Sentence examples for futile labor from inspiring English sources

Did you mean to say that those who are fortunate enough to live a long life are like Sisyphus, condemned to everlasting futile labor in Hades?

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In between doing all this futile physical labor, I've been taking the lovely Long Island Railroad back and forth to work.

They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor".

"It would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action".

But there are plenty of people in this town and throughout the rural plains who say all the spec buildings and cheap labor incentives are futile, misleading gestures.

After all, if Sisyphus's labor is ultimately futile, so is the project to become God.

They knew that their labors were probably futile, but hoped that, somehow, the vice president could still prevail.

The whole event seemed to need more labor: each cough sounded more futile than the last, as though the effort she'd made and the time lost making it had added to the burden of illness.

The task sometimes feels futile.

In August, the measured unemployment rate ticked down one-tenth of one percent to 7.3percentt, but only because more and more people are dropping out of the labor force since looking for work is futile.