Sentence examples for futility from from inspiring English sources
The Rangers could be out of the playoffs for a fifth consecutive season, matching a period of futility from 1950 through 1955.
Though the pitcher has some influence over where batters hit the ball, extensive research shows that most of the responsibility lies elsewhere.As a result, perfect games require a combination of good pitching, sure-handed defence, and a generous dose of offensive futility from the opposing lineup.
If Eliot's The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is very much a young man's view of what it would be like to be an old man, then Kafka and Blanchot reflect on life's futility from the standpoint of their 30s, leaving the gnomic text of the 78-year-old Beckett – "Fail again.
Now double it, and you might come close to amassing the sense of cosmic uselessness that haunts the central character in "Kalkwerk," a grim tale of epic futility from the Polish theater director Krystian Lupa and the Narodowy Stary Teatr that opened Tuesday night at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
"Blocking pornographic websites is an exercise in futility from the word go," Duggal said.
The Mountaineers endured a dubious string of post-season futility from 1987 to 2004, losing 11 of 12 bowl games including eight consecutive losses between 1987 and 1998.
Reyes was the most recent, stuck in his futility streak from 2008 to 2011.
The loss to Phoenix extended the Rangers' streak without a victory on the road to 10 games (0-9-1), their longestretchtch of futility away from Madison Square Garden since the 1980-81 season.
More specifically, the study investigates how photographs might contribute to overcoming futility thinking from potential donors.
Specifically, I will examine the ways in which potential beneficiaries are depicted, and investigate how the design of the letters might contribute to overcoming futility thinking from potential donors.
On the other hand, the patient who, from the editors' perspective, 'cannot be saved by any means and should be denied critical care on the basis of medical futility' evoked from some physicians a recommendation for a trial of intensive care.
