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Перевод: pointlessness

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1. But it fits well with the plodding pointlessness of it all; "Our Time In Eden" is a nice, ordinary, listless album.
2. This deeper controversy sustains the debate between liberal interpretations of the modern law of contract, but paradoxically at the same time demonstrates its pointlessness.
3. In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning, probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating, but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness.
4. It took Prescott a good ten minutes to describe the full pointlessness of his life as a stockbroker and man-about-town before the combined effects of drink and sustaining a conversation took their toll and he declined into a glazed, sullen silence.
5. Whether they do anything with what they collect, or whether it's an exercise in pointlessness, a little like cosmic trainspotting, is another matter.
6. In its attempt to satirise an institution supposedly dominated by tedium, repetition and pointlessness, it perversely contrives to consist of little but these things itself.
7. It is an excellent example of the pointlessness of so much intelligence work, often conceived in the looking-glass world of make-believe where no one seems to be in touch with the real world outside, or to even consider the consequences of their ludicrous ideas.
8. It was never, as we have seen, the Labour government's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire, supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay, was immediately perceived.
9. Sylvie was confronted by the utter pointlessness of her presence.
10. IT TOOK ten years to get this thundering, pyrotechnical ode to the mayhem and pointlessness of the Vietnam war off the ground.
11. Another is to marvel at the pointlessness of many a sophisticated achievement and to be superior about it, the last, or one of the last, indulgences of a European.
12. The pointlessness of my existence - stealing money and food from my poor parents, wood from the railway cutting, begging my coup de vin from Suzanne at the Caf du Coin - all that was clearly not worthy of me.
13. Talking can often get us out of sticky situations: talking sense to somebody, calming an explosive situation, giving the person a chance to back off without losing pride, or even pointing out the consequences or pointlessness of the whole exercise.