Sentence examples for futile quest from inspiring English sources

It is a futile quest but a glorious one.

So far, it has been a futile quest.

Each film in the trilogy examines a character embarked on a futile quest for happiness.

The Beauchards' futile quest for a cure takes them from surgeons to macrobiotic diets to mediums.

It's a futile quest, of course: as the title states, no one can ever go missing from themselves.

The Beauchards' futile quest for a cure takes them from surgeons to macrobiotic diets to spiritual mediums.

On display in a gallery at the conference hall were several 17th-century paintings by Flemish and Dutch artists, who depicted alchemists toiling in the disorder of dark workshops and the poverty of futile quests.

As is often the case with patients in such "diagnostic limbo,"[ 20] high utilisation was driven primarily by futile quests for organic diagnosis and ineffective empirical therapies.

Nonetheless, part of the tragedy of Enron's collapse and part of many compelling business movies is the average Joe's often-futile quest for the American Dream.

Federer then promptly swept away the idea that Nikolay Davydenko of Russia, his semifinal opponent tomorrow, would have as futile a quest as Roddick.

Some of us (me included) try desperately to make our advisers happy until we realize how futile this quest is.