Sentence examples for seem fruitless from inspiring English sources

Last Man Standing Now unemployed, Vanessa (Nancy Travis) has too much time on her hands and her efforts to find a new teaching job seem fruitless.

If your meditations and prayers seem fruitless, don't force it.

At such times, my effort was frustrating and seemed fruitless.

It seemed fruitless to press the point, so that was that.

"I still knew there was something wrong, but it seemed fruitless going to see specialists.

But so long as governments are ambivalent about those targets, it seems fruitless to demand more of companies and markets.

The aides said Mr. Clinton had said he would support the tactical operation if the negotiations seemed fruitless.

Richard Gott, 11 October 1967 It seems fruitless to begin by demanding the immediate advent of a republic in Britain: it ain't going to happen.

As soon as the hunt for weapons of mass destruction seemed fruitless, he handed over the mission to the C.I.A. Rumsfeld takes so much pummeling that he eventually becomes a strangely sympathetic character.

In the chapel, it seems fruitless to argue with visitors bolstered by sheets of runes, geometric diagrams, mathematical formulas, and inside information they say links Rosslyn to everything from Mary Magdalene to the planet Saturn.

It seems fruitless now to survey the casual detritus of her life and pronounce her vain, vapid or self-seeking; to call into question her much-vaunted ersatz-aristocratic good taste; or to accuse her of being, at heart, small-minded and avaricious.