Sentence examples for seemed fruitless from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

When mainstream American culture was largely about standing in a factory line, or crowding into smoke-stained boardrooms for meetings, or even dropping acid and collapsing in a field for your hundred-person "be-in," the idea of retiring to a dimly lit table to make up stories with three or four friends seemed fruitless and antisocial.

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

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.

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.

To try to convince them now, two months after the deal was announced, seems fruitless.