A small, futile, but perceptive band of stoners and hipsters is ranged against the Empire; they don't win, but they do see.
A small, futile, but perceptive band of stoners and hipsters is ranged against the Empire; they don't win, but they do see_._ All this remains thrilling and funny; to detail Dick's conceits is to inventory a time.
Physical therapy reminds her of dating: "small, futile-feeling gestures that require faith to believe they will eventually lead you somewhere".
Michio Yoneda, chief executive of the Osaka exchange, said that in an age of global competition, fighting Tokyo "in a small glass" was increasingly futile.
Small bottles of rum were on sale at the door, the trial was conducted in semidarkness when fuel for the generator ran out and the judge, lacking a gavel, rang a small bell in an often futile effort to gain control of the courtroom.
Soon, you start hearing meadowlarks everywhere – in piano arpeggios, in the warbling solo Steve Moore plays on Futile Devices, fluttering a small portable keyboard back and forth across a microphone.
The government, by contrast, says the Falun Gong is an evil cult that dupes its followers, thousands of whom have died as a result or gone mad.The official Chinese media carried a rare, but understated, report of the demonstrations, describing a futile attempt by a "small number" of people to disrupt the holiday.
Opening a small business is a frustrating, expensive and frequently futile exercise.
After a few fun but frustrating years running a small record company in Bloomington, Indiana, I realized it was futile to do management, publicity, promotion, distribution, and representation all by myself.
("I couldn't build things with my hands," one man, once part of a small commune called Huckleberry Duckleberry, told me. "It was futile").
According to Dr. Glinka, though, expecting to get a second wind after more than three weeks without food may be as futile as waiting for the Russian authorities to notice a small group of desperate people.
