What's easier to assess is the pointlessness of the endeavor.
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In her pointlessness, she can seem to form something like a coherent whole.
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It's the grind, the misery, the loneliness, and the pointlessness of it all.
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A party celebrating it isn't just pointless — at least pointlessness would render it harmless.
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The very sport of basketball, for subjecting him to this insane level of pointlessness?
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I was inexperienced and underprepared and frequently believed they were right about my pointlessness.
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You just reminded me things can be better in spite of that pointlessness and depression.
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No word quite captures their all-encompassing magnitude, their frequency, and, often, their sheer pointlessness.
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But if there is a point to this pointlessness, it's to savor any improvement, however gradual.
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He did everything but light up a cigarette and ruminate on the pointlessness of the entire scene.
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Read Charlie Warzel's analysis of the frustrations and pointlessness of tech executives answering shallow queries from Congress.
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CES TV-B-Gone prank: We had too much fun protesting the madness and pointlessness of CES's parade.
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The pointlessness of The Good Place's punishments — which serve no moral purpose — is the show's most radical choice.
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Once on stage, Leno ranted about American fast food, the obesity epidemic and the pointlessness of edible underwear.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)I have a friend who often likes to joke about the pointlessness of dual cameras.
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It doesn't matter if they are executing an expensive prank or ranting against the pointlessness of April Fools' Day.
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It hammers in the pointlessness of excessive, stylistic game violence, positing the romanticizing of honor and heroism as masturbatory.
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Turn to Chapter 1 and click on "Pointlessness" by the Voidz, the band Julian Casablancas formed after the Strokes.
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Worth a read: Via CNBC's Alex Sherman: "Vice's $400 million deal for Refinery29 illustrates the pointlessness of private valuations."
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Payne and Taylor, meanwhile, have fun mocking the drudgery of high school and the pointlessness of high school elections.
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Until he returned in 15, in 2014, and 2017, with the danger and pointlessness of the return increasing each time.
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Superimposed on landscapes that evoked an unruined world, slogans railed against the pointlessness and the cruelty of late-capitalist existence.
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A book so determined to chase its own tail in its pointlessness has every right to become a cult classic.
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" A former employee, who left several years ago, said that their tenure at Jigsaw was filled with "dramatic incompetence and pointlessness.
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At times like these, Scorpio, the pointlessness of what passes for "news" in the art world becomes all the more glaring.
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Despite privacy concerns and a general pointlessness, almost 27 percent of U.S. households have brought a smart assistant device into their home.
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Battlefield V was bringing to life the depressing pointlessness and bloody tedium of a lot of combat action in the World Wars.
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I mean the point or pointlessness of life in the face of death, and how we avoid and embrace our ultimate ends.
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" Mr. Cantrell said that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that spanned almost his entire life had been "20 years of pointlessness.
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Do you ever contemplate the pointlessness of throwing punches and doing so much damage just because your team is playing a rival team?
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I Should Have Run is a film about the pointlessness of lying to yourself, no matter what may drive you to do so.
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England beat Germany, England lost to Holland, we shrugged at the unrelenting pointlessness of it all and returned to worrying about the Premier League.
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But DeVito's sentiments seem genuine: the sheer pointlessness of a majority of his tweets lends a true stream-of-consciousness feel to his feed.
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There are parties and concerts, recreational drugs and a few conversations about sex and masturbation, and an air of pointlessness that hangs over everything.
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The cruel pointlessness of the president's policy, which had led to the injunctions, was not pressing enough to move the court's five conservative justices.
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Course you do, because even if you never played it, this century's Flashback was remarkable, and covered widely as a result, for its utter pointlessness.
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Early on, Rockwell's Captain Klenzendorf even acknowledges the pointlessness of incuclating kids like Jojo, given the advancing Allied armies and the Reich's nigh-inevitable defeat.
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Advisors argue he must strike Iran itself, given the scale of the carnage, the pointlessness of striking targets in Yemen, and questions swirling about his leadership.
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Samuel Beckett's mimed plays "Act Without Words I" and "Act Without Words II" use silence to draw out the frustration, pointlessness and endured unendurability of life.
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Friedman's own time at the Pumpkin is filled with a sense of inertia and pointlessness — like the trench warfare of World War I, he often notes.
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Ivan Reitman's 1984 film had a glorious sense of its own pointlessness, despite a big budget and special effects, and here we see that same irreverence.
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The most compelling justification for the prequel's existence is Dutch van der Linde, the only character that saves Red Dead Redemption 22's story from utter pointlessness.
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As the latest battle for Fallujah commences, the taking and retaking of the city has become a symbol of the utter pointlessness of US efforts in Iraq.
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Even now, with the primaries and caucuses over and each party's presumptive presidential nominee chosen, ridiculous sideshows compete for attention and the campaigns keep veering toward pointlessness.
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"Why does the government actively seek to damage the BBC, one of the few things the world admires about the UK at present, with this pointlessness?" he tweeted.
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Part of Ortega Ayala's intention is to underline the ridiculous pointlessness of these ceremonies, whose only purposes are indulging gluttony and celebrating excess — how appropriately and sickeningly poignant.
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Like Odradek, there seems to be no point to her — and yet, in her very pointlessness, she can seem at times to form something like a coherent whole.
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For a time, this seemed like it was working: When I started at Vox, the validation of a career I loved kept the sense of pointlessness at bay.
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The pointlessness of life may get to you, so surround yourself with reminders of what truly matters, like your family, your community, and—you may have forgotten—your happiness.
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One, "Cats of Istanbul", has nearly 20123,000 followers; its canine cousin, "Pups of Istanbul", a more modest 20,000, attesting to the pointlessness of competing with cats on the internet.
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If the point of art might once have been found in its pointlessness, this attempt to infuse it with purpose runs the risk of rendering it even more irrelevant.
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At the time I thought this was the height of pointlessness, not knowing that imbibing narcs to make humanity seem more tenable would become a great fixture in my life.
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Down at the harbor, huge mock galleons, capable of carrying more than 100 tourists on day cruises, are moored in a row, looking all the more preposterous for their pointlessness.
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After all, the mindless pursuit of productivity can result in a swallowing sense of existential pointlessness, and as we've all learned from history, that will only drive you to drink.
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Most of all, though, it is an attempt to divine why smart, seemingly decent politicians and bureaucrats would continue pushing a pointlessly cruel approach long after its pointlessness had become clear.
