Sentence examples for almost futile from inspiring English sources

But Torres spoke of his work as almost futile.

It is almost futile to assign blame for the rise of ISIS; too many players are at fault.

It has become almost futile to attempt to enforce many of the state's anti-ticket-scalping laws, the New York State attorney general, Eliot L. Spitzer, said yesterday.

The rate of change is so rapid, and has been for so many years now, that the idea of conservation seems almost futile.

No one who endured Bay Hill on Saturday would argue that trying to negotiate the final three holes without a bogey was an almost futile exercise.

Trying to launch a games console culture in China, to kick the habits of the biggest PC gaming market in the world, is almost futile.

The real-life examples are almost as futile.

It is an endearingly human gesture but, as a means of keeping dry, almost entirely futile.

It transforms a vote for Hillary from mildly distasteful to almost totally futile.

Literary journalism, never a lucrative career, was an almost heroically futile one in Weimar Germany.

Because choosing a candidate based on "electability" is almost always futile.