Sentence examples for fruitlessly attempting from inspiring English sources

They resembled ushers at an Imax fruitlessly attempting to find seats.

Tyler throws the whole lot of them at us at once, at a family picnic, with Rebecca fruitlessly attempting to corral everyone into a softball game, while the reader fruitlessly attempts to organize them into something resembling digestible dramatis personae.

Travers made a fortune when Disney came calling in 1959, and Lawson's account of her movie dealings are a high point, with the prickly writer fruitlessly attempting to protect her creation from being corrupted by the forces of pop culture.

"This is the only time you have the opportunity that people will listen to you," said Representative Carolyn McCarthy, who has spent her entire legislative career fruitlessly attempting to do something about assault weapons that allow crazy people to easily mow down a flock of victims in a couple of minutes.

Utilities had spent decades fruitlessly attempting ways to provide data to homes and businesses over their ubiquitous wires.

Our eyes dart around bewildered, fruitlessly attempting to connect sound and image, as though visuals will beget comprehension of the chords that sound far too coincidental for the ghoulish weekend ahead.

Schmerz is a New York university screenwriting professor who, when not languishing in his boxy apartment, fruitlessly attempts to hawk his screenplay to disinterested agents.

He is obsessed with ancient Nigerian pots and fruitlessly attempts to write a novel with the hopeless title: In the Time of Roped Pots.

Although the Justice Department refused to comment, Clint Williamson, the State Department's ambassador-at-large for war crimes, who has fruitlessly been attempting to negotiate resettlement plans with other countries for several years, explained how the government's bullish and unsubstantiated statements had scuppered his chances of finding a last minute solution to the problem.

Fifty Shades of Grey is nicely shot, and Johnson is convincing as a soft-spoken, naïve girl trying hard to understand the world of wealth, power, and sex she's been invited into while attempting fruitlessly to keep her emotions in check as she knows she should and as Christian has instructed.

"You're way too late," a friend warned a reporter, as the sole camera crew on site attempted fruitlessly to conduct an interview.