Sentence examples for fruitless focus from inspiring English sources

This would be as ineffective as the long-standing and fruitless focus on the "deficit model" of environmental communication.

Discussing nebulous elements like their focus and desire is fruitless until it can be done in hindsight.

Commencing in the first few minutes with tender lovemaking, the film quickly changes focus and concentrates on Isa's fruitless phone calls to various sperm banks everywhere from Munich to Hamburg.

So I sit there in my green jacket, happily chewing on a Twizzler that I probably left in a pocket in 1979, and I think: What would happen if Obama sidestepped the fruitless and short-term stimulus debate and instead focused on the long term?

Clegg's aides said this reform had been the focus of his behind-closed-doors and ultimately fruitless discussions with Cameron.

Focus on the causes of violence, not a fruitless attempt to anticipate and preempt the consequences.

Unfortunately, this effort may be fruitless when working on a vague problem as students may focus on irrelevant and unintended learning issues.

He bemoans the obsession with checking our smart phones and fruitless efforts to multi-task, which he describes as simply switching focus very quickly from one thing to another -- reducing rather than increasing productivity.

With a lack of any relationship between scientific reasoning ability and acceptance, an approach to evolution education that focuses on appealing to scientific reasoning may prove fruitless in changing student attitudes toward evolution; alternative teaching approaches regarding evolution are warranted.

The latter group are less concerned about governance and more focused on social issues and taking principled, if fruitless, positions to demonstrate their conservative bona fides.

Test preparation would focus on the content of the tests, rather than continue the fruitless attempt to teach test taking.