futility

That futility was starting to spill over to his defense, too, as he dropped a routine foul ball in front of a crowd whose patience had long since worn thin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

The Mets hadn’t encountered such consistent futility since they last lost 11 in a row in 2004.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

In their great, tenacious drive to succeed, perhaps Patrick saw the futility of his own struggle.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

Collectively the correspondents tore their hair over the futilities of the M.O.I.

From Time Magazine Archive

The absurdities of his position, and the futilities of all his long aspirations and love dreams seemed magnified through the shock of sudden and bitter knowledge.

From Mixed Faces by Roy Norton