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Mike Francis, the man with a voice that'll forever remind us of pine scented air freshener and the painful pointlessness of red lights at pedestrian crossings at hours when streets are depopulated.
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Landing one on a foot-wide ledge is impressive, but really the only thing stopping Arnold's trick from being a throwaway is the pointlessness of the endeavor measured against the enormity of his efforts.
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Beyond that pushback you would get from Charney or other top-level managers or even fellow employees, there was a sense of pointlessness you would feel if you ever sensed things might be off.
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It's easy to blame the total pointlessness of the hearings today on a group of political grifters who are either trying to increase their star power or reinforce the nonsensical idea that conservatives are marginalized.
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She showed the pointlessness of trying to make this law recently when she posed for a photo with a beaming Mr Abbott, who clearly had no idea that her birth certificate carried the word "male."
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Trump administration officials finally seem to have understood the horror and pointlessness of the war, in which the United States is deeply entangled by the ordnance, targeting and refueling it provides the Saudi-led coalition.
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Most of Kenzo World's competitors also try their hardest to be cryptic and nonsensical, lest customers realize that smelly water is an essentially pointless purchase, but here, Jonze has elevated that pointlessness to an art form.
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Representative Filemon B. Vela Jr., a Democrat who represents Brownsville in Congress and whose district includes Los Indios, said the little piece of fence illustrated the pointlessness of a border wall, regardless of which administration built it.
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But the film does very little to make you want to follow it, and in the end, it turns out to have been an exercise in pointlessness, an excuse for some cool visuals and neat action sequences.
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Aside from the pointlessness of pitting race against gender to argue who's got it worse, what Delpy seems to miss is that being a woman and being African American aren't two exclusive categories—lots of people are both.
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Instead, by refusing to provide you with a purpose, it forces you to reconcile with the essential emptiness of its universe, with the pointlessness of a game whose only reward is the opportunity to continue playing the game.
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While Phil Neville's argument was not, perhaps, the most elegant contribution to the eternal wrangle over whether or not any given football is truly world class, it did at least help to exemplify the utter pointlessness of said wrangle.
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"The nuclear deal, as an experience, once again proved the pointlessness of negotiating with the Americans, their bad promises and the need not to trust America's promises," Khamenei was quoted as saying by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
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The season finale brings us to the "little bit of money" part of "Fargo," the moral reckoning part, in which our hero — in this case, Gloria — surveys the carnage and is left aghast at the pointlessness of it all.
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Why it matters: He blinks; he disappoints the people who still love him; he gets no credit for reopening the government, given he already took credit for the shutdown; and we're back where we started after 35 days of pointlessness.
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Photo: APEver since the term was popularized by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump—and subsequently appropriated by Democrats—the stupid controversy over "fake news" has become a swirling vortex of pointlessness that refuses to go all the way down the drain.
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Peering into INSTINCTUAL DRIFT, what looks like some sort of leisurely feast from ancient times cracks into various fragments that reveal a congested traffic jam, rendered in black and white as if to emphasize the dull, pointlessness of the situation.
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Artist Andrew Kuo joins hosts Ben Detrick and Jordan Redaelli to discuss fixing the New York Knicks, whether mascots should be allowed to vote for MVP, NBA social media blunders, and the pointlessness of the Sixth Man of the Year award.
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As her reincarnation loop continues — in episode two, that loop is so speedy that it's played for farce — Nadia is prodded out of her perpetual sense of pointlessness; her apprehension of death is no longer making her human needs seem futile.
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As Axios' Jonathan Swan puts it: He blinks; he disappoints the people who still love him; he gets no credit for reopening the government, given he already took credit for the shutdown; and we're back where we started after 35 days of pointlessness.
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Which, okay, perhaps an unfair quadrant to exclusively dump on Luigi's Mansion 21561, given how many other games also do this, but Luigi's Mansion 3 is the first time in a while it felt like the pointlessness was so front and center.
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And that's the beauty of the Chopper meme — by giving the author a degree of distance from the argument, it allows us to transcend the tendency of online debate to degenerate into precisely the kind of chair-throwing pointlessness that it depicts.
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When it's Trump delivering the speech, however, there's an added layer of pointlessness to the affair, as the country has no reason to believe either his diagnosis of the problems faced by the country or that he'll follow through on any of his proposed cures.
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In fact, for a while they were so ubiquitous and popular that the game theorist and writer Ian Bogost invented a kind of parody of their pointlessness called Cow Clicker, which, as my colleague Jason Tanz wrote about so elegantly in 2011, itself became wildly, unironically popular.
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And though I work at a political magazine and engage in these issues every day, I confess that I felt a similar pang of pointlessness when I saw a photo of a young black man coolly torching a Confederate flag with what appeared to be an aerosol can.
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But there's a pointlessness to the whole enterprise here, a sense that one's last looks at characters who were uniquely well-drawn and carefully wrought are being dithered away on a theatrical framework that requires so much jerry-rigging to make sense that moments and interactions are slipping away.
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Throughout both books I was struck by the obviousness of the importance of work, either domestic or professional — the importance of contributing, of choosing a destiny, of being good at something, of participating in history, and the enraging pointlessness of small-minded repressions of a soaring and generous human urge.
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When you compare her lines of questioning to what you saw from the other hosts — particularly Wolf Blitzer, whose questions sent the foreign policy section spinning into pointlessness — it's hard not to come away both impressed and reminded of the value of local journalism (which, incidentally, is in crisis as an industry).
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Their downfall—which we know is coming from the beginning—is that they have nothing to offer their dazzling new acquaintances beyond devotion and mimicry; they do not understand that, on Instagram, you can be totally boring and pointless as long as you "own it," or portray your boring pointlessness as somehow intrinsic to your self.
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There is an eccentric humor to the entire exercise: an artist, holding an absurd pose associated with classical statuary, walks back and forth with Sisyphean pointlessness, while the small hole in his t-shirt's right underarm and his glasses tucked in his left breast pocket endow him with the appearance of someone who's come to fix the leak in your roof.
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This, along with the constant tweets about witch hunts and the alleged pointlessness of a special counsel investigation that's already resulted in criminal charges against several of Trump's top aides, is a real threat not just to Robert Mueller's investigation but to the entire idea that the president and his friends and family and business partners and campaign donors are equal to the rest of us under the law.
