Sentence examples for usually fruitless from inspiring English sources

Mr. Pedreño said that attempts to get regional courts to open investigations were usually fruitless.

Racial divisions on the Council have been sharp, and confrontations with Mayor C. Ray Nagin are frequent, though usually fruitless.

We live in an anti-political moment, when many people — young people especially — think politics is a low, nasty, corrupt and usually fruitless business.

I disagree, however, with David Brooks's premise that it reveals a nobler side to politics, which many people think "is a low, nasty, corrupt and usually fruitless business".

Later, at York (where he read History), the 'most attractive girls were aspiring actresses' and out of a 'pathetic and usually fruitless attempt to charm them' he would watch them in Chekhov and Ibsen.

Reigart is disappointed about the prospect of losing his best naval aviator, and as punishment, on Christmas Eve, he dispatches Burnett and a pilot, Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht), on the kind of routine, usually fruitless reconnaissance mission that Burnett has flown many times before.

The first, second or third tries may be fruitless, but usually on the fourth attempt the snail-eater will win.

Usually, these searches are fruitless.

This episode is usually written off as a fruitless period in Darwin's young life and intellectual formation.

The Nobel Prizes in the field are usually earned in mid-career, after a few false starts and fruitless sidetracks.

Faust, usually presented as an old philosopher who feels he has wasted his life with fruitless scholarship, is here a middle-aged scientist, first seen wearing a sensible three-piece brown suit.