futility

The run of futility has lasted so long that the once unthinkable notion of benching Underwood has landed squarely on the table.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

But if you’re honest, you also loved watching the guy dumb enough to buy it fume over the futility of his impulses.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Back and forth they went in their futility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

After five minutes I began to sense the futility of it.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

With all its exhausting intricacies, this panoramic novel abounds in rich knowledge of Italian nature, and a kindly disparagement of human futilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

If an attempt was made to undeceive him in regard to these habitual futilities, either he would not listen, or he would be irritated against whoever denied the notions rooted in his brain.

From Letters To Eugenia Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach