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"We can see the entire pointlessness of this war at this place," noted Merz.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

“Life on Earth is kind of a playthrough of painfulness, pointlessness, beauty and a deep trove of meanings that we have to find somehow,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

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

I couldn’t help feeling a kind of helpless and dispiriting pointlessness in what I was doing.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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