Sentence examples for futile place from inspiring English sources

It seems an awfully long time ago since we were all in Bournemouth for the Liberal Democrats, and it seemed at times an unusually futile place to be.

Grand gestures are futile, and in place of hard work or exacting thought there is sex and drugs and clubbing, and various kinds of mind-bending music.

Dyer's books, of fact and fiction alike, are works of "delicious, stunned truancy," Wood writes: Grand gestures are futile, and in place of hard work or exacting thought there is sex and drugs and clubbing, and various kinds of mind-bending music.

However, just when the ultimately futile discussions were taking place, Gbagbo's forces were reinforcing their positions and retaking territory.

Representing the Sun in the second hearing, Richard Spearman QC told the court that keeping the privacy injunction in place was futile.

The Declaration of Helsinki does thus not necessarily prevent futile research from taking place.

More ink has probably been spilled over Dean than over any other actor in the history of film, with the possible exception of Marilyn Monroe, and this is not the place for another futile attempt to define his enduring allure.

These are futile distractions that have no place in ongoing debate.

After a particularly harrowing account of Australia's "Pacific solution" to migration (ie, put them all on an island), Disaster Capitalism concludes with a rather pro forma rousing address, insisting that "resistance is never futile" and pointing to those places – small French towns, the city of Hamburg – that have managed to reverse outsourcing and privatisation.

If Banksy is indeed a collective, geographic profiling is futile because he can be in multiple places at once.

She is eager for another job, a full-time position that would enable her to finance her own place, but her search feels increasingly futile.