Sentence examples for somehow futile from inspiring English sources

But it would be quite wrong if any of that led to the thought that Clemente's effort was somehow futile — that aid just gets stolen and doesn't end up helping, that nothing gets done anyway and all you can do is pity — or that he should have stuck to writing checks, or not written one at all.

Composting them somehow felt less futile.

So far I've resisted, but somehow the line "resistance is futile" keeps coming to mind.

So it seemed futile to protest that, somehow, humans managed to play games on real grass and dirt for centuries.

They knew that their labors were probably futile, but hoped that, somehow, the vice president could still prevail.

Going through my notifications and messages, I lure myself with the futile yet gratifying feeling that I somehow matter to some of those friends.

The final six hours of fighting on the Western Front present a spectacle of futile bloodshed and pointless aggression that somehow sums up the whole show.

The notion of both destroying and regenerating glucocorticoids across the wall of the ER in a particular brain cell seems rather futile unless the balance is physiologically regulated somehow, a tough trick with two enzymes having such disparate affinities for substrate.

If an algorithm causes a high volume of cancellations, then proof of a violation without more evidence would depend on somehow divining the computer programmer's intent, which seems problematic if not utterly futile.

Her repression, her transparent denial, her futile attempts to tap into the pain with me in the car, it all satisfied me somehow.

Payne's movie has just the futile journey and a father-son relationship that is so repetitive it feels like a subplot that somehow got pushed to the center.