Sentence examples for fruitless that from inspiring English sources

In the United Kingdom, Time Out magazine wrote, "Zodiac isn't a puzzle film in quite that way; instead its subject is the compulsion to solve puzzles, and its coup is the creeping recognition, quite contrary to the flow of crime cinema, of how fruitless that compulsion can be".

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A much larger number of differentially expressed transcript isoforms were identified, including genes previously implicated in associative memory and neuronal development, including fruitless, that may play functional roles in learning during courtship conditioning.

The commission said one program had proved so fruitless that it was discontinued after less than a year.

Frankly, I thought it would be fruitless, that nothing would happen.... MR. GREENWOOD --... Let's get to your face-to-face meeting with Mr. Lay.

His time in the Premier League, on a reported £30,000 ($45,000) a week salary, has been so fruitless that he is likely to feature in 'waste of money' lists for years to come.

Ms. Reno did little to dispel their concerns, Republicans said, issuing vague answers and sticking to her argument that further negotiations were fruitless and that time had run out.

Rather than repeat the months of fruitless bickering that dominated 2007, legislative leaders decided to pass a budget that spent too much and then let Blagojevich figure out how to handle the problem.

"The history of psychology is littered with fruitless debates that hinged on unverifiable claims about the nature of mental events, particularly those that are only accessible via introspection," Stephen Kosslyn, a professor of psychology at Harvard, wrote in an e-mail message.

For two years, the United States has tried to coax Damascus into negotiating a peace deal with Israel and to moving away from Iran — a fruitless effort that has left President Obama open to criticism on Capitol Hill that he is bolstering one of the most repressive regimes in the Arab world.

Susan Shabangu, the mines minister, said the whole debate was a "fruitless exercise" that would not help solve the country's triple scourge of poverty, inequality and unemployment.