CALL it the “Matador Doctrine”: a beast charges pointlessly at the bullfighter's cape, exhausting itself and suffering endless small wounds, until it succumbs to a weaker opponent.
In Baquba, the Iraqi police detective flipped pointlessly through a file on his desk; the daylight was too faint to read by and the electricity had long since gone off.
Chemicals were pointlessly poisoning the soil.
He spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery.
But this is no abstruse and pointlessly exasperated research: design is dictated by contemporary needs.
As storyteller, Jackson hits hardest on the theme of traditions, and how hard they die even when pointlessly damaging.
Such a settlement might not bring an immediate and perpetual end to the bombings, but it would dispel the murk of ambiguity where terrorism thrives and ordinary citizens lose their lives pointlessly.
In the sample change_methods decorator, some fixed methods are added and removed, fairly pointlessly.
True, they employ not one but two defensive midfielders but they still have room for the creativity of Kaká and Robinho's pointlessly overelaborate jinking.
A security guard could be seen spraying a fire extinguisher pointlessly against a growing fire ball.
He argued pointlessly with his parents.