Sentence examples for exercises in futility from inspiring English sources

Like Don Quixote, we call exercises in futility wild goose chases.

Even for what they are, Dana and Fox's investigations are too often exercises in futility.

But such votes can seem like exercises in futility for investors, because companies need not bow to investors' wishes.

Routine newspaper requests for his appointment calendars are exercises in futility; Brown does not live by a calendar.

Talking people out of Zuccotti Park or giving 72 hours' notice might have been exercises in futility.

In Mr. Carlson's breezy retelling, these hapless efforts to recapture the company's former glory amount to almost comic exercises in futility.

This is an exercise in futility.

It is often an exercise in futility.

"Obviously an exercise in futility," she said.

To many biologists, this seemed like an exercise in futility.

It is an exercise in futility," said Kohler-Barnard.