Sentence examples for futile arguments from inspiring English sources

"Again and again sleep was interrupted by noisy and futile arguments... curses, cries... kicks and punches delivered blindly," Levi says of his journey by cattle car to Auschwitz.

Over the course of three days, she made objections and articulate, if futile, arguments: she objected when Sharon Gentry talked about how sad Treva had seemed; she objected when anyone talked about her mental state.

Cameroon's Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary said the government was "dismayed". "In the face of this blatant injustice, the government of the Republic urges the people of Cameroon to remain calm and not to indulge to futile arguments," said Mr Bakary.

Yet their position is that all Muslims are liars, so what's the point of making these futile arguments?

Truthfully, it would be a futile argument because they very well may be right.

Still red-faced from his futile argument moments earlier, Norman waved off Morrisey.

Cisco, who is much older than Skye and has a nearly grown daughter, has one last conversation with her (via Skype) and one last screaming, futile argument with his former wife.

Their slightly hunched bodies lean on and support each other, but they're also frustrated, needling, Osipova batting her lover's body with her shoulders in a futile argument that no one is winning.

In an intriguing review in The Observer, Tracy Chevalier gave a good idea of why Faraday might be so problematic - aside from and above being a bit of a bore: "There is an inherent problem with ghost stories: they always boil down to a futile argument between sceptic and believer.

This dabble with a futile argument taught me a few things.

As we continue the amusing but ultimately futile argument about whether to legalize cannabis, we're missing the far more important argument about how to legalize it.