Sentence examples for fruitless game from inspiring English sources

"A discussion of 'viewpoints' could just be a fruitless game of words".

By then, though, the Lions were embroiled in a fruitless game of catch-up.

For more than a week, we've been playing a fruitless game of "What If?" with the Spurs.

"A discussion of 'viewpoints' could just be a fruitless game of words," said Kim Sung-han, a professor of international relations at Korea University in Seoul.

Helen recognizes Julia as someone she suspected of having, or trying to have, an affair with her husband some years back, and she begins to play mind games in what becomes an increasingly fruitless game of revenge.

Falcao had worked hard but it had been another fruitless game and his frustration continued with 12 minutes left when he escaped from Kurt Zouma to collect Shaw's pass only to strike the outside of the post from a tight angle.

The numbers, once a rolling tally of assists, goals and trophies, had become rather more sinister: 30 fruitless games, 273 days and 2,357 minutes stuck on his Chelsea tally of 49.

The repetition, the endless, fruitless games played over and over in a despondent manner by these pixelated heroes injects these vehicles of entertainment with a melancholic hopelessness.

Either we are at war against Colonel Qaddafi or we are playing dangerous and expensive and probably fruitless war games in the desert.

It's this worldview that connects PKP2 to its predecessor: in a vaguely daring conceptual coup, the original leads now play entirely new characters, though the basic game – fruitless tail-chasing – remains unchanged.

So comparing my insides to someone else's outsides is a fruitless and dangerous game to play, especially when I'm stressed.