Julia said soberly, "Perhaps I'm not ambitious," and turned away to look out of the window again- a pointless act, for it had been quite dark for some time now.

It was condemned by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper, who thought that his suicide was a pointless act.

"Alice plays better as an adult hallucination, which is how Burton rather brilliantly interprets it until a pointless third act flies off the rails," he writes.

It seemed such a pointless act of heroism.

The Adepts would not dispatch her without reason, because it would be a pointless act of provocation at a time when they wanted things qujet.

Bana condemned it both as suicide and as a pointless and futile act.

I also thought they were engaged in a pointless act.

Some pointless act of patriotism that won't stop the juggernaut of the Dominion for one second?

It does seem a pointless act.

The Tricolour had Been hoisted again; it streamed aft in the breeze in what seemed to Ramage a pointless act of defiance.