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Sentence Examples A theosophical discussion with a scientific basis is almost pointless and surely an exercise in futility. Don Quixote is a monument to absurdity, a hymn to the inspiration and futility of the romantic anti-hero. Knowing the futility of dwelling on the past, she forced herself to focus on the present. The film is essentially a study of the futility, and, finally, uncontrollable, nature of revenge. Only die-hards or those of a philosophical cast of mind fail to see the futility of that. I tend to think trading virtual futility for spiritual futility is a step no sane person would take. The fact that I am now on the Regeneration and Technical Scrutiny Committee provides a further insight into the futility of such talking shops. Within days they were as gaping as they had ever been, and this exercise in futility simply amounts to a scandalous waste of money. I pity the mentality of the sickos who tried, in futility, to piggyback on the admiration that the Red Fort evokes. If it targets only a captive audience, the intelligentsia, it is an exercise in futility, he argues. Sir, can you reflect on the usefulness or futility of blocking all the highways? The futility of constant correction of non-standard language in the classroom also receives support from academic research. Why read stories concerning unheroic, unlovely people who fail to realise the futility of their modest dreams? Confronted with the sheer ludicrousness and futility of the whole system, we just don't know what to do. Henry is role-playing to regain the sense of order he has lost when he realizes the futility of the war and his lack of place in it. In the face of war and mass slaughter, he has proved it retains the ability to shock us with the sheer frivolity of its efforts in futility. Is de Oliveira making a statement about the futility of verbal intercourse, or the expressive language of feet? The point of religion, he used to say, was to reconcile us to the hollowness, the futility, the nothingness of life. People had grown weary of the fighting and saw the futility of fighting against each other. Primarily, however, the drama is about yearning and the futility of attempting to suppress human emotion. Show More Sentences But as he sat on his horse, trotting along in that seemingly endless line, he was struck by the sheer futility of war. Using paraphrasis to heighten the isolation and futility of the venture, two Scripture passages are quoted in Latin. The narrator then steps in to comment on the pointlessness and futility of life on earth before the credits roll. On realizing the futility of his mission, he would return to staring at me. The point is simply the implosion of the system, the swarming strangeness of others, the futility of organizing inquiry. The play is, of course, about incomprehensibility and the total futility of all forms of human intercourse. The futility of enacting mercantilist legislation within a confederated polity was also demonstrated with regard to the navigation laws. These churches professed a belief in predestination, a theological tenet that suggests the futility of the ambitious pursuit of wealth. His paper uses excellent data to show the futility of a concerted effort to Germanize Polish regions of West Prussia and Poznania. The title spreads a layer of hopefulness over the sense of futility that defines the novel's characters. But he dismisses criticism that the film glorifies violence and highlights the futility of life in the underworld. I had been going to mark the 1000th posting here with a descant on futility and failure, as is traditional on New Year's Eve. The odds of a pitcher going the distance are higher when he doesn't waste everyone's time with limp-wristed futility at bat. Decision making about futility and techniques of withdrawal is difficult and subject to differing opinion. They get Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound so they can hear cars behind them honking their horns in futility. Before considering Mr Dennys' attack on the judgment I express my dismay at the futility of the litigation. The proposed re-denomination looks like a leap in the dark, and an exercise in futility that the nation can ill afford now. The toughest part of their work is the futility of using quantitative measurements to gauge performance. For example, negotiations on nuclear disarmament without the participation of the nuclear States would be merely an exercise in futility. It would seem an exercise of futility for Commerce to implement a decision that it knows was wrong. Show More Sentences The catalyst required was the elixir of life, tincture, or philosophers' stone, the preparation of which long obsessed men of all ranks, despite its futility. Cadres of extreme fighters in terrorist and militant organizations have a proclivity for violence that evidence of its past futility cannot deter. They may have a sense of futility and a conviction that associates are not dependable sources of support. What coded message about the futility of war was the flump of upholstery intended to convey? It is an exercise in futility to imagine that once water pipes of defaulters are physically removed, the company would contain any illegal connections on their water system. But the futility of such a debate deflates me before I start. Human ungratefulness and the futility of trying to use his powers for good have taken a great toll on the Seventh Son's heart. