Sentence examples for futile course from inspiring English sources

Eva's long and troubled widowhood included a stay in a psychiatric hospital and a futile course of electric shock therapy.

He said that the argument made by a senior Ministry of Defence official, Damian Parmenter, to the court that granting a writ for habeas corpus would be a "futile course of action" now "turns out to have been right".

It still feels as if Blair, at 61, has a big job in him, and his role as the Quartet's Middle East envoy has run its largely futile course.

Such an effort would be futile, of course.

All of this is futile, of course.

It's futile, of course, for self-esteem comes not from having things but from mastering life's situations, both the ordinary and the extraordinary.

It's a futile quest, of course: as the title states, no one can ever go missing from themselves.

It was, of course, futile and far too little far too late, as the 90 comments from readers illustrate.

However much these family members might have wanted to keep things nice and polite, it is of course futile.

It's a perfectly futile fantasy, of course, but vicarious fulfillment is yours at the Westport Country Playhouse, where Noël Coward's 1925 "Hay Fever," a comedy of bad manners, as it has been famously called, has opened the summer season smashingly.

Any hopes Te'o had of thus putting the issue to rest were, of course, futile – nonetheless, he closed his Q&A by saying: "Hopefully after this I answered the things I needed to answer and we can move on with football.