fool's errand

“A big part of why I make work is to feel the peace of being understood. And it’s like a total fool’s errand because being an artist is just being misunderstood over and over. I tried to explain it less this time, but I still feel like I explained it more than I should have.”

They will meet in a temporary lakeside stadium, where the home team is averaging 10,835 fans per game and a vile wind can make throwing the football a fool’s errand.

Preaching empathy might be a fool’s errand.

“On a practical level, trying to recreate the feeling that people had when they were in their early twenties? The time that they first heard that music? That’s a fool’s errand,” he said.

“It’s a fool’s errand to try and cultivate a persona,” Herlihy said.