When we respectfully speak our truth with others, we spend much less time in the fruitless cycle of confused, hopeless, and self-belittling thought!
As with anything else, just dabbling is a less time-consuming but often fruitless approach.
The players' meeting with ownership was fruitless and only 15,238 fans — less than half of capacity — showed up for the final professional baseball game of the year.
The commission said one program had proved so fruitless that it was discontinued after less than a year.
The search was ultimately fruitless, particularly for Royal Oak, whose top speed, by then less than 20 kn, was inadequate to keep up with the rest of the fleet.
The latter group are less concerned about governance and more focused on social issues and taking principled, if fruitless, positions to demonstrate their conservative bona fides.
The Shinnecocks should give up their long, divisive, and potentially fruitless wait for that one big score, and turn instead to more sustainable, less damaging means of development.
Mr Miliband is less presidential than Mr Cameron less easy to imagine handling Vladimir Putin, say but his business-bashing is, alas, not fruitless (few voters love electricity giants) and Britain's electoral map is tilted in his favour.
In the effort to represent such a diverse, stratified scene, it is fruitless to only bare witness to the best-of-the-best, as it is the less effective work that helps gives the good stuff context.
While they acknowledged that it was fruitless for them to fight the Fed chairman publicly, some of them said privately that he would receive less deference on Capitol Hill in the future.