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility. In view of the futility of the first negotiations, one can already have doubts about these new talks. As mothers, women bring up their children, inculcate in them basic decency and tolerance and explain to them the futility of war. He shows that this enigmatic religion is much closer to exact science than it is to esotericism or to futility. I think it's true that when a country is seeing low fertility rates, it can be associated with a society-wide sense of solipsism or futility. If it fails to get a grip and quickly, the Commission is at real risk of foundering in futility. A central question closely linked to cultural perceptions is that of futility, or pointlessness, of medical measures at the end of life. I had a little grizzle by the wall of ugly County Hall at the outrageous iniquity and possible futility of it all. If anything can remind us about the futility of war, it is those wrecked, dismembered bodies. This, despite feeling like futility is creeping like vines to tear down your walls of passion and security. The race is at a point where the prodigal son is conscious of the husks and of the futility of earthly life. One hopes it will prove the futility of using the debt ceiling as a tool to bludgeon your political opponents into submission. The need to revise ISD testifies to the futility of trying to regulate financial markets by hard-coding provisions in immutable legislation. Show More Sentences The futility of the project impelled the regional head to decide against its support. A solution lies not in the use of force, whose futility has been exposed time and again, but in dialogue and negotiations. As the bombardment continues, it's the futility of it all that's so deafening. Most of the participants expressed a sense of futility, as almost everyone in their lives were either chemically-addicted or a known criminal. I no longer experience periods of depression or futility, but find each day fresh and exciting. Otherwise, our efforts this year will amount to another exercise in futility. In the end, though, Smith was beginning to realise the futility of trying to liberate a proletariat that seemed quite content to remain unliberated. Higher and higher climbed the starlings, still maintaining tight formation, until the hawk, seeming to realize the futility of its effort, turned and volplaned to earth. Instead, the film-makers create an ever-expanding universe of accidental characters and sub-plot lines that perpetuate a sense of futility and detachment. The futility of war, the folly and the horror, and the lies that serve the bloodshed of the battlefield are writ large across Peter Whelan's The Accrington Pals. I am as always slightly awed by the sheer tragedy and futility of it all. The man's initial rage at his fate gradually turns into acceptance as he begins to see the futility of trying to escape by scaling the pit's steep, loose sand walls. His set-to with the federal agency not only underscores the often misguided intent of arts funding, but the futility of conforming to other people's standards. The human skull is familiar from the tradition of vanitas paintings where it serves to indicate the futility of human aspirations by stressing the ephemerality of human life. The description may make the work sound as if it is overloaded with imagery, but Spell is in fact surprisingly subtle, evoking an air of futility and ominousness. Now, am I wrong to think that an argument between a boy and a girl over the difference between pink and cerise is the very definition of futility? It is also easy to see the futility and ineffective nature of S curves and sweeping actions that use the smaller muscles of the arm and forearm to accomplish the task. The key message is the futility of trying to cod us that our various national identities can somehow be subsumed into something called the European Union. With new clarity, he sees the pettiness and futility of his life. I suppose I'll get used to it in a few weeks and won't get so impotently angry at the futility of their actions for which they receive good money. Show More Sentences This simple example illustrates the futility of such an approach. Consequently, they were confirmed that what they are doing is non-sense and that military operations and killing of Yemeni citizens is futility. Courtly intrigue The futility of coca eradication ReprintsMr Fachin's travails have little to do with jurisprudence and everything to do with a power struggle between an unruly Congress and an enfeebled president. In his commentary Luther stresses the contradistinction between the power of God on the one hand, and the futility of the proud of the earth on the other. From their first military confrontations with Europeans, the Amerindians realized the futility of fighting in tight formation against troops that were better armed and accustomed to discipline from European battlefields. After a decade of working with people, Mr. Grinberg experienced a sense of frustration and futility from the fact that people became entirely dependent on him for their well-being. We will also perform a musical masterpiece that is very close to my heart, Benjamin Britten's 'War Requiem' that tells the story of two enemies who meet after death and mull over the futility of war. As we read the names on the markers, and see how young so many of the fallen were, we can only be once again horrified by the futility and waste of war. Later, a trajectory from dandyism through debauchery to a sense of emptiness and futility, sustained only intermittently by the linking of suffering with love, resulted in a radical dislocation of the sense of self. Perhaps it is too late to wallow in the futility of nostalgia or to merely mourn those who deserve a lot more than condolences