Sentence examples for sheer futility from inspiring English sources

For sheer futility in professional sports, the Chicago Cubs are the standard.

"The sheer futility of his policy ideas has made him largely irrelevant in the Congressional debate".

The initiatives, proposals, and international conferences are but a waste of time and sheer futility".

It wasn't so much the naked avarice on display, it's the sheer futility of it all.

Collecting such records forces you to confront the sheer futility of the collecting impulse.

Thirdly, for the sheer futility of writing an 800-plus book about a musician – and a music – its author despises.

Some commentators point to a sheer sense of futility caused by cases such as Citizens United, intentional efforts to keep people of color from the polls, outdated methods used by government to gain public comments that give voice only to the few, and the reality that many 1960s-era community based organizations are neither run by nor speak for residents they hope to serve.

The sheer scope of the futility is impressive.

These moments of being out of balance is usually when the waves of emotion rise: fear, sheer terror, grief, immense hopelessness, futility, jealousy, disconnectedness, uncertainty, numbness, sadness, anger, disappointment, loneliness.

Though there's no shortage of explicit and gory violence throughout, the grandly operatic bloodbath (and that's no metaphor — it splashes the settings and the characters like burst paintpots) that concludes the plantation sequence results from a moment of sheer peevishness of stiff-necked principle that stands out both for its moral purity and its futility.

Koehler simply glides from New York to California, as if one day he had decided for the sheer goodness of it to renounce a way of life which was hurting him with its falseness and futility.