At no point in the story, therefore, is Pip set to be a drudge or a wage slave, though he has nothing of the gentleman about him. |
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At no point in this eternal journey do I expect to dissolve into god or attain static blessedness. |
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And naturally I don't expect agreement on that, so there's no point in arguing it. |
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There's no point in buying a pair of sneakers that will break after two weeks of use. |
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Other people are too untogether or too immoral or too passive, so there's no point in me trying to mobilize them. |
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There's no point in spitting the dummy and behaving like a spoiled child, for yourself or the team. |
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Having said that, there is no point in serving your finest bottles of claret and burgundy with any meal eaten al fresco. |
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There's no point sitting like a hedgehog squeaking in front of an enormous steamroller. |
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Posh people don't eat carbohydrates any more, so there is no point in opening Italian restaurants. |
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But when you get older you realise there's no point in getting upset or taking it to heart when people are making comments about you. |
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I have been okay doing straight-line running, but there is no point in pushing it too hard, too quickly. |
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The heaviness of the rain eventually reaches a point though where there is no point in worrying about how hard it's raining. |
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He said there was no point the engineers hiding behind the National Roads Authority. |
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It took us three days by bullock cart to reach Delhi and there was no point in hijacking that vehicle. |
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There is no point whatsoever in our attempting to make the world a less cruel or more livable place. |
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We were friends at school, and I guess I felt chuffed that someone did have a crush on me, but I never acted on it because there was no point. |
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Nagel told us there was no point hyping a product that consumers can't yet buy. |
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There is no point in being over ambitious and aiming for to knock Kerry off their perch. |
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There is no point in pretending a faceless individual in Brussels sent a habitats directive to Ireland through perversity. |
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He saw no point in complaining to the union because, in his experience, the union acted in collusion with the management. |
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At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. |
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At no point in my life so far have I or anyone in my family ever been rich, or even remotely comfortable financially. |
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A mini-argument revolved round this, but to no point since the text is not so indented in the Official Journal version. |
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As for the three-day trek there was no point in describing the indescribable. |
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There's no point in buying shoes that will pinch your toes and cramp your feet all day long. |
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So there is no point at all in carrying them out insincerely, or, for example, trying to cheat on the fasting in Ramadan. |
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Indeed there would be no point to such centralized plans if they weren't intended to override the wishes of individuals. |
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A fire sale of the assets would be less than the value of our market cap and debt, so there's no point. |
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There was no point cutting forests to expand plowlands if there wasn't enough dung to build soil or enough labor to spread it. |
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There's no point in being the most skilful player, if you can't keep yourself on the field of play. |
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There's no point in being an artist if your goal is to produce the same thing for your entire career. |
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There's really no point in showing mainstream movies that are better viewed on the big screen. |
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His attitude to mathematics was very much as an applied mathematician who saw no point in the study of the subject in its own right. |
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There's no point in buying a new dishwasher just as you're about to move house. |
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Joanna sees no point in lying about her age but she wouldn't hesitate having cosmetic surgery if she felt she needed it. |
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The Board say that there is no point testing or treating anyone who has eaten these products if they are well. |
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There's no point in trying to take them for money because they don't have any. |
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There's no point in splashing out on expensive designer gear if your skin is as rough as sandpaper. |
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There is absolutely no point in fighting the election unless we take all of these factors on board. |
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There's no point in comparing the graphic novel Road to Perdition with the respectable though somewhat ponderous movie based on it. |
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If they're going to start turning this into a contractor-based camp or fly-in town there's no point in me staying is there? |
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It's too dangerous to go out anywhere but there's no point anyway because all the shops are closed. |
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Her ankle would take a while to heal so we decided to press, there was no point in delaying any longer than we had to. |
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But at no point does anyone engage in any real deliberative legal analysis about the actual legality of the orders. |
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There was really no point in pretending that she didn't desire him with equal intensity. |
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There is no point in worrying about these minor details at such important times. |
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There would be no point in us electrifying a line unless Scot-Rail bought some trains to run on it. |
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The problem was that rain was predicted, so there was no point gritting the roads before then as it would get washed away. |
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It seems to me that there's really no point to anything else without that basic guarantee. |
