Sentence examples for futile thinking from inspiring English sources

That would be wishful, as well as futile, thinking.

Rooney has scored only seven league goals at a rate of one every 272 minutes compared with Kane's 21 (one in 130) and Vardy's 19 (143), but it is futile thinking Hodgson will change his mind.

And you're certainly not thinking anything as futile and juvenile as packing your kit and jumping a tramp steamer to live in a commune in Timbuktu.

(This is why all monitoring of the environment tends to be seen as futile in this way of thinking).

But that doesn't mean he went into the game thinking it was futile.

It all changed rather quickly, once the Knicks dropped their futile pursuit of Chris Paul and started thinking creatively about the cap.

John briefly joined the group, but left it, thinking the chatter was futile: "It was mainly about bullying, old classroom rows".

At first, she said, she hadn't wanted to meet Saleh, thinking that it would be futile.

Wilfred Owen and Blackadder have apparently conned us into thinking the great war was futile, when in reality it was a "just" war provoked by German aggression.

Like all good cartoon heavies, Ed Rooney gets scratched, bitten, attacked by ferocious dogs and covered with mud while pursuing his weaker, but craftier, prey, and emerges each time bruised but undaunted, thinking up some new (and futile) plan.

And sometimes I start thinking that all this effort is futile because I haven't mastered anything and I have forgotten so much.