pointlessness
Example Sentences
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Being entirely confident in my friends’ abilities to succeed revealed the pointlessness of hesitating to be confident in my own.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
“In a way, the new version is both more sentimental and darker,” Noé said in a video interview, explaining that it emphasizes the pointlessness of Marcus’s vengeance-seeking.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
As the conflict continues in Ukraine, Ms Pugh said that the reunion was even more poignant, and reflected on the "pointlessness" of wars.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2022
She may be anonymous at the moment, but she has become a powerful symbol of the cruelty and pointlessness of this unforgivable war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
There was nothing she could do, nothing she could make Leon do, and she suddenly felt the pointlessness of argument.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
