Sentence examples for futile role from inspiring English sources
What it is is a goofy exercise in showboat tourism that has Mr. Kattan playing himself as a disrespected actor whose futile search for meaningful roles at home brings him to the world of Indian movies, which he predictably finds all so incomprehensibly foreign.
Boffetta et al. (2008) appear to relegate it to the role of a futile exercise producing scientific papers of doubtful utility, whose results should be regarded with such skepticism that they can be comfortably exempted from policy and practice implications and decisions.
Futile rage helps nobody.
He discovered it was futile trying to conform to the role of a prototypical leadoff hitter.
To boot, against the background of the current Group of 8 meeting under his chairmanship in Deauville, Mr. Sarkozy's ambition to remake a world monetary order with a reduced role for the dollar has appeared futile.
Complaining about your role on the team is both futile and aggravating to your boss.
When is the use of rFVIIa futile?
After years of cooking for her husband and children, loss of this caregiving role made the act of food preparation seem futile: It (cooking) just seems pointless…Now that I don't have to cook, I don't do much.
Moreover, our results have revealed how an apparently futile side-reaction in the monothiol mechanism may play a significant role in regulating Grx activity in vivo.
Franklin left England, after living there for nearly 16 years, when Parliament publicly reprimanded him for his role in the Hutchinson affair, and further diplomatic efforts seemed futile.
