Sentence examples for mostly futile from inspiring English sources
Relaunches are mostly futile in politics.
Saunders's exuberantly weird stories recount Americans' mostly futile attempts at self-improvement, the terrible dread of failure -- or damnation.
If the new Senators ever tormented the Yanks or any other front-runner late in those 11 mostly futile years, it is not high up in civic memory.
"We called Viking over the holidays every year," Rosemary Devlin said of her half-decade-long (and mostly futile) efforts to schedule manufacturer service for her mutinous dishwasher.
At the outset, the literary reformers met with impassioned but mostly futile opposition from classical literati such as the renowned translator Lin Shu, who would largely give up the battle within a few years.
Even so, Junqueira, 30, refused to give up, snapping his left-handed forehands crosscourt and hopping on one foot and slamming backhands down the line in a mostly futile reaction to del Potro's superior shotmaking.
They were protesting mostly against futile, bloody and misconceived attacks on the German lines.
We also live in an age where this sort of resistance mostly feels futile.
Warner Brothers has frequently sent cease-and-desist letters to Harry Potter fans creating Web sites, fan fiction and wizard rock bands in honor of their favorite fictional character, though attempts to control the brand have mostly proven futile.
Other reform attempts in the Wettin era were led by individuals such as Stanisław Dunin-Karwicki, Stanisław A. Szczuka, Kazimierz Karwowski and Michał Józef Massalski; these mostly proved to be futile.
Álvaro Mutis, a Colombian poet and novelist who created one of Latin American literature's more memorable characters, the rambling and ruminative Maqroll, an inadvertent explorer of jungles and his own jaded soul for whom life seemed a long and futile boat ride, mostly upriver, often running aground, died on Sept. 22 in Mexico City.
