fruitlessness

But Mourning's removal does not completely explain the team's fruitlessness.

The knight, seeing the fruitlessness of the first blow, prepared to give a second.

He had calculated that the high cost and possible fruitlessness of pursuit would deter them.

I point this out so as to make plain to you the fruitlessness of denying the obvious."

Not for nothing has "fighting City Hall" become the embodiment of fruitlessness.

At that time, the fruitlessness of awarding only "honorary" degrees was realized.

After yesterday's fruitlessness, it made Gabriel feel immeasurably better.

But there is a growing sense in Teheran of the fruitlessness of continued conflict.

A distinguished and active fruitlessness, leaving the world at last as he found it, is the political barrister's ideal career.

The episode demonstrated to both Scotland and England the fruitlessness of their struggles.

Irritated by the fruitlessness of his search, he slammed the drawer shut and headed for the bathroom.

He had found himself so strictly guarded that he soon perceived the fruitlessness of any attempt at escape.

His greatest trial was neither starvation nor physical sufferings, but the fruitlessness of the soil he had to cultivate.

I hoped he would have concluded the fruitlessness of his search and discharged me from this affair with an unblemished conscience.

And as someone who has actually chased a wild goose in his youth, I can personally attest to the fruitlessness of such an endeavor."

And they may pursue fruitlessness.

The fruitlessness of pursuing one's daily life was shared by a spectrum of people who renounced their chosen practices.

And so they go at it, this sterile union, this forbidden fruitlessness, this coupling from which no soul can come.

He didn't mind alienating Tallav or the ancient, but he was furious over the fruitlessness of his search.

She'd been practically cross-eyed with fatigue and on the point of tears of frustration at the fruitlessness of her task when the phone had rung.

Eventually, as the wolf complains of the fruitlessness of their quest, they arrive at a draw-well with buckets on each end of a rope.

"We discovered how difficult it was to derive the benefit of the information we thought we could gain, and the potential fruitlessness of going in there," she said.

Mr. Rabin's spokesman said the Prime Minister was disappointed at the apparent fruitlessness of several gestures he had made to improve the climate of the talks.

Anyone who has spent days raking up or stubbing bare feet on the macelike fruits of this native shade tree knows what the advantages of fruitlessness could be.

There is this element of a fine fruitlessness about the male enjoyments; wine is poured into a bottomless bucket; thought plunges into a bottomless abyss.