Sentence examples for futile feeling from inspiring English sources

It is a futile feeling because, as any true acolyte knows, he is not going to give a straight answer to the question.

"All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it.... Then you understand the horror of war".

Physical therapy reminds her of dating: "small, futile-feeling gestures that require faith to believe they will eventually lead you somewhere".

The goals typically mentioned by young people were also focused on their quality of their life, the avoidance of cancer-directed treatment adverse effects, the belief that further treatment is futile, the feeling of being ready to die or the experience of having seen someone else die [ 36].

Going through my notifications and messages, I lure myself with the futile yet gratifying feeling that I somehow matter to some of those friends.

An obsession with brewing protocol is generally the mark of an amateur — that pitiable person who makes a simple thing complicated in the futile hope of feeling kinship with the professionals.

An obsession with brewing protocol is generally the mark of an amateur that pitiable person who makes a simple thing complicated in the futile hope of feeling kinship with the professionals.

Knowing the feeling's futile, he still writes: "I might have insisted that he keep me apprised of his narrative".

The task sometimes feels futile.

Call-centre worker Transferable skill: A keen sense for the futile Birdsong perfectly conjured a feeling of inescapable helplessness, which makes Faulks the best possible candidate for spending 14 consecutive hours in a warehouse trying to convince a succession of deaf pensioners that they should upgrade their home broadband package.

The story centers around two men who fall in love and, times being what they are, endure blackmail and secrets and futile attempts to suppress their feelings.