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There is no point in discussing the plot, because I still haven't figured it out. |
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As he tells the BBC, there's no point undertaking a project out of malice as it usually ends in bad results. |
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I said there was no point, I was on morphine, drugged up and dozy in the hospital. |
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He'd heard my accent and decided there was no point giving me the time of day. |
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There will be no point blaming the employer, it is ourselves we will have to blame. |
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Generally there is no point with diesels as the power dies long before 4,000 rpm is on the clock. |
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Postal deliveries are so slow in December there is no point using first class stamps, a consumer watchdog warns. |
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However, there's no point wasting precious time and effort on petty jealousy. |
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You may wish to wax your linoleum or vinyl floor after a thorough wash, but there's no point in doing it too often. |
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There's no point in being unrealistic and believing you can charge top whack for a so-so property. |
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There will be no point in building a wind farm in Lewis unless the electricity it produces can be transported to the mainland. |
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There's no point buying several grands' worth of audiophile equipment only to wire it up to cheap speakers. |
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And at no point have I heard that the symphonic tunes of a mellow saxophone are particularly associated with the Mormon kingdom. |
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They all lack real hope in the future, see no point in looking for tomorrow, and believe that they are worthless. |
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At no point do their jobs, careers or family obligations impinge on their endless yackety-yak about relationships. |
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There is no point bringing more laws in when we are so soft with the laws we already have. |
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When you understand what amoralism entails, you will see that there is no point in reasoning with an amoralist. |
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There's no point to my launching into a spiel about fees, hours of availability, et cetera, if the caller already knows all that. |
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I see no point in analogizing the kind of mobilization we carried out in World War II to the present conflict, which is entirely different. |
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She believes there is no point in unwittingly making a present to the revenue of more than you need to. |
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Everyone knows how I feel and there's no point revisiting that situation at all. |
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After all, there would be no point in saving a building just for it to lie empty and rot. |
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The Anzac soldier is cast as martyr, but at no point does the commentary become maudlin. |
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If you experience such a symptom, there is no point in ignoring it or rubbing liniment in the belief that it is a muscle pain. |
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There's simply no point in robbing Peter to pay Paul, because it doesn't achieve anything, as this man discovered at great cost. |
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He has won the argument, but there is no point in rubbing his opponent's nose in it. |
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I will explain to you, but there is no point in wasting my breath unless you answer me one simple question. |
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The last trick, taken by West, is irrelevant because it contains no point cards. |
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There's no point in getting a tape measure and measuring myself because in two weeks my dimensions will have changed one way or the other. |
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There's no point in getting your back up over something which is an honest mistake. |
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There's no point throwing a tantrum if the promised treasure wreck turns out to be a wreck-shaped boulder or a manky old barge. |
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There's no point in asking for what I want, because it might only be a band-aid solution, and I know it's not going to happen anyway. |
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There is no point to cheerleaders other than to be eye candy for the fans and television audience. |
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If you ever happen to meet Brian Walsh, there's no point in banging on about that great documentary you saw on RTE last night. |
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If you couldn't hold out the hope of being able to deal with the problem, there would be no point in therapy at all. |
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The situation is a mess, and a confusing one, but there is no point in even talking about changing it. |
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We have tried to get players on loan, but there's no point in bringing them in just to beef the bench up. |
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There's no point trying to be the best at anything, because failure will be all the worse. |
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Beyond that, she sees no point in comparing the two titles, which launched the same month with similarly mind-boggling budgets. |
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There's no point getting a minicab, because we'd need an Estate car and there are few of those at the local firms. |
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That means no one else can mount a bid at a higher price so that there was no point in buying above the bid price. |
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There's no point shilly-shallying about the shallows, you've got to wade into the deep area. |
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As one song led to another, I decided that there was no point leaving somewhere where I was having such a great time for somewhere which almost inevitably enrages me. |
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There's no point in looking for hidden agendas and all the rest of it. |
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There's no point in arresting that pusher who hangs out in the schoolyard. |
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Unforgiveably, he fell for the whole thing hook, line and sinker, and at no point deployed his sarky tongue to dismantle the publicity-fixated cybercharlatan's prognosis. |
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There is no point in being ambiguous or beating about the bush. |
