Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brick apartment building in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. His mother Esther scooped up the bleeding child and ran down five flights of stairs and into the street screaming, "They shot my baby! They shot my baby!" Within the hour Rayvon was dead, the innocent victim of a pointless quarrel involving a neighbor's caricature on a T shirt...
...asked why the decree was undated and why Brezhnev had not personally signed it. Rekunkov said something about "technicalities." I failed to ask who had made the decision to banish me and on what authority. I considered the entire proceeding completely illegal and thought it pointless to argue fine points of jurisprudence with those who obviously had no respect for the law. By maintaining this attitude all through my first weeks in Gorky, I may have created the inadvertent impression that I accepted their right to proceed in this totally unlawful manner...
...only way to convey any true sense of them is to transmit their stories at length and in profusion. The result is a huge number of trees, many lovely, that never become a forest. Interlocutors both fascinating and tedious, mundane sight- seeing jaunts and profound observations, telling vignettes and pointless collections of detail are all jumbled together in a work too long by half. Good questions are posed but not answered. Glass himself remains strangely opaque, a formless conduit, until the account of his captivity. At first his prayers sought to bargain God into releasing him; later he tried...
Here's why. Suppose Patriotic Americans for Flag Burning, etc., actually exists and sends you an invitation to join up for $25. The "package" will be full of goodies: a letter, a reply envelope, a card (too big for the envelope, with a pointless perforation so that half of it can be torn off and thrown away), a brochure and perhaps a little Taiwanese-made American flag to burn in the privacy of your home. Why all this stuff? Because you demand it. While trying to appeal to you with flattery for your intelligence and compassion, direct-mail packages...
...Teddy D.: After being sidelined for over two months this season with a broken collarbone, forward Ted Donato returned to the Crimson lineup for last Friday's game at Princeton. While Donato recorded a goal and an assist in his first game back, the NCAA tournament MVP was held pointless against Army the following night and against Northeastern in the Beanpot...