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My friend Jo Livingstone recently wrote a piece called "In Defense of Cultural Criticism in Trump's America" for the New Republic, and in it, she argues that cultural critics have a responsibility to resist the nagging sense of pointlessness we've felt since Donald Trump became the president, as well as to ignore the urge to be topical and connect to Donald Trump every discussion of a new art exhibit or book that has little to do with Donald Trump.
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All this is on top of the everyday badness that usually goes unremarked upon because we're so used to it: the hateful invective that especially swamps people of color and women who have opinions in public, the way social media acts as an opinion-affirming cocoon where likeminded people tell one another that they're right and the other side is wrong, the sheer pointlessness of 99.9 percent of what gets tossed out in those little text boxes.
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The alcopop that broke the camel's back came in the form of a long, drunk, and particularly pointless conversation with a paying customer about my lack of songs by Paul McCartney and Wings, a group he only ever referred to as Paul McCartney and Wings, as if the world is awash with other bands called Wings, which was followed almost immediately by a far briefer, but more illuminating exchange that seemed to be a succinct summary of the utter pointlessness of it all.
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Not "wasted" time, because watching time burn after the Diptyque candle on your self-care altar catches the dry corner of an hour or a day can be the most luxurious pointlessness (a pillow-topped nihilism, a rarefied moment of sanctioned privilege-bukakki), and not dumbtime, like peeing and cleaning and grooming (the reason we made skincare into church is because skincare was so boring), but misspent, like scrolling, like monkey-minding, like doing everything you can to get away from the wildflowering part of yourself, and from the moment, so, from time.
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To them, John Barleycorn sends clear visions of the eventual pointlessness of life and love and struggle.
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At times the pointlessness of the whole jingbang irritates me, to be part of this circular joke.
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Baradwaj Rangan, writing for The Hindu, stated, "(the) first half (of the film) is practically empty — we have to wait for the second half for things to get going. So a certain amount of pointlessness in the early portions is par for the course. What’s shocking in M. Saravanan’s Valiyavan is how excruciating this pointlessness is. You may end up feeling physical pain", going on to call it "an easy contender for the year’s worst screenplay".
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Mopsus ponders upon the pointlessness of undergoing certain rituals, if he still burns with unrequited love. Lycidas explains that, even though a witch called Mycale cast spells for him, he still thinks Iollas is beautiful.
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The available sources indicate that not even the creation of a sovereign Croatian state (which he had helped prepare) managed to pull him from the lethargy and the feeling of pointlessness radiating from his autobiographic works.
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It is written in the spirit of a light commentary on the pointlessness of constant military drilling. Sherman, Robert B., Walt's Time: from before to beyond, Camphor Tree Publishers, Santa Clarita, California, 1998, p 81., A reprise version has the first appearance of Shere Khan.
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A man with a stern look on his face. He was commonly known as the Owari Savage. He explained the pointlessness of war to Shichika and tried to persuade him to retreat, but Shichika found his words meaningless and defeats him without hesitation. He wields Outō Nokogiri.
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Patrick Ryan served as an infantry and then a reconnaissance officer in the war. Throughout, the author's bitterness at the pointlessness of war, and the battle of class interests in the hierarchy, are common to the film, as are most of the characters (though the novel predictably includes many more than the film).
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Grumbling at the apparent pointlessness of the mission, and wilting under the intense heat, they nevertheless follow Michaël's instructions. One night back at the motel, Isabelle panics and Gérard rushes to her room. She is convinced there was an intruder, who could have been Michaël. She says he seized her ankles, which afterwards exhibit a mysterious inflammation.
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This song features bassist Les Claypool soulfully slapping and tapping his bass. In the video about 40 seconds of the outro were removed. It appears to be about the pointlessness of mundane activities such as waiting in line at Department of Motor Vehicles, going to the dentist and sitting on cold toilet seats etc., and seeking relief through THC.
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Magic grew out of David Schrom's dissatisfaction with his life and its "underpinnings," as he phrases it, as a senior at Yale University in 1968.Holbrook, p.15,19 After attending Yale Law School, he worked in a variety of jobs but remained "really disgusted" by the "immorality, dishonesty and pointlessness of what he was doing."Holbrook, p. 23.
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Stan is a worker for a small London flower business. The humour centred on the relationships between the workers and the scrapes they got into doing odd jobs in the gardens of houses in the district. Beckinsale's character, Stan, was apt to wind up in bed with lonely housewives, and equally apt to spend time with said housewives musing on philosophy and the pointlessness of life.
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"Mademoiselle Fifi" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant, published in 1882 in a collection of the same title. Like many of his short stories, such as Boule de Suif and Deux Amis, the story is set during the Franco-Prussian War and explores themes of class barriers, contrasts between the French and German participants, and the pointlessness of the war.
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Michael visits his father in jail, but the conversation is cut short by his father's abusive threats. When Bob asks them to discuss their day in group therapy, they refuse, and Michael storms off. While discussing the pointlessness of Bob's therapy, Sonia learns that her father has died. As the trio try to deal with their emotional pain, a storm rolls in, and each of them is shocked and knocked unconscious.
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The New York Times stated that the novel "blends the unearthly, the horrific and the mundane to terrific effect". A review in Haaretz called Saadawi's writing style clever, combining "compassionate moments of grace and sympathy" with "macabre humor that adds a cynical view of the goings-on". British reviewer Sarah Perry suggested that the novel evokes Kafka as well as Shelley, its story emphasizing the pointlessness and surrealism of war.
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Silent Alarm does not contain a solitary lyrical centre and simply observes people's lives. Okereke wanted to leave individual listeners space to make their own conclusions, but has admitted that the record "operates in the realm of cultural politics". Much of the songwriting is inspired by the style of confessional poetry authors like Anne Sexton and musicians Thom Yorke and Björk. In general, Silent Alarm tries to make clear an existential pointlessness in life.
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He was his high school valedictorian, captain of the track team, and an Eagle scout. While going for his degree in Physical Education on a state scholarship, he suddenly dropped out and moved to the coast for about three years. He spent time there pondering the pointlessness of his existence, when he decided to join the Army. After basic training and AIT at Fort Benning, he graduated jump school and the desert training unit.
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60–61 Time, he suggests, did not alter Urumuz's "attitude on life": "Only now the about-turns were more daring and the tightrope acts was much more savvy."Ciprian, p.77 In 1925, commenting on Urmuz's flair for depicting the "overall pointlessness of [human] existence", Ciprian also argued: "For the mediocre mindset, [Urmuz] may seem incoherent and unbalanced—which is why his work is not addressed to the masses."Cernat, Avangarda, p.
