Sentence examples for futile enterprises from inspiring English sources

I still can't work out why there is no tasting on the line at El Bulli, and I am still at a loss to know why its staff embark on such futile enterprises as attempting to make a risotto from sunflower seeds (they devoted two weeks to this failed experiment).

Such claims have caused some consternation over whether the pursuit and promotion of happiness are largely futile enterprises (Lykken and Tellegen 1996; Millgram 2000).

That quest may be a futile enterprise, but it has shattered the wall of propriety, allowing matters that only a few decades ago were not considered topics of polite conversation to be discussed endlessly.

A country torn apart by strife offers so many stories of suffering that the idea of distilling such a cataclysm into a couple of hours' traffic at the theater can seem a futile enterprise.

Short of living alone in a remote wilderness, barricading oneself from the onslaughts of the world is an ultimately futile enterprise.Barry Edelson Huntington, New York* SIR – The sad truth about home-schooling is that it is selfish, cruel, unchristian, and un-American.

In an interview at his headquarters just a few miles from the Taliban targets that the American bombers were trying to destroy, the alliance's deputy defense minister, Atiqullah Baryalai, complained that the American use of heavy bombers to strike Taliban targets was a largely futile enterprise.

Our pamphleteers spend so much time debating each other's media prominence because both sides recognize that there is no national interest for which any one journalist can speak; when the war in Iraq ends, it will not be because a television anchor pronounced it a futile enterprise, as Walter Cronkite famously did during Vietnam.

Like trying to retell a dream, recounting a beautiful sunset is a futile enterprise.

It makes no sense to attempt to control every situation when new rising powers make this a futile enterprise.

Seeking "insight into Trump's thinking," as a source close to AT&T has claimed they were doing, is known to be a futile enterprise to anyone with a Twitter account.

Attempting to follow the threads of all the relationships collected here many of which are left hanging or severed too soon is a futile enterprise, likely because of the book's dabbling scope; over email, Lacey (who is an occasional VICE contributor) told me she hopes readers will use The Art of the Affair as "an introduction to the interconnectivity of individual artists and disparate art forms".