fruitlessness

Example Sentences

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Something in him wanted to add to an international conversation about war’s fruitlessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023

In Kathleen Parker’s Sept. 1 op-ed on the fruitlessness of war, “Two different wars; one haunting question,” she noted the respective number of American service members lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan: 58,000 to 2,352.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2021

The fruitlessness of endlessly fine-tuning your self-image—of frantically trying to echolocate your personhood against someone else’s story, real or fictional—is baked into every episode of the show.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2017

This quotation also speaks to the fruitlessness of trying to impress someone with a certain look, attribute, political affiliation or apartment décor.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2017

The triumph of knavery and falsehood is a bad lesson for any people; but the fruitlessness of honest industry is, if possible, a worse one.

From St. Patrick's Eve by Lever, Charles James