empty and discardable into his jacket pocket.
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Coolmore pacemaker Ice Dancer set a pointlessly fast gallop and was ignored.
Times, Sunday Times
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At times, though, the album meanders pointlessly and becomes slow and uninspired.
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It's pointlessly trying to keep your friendship secret—it's public knowledge already.
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Part of me could tell he was a complete knucklehead, but, part of me longed to be that pointlessly confident.
Binky Philips: Bay City Rollers, Richard Hell, Aretha Franklin, Tom Verlaine, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Humble Pie, and My Friend, Anthony Jones
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This was a gig of two halves, divided by a pointlessly long interval.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied.
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Tennis courts lit pointlessly except to inform the driver of the sheer dimension of the leisure complex burst into life.
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I appreciate that some are working so hard to come up with ideas to discuss on this very important issue instead of just complaining, whining, playing games, making things up, lying and pointlessly flapping their gums (like Sarah Palin).
Obama putting heavy imprint on big speech
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But the suggestion that scientists are pointlessly pursuing experiments and models that do not work is just wrong-headed.
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After each set, we are given a live video documentary of the band members talking about what they remember from each venue, kind of pointlessly segwaying into the next stage without actually telling you why you're playing there.
AndPOP.com
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Yep, it all seemed kind of pointlessly frugal ... until now.
Traffick
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Instead of working all flowers and candy, however, the whole shebang is lost with over 4000 pointless US dead and hundreds of thousands pointlessly dead Iraqis and Afghanis.
Unstoppable, Incredible, Impeccable, It’s It’s It’s The Unit | ATTACKERMAN
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It's pointlessly trying to keep your friendship secret — it's common knowledge already.
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Whatever the lying word or disgraceful deed, you are always left with the feeling that something so paltry, so pointlessly tawdry, must lead to a larger scandal.
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Tennis courts lit pointlessly except to inform the driver of the sheer dimension of the leisure complex burst into life.
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It's pointlessly trying to keep your friendship secret — it's common knowledge already.
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This was a gig of two halves, divided by a pointlessly long interval.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hospitals could be pointlessly officious on such matters as visiting rights for parents.
