Word: pointlessly
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...m.p.h. zone. Not at all impressed by young Business School Student Chiang's influential background, the judge was most displeased at the State Department's efforts to save Chiang's face, and at Chiang's demand for a jury trial, duly granted, but made pointless by Chiang's plea amounting to no defense...
...reader never really learns what is happening to the book's narrator, the daughter-in-law of the bickering couple. The same uncertain fog enshrouds her husband-or is it her lover? Ambiguity has its uses, but Author Simon's manner sometimes seems to be the pointless result of a powerful technique thoughtlessly applied...
Charley organizes a gang of underaged cat burglars and the children blunder from success to pointless success, stealing trinkets for the excitement of it and giving them away. It is only after Charley is caught that Gary's book makes a descent into sentiment, coming closer to Dickens than to Evelyn Waugh, who also told (in his hilarious Put Out More Flags) of brattish evacuees on the loose in the English countryside. But the sentimental flaw is minor, and the book makes its point well: adolescence is a chrysalis whose occupant can be hurt, but not helped much...
...year before, still have not been mailed out, and the stamp money has gone for beer. At least two young women think they are engaged to him. Because the clacking of his own tongue can drown the ceaseless humming of the humdrum, he has told an elaborate and pointless series of lies...
...that his is Shakespeare's true Lear. With his wife, Elsa Lanchester, he studied the play in a facsimile of the First Folio all last winter, finally concluded that the author had scored it like music. Voice inflections, pitch, rhythms, everything seemed indicated by what would otherwise be pointless punctuation and irrational typography. "Elsa noticed it first, and I think she was the first to treat it that way. But it works! It works! Shakespeare tells you how to say every word...