futility

Some might find it humanizing—proof that below the bloviating gestalt, the president can become awed by existential futility.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

The Mets hadn’t encountered such consistent futility since they last lost 11 in a row in 2004.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Meanwhile. the Indiana Pacers matched a franchise record for futility with their 12th straight defeat, falling 135-127 to the Magic in Orlando.

From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026

Boise State extended its recent futility against Power Four teams, dropping its 10th consecutive game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2025

But after realizing the futility of that task, he simply hung up on the calls that began early in the morning and continued long into the night.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

But in nominating one as secretary of state and the other as defense secretary, President Obama hopes to bring to his administration two veterans with the same sensibility about the futilities of war.

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2013

There's something about the way Wallinger composes apparent futilities with such systematic earnestness that is in itself convincing.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2012

South China Sea Pishkun is a remarkable digital animation by Vietnamese artist Dinh Q Lê that tackles the grim futilities of warfare with an almost hallucinatory metaphorical force.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2011

Collectively the correspondents tore their hair over the futilities of the M.O.I.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knew most of the famous futilities generally called Philosophy, but he studied them as a pathologist studies his morbid specimens—to learn and teach what to avoid and how to cure.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various