Given the fruitlessness of any debate over regulating guns, perhaps we could talk a little more specifically about why some gun-owners are dancing while others are dying.(Photo credit: JOE KLAMAR / AFP).
We are deeply convinced of the fruitlessness of any directions in art which lead away from the great realistic traditions of artistic culture throughout the world".
The film not only explores the fruitlessness of trying to stabilize shorelines that nature prefers to keep in flux, but it also looks at issues like who benefits from, and who pays for, these expensive efforts.
She could not separate herself from the fruitlessness of the attempt.
"Problems related to drink and drug abuse and vagrancy abound as restless, directionless youth agonize over the fruitlessness of their existence," she added in comments that might have sounded a chord in austerity-struck Europe.
Where to begin on the sheer stupidity and fruitlessness of horizontal showering?
And then you only have to contemplate a well-meaning group of MPs meeting the immovable object that is Peter Dutton, and the former immigration minister, Scott Morrison, and you see the fruitlessness of the exercise.
The fruitlessness of endlessly fine-tuning your self-image — of frantically trying to echolocate your personhood against someone else's story, real or fictional — is baked into every episode of the show.
The Northern Fleet spokesman, Igor Babenko, said docking attempts would continue through the night, but he added that "given the fruitlessness of the attempts in the day and the worsening weather conditions, one cannot expect any results before Thursday morning".
With its jauntily crass aesthetic and wine-waiter line readings, the movie is most focused in its zeal to show the fruitlessness of right-wing efforts to reorient gay men.
Indeed, the playwright A. R. Gurney, who resigned from the nominating committee this year because he was not allowed to abstain from votes in which he felt ill equipped to take part, said he felt frustrated by the fruitlessness of the nominators' attempts to make their concerns heard.
