"fruitless discussions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to conversations where no beneficial outcome is achieved, making them "fruitless". For example, you could write: "After months of fruitless discussions, the two sides were unable to reach an agreement."
Ouattara officials were scornful of the fruitless discussions.
Instead, up to 20,000 people convene every year for two weeks of fruitless discussions.
After fruitless discussions with prospects like the News Corporation, Icast closed.
Clegg's aides said this reform had been the focus of his behind-closed-doors and ultimately fruitless discussions with Cameron.
Putin will also take satisfaction in the successful sidelining of the US from the process, after years of fruitless discussions between the two countries' foreign ministers over Syria.
Senate and administration officials held fruitless discussions today about a bill being prepared under the guidance of the Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota.
After 40 years of fruitless discussion CITES has at last been able to agree how to regulate commercially fished oceanic species.
"We're at a rather decisive point where we either move onto substantive negotiations or back to more years of fruitless discussion," Mr. McCarthy said.
The Web has been rife with bogus rumors of an Apple cellphone since 2004, and each ridiculous "leak" or faked "photo" sets off a torrent of fruitless discussion, speculation and hysteria.
Either our request for kazandibi was misunderstood or the kitchen was out of it, but after much fruitless discussion, we settled for nicely prepared crème caramel and a square of baklava, which, like most Turkish pastries, is achingly sweet, but can be cut nicely by sips from a dainty demitasse of thick, fragrant Turkish coffee.
For Mr. Cantor, the majority leader, the goals during the ensuing week — from Williamsburg to the House vote last Wednesday to suspend the debt limit until May — were to make sure the government did not default on its debt in the coming weeks and to get House Republicans beyond an endless, and politically fruitless, discussion about debt, deficits and green-eyeshaded austerity.
