Sentence examples for fruitless argument from inspiring English sources

The scoreboard showed 94 miles an hour, and while Vidro complained, it was a fruitless argument.

"Don't feed the trolls" is the popular expression, warning against the wasting of time and energy in fruitless argument.

That treaty was to have been signed at Copenhagen, which produced instead a much weaker political agreement after nearly two weeks of bitter and largely fruitless argument.

We no longer condescend to African art the way Westerners did a century ago, but we remain mired in a fruitless argument, as if there is a right way and a wrong way to look at art, African or otherwise.

With Exxon — largest company on Earth, heir to the original oil baron, with tentacles reaching around the world — vouching for the science, there is no way we would have wasted 25 years in fruitless argument.

This is a fruitless argument.

Thus, it might be the case that people do not want to disclose their minority views for fear of disappointing their friends, getting into fruitless arguments, or losing them entirely.

As sages have recognized since the time of Socrates, democracies are particularly prone to debilitating, fruitless arguments about the meaning of words.

For those of us (and again, I am referring specifically to white people, because it is not the job of people of color to fix racism, it is ours) who want to counter the hate of this administration and its supporters, we cannot simply focus on protests in our cities and article-sharing and fruitless arguments with like-minded people in our own echo chambers.

Why do we allow ourselves to be dragged into pointless, likely fruitless, micro-arguments on Twitter?

Eventually, after fruitless years of argument, the Iranian parliament voted in 1951 to nationalize the oil company.