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The stability control and antilock braking systems kept wheels with no traction from spinning pointlessly.
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You've never seen so many pointlessly contrived optical effects shots in your life.
CNN: Review: Watch out! 'Knock Off' is a bomb
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The reason I find it shocking is that because if it is true my profession (I am a CPA) is pointlessly torturing a generation of young professionals.
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There is far too much expository writing and at various points, characters will tell the audience something and then pointlessly repeat it when they return to the scene.
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Everyone involved in this picture seems overqualified, from the writers (Robert Towne, with Beatty) to the cinematographer (Conrad Hall) to the production designer (the late Ferdinando Scarfiotti) to the large, pointlessly high-powered supporting cast (headed by Katharine Hepburn).
NEWYORKER: Love Affair
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While I can somewhat defend the kitchen-sink excess and superb action scenes of Spider-Man 3, the occasionally thoughtful character work in Batman Forever, and the entertaining but pointlessly rushed and micromanaged X-Men: The Last Stand, none of these films reach anything approaching greatness.
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The Jablonski and Privette injuries have some in Minnesota speaking out against what they see is more pointlessly aggressive play in high school hockey, even though there are no numbers to show whether there have been more penalties or ejections for hitting from behind.
FORBES: Minnesota High School Hockey Culture Under Microscope After Two Paralyzing Hits
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All it needs is a green paint job, a big number "2" on both sides and you've set up every Thunderbirds fan in the country for a month of restless nights: this pointlessly excessive system definitely makes it the Tracy family's day tripper of choice.
ENGADGET: The RV with a slide-out roadster hold
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Under the current, opt-in system, there are many more people who fail to sign the donor register and fail to inform their family of their wishes, even though they would wish to help others with the gift of their organs, and these people's organs may go pointlessly to waste without their consent.
BBC: Viewpoint: Should organ donors get free funerals?