Sentence examples for futile work from inspiring English sources

Songs from his new album, "Women + Country" (Columbia), and his 2008 album, "Seeing Things" (Columbia), were recession-era dirges: tales of hard times, lost love, futile work and an absent God.

When my wonderful clawfoot tub leaked onto the occupants of the room below, the two repair-crew guys who showed up grinned and shrugged after some futile work: that's kind of the way this place is, they said.

They burn out from futile work".

This knowledge can save a lot of futile work.

It takes a lot of futile work to perform "the man," to perform a caricature created by others that will never allow space for us to be our best selves.

And none of this often-futile work takes place on anything like a predictable schedule: The law may dawdle for months over what to do with an addict, but her little girl needs a safe place to sleep tonight.

Hans Sachs, shoemaker and poet, ruminates on a trap he's just set for Beckmesser; and the orchestra circles, as if in a holding pattern, around a melody symbolising futile, manual work.

Just listen to the program hosts and their selected guests hour after hour: the Fed's QE 3 is futile, won't work, can't work, will surely backfire, will undoubtedly cause rampant inflation, is wrongheaded, delusional, incompetent, or worse.

Is development work futile in the West Bank?

The prize would go to a person who had declined a publisher's lucrative offer to write a futile or meretricious work.

Seen here saying "Hello, Dolly" in Sevierville ("Home to Dollywood!"), doing push-ups the morning after (in a futile attempt to work those beers off his waistline), and producing his famous (new! improved!) photogenic grin at Rainbow Falls.