futility

Now everything in her life points out the futility of hope.

But in recent years, a sense of futility has developed.

I tried to show them the futility of their efforts.

And the older he got the more his talk was all futility.

He could not have known the futility of this action.

Perhaps the futility of it all got through to her.

He talked about the futility of everything while I reported.

She did not know how else to bear her sense of futility.

The man finally saw the futility of his stand, and ran.

He had thought it all out and knew the futility of our trying to get back to the girls.

"Even though doing so may well be an exercise in futility."

When he left I had a sense of futility and frustration.

And they seem to be about nothing so much as the futility of abstract art.

The futility of what he was trying to do swept over him.

Even he is beginning to sense the futility of being in opposition for ever.

In a moment, though, he realized the futility and changed his mind.

He wanted to know more, but knew the futility of pushing his father.

She would try, and keep trying, until her heart broke at the futility of it.

But the very futility of doing anything at all settled over me.

He looked with futility for a way to get across the Hudson.

The one that wound up as four hours of futility for them?

The younger generation has seen the futility of the life.

Last season, the number represented futility as they only won 23 games.

I had already seen the futility of our little protests.

"But I have long since accepted the futility of telling you so."