Sentence examples for futile book from inspiring English sources

Everything goes wrong because their futile book learning cannot compensate for their lack of judgment.

The circulation clerk blacks out the symbols with a Sharpie, but it's a futile effort: The books go out and come back with the same markings, over and over again.

Realising that it would be futile to make the book adhere to the traditional Hollywood three-act format, Salles and Rivera decided to remain true to the book's collection of disjointed journeys rather than trying to condense it neatly into one epic trip.

Shadow-boxing an imaginary foe called "McGovernism" is not only futile, but also, Miroff's book makes clear, a disservice to McGovern.

"Borges said that the act of writing books is a futile and ridiculous process.

Now you're triumphant, a hero in investment circles who exposes the S.E.C. as the most futile of agencies in your new book, "No One Would Listen".

You've seen the Beginners' German book in my bag, my futile attempt at self-improvement, and you've remembered.

In 1963 it carried a futile appeal for newspapers to "abandon the cheque-book journalism of confession stories by criminals, prominent divorcees and others who have won notoriety".

Part of the book's humor derives from Wilson's futile attempts to find a comfortable American voice for his encounters.

A major theme of the book is racial separatism, as Malcomson traces the futile attempts by all three groups to "escape" race by building racially pure communities.

And how futile it must feel, as a writer, to inexorably repeat that lie in each forthcoming book.