futility
Origin of futility
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How to use futility in a sentence
Despite mounting evidence suggesting the futility of crowdsourcing creativity, the impulse to gather a team to kick around ideas remains an unassailable corporate ritual.
Figma says it has the answer to lackluster brainstorming meetings | Anne Quito | May 27, 2021 | QuartzFor now though, my only consistent exercise with “VZfit” is one of futility.
VR exercise app ‘VZfit’ overwhelms the senses in all the wrong ways | Mike Hume | April 22, 2021 | Washington PostIt undermined any notion that this was an exercise in futility.
The media will be key to overcoming a Senate filibuster on voting rights | Donald Ritchie | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostLately, however, on January afternoons like this one, his excitement was overpowered by a sense of futility and dread.
The Broken Front Line | by Ava Kofman, photography by Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks | April 7, 2021 | ProPublicaThis is a story about pushing for what you know is right, refusing to be thwarted by a sense of futility.
Oscar-Nominated Documentary Collective Is a Gripping Story of Investigative Journalism | Stephanie Zacharek | March 24, 2021 | Time
If anything can remind us about the futility of war, it is those wrecked, dismembered bodies.
This, despite feeling like futility is creeping like vines to tear down your walls of passion and security.
Female Journalist Gets Rape Threats Over Comic Book Criticism | Tauriq Moosa | April 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut you should not have “acceptance” fed by feelings of futility; your response should be intolerance of intolerance.
Female Journalist Gets Rape Threats Over Comic Book Criticism | Tauriq Moosa | April 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAgain: silence, from apathy or futility, is a powerful ingredient in making bigotry continue.
Female Journalist Gets Rape Threats Over Comic Book Criticism | Tauriq Moosa | April 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe truth is, telling wedding vendors to only provide goods and services for “biblical” ceremonies is an exercise in futility.
Conservative Christians Selectively Apply Biblical Teachings in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate | Kirsten Powers, Jonathan Merritt | February 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat door and that sentry were obstacles which Garnache saw the futility of attempting to overcome without aid.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniWhat oceans of futility one discovered, what mountains of pretense—and with what forests of scholarship grown over them!
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairMoreover their reiteration evidences their futility in attaining the objects they had in view.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertBut, probably realising the futility of such a course, he changed his mind, and delivered an ultimatum from the top step.
The Gold Bat | P. G. WodehouseAltiora had been very emphatic and uncharitable upon the futility of the Socialist movement.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George Wells
British Dictionary definitions for futility
/ (fjuːˈtɪlɪtɪ) /
lack of effectiveness or success
lack of purpose or meaning
something futile
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