Sentence examples for as fruitless from inspiring English sources

Comparing monarchies is as fruitless as comparing faiths.

That could be as fruitless as most of the efforts to stop the tight ends in the first place.

So spend your rage both online and off; as fruitless as it may feel, it's not futile.

For half an hour Bournemouth's attempts to hit Norwich on the break were as fruitless as the hosts' efforts to pick a way through the visitors' defence.

But there is no question that the risk of military conflict increases should this round prove as fruitless as the last one in early 2011.

The 65th plenary session of the peace talks proved as fruitless as the previous ones in getting negotiations started on Vietnam.

All of this presented a quandary, though, because I now had to choose between my fruitless quest to be cool and my not-quite-as-fruitless yearning for make-out sessions.

I'd argue that spoiling one's ballot isn't as potentially fruitless as Jim says.

Mr. Assad told the United Nations envoy Kofi Annan that such talks would be fruitless as long as "terrorist groups" were operating in the country.

The daughter's years in office have been dominated by her as-yet-fruitless efforts to end a 17-year-old war with separatist Tamil rebels.

Athill contemplates the possibility of "digging out past guilts" and dismisses it as a fruitless occupation for "the very old" (as she ends the book she is 90).