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The pointlessness of a religious war is also emphasised more. Once again, Whitaker plays up the romantic potential of Ian and Barbara and includes a graphic passage of Barbara being scourged. For some reason the name of Susan's husband has changed from David Campbell to David Cameron. In 2005 the novel was also issued by BBC Audio as part of the Doctor Who: Travels in Time and Space audio book collectors' tin, read by William Russell.
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A period of discontent over ROTC's conduct and the corruption that often plagued its individual units had long been fermenting prior to 2000. Filipino student websites often contain short essays regarding the alleged pointlessness of the program. Student groups would occasionally include ROTC in their roster of grievances, whereas lawmakers would introduce resolutions intended to abolish ROTC. Into this national mood of resentment fell a tragedy that would have a significant impact on the Philippine ROTC program.
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A main theme of the book is the pointlessness and irrationality of war. After the protagonist, Johnny Briggs, misses school for two days in order to have more time to build his Guy Fawkes, he is forced to spend every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon at his teacher's house. There, his teacher, Mr. Tuttle, tutors him on classic literature, mainly the Iliad. They both draw direct parallels between the events of World War I and the events of Homer's novel.
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From this perspective, "he can at once admit that the world is ruled by necessity, by evil, and yet still find hope and sustenance in the beauty of the world. History reveals the pointlessness of human striving, the instability of human things; but time also is the moving image of eternity". According to Hass, this viewpoint left Miłosz "with the task of those heretical Christians…to suffer time, to contemplate being, and to live in the hope of the redemption of the world".
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" Fellow ANN reviewer Theron Martin stated in his review of "Nichijou Episode 1" that despite the series' ability to entertain, it is "absolutely not a series for everyone". Chris Beveridge of the now defunct Mania.com reviewed the first four episodes, giving each succeeding episode a lower grade (B for episode 1 down to D+ by episode 4). Beveridge stated in his review of episode 4 that "[Nichijou is] so full of fluff and pointlessness that it's hard to get enthused about.
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Bohoušek is now alone in his room humming O Sole Mio and stacking the bits of the angel statues on one another. He says he pities Hanta for being such a scoundrel and that he will never be a true artist like him. He says his pervert character is all just an act because of the pointlessness of existence. Hanta leaves and tries to hit the mechanical sign in the main hall on the way out but it takes a couple of attempts.
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Scenery may be realistic, a caricature of geography containing real buildings or deliberately unrealistic. The difficulty is the likelihood that all of the layout can be seen at once, and the problem of finding any sort of visual break between the two sides. Many simply ignore this, placing a realistic building or feature in the centre and ignoring the logical pointlessness of a railway that obviously circles without going anywhere. Some layouts model funfairs, where the short circle can appear purposeful.
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Manekshaw addressed the Pakistani troops by radio broadcast on 9, 11 and 15 December, assuring them that they would receive honourable treatment from the Indian troops if they surrendered. The last two broadcasts were delivered as replies to messages from the Pakistani commanders Maj. Gen. Rao Farman Ali and Lt. Gen. Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi to their troops, which were to have a devastating effect; they convinced the troops of the pointlessness of further resistance, and led to their defeat.
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Their characters are a pair of sad, pathetic losers forced together by their mutual hopelessness. However, unlike earlier examples of such, the characters in Bottom absolutely hate each other, exacerbating their despair. This often leads to slapstick violence, such as hitting each other with frying pans. Mayall and Edmonson have said Bottom aimed to be more than just a series of toilet gags—it was meant to be a cruder cousin to plays like Waiting for Godot about the pointlessness of life.
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A Hammond B3 organ. Along with "Within You Without You", "It's All Too Much" and "Blue Jay Way", "Only a Northern Song" was one of several compositions that Harrison wrote on a keyboard instrument during a period when he was otherwise immersed in studying the Indian sitar. The composition is a meta-song, in that its subject is the work itself. While commenting on the pointlessness of writing for Northern Songs, Harrison employs musical dissonance to express his dissatisfaction with the company.
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The concept of passing as another race is demonstrated by Peach never discussing her racial background and only being able to take family members back to Scotland who appeared white. Similarly, the only reason that Sun was able to escape the South was because the color of his skin was so white. Within the novel, Cooper demonstrates both how passing for a different race was used as a method for survival, as well as the pointlessness for discriminating against one another via race.
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In the story, a young Holden Caulfield first meets up with Sally to go ice skating. After a bit of small talk with her, Holden reveals his true thoughts about his perceived pointlessness of preparatory school, telling her he's "in bad shape." He continues and brings up the idea of moving with her far away from the city, but Sally dismisses this as an absurd fantasy. Later, Holden and Carl Luce appear at the Wadsworth bar, where they drink scotch and sodas.
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Williamson became disgusted with what he considered to be the pointlessness of the war, blaming its causation on greed and bigotry. He became determined that Germany and Britain should never go to war again. Williamson was also powerfully influenced by the camaraderie that he had experienced in the trenches, and what he saw as the bonds of kinship that existed between the ordinary British and German soldiers.Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers of the Right: British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany 1933-39, Oxford University Press, 1983, , pp.
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The party was preceded by a non-governmental organization social initiative founded in 2008, with the purpose of reforming Hungarian politics. LMP shares common ideologies with most green parties. Key issues are environmental protection, sustainable development and the fight against corruption in the current political elite. LMP highlights what they see as the pointlessness of the current partisan division between the left and right-wing forces, and their principle is deliberative democracy, which they believe decreases the distance between the people and the political elite.
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Kyrklund's works of fiction are influenced by modernism; his early short stories resemble surrealism, in which the storyline is concealed by symbolism that contributes to conveying a mix of bitter irony, reconciliation and alienation. These characteristics of his writings, together with Kyrklund's own absurdities, to some extent resemble the work of Torgny Lindgren. However, in contrast to surrealism, Kyrklund's works are highly aware and well thought out. Recurring themes are pointlessness and powerlessness, where good and bad meet in an ungraspable and sometimes deliberately incomprehensible greyscale.
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Disfigured by syphilis and addicted to opium in an effort to make his life bearable, Rabbe is today remembered for his Album d’un pessimiste in which he writes of the pointlessness of existence. It was published posthumously in 1835. He is also thought to have penned a novel, La Sœur grise, but the manuscript has not survived. Despite his almost complete detachment from society, he was friends with some of the most important literary figures of his day including Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, père, and Benjamin Constant.
