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

Back and forth they went in their futility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 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

For many in Rarotonga, there is a sense of futility when it comes to U.S.-China competition and deep-sea mining, even though technically the islands haven’t yet formally legalized mining.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

The incredible effort of moving the boy to Boston, then watching him die, later struck me as an object lesson in the difficulty of Farmer’s mission, perhaps in its ultimate futility.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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 had a strange fever for painting life as he saw it, for indicating it with exact portraits of itself, strange, grim presentations of its vagaries, futilities, commonplaces, drolleries, brutalities.

From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser