Is it any surprise that, given the topsy-turvy world in which we now live, spinning one's wheels — formerly the very definition of a fruitless, frustrating activity that is best avoided — has been recast as a diverting recreation, and embraced by a mass audience?
Attempts to get cash back to the UK when the company got into trouble were fruitless except for a "very small fraction".
Athill contemplates the possibility of "digging out past guilts" and dismisses it as a fruitless occupation for "the very old" (as she ends the book she is 90).
Now Mr Sharon has pronounced all further talk of unity fruitless, because of the "very grave" concessions Mr Barak made, especially his agreement to consider resuming the peace process "as though nothing had happened".
There are two possible explanations why companies do not spend more: either they receive a great deal for what they already give, so contributing more is unnecessary, or they receive very little, so contributing more is fruitless.
Hilary MacLean as the solitary house-owner, Tom Mannion as a laconic general, Lucy Akhurst as his flaky wife and Mark Healy as a failed artist making a fruitless homecoming all give very good performances.
Also, Obp99b is up-regulated in males that have courted females [ 29], is higher in fruitless mutant males that display very reduced courtship behaviors (2.56 FC; FDR rank 4; [ 24]), and is down-regulated in males that have been starved [ 32].
But the acoustics were never very good, and numerous attempts to improve the sound quality were fruitless.
He bemoans the obsession with checking our smart phones and fruitless efforts to multi-task, which he describes as simply switching focus very quickly from one thing to another -- reducing rather than increasing productivity.
"I'm very suspicious of anything that the M.E.K. provides," said David A. Kay, who led the C.I.A.'s fruitless effort to find weapons program in Iraq.