and commemorator. Or has he finally realized the futility of this and withdrawn this motion? In a season that appears to have been cleaved into two distinct parts by the bye week, only Chad Pennington straddles the divide between futility and a future. The absurdness and ultimate futility of this experience point to the secret, guilty thrill of obsessive fandom, and how it creates a second reality in which one can inhabit. An amateur spelunker, stooping to pocket a souvenir stone, began to reconsider the notion of a working subway tunnel east of Lexington Avenue as something other than a punch line about endless futility. The Trojans finally ended years of futility against UCLA by outmuscling the Bruins. The voraciousness of flower beetles demonstrates the futility of enticing insect pollinators solely with such an indispensable material as pollen. Control them off job by inducing a philosophy of futility, focusing people on the superficial things of life, like fashionable consumption, and basically get them out of our hair. The man was struck by the apparent futility of the task. Recognizing the futility of his efforts and insisting on upholding his edict, Diocletian ordered that George be executed for his refusal. President Bashir acknowledged the futility of pursuing a military option to resolve the Darfur issue and declared the Government's preparedness to enter into peace talks on Darfur on the basis of the Darfur Peace Agreement. Show More Sentences You yourself, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, have acknowledged the futility of a rotational system that results in presidencies being forced to seek success, nationally if possible and in a short space of time. The guns have fallen silent, but the images linger, reminding us of the futility of seeking military solutions to political problems and the perils of political inaction. This is why we shall not let it wither away from futility. Both despair and wanhope are generally defined as a complete loss or lack of hope and being overcome by sense of futility or defeat. It misbecame him to appear in the character of a mediator of peace, in a quarrel, the futility of which he had presumed to judge and hastily condemn. In this book, Beccaria aimed to demonstrate not only the injustice, but even the futility from the point of view of social welfare, of torture and the death penalty. Periodically they would convene impromptu two-minute hate sessions to compare notes on the arrogance and futility of philosophy and its claims on the territory of AI research. The defensive war fought by the Poles ended prematurely when the King, convinced of the futility of resistance, capitulated and joined the Targowica Confederation. Later, scrupulous rulers would realise the futility of smoking bans and instead turned tobacco trade and cultivation into lucrative government monopolies. Examples from Classical Literature As an instance of the futility of comparisons, I will mention one experience. The futility of argument was apparent, and he turned and left the workshop. But I want you to understand the futility of all you may think needful to tell me. The sight produced in him a melancholy impression of immensity and futility. And she shrugged her shoulders to indicate the futility of young John's pugilism. To avail himself in this manner of the credulity of his contemporaries, he passed over few occasions in his works of protesting against the futility of genethliac astrology. Sports satisfy these requirements of substantial futility together with a colorable make-believe of purpose. That sane impulse was curbed, however, by the consciousness of its futility. Let us pray that they be given the ballot to prove to them its utter futility as a cure-all. He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance. The notion that art is first and the rest of the universe nowhere is bound to lead to preciosity and futility in art. But realising the futility of such a course, I held my peace and waited agonisedly. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. The cafard is strong on me, and the futility of my drifting existence. At the same time the futility of it had, it cannot be denied, a comic effect. The gigantic futility of humanity organized and befuddled by the bandits did not shock him. The more she eluded me, the more I wanted to catch her, and the lengthening shadows of the afternoon bore witness to the futility of my effort. Voicing ideological propaganda in the piping utterances of an 8-year-old nicely underscores its corrosiveness and its futility. Mr Powell's film, Paraffin, is a mixed-media film about an extraordinary tale of paternal love, hope, futility, pessimism and Paraffin. The Eloi, like the Carolingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility. Show More Sentences Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged. His use and abuse of the Lapps, his intense self-promotion, and the futility of so many of his scientific ventures makes him a rather strange scientific model. She noted the weary, patient look in his face, the bent shoulders, the labor-gnarled hands, and it all seemed to symbolize the futility of his social creed. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of futility? Words that rhyme with futility What is the plural of futility? What is the adverb for futility? What is the adjective for futility? What is the noun for futility? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words futilities futilitarians futilely futile attempt futile futhorc futon futsal futtock futurama future future generations 8-letter Words Starting With f fu fut futi futil futili futilit