futility
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But if you’re honest, you also loved watching the guy dumb enough to buy it fume over the futility of his impulses.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Some might find it humanizing—proof that below the bloviating gestalt, the president can become awed by existential futility.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Strikingly for someone with an enviable career, she is wonderfully unsparing on the futility of chasing success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Our attention pivots to the futility of this self-described “little guy” trying to get someone with clout to take him seriously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
If a Pogrebin is allowed to tail a human for many hours, a sense of great futility will overcome its prey, who will eventually fall into a state of lethargy and despair.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
But in nominating one as secretary of state and the other as defense secretary, President Obama hopes to bring to his administration two veterans with the same sensibility about the futilities of war.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2013
There's something about the way Wallinger composes apparent futilities with such systematic earnestness that is in itself convincing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2012
South China Sea Pishkun is a remarkable digital animation by Vietnamese artist Dinh Q Lê that tackles the grim futilities of warfare with an almost hallucinatory metaphorical force.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2011
Ambassador to Poland, few Americans yet realized that Lane's mission was doomed to the futilities of diplomatic protests.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once in a while he seemed to perceive certain futilities and lapsed them immediately into a state of voiceless dejection.
From Last Words by Stephen Crane
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