Examples of pointless

• Investigators can safely assume that players' efforts to influence their opponents are pointless.

• Otherwise, including a nonlinear time trend in the cointegrating relations seems rather pointless.

• This was a dispute that was as bitter as it was pointless, because ultimately insoluble.

• Those who suffered but saw the war as pointless were subject to considerable psychic dissonance, and were prone to later psychic breakdown.

• The old divisions between denominations seemed pointless to many.

• If, then, nature makes nothing incomplete or pointless, it is necessar y that nature has made them all for the sake of men.

• At a methodological level one gets the impression that there's been a huge amount of rather pointless work here.

• It is pointless to continue these accusations and counter-accusations.