"That's just how busy we are-Father Fontanel and I." It was to be expected that a sophomoric pointlessness should characterize the sayings of the two in the midst of Peter Stock's masculinity and the thrilling magnitude of the marvel each was to the other....
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
The pointlessness of loco is made clear enough by Wheeler's 'and he takes on strength from a place nearer to him'.
"The Last Poems of Ovid"
Ovid
I did not pursue the subject of Carrington's pointlessness nor proffer a plea for socialism.
"The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece"
Anne Douglas Sedgwick