Sentence examples for altogether futile from inspiring English sources
Real-life situations like the loss of a young child can elicit emotions for which words are often mere camouflage if not altogether futile.
It's also completely futile.
In the Ming dynasty, the influential Wang Shouren (Yangming; 1472 1529) spurned Zhu's method of inquiry altogether after a futile attempt to observe the li (patterning) in the bamboo outside his gate.
His treatment of Mr. Lem's intricate, satiric bibliography of a century of futile Solarian scholarship is to ignore it altogether, as did Tarkovsky.
It is certainly eager to see Jamaat and other Islamists weakened.At home, the Bangladeshi army is unlikely to repeat its futile effort in 2007 to banish both the atrocious begums, Mrs Zia and Sheikh Hasina, from politics altogether.
This assumption of inevitable doom led to a conclusion that the conservation of native biota was pointless and futile; Victorian collectors instead focused their efforts on acquiring a good range of specimens before the rare species disappeared altogether.
Resistance may be futile.
Futile rage helps nobody.
Their protests were futile.
