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“Anyone who frequents Twitter or Facebook or texts on their cellphones knows that pointlessness is often exactly the point.”
“Play, Konner says, “combining as it does great energy expenditure and risk with apparent pointlessness, is a central paradox of evolutionary biology.””
“However, since I have never been above exercises in pointlessness (see the playoffs capsules, above), I am here this morning to offer up my picks.”
The Washington Post: Postseason predictions -- or, as Boz calls it, 'sheer folly'
“But then, I’m the type to think that all torture porn is just pointlessness from the gore for gore’s sake school of filmmaking anyway.”
“But what's offensive is not so much the "pointlessness" of the violence as the way the women characters seem to invite it.”
“It's time for that annual exercise in hopelessness, pointlessness and foolishness — predicting the Daytime Emmys!”
“This is the same pointlessness as negotiating a peace treaty with Abbas.”
“Among her myriad admirers was Woody Allen, who, in the 2010 documentary Sometimes Life is Bearable, said of the poet, "She is able to capture the pointlessness and sadness of life, but somehow still be affirmative.”
The Huffington Post: John Lundberg: The World Remembers Wislawa Szymborska
“But the point is that even pointlessness like this actually does have a point.”
MIND MELD: How Does Blogging and Social Networking Affect the Publishing Industry?
“Its ubiquity, regularity and apparent pointlessness is what makes the work a powerful critique of the monotony and triviality of the many signs and notices put up by the state which bear instructions, prohibitions and statements of the obvious.”
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