Sentence examples for full futility from inspiring English sources

For others withdrawal & failure would ram home the full futility of the war in a single thunderclap.

There, in the fetid air, infused with the smell of urine and bat excrement, one senses the full futility and wretchedness of what the rebel movement became in the end.

With all their familiar elements, Keillor's Lake Wobegon books have become a set of synoptic gospels, full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope.

To go on the run is to chase the dragon of some other life, in full knowledge of the futility of the effort and the inevitability of the end.

Henman is accepting his Sisyphean task in full knowledge of its ultimate futility and we cheer him on because to accept such a challenge is to look the absurdity of life in the eye and embrace it anyway.

Despite the often severe nature of their initial presentation to the ICU, a trial of full therapy should be made before decisions on futility are made.

My sister sails through futility with incomprehensible good cheer.

For this message to have its full impact, however, it is necessary that we learn the futility of looking for solutions outside.

Dasgupta is at his best as a cool, unillusioned analyst of futility, both ideological and personal; his novel, which is full of chemistry and Ulrich's failed ambitions as a chemist, becomes a kind of handbook for the study of useless energy dispersal, of farcical entropy.

But considering that the air travel system has shrunk to the point where most domestic flights are now full most of the time, this can be a suggestion mired in futility.

It's a daily battle though, full of regret, flashbacks, self-doubt, paranoia, boredom, self-loathing, questioning and futility.