Sentence examples for futile desire from inspiring English sources

It may be a futile desire, but Mosley wants to coax Felix Trinidad into the ring.

Authenticity is achieved, Sartre claims, by a conversion that entails abandonment of our original choice to coincide with ourselves consciously (the futile desire to be in-itself-for-itself or God) and thereby free ourselves from identification with our egos as being-in-itself.

More recently, the argument has shifted away from the difficult project of definitions, to outlining institutional policies and procedures that take a measured and patient-by-patient approach to deciding if an existing or desired intervention is futile.

Family carers approach to deciding what was a desired intervention and what was futile, was closer to a dictionary definition of futility as not just something ineffective or useless but something lacking weight or importance – something frivolous, lacking purpose.

Even today, studies find that more fervent religious devotion correlates to more desire for aggressive and medically futile end-of-life intervention, not less.

The original contingency leads to our desire to undo it, to the futile project to "found being," in other words the "useless passion" of the project to become God.

janar chesta britha tai (desire to acquire knowledge is hence futile).

It is a phrase commonly used when the patient does not desire it, and when it seems futile or detrimental to the patient from a third person's perspective.

When the patient desires it, it cannot be considered "futile".

As seen (see 2.4.1 above), an essential characteristic of desire is its restlessness, its ongoing agitated searching and futile striving.

Moreover, one might say that since the patient asked for a life-prolonging treatment because he desired non-curative chemotherapy until the very end, it was by no means "futile" because the patient was willing to fight the disease.