Sentence examples for futile striving from inspiring English sources
Perhaps it was those six months of futile striving, tangled novelistic timelines, rotten Tudors, and chilblains that caused me to break through some invisible wall, because right after that I grasped the nettle I had been avoiding, and began to write The Handmaid's Tale'.
As seen (see 2.4.1 above), an essential characteristic of desire is its restlessness, its ongoing agitated searching and futile striving.
Moreover, it is not clear that futile striving necessarily has negative aesthetic value, witness, e.g., Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus, and in any case, it can be argued plausibly that the equipoise of opposing forces possibly has positive aesthetic value, implying that opposed volitional activities of coexistent omnipotent beings would not necessarily be futile.
A pragmatic progressive third party would recognize that a presidential bid is futile and would strive to elect representatives and senators who could caucus with the Democrats.
It is rooted in black nationalism - a political tradition that gave up seeking equal rights with whites in America as a futile pursuit and strove, instead, to establish a political, economic, social and in some cases even geographical, independence from white America.
It was a futile endeavor.
If you think that striving after market-beating results is a futile task, then buy a passive fund and get the cheapest one you can find.
Keep striving higher goals.
Stop striving for perfection.
