Sentence examples for is a futile pursuit from inspiring English sources
You have to admire and wonder at his tenacity, given that contemporary opera is a futile pursuit.
It also emerged that the pope had written to Putin, reportedly saying military action would be a futile pursuit.
Not because I harboured them any particular ill-will – on the contrary, the fans who attend the games and the volunteers who staff the merchandise trestle-table all play their part in keeping hockey alive down here – but because to my English mind-set professional sports are a futile pursuit that will always end in disappointment.
It is a futile quest but a glorious one.
This is understandable, but it is also a futile pursuit.
And when he sleeps, his hope is always not to dream, for his dreams – many of which he is compelled to recount – illustrate his fears that his life is but a futile pursuit of appetites.
The other is a futile, childish hope.
"Trying to enforce scarcity is a futile effort," says Walden.
