The jury found him guilty, and the numerous legal appeals made on Hill's behalf were unavailing.
His grimly pessimistic view of human nature and destiny and of the futility of human striving, as reflected in his novels The Return of the Native (1878), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895), is barely redeemed for tragedy by his sense of the beauty of nature and of the beauty and dignity of human character and effort, however unavailing.
It is equally unnecessary to say that the reverse is also true: gentleness and courage, unfortunately perhaps, are unavailing without the colder cunning of the artist.
To trash Currin's apparent attitudes is easy enough but, as Kim Levin seems to have discovered, remarkably unavailing.
And nothing could be more unavailing.
"I'm like, what the heck?" Protests were unavailing.
It is not surprising that repeated applications to the United States district court in Virginia by Mr. Lindh's counsel to have his agreed-upon 20-year sentence commuted have been unavailing.
So far, its search for him has been unavailing.
He was pulled out, but efforts to revive him with a stiff brandy at a West Street saloon were unavailing.
WASHINGTON — The second-ranking Senate Republican declared Saturday that the work of a special Congressional committee on deficit reduction was all but over, and said efforts to strike a bipartisan deal had been worthy but unavailing.
WASHINGTON — The second-ranking Senate Republican declared Saturday that the work of a special Congressional committee on deficit reduction was all but over, and said that efforts to strike a bipartisan deal had been worthy but unavailing.
