Resistance is futile, the Borg say.
Likely to be futile, the effort is also utterly gripping.
Further comparisons are futile: the winners' speeches are blessedly short, unlike their gushing Hollywood counterparts.
As to whether or not the war was necessary or futile, the answer is surely both.
All this "best" business is enough to make one forget how futile the arguing truly is.
Perhaps their lament is futile — the world is inexorably becoming Thomas Friedman's.
On the other hand, it's futile: the environment is going to hell.
He ought to have done more to help Good, however futile the task.
Slowing urbanisation down, or pushing it towards places not linked with world markets, is costly and futile, the bank says.
Although resistance is logically futile, the resentment persists and is rationalized by defective explanations, since the alternative is emotionally unacceptable.
Chantereau Le Febvre denounced as futile the attempts of his contemporaries to deduce general rules from uncertain principles.