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He wrote that despite "still [operating] around the noise/melody axis much like Sonic Youth [did], the stylistic shadows of that influence seem to be receding." James Oldham of NME gave the album a mixed review, with most of the review itself focusing negatively on the American alternative rock scene of the 90s from which this album emerged, particularly lo-fi music and slacker culture. He criticized its "fiendish pointlessness" and "utterly indulgent riffery [sic]", despite comparing "the delightfully meandering 'High-Wire Moves'" positively to Pavement.
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The album's first single, "Leave It in My Dreams", was released on January 23, 2018, followed by a second single, "QYURRYUS", the next day. "Pointlessness", "All Wordz Are Made Up", and "ALieNNatioN" were then released respectively as the following singles, while a music video for "Pyramid of Bones" was released on March 29, 2018. The album artwork features a 2015 painting by Argentinian-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone. The track "Think Before You Drink" is an acoustic cover and rearrangement of a 1978 disco song by the musician Michael Cassidy.
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Some of its subplots were considered too dark or risqué for television and were toned down or omitted. The story concerns a middle-aged middle manager, Reginald "Reggie" Perrin, who reveals himself in the first series to be aged 46, who is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts. The sitcom proved to be a subversion of others of the era, which were often based on bland, middle-class suburban family life. The first novel in the series, The Death of Reginald Perrin, was published in 1975.
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Matthau and Lemmon put in their usual faultless turns, but cannot lift a pervading air of pointlessness."Channel 4 review TV Guide rated the film 2½ out of four stars and noted, "This slick remake of the ebullient original falls short of being the film it could have been, despite the presence of master filmmaker Wilder and his engaging costars . . . Despite the obvious charismatic interaction between Lemmon and Matthau, the film is oddly stilted. In an overly emphatic turn, the miscast Burnett easily gives the most awful performance of her career.
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Harper was inspired by a trip to, and time spent in, Big Sur, California. "Me and My Woman" is a love song backed by David Bedford's orchestral arrangements (Bedford would also collaborate on some of Harper's later releases). "Hors d'Oeuvres" was inspired by the fate of Caryl Chessman who spent nearly 12 years on death row – at the time the longest ever in the United States – before being executed in a gas chamber in May 1960. "One Man Rock and Roll Band" is a critique on the pointlessness of violence.
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This occlusion depended on denying the struggles for freedom waged by black people in the effort to expand the reach of freedom in the modern world. A danger of black suffering is that it could lead to a sense of pointlessness of black existence and a lack of self-worth. Cornel West has addressed the problem of Black Nihilism and its effect on the African-American community. > The proper starting point for the crucial debate about the prospects for > black America is an examination of the nihilism that increasingly pervades > black communities.
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William Roscoe, the writer, wrote a Memoir of him and the Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, who was once the vicar of Aberdaron, wrote a poem about him, simply titled Dic Aberdaron. T. H. Parry-Williams wrote a somewhat different poem with the same title in Welsh, stressing his eccentricity and the pointlessness of his learning, since he never appears to have used any of his languages, but concludes: "Chwarae- teg i Dic – nid yw pawb yn gwirioni'r un fath" (Fair play to Dic – not everybody is silly in the same way).
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The author, in 2015 In 2013, Graeber published an essay in the magazine Strike, "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs", which argued the pointlessness of many contemporary jobs, particularly those in fields of finance, law, human resources, public relations, and consultancy. Its popularity, with over one million hits, crashed the website of its publisher, the radical magazine Strike! The essay was subsequently translated into 12 languages. YouGov undertook a related poll, in which 37% of some surveyed Britons thought that their jobs did not contribute 'meaningfully' to the world.
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After the death of Gio Ponti (in 1979), in 1980 the "Themes & Variations" gallery opened in London, on the initiative of Liliane Fawcett and Giuliana Medda. This revived interest in his work overseas too, where he was already widely known. Fornasetti's oeuvre began to be rediscovered beyond the ideological contrast of form/function and ornament/pointlessness, and in 1987 Piero collaborated with Patrick Mauriés on the first monograph on his work, accompanied by an introduction by Ettore Sottsass. The book was published posthumously - Piero Fornasetti died in 1988 during a minor operation in hospital.
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When the Warner Bros. animation studio briefly outsourced cartoon production to DePatie- Freleng Enterprises (DFE) in the 1960s, Daffy Duck became an antagonist in several cartoons opposite Speedy Gonzales, who refers to Daffy as "the loco duck." In Well Worn Daffy (1965), Daffy is determined to keep the mice away from a desperately needed well seemingly for no other motive than pure maliciousness. Furthermore, when he draws all the water he wants, Daffy then attempts to destroy the well in spite of the vicious pointlessness of the act, forcing Speedy to stop him.
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Mi's primary goal involves ringing the Six Bells of Fate, a task which falls upon a member of the Sprocket family every six hundred years and is required by prophecy to prevent the destruction of the world. There are numerous side quests as well and most may be completed in multiple ways, awarding the player with different achievements and endings. Underground often breaks the fourth wall, with the developer himself making appearances as an NPC and various characters making remarks on common video-game clichés, including the apparent pointlessness of the main quest.
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GCN1.1-chips, such as the Bonaire AMD PowerTune was introduced in the TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) with Radeon HD 6900 on 15 December 2010 and has been available in different development stages on Radeon- and AMD FirePro- branded products ever since. Over the years, reviews which document the development of AMD PowerTune have been published by AnandTech. An additional technology named AMD ZeroCore Power has been available since the Radeon HD 7000 Series, implementing the Graphics Core Next microarchitecture. The pointlessness of a fixed clock frequency was accredited in January 2014 by SemiAccurate.
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On Metacritic, the PC version of Distrust has a rating of 75/100 based on five reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Leif Johnson of GameSpot rated it 7/10 stars and wrote that the game's roguelike gameplay, which depends heavily on random chance, keeps replays fresh. However, he said this randomization can also make it "maddeningly tough". Ted Hentschke of Dread Central rated it 2.5/5 stars, criticizing how little inspiration the game took from The Thing, its trivially-overcome challenges, and the pointlessness of many of the randomized gameplay elements.
