futility

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

Meanwhile. the Indiana Pacers matched a franchise record for futility with their 12th straight defeat, falling 135-127 to the Magic in Orlando.

From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026

Boise State extended its recent futility against Power Four teams, dropping its 10th consecutive game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2025

After five minutes I began to sense the futility of it.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

With all its exhausting intricacies, this panoramic novel abounds in rich knowledge of Italian nature, and a kindly disparagement of human futilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

If an attempt was made to undeceive him in regard to these habitual futilities, either he would not listen, or he would be irritated against whoever denied the notions rooted in his brain.

From Letters To Eugenia Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach