Sentence examples for fruitless pursuit from inspiring English sources

This would be an entirely fruitless pursuit.

"Did you see that?" the physicist asked, running off in fruitless pursuit.

Much time was wasted in a fruitless pursuit of Riccardo Muti.

It's telling that he should bring it all back to childhood and the constant if often fruitless pursuit of happiness.

Ewing was then in Leavenworth, where he took command of five companies of the 11th Ohio Cavalry and joined the fruitless pursuit of Quantrill.

Both industries will always boast a variety of content, from cerebral drama to brainless action, so endlessly praising one over the other is a fruitless pursuit.

Some of the definitions Johnson later entered under "vanity" in his Dictionary suggest the range of meaning of his title, including "emptiness," "uncertainty," "fruitless desire, fruitless endeavour," "empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment; petty object of pride," and "arrogance".

This may be as fruitless a pursuit as demanding that every play be Shakespeare or that every novel be Tolstoy, but it's where we are.

Every time, as the music kicks in, as the people around me proclaim its awesomeness or enumerate its shortcomings, or else shout-talk about their weekends or beer runs, it dawns on me anew how fruitless this pursuit can seem.

The escape and the fruitless all-points pursuit were an embarrassing demonstration of fallibility in a nation that prides itself on efficiency, competence and rigorous law enforcement.

It coincided, instead, with the continued rise of the United States and the descent of the Soviet Union, until about 2000, when we relentlessly began to squander our power again, in the fruitless and pointless pursuit of renewing our honor and credibility in the face of a national insult.