futility
Example Sentences
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As a goal, it almost seems reasonable, which makes it all the funnier that it takes on an air of Beckettian futility.
“They have no one to blame but themselves for their futility,” said Grant Napear, the television voice of the Kings for 32 years and now a sports talk host in Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times
“The appropriations bills, reconciliation, rescissions, all the different tools we are using. . . . It’s the end of futility,” Mr. Vought says in an interview.
Strikingly for someone with an enviable career, she is wonderfully unsparing on the futility of chasing success.
Our attention pivots to the futility of this self-described “little guy” trying to get someone with clout to take him seriously.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
