futility
Example Sentences
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The futility and frustration of dieting has in recent years ignited a resistance movement of sorts, encouraging women, especially, to reject social pressures to maintain a slender form.
“The frantic futility of constantly searching for a new place,” he wrote his longtime friend, Johnny Dark, “a new life, a new partner. As though change itself were some kind of elixir.”
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine, a professional group, defines “futility” in fertility treatment as having less than a 1% chance of a woman having a live birth.
The air is thick with possibility, with futility, with the truth that some hunger is never fed.
From Salon
Written by Georgia, the song was originally about the futility of war, but it gained fresh urgency after Israel launched its military action in Gaza – an issue on which the band have been passionately outspoken.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
