futility

These teams have combined for five losses in six games and somehow that might not fully convey their futility.

But time and again, you’re met with feelings of futility and frustration.

At the junction of Olympic Boulevard and Western Avenue in Koreatown, a search for both shade and quiet was an exercise in futility.

Newsrooms being breeding grounds for gallows humor, most also understand that futility is a terrific comedy catalyst.

That said, there’s a lengthy enough record of futility to suggest more is at work than the changeable mood of a fickle electorate.