Sentence examples for pretty futile from inspiring English sources

It's pretty futile to argue over whether and in what senses Britain remains a Christian country.

We can wish it wasn't so, but it's pretty futile to wish away millions of years of evolution.

But in either play there's no avoiding Mr. Ayckbourn's insistence that communication between people is a pretty futile business.

"I gradually became convinced that trying to teach a teen-ager algebra when they don't have self-control is a pretty futile exercise".

Miller said many of Rubio's attacks were not based on substantive issues because "trying to wage a battle of substance against Trump is pretty futile effort".

Cases can be made for just about anyone to reach the top six (if I were tempted to plump for an outside bet I might even go for Sheffield Wednesday), so predicting the entire table is a pretty futile exercise.

It would have been fairly futile".

Visit www.edfringe.com Resistance is pretty much futile as the Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe Of China brings its preposterously entertaining version of Swan Lake back to the UK.

"It's pretty much futile anyway.

Well, it was a myth in the sense that there were always politicians trying to get the shackles off, but this was pretty much a futile exercise.

I'd turn the power down sometimes and think I was slow cooking, but I'm pretty sure attempts were futile 'cause that's not how micros work.