Sentence examples for futile tasks from inspiring English sources

Rosefeldt's subjects have included immigrants, backpackers, cowboys and pilots, but they all have one thing in common: they're stuck in a loop, repeating futile tasks, ensnared by stereotypes in places where nothing seems to change.

Bowling seemed a futile task indeed.

I mean, you can try, but it's a futile task anyway.

Navigating Russian politics when nobody knows who really runs the country is a futile task.

Or the defenders assigned the often futile task of denying him a goal.

Doctors at the Domingo Luciani Hospital in Caracas described the futile task of trying to keep patients alive with manually pumped respirators.

Delineating the boundaries between the code and the visual artwork or disentangling individually copyrightable component parts may be a futile task.

So much has been shared, adopted, and synthesized that defining "French" or even "European" in opposition to "American" seems like a futile task.

Analysts focussed on analyzing companies and industries instead of on the futile task of predicting the short-term movements of stock prices.

Flower, together with Alastair Cook as captain, has had to try to hold things together and it becomes a totally wearying and ultimately futile task.

What's more, although finding a true definition for "Kafkaesque" may be a futile task, it's also an enjoyable and enlightening occupation.