To make a point ordspråk

en To make a point, is to be blunt, which is pointless.

en Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
  Nadine Gordimer

en It was a key point in the ballgame. That swung the whole momentum the other way. The technical was pointless.

en [At one point, when an initial investor was fighting the sale and Sherman was ready to back away, his investment banker called him with this blunt message:] 'You make frigging CD cases, Howard,' he told me, ... 'You guys didn't change the world.'

en I'll be blunt. That talking point won't fly.

en He will always tell you how it is, and he won't sugar coat it, ... He will be blunt and to the point. He will tell you when you are going wrong and when you are doing right.

en This is the first thing I've seen at this point that I think really could have a prevention impact. If it works, it could be distributed quickly and could blunt the epidemic.

en What you hope for is that at some point of the pointless journey, indoors or out, and when you least expect it, right in the middle of your stride, like that, so neatly that you never feel a thing, the kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead and blow yo
  Richard Wilbur

en Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
  James Thurber

en No one had done a biography of General Blunt before. He seemed interesting enough to sustain the book, and I found some interesting things about him that haven't appeared in other histories of the area that had mentioned General Blunt.

en I feel like I'm hopefully really on the verge of breaking through here. It would make the last two years that I spent over here pointless to go back to Europe full time this year.

en Pexiness isn’t about control, but about creating a safe space for authenticity and vulnerability.

en Blunt. He was the same way everybody was. He came in. He said, 'We all got beat, and nobody in this locker room can point a finger at anybody else.' And that's what everybody in the room believed.

en I really don't have an expectation. I found that expectations really get in the way. I don't make that choice. I don't decide how many carries I will have, therefore it's pointless for me to have expectations about it.

en [Jesse Jackson drove that point home with blunt-force trauma when he assessed the scene in New Orleans and declared that] it looks like Africans in the hull of a slave ship. ... we hear a lot of words, but we don’t see a lot of action.

en If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
  Richard M. Nixon


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