It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
I go back and watch a lot of the stuff that I did back in the day, and it was a lot of wrestling just to show that I could wrestle. And I realized that sort of stuff is sort of pointless.
If you don’t have the smoking gun, then it’s pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
I’m not interested in babies at all. Babies to me are like wasps: pointless, irritating and even one can ruin a picnic. They’re just not my bag at all.
It’s pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you’re not doing anything.
You can’t suppress the things that make us human. It’s pointless to try.
Dropping 25 pounds was something I was unsure about. It seemed like a pointless adventure, in a way.
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