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Jeffrey, now armed with a minigun, holds off the zombie hordes while Aziz, Mo, and Kim work their way up the building, only to find out that Tess was already rescued by a former lover. Furious at the pointlessness, Kim leaves on her own and randomly encounters Tess, who has now transformed into a zombie. At the same time, Aziz and Mo reach the building's roof, where a Russian commando explains his plan to blow up the building. Before he can, he is bitten, turns into a zombie, and bites Mo, who decides to stay behind and use the detonator.
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Kohout was selected for sexual services by a Kapo, and then the senior of his block. Florence Tamagne, a contemporary author on the history of homosexuals in Europe, describes these involvements as fortunate for Kohout; the protection of these relatively privileged men may have helped Kohout to survive. Like other prisoners, Kohout was assigned futile tasks during his time in the camp, including using wheelbarrows to move the snow (and bare hands to move rocks) from one side of the compound to the other and back again. The repetition and pointlessness of the tasks were such that many prisoners committed suicide.
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The sequel received mixed reviews. According to Ken Tucker:Ken Tucker, November 12, 1993 Return to Lonesome Dove Entertainment Weekly Accessed 2014-03-29 :Dove II relies far too much on what Dove I used as window dressing: long, deep shots of rolling farmland and dusty desert. Lonesome Dove's director of photography, Douglas Milsome, has been bumped up to second-unit director here, and it's clear that, in the absence of vivid atmosphere in the script, Milsome was prevailed upon to gussy up the proceedings. He did, but the result serves to emphasize the ultimate pointlessness of this whole enterprise.
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The theatre of the absurd (Rev. and enl. ed.). Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin.. The integral characteristic of Absurdist fiction involves the experience of the struggle to find an intrinsic purpose in life, depicted by characters in their display of meaningless actions in the futile events they take part in. The Absurdist movement is known to be an extension of the Existentialism movement that focuses on the pointlessness of mankind and specifically, the emotional angst and anxiety present when the existence of purpose is challengedCrowell, Steven, "Existentialism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
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Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times called it "a disturbingly retro and sadistically sensationalized take on the subject". Lori Rackl of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it 2/4 stars and wrote that the film starts well before "devolving into a rape revenge fantasy whose potency is diluted by silly gimmicks". Diane Werts of Newsday rated it B and wrote that it has a "solid star turn, eerie production values, even a killer ending". Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe wrote that it "becomes a unswerving revenge tale that's awkwardly cut with whimsical humor and reverberates with echoes of pointlessness".
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Three full-time sabbatical officers and ten non-sabbatical officers oversaw student entertainment, welfare and childcare, as well as ensuring that the views of Lampeter students were represented on a national level, through affiliation with the National Union of Students. However, by 2015, this had been cut to one sabbatical officer and 16 non-sabbatical officers. The Students Union also published a popular satirical magazine entitled 1822 which "blends satire, pointlessness and toilet humour". The secluded rural location lends the campus a special atmosphere and a very high proportion of the students were involved in clubs, societies and associations.
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Despite all this action, the Portuguese, again, suffered not a single death, just a few injured. The Zamorin was demoralized after this assault, and is said to have retired into his tents, in a melancholic mood. Already after the second assault, the Zamorin is said to have realized the pointlessness of repeated attacks on the Kumbalam ford, and had even half-made up his mind to dissolve the campaign and start peace negotiations, rather than subject himself to further humiliations. But he was urged on by his noble captains to give it another try, to restore his honor and keep the faith of his vassals.
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Odin also possesses powerful cards, namely the Time Vent card that allows him to reverse time to the beginning of the Rider War and the Survive card which makes him invincible when used with the Survive Shippu and Survive Rekka cards. Throughout the Rider War, Odin makes brief appearances and fights the other Kamen Riders before he and Knight Survive are left. But after a climatic battle, Odin disappears after Kanzaki sees the pointlessness of the Rider War as it was rendered null and void upon Yui's death. In the 13 Riders special, Kamen Rider Odin is among the Kamen Riders that attack Shinji.
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Humor and satire were a large part of the content of the trench journals. Most works of this type took the form of black humor, sometimes making light of subjects widely considered more serious. Short songs ("ditties") and poems often joked about terrible conditions, fear of death, and general cynicism on the perceived hopelessness and pointlessness of the war. The journal of the 55th West Lancashire Division, Sub Rosa, included this poem in 1917: > Little Jack Wrench Sat down in a trench With a 'pork and beans' and some > bread, When an Allemande shell On the parapet fell So he got 'iron rations' > instead.
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Theology Secretary for the Church of England Anne Richards described Mewtwo as representing a "parable about the pointlessness of force", and praised the character for displaying the Christian value of redemption. Other reactions have been mixed. While it has been cited as a "complex and compelling villain" by some critics, its goal of world domination was received as a trait shared by "…every anime villain…", and likened to a James Bond villain by Daily Record. However, Animerica praised Mewtwo as a character with "philosophical depth" as well as for serving as "an adversary of almost infinite power and genuine malice" that the anime series had been lacking.
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They married in May 1992. Their videos have been shown in festivals and galleries in New York; Linz, Austria; Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; Tel Aviv, Israel, as well as McMurdo Station in Antarctica "We strive to capture, share and expose the unseen and overlooked, to find joy in the banal. With video we can discover a point in the pointlessness of everyday life." Taly has said. The pair is best known for their brief abstract videos including the ghostly tribute to Nam June Paik "Nam June Paik's Fingerprints" that was finished on the eve of Paik’s death and presented in the Vienna Short Film Festival as an installation in 2006.
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Reviewers generally reacted favorably to the cast, Ermey in particular, and the film's first act in recruit training, but several reviews were critical of the latter part of the film set in Vietnam and what was considered a "muddled" moral message in the finale. It ranks on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills. Richard Corliss of Time called the film a "technical knockout", praising "the dialogue's wild, desperate wit; the daring in choosing a desultory skirmish to make a point about war's pointlessness", and "the fine, large performances of almost every actor", believing, at the time, that Ermey and D'Onofrio would receive Oscar nominations. Corliss appreciated "the Olympian elegance and precision of Kubrick's filmmaking".
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It was also considered that a full-fledged total defense would have not been worth the very large expense. For whatever reason, the public saw efforts at civil defense as fundamentally ineffective against the powerful destructive forces of nuclear weapons, and therefore a waste of time and money, although detailed scientific research programs did underlie the much- mocked government civil defense pamphlets of the 1950s and 1960s. Governments in most Western countries, with the sole exception of Switzerland, generally sought to underfund Civil Defense due to its perceived pointlessness. Nevertheless, effective but commonly dismissed civil defense measures against nuclear attack were implemented, in the face of popular apathy and skepticism of authority.
