Sentence examples for pretty fruitless from inspiring English sources

Re "Challenged by Creationists, Museums Answer Back" (Sept . 20: As a longtime docent, I know that to argue with visitors with strongly held views is pretty fruitless, at least unless you can shift the emotional grounding of the argument.

It may get worse, it may get better, but focusing so heavily on a moment as if it defines an hour, a day, week, month or year, is a pretty fruitless thing to do.

Judging the overall quality of movies is a pretty fruitless exercise, since the viewers of the future will inevitably don the same kind of rose-colored glasses that we do even as they invoke different aesthetic standards to winnow the masterpieces from the surrounding chaff.

The question of whether or not Steve Jobs would've done something is arguably always a pretty fruitless one, but in this case, I think the Bloomberg piece should at least put an end to the debate.

The index of last lines as opposed to first lines is something I can't help you with -- a playful decision to honor the playfulness of the poet it's celebrating, but other than that it seems pretty fruitless.

Detail-oriented and goal-driven, this girl is intent on things, and I'll bet that after some pretty fruitless sex (for her at least) she thought to herself 'Fuck this shit, I'm not leaving here without an orgasm.' This girl is nothing like me – if she wants to cum, she's going to cum, God damn it.

The Devils' margin for error, hardly fat to begin with, has pretty much vanished in 27 fruitless hours.

These routes, like pretty much everything Buzz did, proved fruitless: the airline lost an average of £20 for every passenger it ever flew.

How single genes can produce such surprising transformations is not yet fully understood, but it seems that the state of the fruitless and dissatisfaction genes pretty much specifies all the rules in the playbook of fruitfly dating.

Four hours of fruitless digging later, some pretty frustrated children had to be treated to ice cream, blowing the day's budget.

When Djokovic was down against Murray in the US Open final, Mark Petchey remarked on commentary that he looked beaten, which was pretty much asking for the rampant but ultimately fruitless fightback that followed.