Sentence examples for futility by from inspiring English sources

It's very true that today was an exercise in futility by the Catalans.

Perhaps the most unsettling item in the immense inventory of Titanic trivia is a novel called "Futility," by an American writer named Morgan Robertson.

On Sunday, they took a step in distancing themselves from a decade of futility by assuring themselves of their first playoff berth in seven seasons.

Altogether, billions of dollars of equipment was destroyed in American and British bombing raids, or blasted into futility by a previous generation of weapons inspectors.

It was a familiar exercise in futility by the Mets' hitters, who were overwhelmed by the six runs that Rusch allowed in six innings.

She distracted me from my solemn communion with Futility by commenting on the purchases made by those preceding her in line.

The Yankees squandered runners, failing to capitalize on a bases-loaded, one-out situation in the first; a two-on, one-out rally in the second; and Swisher's leadoff double in the third, a show of futility punctuated by strikeouts by Rodriguez and Jorge Posada.

This question was put to me in a radio debate that centred on the claim that the war was completely "necessary" and one full of "substantial" victories, but that these remarkable achievements had been obscured in the public consciousness by the notion of the unrelieved horror, disillusionment and futility promoted by war-literature writers.

It was born of frustration and futility, punctuated by occasional heartbreak.

Mahler's is a piece about water, existential futility, and by extension, death.

The Tigers came within two losses of eclipsing the post-1900 record for futility set by the 1962 Mets.