Sentence examples for futile revolt from inspiring English sources
In August he led a band of slaves in a bloody but futile revolt against their masters.
In 1362 63 he joined his father in a futile revolt against King David II, who both imprisoned him and created him earl of Carrick in 1368.
I read L'étranger (The Outsider) and tried to grasp such concepts as alienation and the absurd; I read La Peste (The Plague) and brought away comforting corroboration of my deeply held opinion that, yes, life was a plague, and its victims were condemned to an endless cycle of futile revolt.
And Reichardt's film, based on a story by her frequent collaborator Jonathan Raymond, also shows some affinities with "Rosetta," Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's groundbreaking and relentless 1999 film about a young working-class Belgian in a state of stubborn, futile revolt against her circumstances.
He just wanted to stop people using morality against their own interests, especially in futile revolts or religious wars.
A series of bloody but futile revolts against the Sima family followed the coup of 249, and political turbulence continued even after the founding of the Jin.
The only heavy fighting during his generally peaceful reign occurred in Judaea or Syria Palaestina, as it was thenceforth called where Bar Kokhba led a furious, if futile, Jewish revolt (132 135) against Hadrian's conversion of Jerusalem into a Roman colony named Aelia Capitolina.
In each the hero tries to find happiness in some kind of spiritual and physical escapism; each ends on a note of disappointment and revolt until, in L'Oblat, Huysmans and his hero acknowledge that escapism is not only futile but wrong.
Resistance may be futile.