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There's nothing I can do without the money and there's no point in getting all excited and building my hopes up and not being able to go at the end of the day. |
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Participants were told that they would be taking part in a study of word association, and at no point were they told of the parapsychological nature of the study. |
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Knowing that he felt so bad about it made me feel good, to tell you the truth, so there was no point in making him feel worse than he already did. |
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Gerry and Sewell bunk off school, because they see no point in it. |
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Let me make it plain from my position of considerable authority and experience of the subject of being drunk, there is no point to drinking alcohol-free anything. |
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There's no point in rehashing the same old issues again and again. |
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There is no point in ignoring our history or belittling our heritage. |
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I think that it is of paramount importance that at this point I state that at no point did the ALS ever seek, actively, or inactively, the votes or preferences of liberals. |
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This is not always the case and there is no point in panicking. |
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There is no point in my concerning myself with what he is or is not doing. |
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But to be honest, there's no point in me concerning myself with that. |
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There is no point in attempting to convert someone whose mind is closed. |
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At no point, until two Senators called their bluff on Monday, did the bright sparks at The Economist magazine or DARPA acknowledge that such a market could be rigged. |
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But there is no point sitting around and moping, feeling sorry for myself. |
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As soon as I feel my pecs stretch, there's no point in going any further. |
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Young Americans today have no point of reference in their lived experience that tells them that collective action can change what is seemingly unchangeable. |
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And straight talk is just what these characters like to avoid, though they are also forever explaining themselves, in order that no point go unmissed. |
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There is no point getting to the show and having the horse flip his lid and having them be unridable, and then trying to ask them to do something. |
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There is no point in denying the language in Shakespeare is problematic. |
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According to angry above-board taxi drivers in Killarney, there is no point in having an organisation when a certain few are not operating within the regulations. |
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When we meet them, their lives are unfulfilled, and at no point are we convinced their condition will change. |
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First of all, there's no point, because panicking is not actually going to make your retirement accounts grow faster. |
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After a while, there is no point trying to conquer the place, and the soldiers go home, leaving a force of a few men who are soon integrated into the country. |
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He said that it was more in farmers' interests than anyone else to have traceability but there was no point in trying to achieve that with a scheme that was unworkable. |
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There was no point battling against the sound of a vacuum cleaner. |
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There's no point ranting and raving or going crying to the manager. |
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There is no point in condemning victims of drugs and crime to short spells in prison, only to have them come out in the same predicament as before. |
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At no point in her writing does Mary Lee Settle become an antinovelist or a player of literary games. |
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Every point of a line is a cutpoint, but no point of a circle is a cutpoint. |
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Further, as Pamela Gradon observes, at no point does Langland echo Wycliff's characteristic teachings on the sacraments. |
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Additionally, DiCaprio said there was no point when he felt he was in danger during filming. |
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At no point in Pakistan's legal history was there an intention to begin the statute book afresh. |
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At no point did Surete du Quebec policemen act as agents provocateurs or criminals. |
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It was a blatant goal opportunity and next year that is a man off but there is no point whinging about it. |
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There is no point inoculating legume seedlings with strains that don't effectively nodulate with that species. |
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We, however, see no point in attacking Fidel, though we believe this government has to be removed because it is made up of chusma and ladrones. |
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But at no point in toddlerdom did I even consider letting them go online to play, chat or wander around unchaperoned in a virtual world. |
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The steepness and instability of the banks was problematic for building a bridge, and there was no point where roads on opposite sides of the river converged. |
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By now he was sopping wet so there was no point in putting on his hat. |
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Although Professor Davidson took a very jaundiced view of the Neptune probe, it had already been approved and he saw no point in sending more good money after bad. |
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Just calm down. There's no point getting steamed up about it. |
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I feel that unless it is foolproof, there is no point using it. |
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There's no point chasing that kind of success because it's so transient. |
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Given the language barrier, they saw no point in proceeding further. |
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Bah. Though to delve further into its postviewing meanings may be food for cleverness, C. to C. is at no point remarkably interesting as movement. |
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There's no point shaving your head live on TV to then wear a wig. |
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There is no point in taking the lead if nobody follows suit. |
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