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Dialogue from Detective Comics is employed, in which Batman compares himself to Anarky and denies the latter legitimacy: "The fact is, no man can be allowed to set himself up as judge, jury and executioner." Far less favorable views of Anarky have also been offered. Newsarama contributor George Marston was especially scathing of the character's politics and costume, placing Anarky at No.8 on a list of the "Top 10 Worst Batman villains of all time". Deriding the character as a "living embodiment of an Avril Lavigne t-shirt", he pointed out the pointlessness of being inspired to super heroics by radical philosophy, and the contradictory nature of fighting crime as an anarchist.
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A stupa dedicated to Śāriputra at the ancient alt= Upatiṣya was born the same day as Kolita (who would later be known as Maudgalyāyana), a boy from a neighboring village whose family had been friends with Upatiṣya's family for seven generations, and became friends with him as a child. Upatiṣya and Kolita both became masters of the Vedas through their education and each developed a large following of brahmin youths. One day the realization that life is impermanent overtook the two friends during a festival in Rājagaha and they developed a sense of spiritual urgency. Realizing the pointlessness of the impermanent material world, the two friends set out as ascetics to search for an end to rebirth.
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Superman then uses his x-ray and heat vision to remove the mutated portion of Manchester's brain that gave him his telekinetic abilities, neutralizing him. As a terrified Manchester breaks down in tears over his impending demise, Superman reveals that the Elite are all alive, merely rendered unconscious by him, awaiting arrest by the authorities, and that the lobotomy he gave Manchester was actually the equivalent of a concussion whose effects are temporary. Superman explains that he created the illusion that he had crossed the line into brutal vigilantism in order to illustrate to the public the danger and pointlessness of hatred and vengeance. An enraged Manchester threatens retribution, telling Superman that he is living in a dream.
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The novel also deals with broader anti-war themes: essentially a series of absurdly comic episodes, it explores the pointlessness and futility of conflict in general and of military discipline, Austrian military discipline in particular. Many of its characters, especially the Czechs, are participating in a conflict they do not understand on behalf of an empire to which they have no loyalty. The character of Josef Švejk is a development of this theme. Through (possibly feigned) idiocy or incompetence he repeatedly manages to frustrate military authority and expose its stupidity in a form of passive resistance: the reader is left unclear, however, as to whether Švejk is genuinely incompetent, or acting quite deliberately with dumb insolence.
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The Moties frequently refer to the mythical character they call "Crazy Eddie" when talking to humans. There are many Crazy Eddie stories, but all revolve around the inevitability of repeated cycles of collapse of Motie civilization and the pointlessness of trying to prevent them. The drive that humans call the Alderson Drive, which allows human ships to travel between star systems, is called by Moties the Crazy Eddie Drive, because although it is founded in sound science and has been reinvented many times by Motie civilizations, ships that attempt to use it disappear and are never seen again. The Moties do not know that the ships they send appear inside the hot photosphere of Murcheson's Eye.
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On October 7, 2017, The Voidz played songs from Virtue for the first time during a secret show (billed as "YouTube Comments", a supposed Voidz tribute band) in Los Angeles, including "Wink", "ALieNNatioN", "We're Where We Were", "My Friend the Walls" and "Lazy Boy". The band also played "Wink" on the Brazilian talk show The Noite while on a tour of South America during the same month. On December 8, 2017, the band released a teaser video directed by Warren Fu, announcing the album, the simplification of their name to The Voidz and also their signing to RCA. The video features snippets of the songs "Pointlessness" and "Pyramid of Bones", as well as the Les Paul and Mary Ford song "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise".
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The founders of DartMUD decided to try to capture the unpredictability of the Rolemaster RPG's open-ended die rolling system using a custom implemented Cauchy distribution function. The unpredictable extremes of the Cauchy function have occasionally resulted in very memorably improbable results. DartMUD also uses a seeded random number generator, which allows for certain similar "random" events to produce identical results, simulating the pointlessness of attempting certain actions twice: if an action failed once, it will fail again unless something has changed in a subsequent attempt. Creatures in DartMUD possess "shapes" -- a creature's shape file determines how many limbs it has, how many objects it can hold, natural armor, relative size and durability, and effects when one or more limbs are disabled.
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The book received mixed reviews, with The A.V. Club giving it a B-.Rizov, Vadim Chuck Klosterman: I Wear The Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real And Imagined) A.V. Club. January 20, 2016Wheeler, Brad Dissecting Chuck Klosterman and his latest pop- culture offering Globe and Mail. January 20, 2016 Writing for the New York Times, James Parker said I Wear the Black Hat is, "...not [Klosterman's] best book, but in considering it we should remember the young person, probably not a reader of The New York Times, to whom its haphazardness, its occasional pointlessness and above all its difficulty keeping a straight face will come as sweet, sweet relief."Parker, James Badfellas: Chuck Klosterman’s ‘I Wear the Black Hat’ New York Times.
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Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested Episode Guide, bbc.co.uk According to an interview with Anthea Turner, only the first three episodes were planned to be on bug infestations, although she did not specify what later episodes would cover. Critical reactions were very negative: James Watson at the Daily Telegraph described it as being both boring and exhibiting "grinding, excruciating pointlessness", while The Guardian's Nancy Banks-Smith described it as "frightful". Charlie Brooker thought Turner came across as "a hard, judgemental piece of work who spends most of her time haranguing the human inhabitants for living in filth", and the resulting programme feels like "a strange psychodrama in which the punters are caught between unfeeling vermin on one side, and an unfeeling former Blue Peter presenter on the other".
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Mara is taken to the palace for interrogation, but claims not to know the leader of the rebellion, despite a harsh beating and offers of freedom and riches. Elsewhere in the city, Sheftu realizes that though Mara has been playing both sides, she has only been truly loyal to the rebellion, so he goes to her interrogation, planning to persuade Hatshepsut of its pointlessness. Sahure, a juggler who plays at both the Inn of the Falcon and at Nahereh's dinner parties, has also made an appearance at the interrogation, revealing himself as the spy who took the bait in the trap meant for Mara. Sahure identifies Sheftu as the leader in the rebellion, and is able to prove his claim by describing a bracelet that Sheftu is always wearing.
