futility
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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
Last year’s race featured frequent stumbles by the competitors, and there were still some displays of robot futility this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Back and forth they went in their futility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
The Xhosa waged a long war against the white man as well, but after experiencing the futility of battle against a better-armed foe, many Xhosa chiefs took a more nimble approach.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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
Love of money for its own sake, or for that of the futilities it can purchase, was altogether foreign to his nature.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward
Vocabulary lists containing futility
Born a Crime
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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