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The memes became widely discussed on Chinese Internet forums, and most users concluded that the initial aim of the hoaxes was to satirise and ridicule the pointlessness of the new keyword filters. The meme is interpreted by most Chinese online as a form of direct protest rather than motiveless intentional disruption to Baidu services. After the hoaxes were posted, news of the articles spread quickly online on joke websites, popular web portals and forums such as Baidu Tieba, while a large number of posts were sent on the Tencent QQ Groups chat service. There have also been various parodies of the meme created (such as the "Baidu 10 Legendary Weapons" and "Baidu 10 Secret Delicacies"卧槽，又来一个！百度十大神秘美食~~).
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Geohashing is an outdoor recreational activity inspired by the webcomic xkcd, in which participants have to reach a random location (chosen by a computer algorithm), prove their achievement by taking a picture of a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or another mobile device and then tell the story of their trip online. Proof based on non-electronic navigation is also acceptable. Whereas other outdoor recreational activities like geocaching have a precise goal, geohashing is mainly fueled by its pointlessness, which is deemed amusing by its players. (However, a variation on geocaching, known as geodashing, features a closely comparable principle.) The resulting geohashing community and culture is thus extremely tongue-in-cheek, supporting any kind of humorous behavior during the practice of geohashing and resulting in a parody of traditional outdoor activities.
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Robbins 2005, p75 In the Official History Wilfrid Miles later wrote scathingly of the lack of preparation and the pointlessness of an attack by inexperienced troops, to seize a position which they could not possibly have held against counterattacks, and blames First Army for not cancelling the operation.Beckett & Corvi 2006, p136 Harold Elliott later (in 1930) criticised Haking for exaggerating the amount of artillery that would be available, and for attacking without surprise. He exonerated McCay and argued that Haking, after Major Howard's report (which Haig had annotated to permit the attack only on condition that sufficient guns and ammunition were available) had persuaded Monro, who in turn persuaded Butler, and that Haking had been keen to win glory for himself. He also stressed how Haking had ignored suggestions from Monro that the attack be postponed because of the rain, and was scornful of Haking's after-battle report.
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Opera, August 2013, 988-991. Although the opera depicts spectacular scenes on the ocean, a creole carnival and an exploding volcano, the plot is essentially "an intimate romantic drama about young people in love, all the more poignant because of its pointlessness". Musical highlights include the Quartet 'I have another world to show you' and Berthe's aria 'Each afternoon when the swooning breezes cool and die' (recorded by Cheryl Barker), in Act 1; Josephine's 'Let me one day return', the love duet for Sosthène and Berthe 'We'll meet at Beauséjour' and the waltzes of the Mardi gras party in Act 2; and Agenor's aria 'I love this hour' in Act 3. The libretto provides an opposition of two groups of characters: a quartet of serious lovers (Berthe, Sosthène, Josephine, Marcel) and another comic group (Agenor, Mathilde, Joubert), which gives Williamson ample scope for musical portraiture.
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Fan letters in the magazine complained about the novel's containment within the solar system, and Sloane sided with the readers. So when Harry Bates, editor of Astounding Stories, offered Smith 2¢/word—payable on publication—for his next story, he agreed; this meant that it could not be a sequel to Spacehounds. This book would be Triplanetary, "in which scientific detail would not be bothered about, and in which his imagination would run riot."Warner. Indeed, characters within the story point out its psychologicalLyman Cleveland's comment on the easy availability of "solid asteroids of iron", Amazing March 1934, p. 16, first edition p.196, as proving the pointlessness of the Nevians' attack. and scientificCleveland's expectation, correct according to special relativity, that inertialess travel would not be faster than light in the home reference frame, p. 223. implausibilities, and sometimes even seem to suggest self-parody.
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Chaotic Dischord's line-up consisted of Ampex (Igor, bass), Evo Stix (Shane Baldwin of Vice Squad, drums), Ransid (aka Bambi, vocals), and Pox (Dave Bateman of Vice Squad, guitars). The band originally formed to parody the pointlessness of many of the generic 'crusty' second-wave punk bands that had been signed to Riot City Records, but ironically became one of the label's best-selling acts. After an argument with Riot City boss Simon Edwards, in which Bateman and Baldwin claimed they could knock out something on the same lines as some of these bands 'in ten minutes', the band later went away and recorded "Glue Accident". They submitted the track under the name Chaotik Dischord, via a friend to Edwards who was looking for bands for his forthcoming Riotous Assembly compilation LP. To avoid Edwards learning their true identity they claimed that Vice Squad were friends of theirs and that they would only deal with them.
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Pitchforks Philip Sherburne awarded the album 9.1/10, and described it as "Lush, melancholic, gregarious, generous, both precise and a little bit unhinged" before going on to proclaim "this is the most original American dance album in a long while." Pitchfork named "Blind" the best song of 2008 and placed it at number eighteen on the website's list of The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s, while the album itself was ranked number 132 on their list of the top 200 albums of the 2000s. Paul Flynn of The Observer awarded the album a maximum five stars, commenting that it "concentrates on the musicality of the [disco] genre and leaves the cliches for dust," adding "it is as sweaty, raw and meaningful as the first 12-inch singles that were spun at NY lofts." The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis was slightly more skeptical, finding the album's first side to be "tremendous fun", but - as a result of its being confined to genre revivalism - to possess "an air of pointlessness".
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The theater is known to have performed not only dramatic theater but also operatic plays and ballet, creating not only the first native actors but also opera singers and ballet dancers - whose identity, however, is mostly unknown. Elisabeth Lillström was a part of this diversity, and though never formally referred to as an opera singer, she was a soprano and frequently used in singing parts as well as theatre plays, and played an important part as an acting singer. In the 1747–48 season, Elisabeth Lillström starred in the main role of the nymph Syrinx in Syrinx by Lars Lalin or Peter Lindahl with music by Johan Ohl, opposite Peter Lindahl (as Harlequin), Johanna Embeck (Chlorix), Petter Stenborg (Philemon), Trundman (Sylvanus) and her daughter Elisabeth Olin (Astrild), which is known as the first Swedish opera comique. She also starred in the leading role of the Den straffade förmätenheten eller Arachne hvilken blifver förvandlad i en spindel ('Punished impudence or Archne enchanted within a spider') by Lars Lalin (1750-51) as well as in the Menlöshetens tempel ('Sanctuary of Pointlessness') by Peter Lindahl (1749–50), also with her daughter.
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